Probono,

I have a SPEEDSTREAM 2510 powerline router with a wireless adapter in my living room. I am utilizing a Linksys WUSB12 wireless adapter on my Desknote computer. My current setup under Windows XP accomodates both a direct ethernet cable link to my router AND a wireless link via the 2510 wireless adapter/Desknote WUSB12 adapter - albeit I don't use both simultaneously. At home I often use the ethernet cable link for large file transfers from my server and settle for the wireless link when browsing the web. At work I use the wireless link to connect to my work computer.

I tried adding the command you recommend to the networking interface file. Then I rebooted without running the subsequent commands to activate the wireless link. I wanted to see, in the absemce of activating the wireless link, whether I would still have my ethernet cable connection. Unfortunately, that connection was dead.

Does anyone know of a way to have both types of connections at your disposal?