Why my Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller is disabled in windows 10 ??

newu873 said:

Hello,

In my Device Manager I see under Network Adapters that Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller is disabled.
I never disabled it. So how & why it's disabled ?? The other adapter is active which I guess
allows me to surf the web. It's the Qualcomm Wireless Adapter. But recently I get Blue screens
of an error with the Netio.sys driver and so I began checking under Device Manager and found the above.
I have Windows 10 Pro 1709 on a desktop.

Any solutions ??

You have to choose between wired and WiFi internet, can't use both at same time.

krzemien said:

Why? That's exactly what I do - both interfaces are enabled and connected to my router.

You can connect to router but not to internet.

krzemien said:

At work I actually have three network interfaces doing this within my Surface laptop: WiFi and two separate ones via USB dock and USB hub that's equipped with network interface. And all is well and everything works (and I do not really care how Windows manages connectivity to the Internet).

The point I'm trying to make is that you can keep various interfaces connected at the same time - otherwise your above statement could be misleading.

I have both connected too but only one at a time can be connected to internet, the other one has to be disabled.

Maybe everybody is saying the same thing, but choice of terms/words is misleading. All of mine are "enabled", only one, Ethernet, is actually "connected" and active out in the world wide wild web. If I manually disable the Ethernet, the WiFi kicks in automatically.

(The VMs are VMWare proxies)