?? re on-board LAN, 1394 and wifi on A5B Wifi Deluxe

[ghoti]

Help an ignorant guy!

I got a new A5B Wifi Deluxe (E6600 -- no OC, 4G Crucial Balistix CL3 DDR2-667, Asus 8800GTX, Seagate 320G SATA-2 16mb cache HD).

Everytime I boot up, my desktop (on the lower right) shows an icon with the message, 'wireless network connection not connected'. I am not using wifi, and want to disable it (as I did one of the on-board LAN controllers). How do I do this? I could not find anything in the BIOS on this.

Does it matter which LAN port I use (one is identified in the BIOS as PCIE GbE Lan_1, and the other as PCI Lan_2)? I am using a Buffalo G54S router as a wired router with the wireless transmitter disabled.

I would like to understand the difference/ relationship between wifi and 1394 (neither of which I am using). What is each good for?

Thanks for the help.

 

[RonAKA]

The wireless message is a stupid Bill Gates thing with XP. It does that along with many other anoying things. "I just sent a job to the printer".... I'm surprised it does not periodically ask for a bathroom break. There may be a registry fix for it, but I don't know it. My laptop does it even when wireless is turned off. Also if you want to be brave, you may be able to go into System, Hardware, and Devices, find the wireless device in the list and disable it. Not sure how easy it is to enable again.

I believe 1394 is the Firewire port, but I'll stand corrected on that, if that is not right.

 

[ghoti]

I appreciate your help, Ron.

I figured out how to disable the wireless connection I am not using (Control Panel; Network Connections) -- it's not in the MB Bios.

I would still appreciate someone telling me whether it matters which LAN port I use (one is identified in the BIOS as PCIE GbE Lan_1, and the other as PCI Lan_2)? I am using a Buffalo G54S router as a wired router with the wireless transmitter disabled.

And I would like to understand the difference/ relationship between wifi and 1394 (neither of which I am using). What is each good for?

Thanks.

 

[krotchy]

1394 = Firewire

I personally use Wireless G and a 100m wired connection to my router, just because it causes no problems to have both enabled. Also if one goes down (im playing with cables) the other one will kick in.

Also the lan port you choose should make virtually 0 difference whatsoever. The reason newer boards have 2 is for bridging through the connections, or for 2Gigabit Speeds to a switch for extreme situations where bandwidth is needed.