Devcon to enable NIC

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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hey guys…

I have a laptop that connects wirelessly that has an onboard NIC that I had disabled when the PCs were distributed. I figured I could use DEVCON to enable them.

Few things…

DEVCON requires the hardware ID of a device. For these specific PCs, I figured I could get the hardware ID and kick off DEVCON like this…

waithidden cmd.exe /c devcon.exe enable {following text of first “=” of (selects “DeviceID from Win32_PnpEntity where Name=‘Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller’” of wmi as string)}

However, it seems that DEVCON doesn’t seem to like passing the actual string as the “&” seems to confuse it. Also, it seems that passing the whole string appears to be too long.

So I changed it to be…

waithidden cmd.exe /c devcon.exe enable {(it & “”) of concatenation “” of substrings separated by “&” of preceding text of last “” of following text of first “=” of (selects “DeviceID from Win32_PnpEntity where Name=‘Intel® 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection’” of wmi as string)}

Better suggestion anyone?

-Paul

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(imported comment written by MattBoyd)

It’s been a while since I’ve used devcon… but maybe you can do something like this:

waithidden devcon.exe enable “{string value of selects “DeviceID from Win32_PnpEntity where Name=‘Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller’” of wmi}”

Devcon is a pet peeve of mine. I don’t understand Microsoft a) Didn’t include it in the OS and b) Requires that you download the whole WDK just to get the latest version.