• PC doesn't recognize internet cable
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For some reason my pc won't work with any internet cable I plug into it, I can only go wireless. My wireless network sucks and it's much better to plug in a cable, is there anything I can do to enable it?
Well, assuming this is an on-board port on the motherboard and that the Wireless is seperate... Perhaps you need the motherboard drivers from the manufacturer?
I might, I just reformatted this pc today. I just don't know what motherboard it is, I just know it's a Dell. Any way I can figure out?
Go to dell's site > enter service tag > install ethernet and chipset drivers
I had the same problem as-well. I'm going to try what the guys above said.
Yeah I'm currently installing all the drivers from Dells site. Crossing fingers.
Nothing.. *sigh*
[QUOTE=Oblivion470;26250861]Yeah I'm currently installing all the drivers from Dells site. Crossing fingers.[/QUOTE] Did it explode? lol
Looks like I'm going to have to buy a PCI NIC.
It's not your pc. It's probably the fact that that Ethernet port isn't set up on the network. Call your internet service provider and tell them the the Ethernet isn't working and they'll come and set it up. On my network for example, there is the hardware for Ethernet in every room but we don't have enough room on our router to actually give internet to each of them.
[QUOTE=Maccabee;26271850]It's not your pc. It's probably the fact that that Ethernet port isn't set up on the network. Call your internet service provider and tell them the the Ethernet isn't working and they'll come and set it up. [/QUOTE] uh what [editline]24th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Giacomand;26251986]Looks like I'm going to have to buy a PCI NIC.[/QUOTE] Strangely enough I misdiagnosed an issue and now I'm left with a spare PCI NIC :frown:.
I have a spare ISA NIC and about a dozen PCI ones. that's not exactly difficult to come by hardware.
[url]http://www.halfdone.com/ukd/[/url] Put it on a flash drive, run the updater on a PC with internet, plug into the computer without the driver and expand the database menu on a few devices that could be the ethernet adapter. It will tell you a manufacturer and a model name, which you can then find a driver for.
Maybe you're using the wrong cable. Is the ethernet device recognized? Also, does the cable work with any other computer?
It's an ethernet cable not "internet cable"
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