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niwi · Last edited by niwi on Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:29 pm; edited 3 times in total

Hi everybody and a happy new year!

I have a little problem, I've looked for a solution here and I've found some threads, but I still have a problem.

Ok, what I want to do:
I'd like to have a tool which periodically checks if a cable is plugged in into a LAN adapter. If a cable is present than the wireless lan connection should be disabled, if it is enabled. I no cable is present, than the WLAN shoud be enabled, if it is disabled.

The script should run on several notebooks, I just want to use the device manager hardware id's like
pci\ven_8086&dev_10f5
or
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4236&SUBSYS_10118086
which are stored in an ini file. I don't like to have connection names like "Local Area network" because they may be changed.

For the cable detection I found this script:
Detect if network cable is plugged
I can modify this script so it will read the ID's from an ini file and use them.

But enabling and disabling seems to be a language and connection name dependent:
Enable/Disable a Network Connection
Disable/Enable LAN using DLL calls

Is there an other way to enable / disable a network connection without the need of having "Network connection", "enable" and "disable" as text strings?

The conenction name can be found in the registry:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Best regards, Nils.

poo_noo · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 248 Location: Sydney Australia

Here is a wireless toggle script that I adapted from threads found searching the forum.

You may need to change the IP range (line 27 of the script) to match your situation and also change the name of the connection ( line 54 of the script ).

This was adapted to run at PC startup but you could put it in a timer.

Hope it helps or at least gets you started........

niwi · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:26 am Post subject:

Hi Paul,

thank you for your solution, but it is not really language independent.

We use Windows XP MUI with five langaue packs including japanese and chinese... so it would be nice to have an other solution or read the necessary texts from the registry.

But for the first step I'll use the existing methods and maybe I can modify it later.

Regards, Nils.

poo_noo · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 248 Location: Sydney Australia

I suspose you could do a registry loop and then a regread and then send the connection name to the function.

Sorry I don't have an real example

niwi · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:08 am Post subject:

Hi,

I have written the script, I'm just writing comments... Wink

The only thing is the language dependency for enabling or disabling a network connection.

I'll post the script here when it's finished.

Thanks and best regards, Nils.

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sasesham · Guest

Check out Wireless AutoSwitch at http://www.wirelessautoswitch.com it does what you are asking.

What is Wireless AutoSwitch?

Wireless AutoSwitch runs as a service and will automatically disable your wireless card when you connect to a LAN (hard wire) connection, and re-enable the wireless card when there is no LAN connection. This ensures that you are always using the fastest connection for network traffic. In the office this helps reduce redundant network connections, while still helping your employees seamlessly transfer from wired to wireless network connections.

For offices that are wireless security conscious this application makes sure the laptop's wireless card is off when the user is wired into your network, preventing bridged connections and preventing someone from the outside hacking your network through a laptop's wireless card.