Disabling Firewire Network Card Unattended

[Noise]

Almost all new motherboards come with on-board firewire ports (IEEE-1394). Windows XP will setup these ports as a Network Card during unattended installation. It shows up under network properties as a "1394 Connection".

I'm tired of having to manually go into Network Properties and disable this interface. Has anyone figured out how to automatically disable the "1394 Connection". Maybe some winnt.sif setting or a script?

[IcemanND]

Though not many people use it, it is noce if you don't have gigabit and want to transferr large files. 1394a =400mbit 1394b=800bit, lot faster than 100mbit.

Use Devcon download from microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311272

to disable all 1394 net adapters:

devcon disable v1394*

[Noise]

Thaks for the info IcemanND, that's a nice utility. I didn't know it even existed

However, won't that command disable the "whole" 1394 port? I don't want to disable the firewire port, just the network connection. I'd like to leave the firewire port active so people can still use their ipods and stuff.

[IcemanND]

the 1394 net adapters are under V1394*, the firewire card itself is under PCI\VEN*.

use to verify if you like:

devcon find PCI\VEN*

devcon find v1394*

[muiz]

disable it in your bios......

[IcemanND]

that will disable the card altogether, not the firewire network adapter.

[Marthax]

I used the devcon and it gives me an "not a valid win32 application" error. What should I do?

[IcemanND]

did you use the one from the i386 folder or ia64?

[Gogol]

Thaks for the info IcemanND, that's a nice utility. I didn't know it even existed

However, won't that command disable the "whole" 1394 port? I don't want to disable the firewire port, just the network connection. I'd like to leave the firewire port active so people can still use their ipods and stuff.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I dont know if it's too late but I'm using that piece of code to disable all Wireless Lan connection. It can surely be modified for 1394 class.

setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS & set "cmd=devcon listclass net^|find "Wireless""

for /f "Tokens=1,2* delims=:" %%a in ('%CMD%') do devcon disable @%%a

HTH