Ethernet card turns off on laptop

Dell Precision M50, Win XP Pro

Ive been running ProE on this machine for 2 1/2 yrs. New problem - my ethernet card is not being seen when starting ProE - therefore no license.

Device manager says it is running ok. If I connect to a network then it is seen and ProE starts up. Is the card being turned off by XP when I'm not using it? How do I keep it active?

Recent changes to my system are most recent windows updates and installation of an ASDL modem.

Current fix is to keep a hub with me, power it up and plug it in to get ProE to start - not very convenient.

Any ideas?

Sean

-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sean Kerslake Dept. of Design & Technology Loughborough University LE11 3TU

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