With Dell you can also push BIOS settings over the network... -----Original Message----- From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disable wireless when wired connection detected
You sir, are correct. As our Service Desk guys are in BIOS during system setup already, this can be another checkbox for them. We will be discussing this possibility today. I tested it on one system and it works as advertised - pretty cool. Thanks Ben! Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 6:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disable wireless when wired connection detected On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:37 PM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: > Is there a native way in XP or Win7 to do this? Just to add one more answer that doesn't really match your givens and is of limited applicability: The recent E-series Dell Latitude laptops we've been getting have a BIOS option to disable the wireless when the wired link is up. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
