Tow NICs help please

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Jerry

Posted this some time ago but got no reply. I really would appreciate some
comments from the experts out there so I am reposting my plea for help:

I am setting up a laptop running XP Home with a wireless network card but it
already contains a standard NIC and I'm usure how to proceed.

Do the two NICs have to be on different subnets? If so, how can this be done
with DHCP?

Do I need to bridge the subnets to get them to work together?

For simplicity can both NICs be on the same network subnet or is it easier
to disable the built-in NIC?

You can see that I'm confused so any help would be appreciated.
 
I would just disable the Integrated NIC if i were wanting
to use the wireless. This only sense i would see in using
2 NIC's would be if the PC was being used as a firewall.
For example one NIC would communicate to the LAN and the
other would communicate to the router for the WAN
connection.
Hope this is the answer you were looking for.
 
Please clarify what your intentions are as far as what
goal you are ultimately trying to achieve here.

You only need 2 NICs if you're trying to get that computer
onto 2 networks. If its just one network, you'll only need
the one NIC.
 
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