11May2008

Greetings.

For various reasons I no longer use

the 802.11b miniPCI card installed in my T30.

I instead use a 802.11b/g pcmcia card.

How can I remove the miniPCI card from WinXP

without removing the card from the T30?

If I "uninstall" the card, WinXP "finds" &

reinstalls the card every reboot.

I should not disable the XP Plug & Play service.

I do not want to always have

the disabled miniPCI icon

in my Network Connections window ...

Disabling does not remove the icon

from the NWC config in WinXP.

I do not want the miniPCI icon in NWC

anymore because I will not use it.

This is one too many NWC icons

for my AutoHotKey (AHK) scripts &

other configuration settings.

My scripts/configs handle between

one and three NWC icons.

I do not want to have to remove the card.

Under WinME uninstalling something

from a hardware profile/config

removes the item until the user

reinstalls the item. WinME does not

have the Plug&Play service that XP does.

WinME finds the uninstalled but not

removed item when Add Hardware is run;

however, the user can tell WinME

to not reinstall the item. XP P&P finds &

installs (even if disabled) the PCI card.

For the time being I have modified

my AHK startup script to uninstall

the PCI card every reboot

(when I choose run full startup script).

Any insights appreciated.

Thank you.

Regards,

AEN

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Have you tried disabling the card in the BIOS?

14May2008

Greetings.

Thanks for the reply/suggestion.

I thought for sure you had given me

the/a solution; however, unbelievably,

XP still finds & reinstalls the card -

even when disabled in the BIOS.

Disabling the card in the BIOS was tricky

because the BIOS lists 8 unlabeled IRQs;

however, I indentified & disabled

the miniPCI/modem combo IRQ.

Have you tried this?

I'm still hoping to uncover

how one could remove the card

from XP but not from the laptop.

Any insights appreciated.

Thank you.

Regards,

AEN

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Disabling the IRQ's won't take it off the bus so XP finds it, but it prob has a bang next to it in Device Manager. I thought there might be an actual option to disable the card in the BIOS. What MFR/Model are we talking about anyway?