[CS-FSLUG] Winbooks: Wifi vs Ethernet

[Ed Hurst]

I've been researching this and I've not seen any useful explanations
yet. When I call on a computer ministry client, I usually bring my
laptop running Scientific Linux 6. It helps me in diagnosing and setting
up routers with wifi. Part of the reason is most of my clients' Windows
laptops refuse to use the ethernet port.

Back in the days of XP dominance, this was not an issue. XP laptops are
like Linux, in that whatever network is available is the one it will
use. Vista and Win7 laptops resolutely refuse to recognize ethernet.
It's not even an option in the networking dialogs. I've dug through
the various config dialogs and have yet to identify why this is.

Anyone got a handle of this? Most things I figure out sooner or later,
but this one has me stumped. It's consistent with every Winbook I've
ever handled.

Ed Hurst
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