Hi all,

I am having problems with both my wired and wireless IP NICs. If I go and set the IP to a static address, when I go back to return to automatic DHCP, the settings are already configured for DHCP, and it won't stick. I would expect the current static IP to be already filled in when I open the dialog. If I assign another static IP, it adds the IP as another TCP/IP instance and doesn't change the one I set the first time. 

My solution so far is to remove the NIC from Device Manager and rescan for hardware where it will re-add the NIC with default settings. 

This is Windows 8 Pro RTM.

WiFi card is Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN.

Ethernet NIC is a Broadcom NetXtreme 57??.

Drivers do not seem to be the issue.

I also posted a screencast of what I see here. 

• Edited by Nick Marques Monday, November 19, 2012 6:18 AM

Your link is broken

Sorry. Not sure how that happen, but it is fixed. 

• Marked as answer by Niki HanMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:11 AM
• Unmarked as answer by Nick Marques Monday, February 04, 2013 4:43 AM

Glad you are working.  Good luck'

I meant that the link is fixed, not that the problem is fixed.

Hi all,

I am still having issues with this. Can anyone help me look into what might be causing this? Is there a way to totally reset all networking? It doesn't seem to be a NIC driver issue since it happens across all interfaces. 

Hi Nick 

I had your same problem, I resolved using the command 'netsh' by CLI. With this command you can set static address,or enable DHCP,etc.
Open cmd.exe with administrator privilege and try this command to active DHCP for your Wi-Fi card:

netsh interface ip set address "Wi-Fi" dhcp

or use this command to set static address for the same NIC:

netsh interface ip set address name="Wi-Fi" static 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 1

Regards.