Ethernet card turns off on laptop
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SeanK
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 8:10 am    Post subject: Ethernet card turns off on laptop Reply with quote
Dell Precision M50, Win XP Pro

Ive been running ProE on this machine for 2 1/2 yrs. New problem - my
ethernet card is not being seen when starting ProE - therefore no license.

Device manager says it is running ok. If I connect to a network then it is
seen and ProE starts up. Is the card being turned off by XP when I'm not
using it? How do I keep it active?

Recent changes to my system are most recent windows updates and installation
of an ASDL modem.

Current fix is to keep a hub with me, power it up and plug it in to get ProE
to start - not very convenient.

Any ideas?

Sean

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Sean Kerslake
Dept. of Design & Technology
Loughborough University
LE11 3TU

01509 228317

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huggre
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 4:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Ethernet card turns off on laptop Reply with quote
"SeanK" <s.p.kerslake@lboro.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<d6jvvr$42m$1@sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk>...
Quote:
Dell Precision M50, Win XP Pro

Ive been running ProE on this machine for 2 1/2 yrs. New problem - my
ethernet card is not being seen when starting ProE - therefore no license.

Device manager says it is running ok. If I connect to a network then it is
seen and ProE starts up. Is the card being turned off by XP when I'm not
using it? How do I keep it active?

Recent changes to my system are most recent windows updates and installation
of an ASDL modem.

Current fix is to keep a hub with me, power it up and plug it in to get ProE
to start - not very convenient.

Any ideas?

Sean

--
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Sean Kerslake
Dept. of Design & Technology
Loughborough University
LE11 3TU

01509 228317

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In short your problem is that the Windows XP media sensing feature
disables your network adapter when it senses that it is not pluged in.
check this link on how to dissable media sensing in XP.
http://www.wown.com/pages/article_p.asp?id=341

Hugo
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SeanK
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:10 am    Post subject: Re: Ethernet card turns off on laptop Reply with quote
Cheers Hugo - all fixed.

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Sean Kerslake
Dept. of Design & Technology
Loughborough University
LE11 3TU

01509 228317

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"SeanK" <s.p.kerslake@lboro.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:d6jvvr$42m$1@sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk...
Quote:
Dell Precision M50, Win XP Pro

Ive been running ProE on this machine for 2 1/2 yrs. New problem - my
ethernet card is not being seen when starting ProE - therefore no license.

Device manager says it is running ok. If I connect to a network then it
is
seen and ProE starts up. Is the card being turned off by XP when I'm not
using it? How do I keep it active?

Recent changes to my system are most recent windows updates and
installation
of an ASDL modem.

Current fix is to keep a hub with me, power it up and plug it in to get
ProE
to start - not very convenient.

Any ideas?

Sean

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sean Kerslake
Dept. of Design & Technology
Loughborough University
LE11 3TU

01509 228317

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




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