Originally Posted By: daves66nova
Originally Posted By: Donald
go to a command prompt and enter "ipconfig /all". What does it display?
Node type....unknown IP routing Enabled.....no,WINS proxy Enabled.....yes, ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Media State......Media Disconnected, Description.....Realtech , NIC Physical address 00-10-2b-5b-29 something like this.
So either the adapter is broken hardware wise, you need a new driver, the cable is bad or you are plugging it into a bad port. Forget about doing a ping. I assume you have swapped cables and port to rule those out. Can you try and and "Enable" the adapter under Control Panel. Lastly try and download the latest driver for the network adapter on another computer to a USB memory stick and then install it on this one.