Enable/Disable NIC from command line?

I quite often just shut my laptop lid for a few hours and when
reopening it the NIC I was using to access the Internet is disabled!

Rather than re-enable via control panel etc... can I do it from the
command prompt e.g something like net start "Realtek RTL8139/810x
Family Fast Ethernet NIC"

I'm aware of the option to prevent vista disabling the device when in
sleep mode but want to try changing this setting if possible!

can it be done?

thanks

harry

"harryajh" <> wrote ...
> Rather than re-enable via control panel etc... can I do it from the
> command prompt e.g something like net start "Realtek RTL8139/810x
> Family Fast Ethernet NIC"

Hi Harry

My first thought was that some variety of the "netsh" command, should do
this. But I can't work out the correct syntax (if any).

An alternative which will certainly work, but would require some small
effort on your part to set up, is to use the WMI Win32_NetworkAdapter Class
class. This class has an Enable method, which you could call in a short
VBScript. You'll find a sample scrip to enable an adapter, in the MSDN doco
for the method:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390385.aspx class.

Put the script in a file with a *.vbs extension, then run it at a command
prompt by typing the file name.

There may be other ways as well, but this should definitely work. Note that
you may need to open a command prompt "As Administrator" for this to work.

Hope it helps.

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

"Andrew McLaren" <> wrote in message
news:326822EE-2FBB-44C9-A802-...
> "harryajh" <> wrote ...
>> Rather than re-enable via control panel etc... can I do it from the
>> command prompt e.g something like net start "Realtek RTL8139/810x
>> Family Fast Ethernet NIC"
>
> Hi Harry
>
> My first thought was that some variety of the "netsh" command, should do
> this. But I can't work out the correct syntax (if any).
>
> An alternative which will certainly work, but would require some small
> effort on your part to set up, is to use the WMI Win32_NetworkAdapter
> Class class. This class has an Enable method, which you could call in a
> short VBScript. You'll find a sample scrip to enable an adapter, in the
> MSDN doco for the method:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390385.aspx class.
>
> Put the script in a file with a *.vbs extension, then run it at a command
> prompt by typing the file name.
>
> There may be other ways as well, but this should definitely work. Note
> that you may need to open a command prompt "As Administrator" for this to
> work.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Posting to the newsgroup at microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript might lead
to such a script.

-Paul Randall

On 20 Sep, 13:41, "Andrew McLaren" <and...@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
> "harryajh" <harry...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote ...
>
> > Rather than re-enable via control panel etc... can I do it from the
> > command prompt e.g something like net start "Realtek RTL8139/810x
> > Family Fast Ethernet NIC"
>
> Hi Harry
>
> My first thought was that some variety of the "netsh" command, should do
> this. But I can't work out the correct syntax (if any).
>
> An alternative which will certainly work, but would require some small
> effort on your part to set up, is to use the WMI Win32_NetworkAdapter Class
> class. This class has an Enable method, which you could call in a short
> VBScript. You'll find a sample scrip to enable an adapter, in the MSDN doco
> for the method:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...0385.aspxclass.
>
> Put the script in a file with a *.vbs extension, then run it at a command
> prompt by typing the file name.
>
> There may be other ways as well, but this should definitely work. Note that
> you may need to open a command prompt "As Administrator" for this to work.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

many thanks for that andrew, will give it a go later & post back what
happens!

harryajh <> wrote in news:1190275750.442526.162700
@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

> I quite often just shut my laptop lid for a few hours and when
> reopening it the NIC I was using to access the Internet is disabled!
>
> Rather than re-enable via control panel etc... can I do it from the
> command prompt e.g something like net start "Realtek RTL8139/810x
> Family Fast Ethernet NIC"

You can do it with devcon, try Googling "devcon"

Adam
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