No ip address when switching between NIC's on laptops

[Eric Wyckmans]

Hi all,
I'm having kind of a weird problem with laptops.
The laptops have an internal NIC and a pcmcia WLAN card.
When connecting to the network with the internal NIC
(without the pcmcia wlan card inserted), I don't get an
ip address from the DHCP server.
When I do an ipconfig /renew it's working again.
Then I shut down completely and reboot with the the
pcmcia wlan card inserted and no cable to the internal
nic attached. Same issue occurs. I don't get an ip
address.
I searched the Technet site and found that when returning
from hibernation the same problem occurs.
I applied Windows 2000 SP4 but the problem remains.
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks
Eric Wyckmans
Belgium

 

[serverguy]

Use hardware profiles. One profile uses the internal nic while the wireless
card is disabled, the other profile is just the opposite.