IEEE shown 3 times in device manager

[robertw]

I installed an IEEE card it shows up 3 times in device manager
one for a printer others as ieee interfaces
is this normal so I can plug in a ieee printer
I thought it was only for video?

[ProfessorU]

I would recommend uninstalling all of them and letting windows try again to redetect it/them. What is the printing one called, exactly?

IEEE 1394 (firewire) supports many many devices. I haven't seen any printers that are firewire but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Firewire drives (optical and magnetic) are becoming very popular.

[robertw]

It has
1284.4 compatable printer
1394 bus host controller
1284.4 compatable devices

What is a network bridge?
it does'nt show ip address's

[jman1980]

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxpbrdge.htm
info on network bridge

[Asendin]

Originally posted by robertw
It has
1284.4 compatable printer
1394 bus host controller
1284.4 compatable devices

What is a network bridge?
it does'nt show ip address's

those are all normal

a network bridge in XP is when you bind two network LANs together threw a bridge in the operating system instead of using hardware or third party software

[madc250]

Do not delete anything asendin is right. I did that with keyboard showing up 5 times, turned out all were needed and I had to reload the driver from HP
Madc

[Rapmaster]

IEEE 1284.4 is a standard used for parallel ports

IEEE 1394 is "firewire"

I don't think they have anything to do with each other, except that they are both based on standards maintained by the IEEE

Although apparently the 1284.4 "protocol" can operated over firewire or usb. Long boring article.

[robertw]

This network bridge looks pretty complicated I don’t think I would ever use IEEE as a NIC it did all this bridging by itself in network properties
When some one sticks an IEEE card for there camcorder
They don’t want their network reconfigured when you click properties there no protocols or ip addresses
I was trying to network 2 computers XP and win98 with wireless
Dlink router using dhcp XP had 192.168.0.100
Mask 255.255.255.0

On win98 it had 192.168.0.100 mask 255.0.0.0 using dhcp, that was the problem
When I did a release and renew I got 255.255.255.0
I don’t think this has anything to do with bridging since router give out ip's
Now at least computers can see each other

network bridge in XP: is it the same as multilink like in the old days with dial up modems to increase speed
or is it for routing ?

Thanks for all the help