Two icons or "Acquiring Network Address"

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chermesh

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Hi,
I'm connected to my university by ADSL. When I login, I find two related icons on my task bar, one carrying the name I've assigned to my ISP, and another, carrying the "Local Area Conncetion 5" which keeps reporting the status of "Acquiring Network Address". I tried to disable this last icon, but the result was stopping my ADSL connection.
Why does this icon appear?
Why does it fail to acquire network address?
Why can't I disable it?

Ran
 
Not 100% sure how it works, but that is the ethernet device for your modem. Ignore it! Disabling it disables your modem.
 
Quick fix:

Double click the icon, click properties. Uncheck 'Show icon in taskbar when connected' ;)

It's probably your network card trying to obtain a IP from the modem, but it can't because you're connecting through PPPoE. Nothing to worry about.
 
Quick fix

Thanks for your suggestion. Following it, the icon will disappear, but the card will continue searching for an address, wasting system resources. I wonder if you know how to instruct the card to stop searching.

Ran
 
An IP

Thanks. I checked the "Obtain IP automatically" and it stopped searching.
 
If you have a USB ADSL modem, it seems to create this 'virtual' network device because it needs a network device to connect through. The second icon is the actual ADSL connection.
It's annoying, but not harmful.
 
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