Faulty Network Card

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I had previously posted about not being able to get an internet
connection out of either my wireless or LAN connection, but I got the
wireless internet working yesterday. I still cannot get the LAN port to
read the ethernet cable when I plug it into my laptop. I installed the
drivers from Dell's website, so I know the drivers are correct. I have
also tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers, but that too is not
the problem. I then tried uninstalling teh drivers and letting windows
find the correct driver for the card. After installing the driver this
was, I still cannot get any connection out of my LAN port. I have no
idea what is wrong and have run out of ideas to fix it. Any help is
appreciated, Thanks
 
gravy2008 said:
I had previously posted about not being able to get an internet
connection out of either my wireless or LAN connection, but I got the
wireless internet working yesterday. I still cannot get the LAN port to
read the ethernet cable when I plug it into my laptop. I installed the
drivers from Dell's website, so I know the drivers are correct. I have
also tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers, but that too is not
the problem. I then tried uninstalling teh drivers and letting windows
find the correct driver for the card. After installing the driver this
was, I still cannot get any connection out of my LAN port. I have no
idea what is wrong and have run out of ideas to fix it. Any help is
appreciated, Thanks
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Possibilities:

1. Faulty ethernet network adapter in computer. If a laptop, contact Dell.
If a desktop, uninstall it and swap it out for a known-working PCI network
adapter. They are cheap.

2. Faulty ethernet cable. Swap it out for a known-working one.

3. Faulty router. First try in a different port. If no joy, try a different
router.

I would do the above in the order of #2, #1, and then #3.

Malke
 
Hi
After few days of hard work, you should consider taking your computer to a
computer technician.
They have spare cards with working drivers and can find what the problem is
on your specific compute.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)
 
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