Maybe if you don’t install Windows Server 2008 on your laptop where there is no fixed LAN connection, you would not have this experience. It’s wierd, because it does not always happen (intermittent problems). Driver problems? Out of luck, Asus does not have 64-bit driver update for Asus F9SG series. When I turned on my laptop, I did not plug the LAN cable. Then the Local Area Connection does not appear when I verified by using ipconfig utility.
This problem can be resolved easily by disabling and enabling again the Network Interface.
After I disabled and enabled the Network Interface:
For comparison, I insert the ipconfig output from another computer than runs Windows XP:
You see from the picture above that on Windows XP, the LAN interface does not disappear. It give better information that the Media disconnected.
[...] Windows Server 2008 — d2n1elr @ 9:42 pm If you have already read the article with title: Wierd Network Interface on Windows Server 2008. I will add more information here. So this post explained more on how to troubleshoot the problem [...]
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