wireless and ethernet connection for the same laptop

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I have a laptop with WiFi and I use it whereever there's wireless and
at home. However, recently while I was travelling I had to connect to
the hotel internet facility with a network cable (ethernet) but I
couldn't get any connection.
At home my laptop has a fixed IP-address (with its Mac address) and
its included in the router as a wireless node.
When I check my I394 connection I see "connected" with 400mbps ! But
no of bytes being exchanged in 0.
Can anybody please let me know how I can get internet connection using
the ethernet cable ?
 
Majorseventh said:
I have a laptop with WiFi and I use it whereever there's wireless and
at home. However, recently while I was travelling I had to connect to
the hotel internet facility with a network cable (ethernet) but I
couldn't get any connection.
At home my laptop has a fixed IP-address (with its Mac address) and
its included in the router as a wireless node.
When I check my I394 connection I see "connected" with 400mbps ! But
no of bytes being exchanged in 0.
Can anybody please let me know how I can get internet connection using
the ethernet cable ?
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The 1394 connection isn't ethernet; it's bluetooth. It sounds like you've
disabled your ethernet connection. Go to Control
Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager and expand the Network Devices
category. If you see a red "X" next to the ethernet adapter, right-click it
to enable it.

Other than that, you'll have an issue if you use a fixed IP address with
your ethernet card and that IP address is on a different subnet from the
one to which you want to connect. Ex. - if your static IP is 192.168.1.12
and the foreign network is on 192.168.0.xx, you won't be able to get to the
Internet.

Malke
 
Malke said:
The 1394 connection isn't ethernet; it's bluetooth. It sounds like you've
disabled your ethernet connection. Go to Control
Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager and expand the Network Devices
category. If you see a red "X" next to the ethernet adapter, right-click
it
to enable it.

Other than that, you'll have an issue if you use a fixed IP address with
your ethernet card and that IP address is on a different subnet from the
one to which you want to connect. Ex. - if your static IP is 192.168.1.12
and the foreign network is on 192.168.0.xx, you won't be able to get to
the
Internet.

Malke
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IEEE 1394 is a Firewire link...

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Malke said:
Oops! Quite right you are. Not enough coffee. Thanks for catching my
mistake.

Malke
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LOL.... I think I have had too much coffee this morning...

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The 1394 connection isn't ethernet; it's bluetooth. It sounds like you've
disabled your ethernet connection. Go to Control
Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager and expand the Network Devices
category. If you see a red "X" next to the ethernet adapter, right-click it
to enable it.

Other than that, you'll have an issue if you use a fixed IP address with
your ethernet card and that IP address is on a different subnet from the
one to which you want to connect. Ex. - if your static IP is 192.168.1.12
and the foreign network is on 192.168.0.xx, you won't be able to get to the
Internet.

Malke
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Many thanks for your reply. You are right I394 is the wrong one I was
talking about. I did go to device manager an found that the Ethernet
Controller was not installed (yellow mark !). I installed it and
noticed that a new Local Connection 3 has been created. I filled in
all the details such as IP-address, subnet, DNS etc and noticed
disabled the wireless. I also disabled Local Connection. I noticed in
the status of the Ethernet connection that its connected with 100mb/
sec and "send" data was positive and increasing but the "receive" data
was 0. Internet was not available.
I realise that since I have decided to have fixed IP address and my
laptop with its Mac-address has an unique IP-address I may not be able
to get Ethernet connection.

My question is, is there any otherway I can use the Ethernet
connection to access Internet ?
 
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