[henshag10]

In my local area network connections I receive a message for my broadband/ethernet connection when I plug it in. It says "a network cable is unplugged" and when I do ipconfig in the command prompt it says "media disconnected" even though the cable is connected. I am able to connect to the LAN with my USB connection, but I would like to be able to use the ethernet port to free up the USB port. Any suggestions? The best guess I have is that the ethernet port is shot or something to do with the motherboard. Any information or suggestions would be useful. Thank you.

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try uninstallin and reinstalling your NIC card.
if it is removable try using that card in a different machine
if you have access to a different Nic try it in your pc
if you have a different ethernet cable try a new cable

[dsenette]

try uninstallin and reinstalling your NIC card.
if it is removable try using that card in a different machine
if you have access to a different Nic try it in your pc
if you have a different ethernet cable try a new cable