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Disabling at application level a nic (network interface) on Windows
How can I disable at application level a network interface?
The main question is this:
If I disable the nic trough wmic (win7) or devcon (XP), the "plug and play" of a wired nic doesn't work any ...
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Setting up a virtual, bridged, NIC in Windows
When you install VMware Workstation on Windows, it creates several virtual NICs, one of which is directly bridged to a NIC that's connected to the network (somehow, it appears to always be bridged to ...
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Working with two network adapters on windows7
I have two network adapters on the same computer. I want one network adapter to work only with one program (VMWARE) and the other to work for everything else.
Is this possible? If require, I can do ...
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Unable to change NIC settings with ethtool
I'm trying to change my NIC (Intel 10G NIC) settings using ethtool, but can't seem to do that.
I tried
ethtool -G xge0 rx 32768 tx 32768
and then tried to see if the settings have changed using
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Wireless Network suddenly cant connect after Windows update
So I bought an ASUS K43E notebook earlier this year and built a wireless conection to link it to. It worked great for the first weeks, but then I updated my Windows 7 Home Basic with the daily ...
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Is it possible to recognise hardware (router or network card) just by its MAC address?
Just wondering if that is possible. Are there any naming conventions that would allow one to deduce whether the MAC address belongs to a router (of a specific brand), or a network card, etc..
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When I have multiple connections in Windows which would it pick for normal internet connectivity?
I have a Wifi card and an ethernet connection on my laptop. Both have internet. Obviously i'd prefer to use the wired connection but how does Windows decide which one should be used?
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“Error - No Network Interface available” when running TubeMaster++
Each time I start TubeMaster++ 2.6, I receive this error:
No Network Interface available ! TubeMaster++ cannot find any suitable network interface to capture data ! Please make sure you are ...
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10 Gbps Network Card on PCIe 2.0 X8. Enough PCIe bandwidth?
Would a PCIe 2.0 X8 slot have enough bandwidth for a NIC with two 10 Gbps connections?
From what I understand, each lane on a PCIe 2.0 card is good for 4 Gbps, so 8 lanes = 32 Gbps, right? Is my ...
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WIndows 7 Configure ICS using two NICs
OK here is the problem.
I use my primary computer to connect to the internet using a SureCom NIC.
i also have a secondary NIC which i connect to a wireless router and share the internet with other ...
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Where can I find a LAN driver for the ASUS P5GDC Pro motherboard? [closed]
My new PC with an ASUS P5GDC Pro can't see any LAN adapters.
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Tunnel adapters on ipconfig?
Hello I recently noticed unusual information in my IPCONFIG. Usually I only see Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection, but now I see Tunnel adapter isatap... and Tunnel adapter Teredo... I was ...
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What's involved with installing a JetDirect card for an HP Laserjet 4500?
So I have an opportunity to pick an HP 4500 Laserjet for a pretty good price and am on the fence. The only problem is that it currently only has a parallel connection on it. However, the seller ...
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Internal network card not detected any more
I was asked to fix a Windows XP PC whose internal NIC stopped working over night.
The following has already been found out / tried:
NIC is not in device manager any more (it shows up however if ...
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wireless adapter stuck on “aquiring network address”
I recently purchased a usb dongle for my old xp (with service pack 3) laptop (ancient packard bell easynote). Installing the drivers was not a problem but when I try to connect to the home Netgear ...
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Wireless not detecting signals after hibernation, reboot doesn't fix it
The wireless adapter (Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter) of my Lenovo S10-3 is being detected correctly in the device manager in Windows, but I am unable to detect any wireless signals. This happened ...
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Information about network card modification
I would like to know if is possible find date of modification for network card or when was card installed in Windows.
For example, I have IBM server with 2 network card. I would like to know when was ...
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Do I have to install drivers on each network card interface when using network teaming?
If I have network teaming enabled on a set of network interface cards/network adapters and I am required to install drivers, is it sufficient to install them on one network card or do I have to ...
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Game Server with onboard NIC. Do I need to upgrade?
I have a dedicated desktop machine that runs a linux game server that needs to handle at most a couple hundred users. I currently have a 50/50 Mbps fiber line for internet connection and am trying to ...
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how to up/down remote NIC card or PORT using ifconfig or any other command?
please tell, how to remotely up and down the port using ifconfig unix command?
$ ifconfig etho down
$ ifconfig etho up
where etho is my nic card interface!
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TP-Link WN722N usb NIC
I'm having trouble connecting to my home network using a new usb NIC I ordered from new egg. I have installed the newest drivers from the manufacturer's website and tried multiple times to diagnose ...
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Realtek PCIe FE Losing Connectivity in Win 7 Home 64-bit
I am having an intermittent problem with my network connection dropping out for no apparent reason. When it drops, I still see the lights blinking on the NIC card, but cannot pass packets even to the ...
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Configue UART WiFi module
I recently bought a UART WiFi module ( this one ) and configured it with right SSID but wrong password( and I don't know what it is ). The problem is that I can't reset this module to its manufacture ...
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How to know the history of hardware changes made while using Ubuntu?
I am working on Ubuntu OS.
Initially my pc configuration was Intel core 2 duo 3.0GH with 320 GB HDD.
After some times, my friend changed the motherboard with lower version of configuration without ...
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Go with Wireless (wifi) or Wired (ethernet) for apartment
I live in a really crowded building in a major urban city...as I speak there are 70 networks that inSSIDer has managed to identify. I drop connectivity about 5 times a day, and I rarely get the same ...
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Wired network adapter doesn't function properly when starting Windows
Every time I start my computer, my wired network adapter stops working - this includes a cold start and resuming from sleep. If I head over to Network and Sharing Center and click Troubleshoot ...
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Windows 7 ICS causes No Network Connection
I am trying to use the ICS in Windows 7 to link my xbox 360 to the internet. I want to use ICS instead of bridging the two connections because then i can use the internet on my laptop at the same ...
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USB Wireless Network Card, PCMCIA Or Internal For Long Term Usage? [closed]
I want to do some testing on my existing internal NIC to see if it is the source of these problems and for this i need another wireless NIC and of at least mediocre quality because i would need that ...
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500 Mbit/s powerline network, only 3.5 Mbyte/s transfer speed?
I have a TP-Link 500 Mbit/s Gigabit Powerline Adapter linking two computers (one Windows Vista and one Windows 7) in different rooms in the house. As in:
Computer <-Ethernet ...
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Aspire 5738Z WLAN will not work
I have an Aspire 5738Z (Windows 7 64 bit) with a Atheros AR5B93 Wireless Network Adapter. I had a rootkit which completely messed up my TCP/IP stack and WinSock. However, I have resolved those issues, ...
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Network card (link-status LED) still active after shutdown from Windows 7 (but not from XP)
When I shut down Windows 7, my NIC remains active and the link status LED on the router remains lit. When I shut down Windows XP, it does not. Further, rebooting XP causes the NIC to shutdown as well, ...
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Check Bandwidth utilization of specific application or process in windows 7
I want to know is there any command-line tool (windows built-in or 3rd party), that can be used to check bandwidth utilization of a particular process or executable?
For example, i want to check ...
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No Internet connection in VMware Player (Guest OS is Ubuntu 10.04)
I don't get internet connection in the guest OS. Could you please help me to find out why?
The host OS is Windows 7, guest OS is Ubuntu 10.04.
Type of network connection: NAT.
ifconfig command ...
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Why is my network utilization a sawtooth wave?
I've noticed that my broadband link always gives me a sawtooth shaped utilization graph when I'm downloading large files. It looks like this from Task Manager on Windows 7:
When I'm doing large ...
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Why won't WIndows XP recognize my network adapter?
I have used Everest to determine that my network adapter is a RealTek RTL8139/810x Fast Ethernet Adapter and installed the appropriate driver. But I can't see any Local Area Connection in my Network ...
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Are link layer properties on a local area network adapter cached?
I changed the Local area connection properties for my N/W adapter:
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver, and
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder
I expect to see changes in the ...
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Cisco USB WiFi adapter freezes USB port when downloading too much
I’m using a Windows Vista PC on an Asus P5VD2-VM motherboard (Via P4M900/VT8237A chipset).
I’m using a Cisco WUSB54GC WiFi adapter (really made by Ralink). I use the latest driver.
When I download ...
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Troubleshooting Desktop That Can't Connect to Internet through Any Adapater, Even on Different OSes
I have a Windows 7 machine that also has Ubuntu on it. Yesterday the NIC spontaneously crapped out. I went and got a Dynex PCI NIC and set it up, my computer now finds networks but lists them as ...
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How do I set up the network drivers for Windows 7 on my iMac?
I installed Windows 7 32 bit on my 27" iMac OS X 10.6.6. When Windows loaded, I couldn't connect to the internet via wireless or ethernet. It appears the drivers are not correct?
I did the same ...
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USB 3 to gigabit ethernet adaptors: where are they?
I'm looking for an adaptor that will let me use a USB 3 port as a gigabit ethernet port. This is proving surprisingly hard to find! Is there some reason why this product is either unavailable or ...
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Changing MAC address of network card
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_card#Purpose
Every Ethernet network controller has a unique 48-bit serial number
called a MAC address, which is stored in read-only memory. ...
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Secondary NIC: what all can I do?
I was loaned a NIC which I promptly installed in my F16 workstation just to 'play' with it (using iptables and stuff).
Other than forwarding packets from the new NIC to the old NIC using various ...
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Generic Host Process for Win32/No Internet Connection
A friend has asked me to look at his machine. It is XP SP3, with 2 NIC cards.
I found that the machine had some Malware on it, which I removed with MalwareBytes.
However, the machine still will not ...
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Do I have two NICs - one for WiFi and one for Wired LAN?
Similar to most laptops, I have both wifi and wired LAN. Does this mean I have two NICs, or is it one NIC shared between both.
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How can I determine the MAC address for a NIC in CentOS without using ifconfig?
CentOS 5.5
One of my CenTOS systems recently booted with the following error:
"Bringing up interface eth0: Device eth0 has difference MAC address than expected. ignoring."
When I run ifconfig -a ...
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What is faster for multimedia performance? Leaving a NIC to do checksums or the CPU?
I noticed a NIC from Realtek has an option to "offload" some of the CPU work for checksums onto itself. However, this has some - I would say - humorous effects on opinions of people on the web: Some ...
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Network adaptor dies during large transfer
My network adapter dies during large transfer.
I can reproduce this by transferring a video file, 500M+, from my desktop to my HTPC. The transfer will run for a few seconds to a few minutes. The ...
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How to upgrade Intel(R) 82567V-2 Gigabit Network Connection Drivers for Windows 7 64?
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When I go to Device Manager, under Network adapters I have an Intel(R) 82567V-2 Gigabit Network Connection adapter that has a yellow exclamation point. I am trying to upgrade its drivers but ...
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how to determine driver for motherboard ethernet adapter
I have an older machine on which the OS (w2k) got corrupted. As a result, it no longer can find the driver for its ethernet adapter. The install-new-hardware wizard just identifies the device with a ...
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LAN card not working sometimes with windows
I have the following scenario
MODEM + (FE)(Cable A) --> (WAN) ROUTER (LAN)-----(FE)Cable B----COMPUTER
Now i have two LAN cards on computer
1)CARD A is build in Motherbord
2)CARD B is NIC ...
