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Try disabling the power management feature on the network card From the Device Manager->network adapter->network card right click properties ->power management uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" . I also found a kb hotfix KB980295 that does resolve some 802.1x/networking issues that I've been experiencing as well that might help.

I'm working on a script to turn that power management feature off.

I ran into this a few weeks ago on one of my Win7 laptops as well. One idea might be to create a batch file with the command you listed and have that run via Task Scheduler (locally, after login or machine startup). There's also a way to create tasks via command line (schedtask, if memory serves me correctly). There's probably a way to set this up via the kbox with either a script or a managed install. I'll take a look when I'm back in the office on Monday, as I'm starting to roll out Win7 now (finally got all of my scripted installs working!) and I definitely want to find a fix for this before it becomes pervasive.

John

OK, here's a batch file command that:

1) Creates a batch file on C: with the netsh command (Win7NIC.bat)
2) Creates a scheduled task to run the batch file on start (prior to login)

echo netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" ENABLED > C:\Win7NIC.bat
SCHTASKS /Create /RU "" /SC ONSTART /TN Enable_NIC /TR C:\Win7NIC.bat
exit

I tested running this manually on my system (without rebooting) and also on a test laptop, running the batch file manually and deployed via the KBOX. I disabled the NIC, rebooted and verified that the NIC comes back up at the login screen several times and it works everytime. I'll be deploying this to all of my Win7 systems.

Here's the parameters I used for setting it up on the KBOX:

Script Type: Online KScript
Name: Enable NIC (Win7)
Support OS: Windows 7
Run As: Run As Local System

Verify
Verify a file exists...
Directory: C:
File: Win7NIC.bat

On success
Log message...
Win7NIC batch & schedule already present.

Remediation
Script name: Win7NIC.bat
Batch file: echo netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" ENABLED > C:\Win7NIC.bat
SCHTASKS /Create /RU "" /SC ONSTART /TN Enable_NIC /TR C:\Win7NIC.bat
exit
X Wait for startup

On Remediation Success
Log message...
Win7NIC batch & schedule successfully created.

On Remediation Failure
Log message...
Failed to create Win7NIC batch & schedule.


Hope that helps!

John

I've already tried disabling that and it didn't work on my testing machines :(

We were having the same type of problem. One of our guys found a reg file that solved the problem for us. Just save the following as a .reg file and push it to the machines. This fixed it for us.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0\DefaultPowerSchemeValues]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0\DefaultPowerSchemeValues\381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e]
"AcSettingIndex"=dword:00003840
"DcSettingIndex"=dword:00003840

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0\DefaultPowerSchemeValues\8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c]
"AcSettingIndex"=dword:00003840
"DcSettingIndex"=dword:00003840

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0\DefaultPowerSchemeValues\a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a]
"AcSettingIndex"=dword:00003840
"DcSettingIndex"=dword:00003840

Thanks John,

We'll try this out and see if it fixes our issue.

Thanks,

Mike