How to programmatically enable/disable network interfaces? (Windows XP)

Question

I need to enable/disable completely network interfaces from a script in Windows XP. I\'m looking for a python solution, but any general way (eg WMI, some command-line à la n

Answer 1

So far I've found the following Python solution:

>>> import wmi; c=wmi.WMI()
>>> o=c.query("select * from Win32_NetworkAdapter where NetConnectionID='wifi'")[0]
>>> o.EnableDevice(1)
(-2147217407,)

which is translated, AFAIU, to the generic WMI error 0x80041001. Could be permissions.