wire & wireless at the same time

[maciel]

Hello,

In my laptop I have a 3com nic that runs 100Mbps (with wire) and also i have cisco 340 wireless nic. There is a chance that a can work with the both of them at the same time?. For example, if I'm on my desk, I want to work at 100Mbps but if I have to go to the business room to make a presentation I want to use the WLAN but i have to reboot the laptop and take out the 3Com nic. There is a chance to work with both at the same time without restarting the laptop?

I really appreciate your help

:rolleyes:

[mupdike]

Maciel, Please provide more details....what o/s...what the laptop (proc/mem/good stuff)etc...

[yonah]

Marciel,

If you are using windows (any version), and both of your network cards are getting their IP addresses dynamically, you can simply do a release on the card you aren't using and renew on the one that you are. for example, with Windows NT 4, 2000 or XP:

c:\>ipconfig /release "My Cisco Card"
c:\>ipconfig /renew "My Lan Card"

replace "My Cisco Card" and "My Lan Card" with the names they have in your network neighborhood settings

If you have Windoes ME or 9x, you can go to Start->Run, and then in the run dialog type :

winipcfg

It will launch an application that will let you select your network card and release and renew its IP address.

If you're running linux, you can use iwconfig, ifconfig, or pump to do the same.

[maciel]

Hi agian,

Thank you for your answers.

Mudpike:

The laptop is an IBM T21 PIII 256 in RAM
Windows 98 with an integrated Network Inrterface
with pcmcia slot where I put the Cisco Aironet 340 nic
And I have a Cisco Aironet Access Point 340 and also
Switches L3 Extreme Networks for the wire network
I think that´s all.

Yonah:

The problem is that the laptop belongs to the CEO and COO of
the company, so I can not tell them to do the steps of Ipconfig /release_all and renew all because they don´t want to go trough this. I´m trying to do it automatically with an Icon on the desktop or something like that. So thanks for your help anyway, I really appreciate your answer and if you know something else , please let me know because I´m going crazy with this.

Thanks!!

Maciel

[MoleStrangler]

Put the commands iin two DOS batch files. Link the desktop icons to the batch files.

Easy.