Tow NICs help please

[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.

 

[Ryan]

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.

 

[Seth]

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.