Howard,
I believe that this connection is not being used because you are
connecting directly throught the local area network (through the LAN
Connection) to the internet. You can confirm this of course by
double-clicking the Local Area Connection and watching the lights flicker
on the status page as you go about your bussiness in the internet. As to
why this part was disabled, I have no idea.
It seems to me that this configuration, which is called Internet
Connection Sharing, is not needed on your system. Is one of the
computers set up to share their internet connection? Based on what
you've said as to the configuration selection, I would assume that it is
safe to delete this extra, and now disabled connection. It could be
that, before it was not being used, but was being marked as enabled. I
am not sure, however, how this connection came to be made on your
computer, since it appears that you are not using it, nor have had the
need to use it.
You would have needed to use it if you had 1 computer with a direct
connection to the internet via DSL modem and then wanted, via another
ethernet card wired to the rest of the computers in your house, share
this connection. Even a dial-up connection could be shared this way.
Could this have been the case?
--
Brian Wehrle
(e-mail address removed)
Software Test Engineer/Wireless Networking
Microsoft Corp.
Howard Woodard said:
Thanks Brian. I'm sorry to have been so long in replying but I left
town yesterday and just returned a little while ago. I'll try to answer
your questions.
On the Network Connections page are three icons grouped by status. Two
are under the status "Connected" ("1394 Connection" and "Local Area
Connection") and one under the status "Disabled" called "Internet
Connection".
When I click on properties for the icon called "Internet Connection" on
XP's "View Network Connections" I get another box called "Internet
Connection Properties" with one tab called "General". Just below the
tab it says "Connect to the internet using:" followed by a field that
has a network icon followed by "Internet Connection".
Just below that is "This connection allows you to connect to the
internet through a shared connection on another computer".
Btw, when the network was setup it was set up for connection method
"This computer connects to the internet through a network hub. Other
computers on my network also connect to the internet directly or through
a hub."
At the bottom of the box is a button called "Settings". When I click on
it I get another box called "Advanced Settings" with one tab called
"Services". Beneath the tab is a list of services with two checked. One
for MsnMsgr (19 that is for a TCP port and another with the same name
for a UDP port.
Does this help?
Howard
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Mr Woodard,
I read your email regarding the fact that what you see on the Network
Connection page is simply one icon that is called Internet Connection.
The problem is, I don't know what software this is! It certainly is
not a wireless adapter, because it would make reference to the actualy
hardware (i.e. the WiFi card, in this case). What software is the
system running? It sounds like there is some Qwest software that is
sitting on top of the WiFi card.
Open up the Network Connections folder again, select the connection and
from the right-hand menu select "Properties". When you have the
Properties window open, click the "Configure" button and tell me what
you can see from the Device Properties window that pops-up. I imagine
that this is some other piece of software, the behavior of which could
have changed with the fixes introduced in SP2.
Please post a reply with this information and I will follow-up ASAP.
Regards,
Brian
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Brian Wehrle
(e-mail address removed)
Software Test Engineer/Wireless Networking
Microsoft Corp.
Howards Note:
Bye "see", I mean that under View Network Connections there is an icon
called Internet Connection. When I highlight it it shows the following
in the details section:
Internet Connection
Internet Gateway
Disabled
Internet Connection
Though it shows disabled it is actually working just fine -- all PCs
can access the internet. If I run the network setup wizard it finds an
"unknown device used for accessing the internet" and will use it to set
up properly. When I right click on the icon it shows Enable bolded and
Status grayed out. If I click on Enable I get a little message box
showing "connecting" and then changing to "connected". However, the
device details still show it as disabled. Btw, the details section
does not show "connected" or "disconnected" and as I said, the Status
item is grayed out on the [right click] menu.
The dsl modem is actually a Cisco 678 modem setup by Qwest 4 years ago
when my dsl was installed. Nothing has changed on any of the Linksys
or Cisco stuff. I don't want to fixate on sp2 but that's the only
thing that has changed.
--
Brian Wehrle
(e-mail address removed)
Software Test Engineer/Wireless Networking
Microsoft Corp.
Mr. Woodard,
I read your post and would like to help you with your problem. However,
there are a few details that I would like to clear up before
proceeding.
You said that before SP1 you could "see" the DSL modem on all three
computers under My Network Connections. How do you mean? If I have a
wired/wireless connection, I see the connection as being either
enabled, disabled, connected or not connected. However, I never see
the DSL modem; I could ping it, just like I can ping the WAP. This
makes me wonder if you have other 3rd party management software
installed for managing this DSL router, etc. Could you provide more
information about this? It is quite possible, though regrettable, that
some 3rd party software stops working after a SP upgrade, however, that
is not to say that it cannot be made to work.
As far as I am concerned, when my actual connection becomes connected,
I have network connectivity. When using my laptop, the only status I
check is the status of either my wired or wireless connection, as this
is what is providing me with information about whether or not I have
network connectivity, and in my case, acquired a network IP address
from the DHCP server.
If I have misunderstood anything from your post, please correct me. I
look forward to resolving your problem.
Brian Wehrle
(e-mail address removed)
Software Test Engineer/Wireless Networking
Microsoft Corp.
"Howard Woodard" <> wrote in message
I posted this to a couple of newsgroups yesterday but got no responses
so I'm trying "post-holiday".
I've seen several similar posts but as the TV commercial says, "not
exactly"...
I just upgraded all three of my machines to sp2 today and now I have a
strange situation.
I have a Linksys wireless network with one desktop connected directly
to the WAP and another desktop and one laptop connecting wireless to
the WAP. My dsl modem is connected to the WAP for sharing by all.
Since upgrading to sp2 the internet connection is showing "disabled".
It is actually working just fine -- at least everything is using it ok.
However, all three devices are showing it as disabled in My Network
Connections. All will show "connected" in the Enable dialog box but
the status never changes.
All of the computers were bought new with XP and the drivers are the
drivers that have always been installed. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron
with their TruMobil wireless adapter. One of the desktops is a new
e-Machine and its ethernet adapter is connected to a Linksys wireless
transmitter and the third is a Sony Vaio and its ethernet connecter
goes directly into the back of the Linksys wireless access point. The
dsl modem (actually a Cisco 678 router) is connected to the WAP as
well. The WAP is both WAP and 4-port switch.
Yesterday, the dsl modem was showing up correctly on all three
computers under My Network Connections and could be enabled and/or
disabled from any of them. The only difference between then and now is
that I applied sp2 to each of them. As I mentioned in my first
message, I have disabled the
windows firewall feature but it made no difference.
Any ideas?
Howard
