wireless card and dock staion lan

Thanks gary,
If this was my laptop I would be happy with just using the lan and not the
wireless when docked. However this is my big brothers laptop and he is a
little anal about things and thinks it is to hard to disable/enable devices.
My laptop does fine with both wireless and lan at the same time when docked,
but I am using xp on a new laptop. Do you know where I can get docking info?
Thanks again,
John

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

> Why not disable the wireless when the laptop is connected to the docking
> station? You're not likely to lose the LAN signal. (I don't know why having
> them both enabled causes them not to work, you'd have to ask an expert in
> docking stations. Ii my experience, you can have both LAN and wireless
> connected and things work just fine under normal circumstances.)
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS-MVP Shell/User
> www.grystmill.com
>
> "traumajohn" <traumajohn.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0316DCFD-5432-470B-9E55-40A002B0F8FA@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> > I have 98se on a toshiba techra 8100. I have a linksys wireless card and
> > the
> > note book is on a docking station. When both the card and dock lan are
> > enabled I can not get on the inter net. If I disable either one I can get
> > on
> > teh net. I have all the updates and patches installed and both work fine
> > independantly. I just want to have both enable so if I lose the wireless
> > signal the lan will take over.
> > Thanks,
> > John
>
>

Thinking about it, I'm probably letting XP info seep into my thinking. I'm
not so sure, now, about how 98 would handle both LAN and wireless in
general.

Anyway, like I said, I don't do docking, so I've given you what I can, and
unless the perfect expert wanders by with some solution I somehow doubt
exists, I think you're anal brother may need to adjust to the world as it
is, even if he's right and disabling NICs in Win98 is a PITA.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"traumajohn" <traumajohn.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:695462B4-A16D-40C6-9B8E-43861F97CDC5@microsoft.com...
> Thanks gary,
> If this was my laptop I would be happy with just using the lan and not the
> wireless when docked. However this is my big brothers laptop and he is a
> little anal about things and thinks it is to hard to disable/enable
> devices.
> My laptop does fine with both wireless and lan at the same time when
> docked,
> but I am using xp on a new laptop. Do you know where I can get docking
> info?
> Thanks again,
> John
>
> "Gary S. Terhune" wrote:
>
>> Why not disable the wireless when the laptop is connected to the docking
>> station? You're not likely to lose the LAN signal. (I don't know why
>> having
>> them both enabled causes them not to work, you'd have to ask an expert in
>> docking stations. Ii my experience, you can have both LAN and wireless
>> connected and things work just fine under normal circumstances.)
>>
>> --
>> Gary S. Terhune
>> MS-MVP Shell/User
>> www.grystmill.com
>>
>> "traumajohn" <traumajohn.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:0316DCFD-5432-470B-9E55-40A002B0F8FA@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> > I have 98se on a toshiba techra 8100. I have a linksys wireless card
>> > and
>> > the
>> > note book is on a docking station. When both the card and dock lan are
>> > enabled I can not get on the inter net. If I disable either one I can
>> > get
>> > on
>> > teh net. I have all the updates and patches installed and both work
>> > fine
>> > independantly. I just want to have both enable so if I lose the
>> > wireless
>> > signal the lan will take over.
>> > Thanks,
>> > John
>>
>>

LOL, Thanks for the input. I figured I would tell him the cruel realities of
the dock.


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

> Thinking about it, I'm probably letting XP info seep into my thinking. I'm
> not so sure, now, about how 98 would handle both LAN and wireless in
> general.
>
> Anyway, like I said, I don't do docking, so I've given you what I can, and
> unless the perfect expert wanders by with some solution I somehow doubt
> exists, I think you're anal brother may need to adjust to the world as it
> is, even if he's right and disabling NICs in Win98 is a PITA.
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS-MVP Shell/User
> www.grystmill.com
>
> "traumajohn" <traumajohn.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:695462B4-A16D-40C6-9B8E-43861F97CDC5@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks gary,
> > If this was my laptop I would be happy with just using the lan and not the
> > wireless when docked. However this is my big brothers laptop and he is a
> > little anal about things and thinks it is to hard to disable/enable
> > devices.
> > My laptop does fine with both wireless and lan at the same time when
> > docked,
> > but I am using xp on a new laptop. Do you know where I can get docking
> > info?
> > Thanks again,
> > John
> >
> > "Gary S. Terhune" wrote:
> >
> >> Why not disable the wireless when the laptop is connected to the docking
> >> station? You're not likely to lose the LAN signal. (I don't know why
> >> having
> >> them both enabled causes them not to work, you'd have to ask an expert in
> >> docking stations. Ii my experience, you can have both LAN and wireless
> >> connected and things work just fine under normal circumstances.)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Gary S. Terhune
> >> MS-MVP Shell/User
> >> www.grystmill.com
> >>
> >> "traumajohn" <traumajohn.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:0316DCFD-5432-470B-9E55-40A002B0F8FA@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I have 98se on a toshiba techra 8100. I have a linksys wireless card
> >> > and
> >> > the
> >> > note book is on a docking station. When both the card and dock lan are
> >> > enabled I can not get on the inter net. If I disable either one I can
> >> > get
> >> > on
> >> > teh net. I have all the updates and patches installed and both work
> >> > fine
> >> > independantly. I just want to have both enable so if I lose the
> >> > wireless
> >> > signal the lan will take over.
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > John
> >>
> >>
>
>