Will laptop wireless PC card and ethernet work at the same time?

[ericboo]

My question is, can you have both wired and wireless enabled at the same time?

I ordered an 22mbps wireless router and PC card for a friends laptop to use at his house. His laptop already has built in ethernet.

He needs to use the wireless at home and then wired when he brings the laptop to his office.

I would make them two separate subnets, and the wired at work would be running peer-2-peer with no router involved.

If he falls in love with wireless, I might be able to convince him to add a wireless router at his office too, but that is not decided as of yet.

I use wireless at home and have two AP's for my neighbors to reach me, but I have not played with wireless on a laptop.

Any input would help since he is not paying me🙂

 

[rw120555]

Works for me. I have ethernet in my office. At home, I have both wireless and ethernet for the laptop (I use the latter to get higher-speed transfers between machines.) I use dhcp with both the ethernet and the wireless. I think the only hassle you might get into would be if you had 2 different wireless or 2 different ethernet networks you connected to, each of which was picky about what IPs and subnets, etc. to use. But as things now stand, I think he will be fine.

 

[rw120555]

I don't think he needs this now, but this tip might come in handy if he ever does start switching between a bunch of ethernet or wireless networks:

Switching TCP/IP settings easily

EDIT: I've heard good things about the NetSwitcher utility mentioned in the above link, and it is pretty cheap.

 

[TheCorm]

Yup...I can't see the difference between have 2 PCI RJ45 cards or 1 RJ45 and 1 wireless together.

 

[JackMDS]

They can be both installed, and not working at the same time.