{"id":1662,"date":"2019-07-24T14:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:00:23","slug":"unable-to-add-dell-usb-ethernet-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/unable-to-add-dell-usb-ethernet-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable To Add Dell USB &#8211; Ethernet Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes when a Dell USB-Ethernet adapter is added to a laptop it won&#8217;t work. This is due to a couple of setting in the Group Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly open your Group Policy Editor, (gpedit.msc).<\/p>\n<p>Then go to:<\/p>\n<p>Computer Configuration<\/p>\n<p>Administrative Templates<\/p>\n<p>System<\/p>\n<p>Device Installation<\/p>\n<p>Device Installation Restrictions<\/p>\n<p>Set to &#8216;Not Configured&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Prevent installation of devices using drivers that match these device setup classes&#8217; and &#8216;Prevent installation of devices that match any of these device IDs&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1666\" src=\"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Group-Policy-300x92.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Group-Policy-300x92.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Group-Policy-768x236.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Group-Policy-1024x314.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Group-Policy-250x77.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when a Dell USB-Ethernet adapter is added to a laptop it won&#8217;t work. This is due to a couple of setting in the Group Policy. Firstly open your Group Policy Editor, (gpedit.msc). Then go to: Computer Configuration Administrative Templates System Device Installation Device Installation Restrictions Set to &#8216;Not Configured&#8217; &#8216;Prevent installation of devices using drivers that match these device setup classes&#8217; and &#8216;Prevent installation of devices that match any of these device IDs&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}