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D810: cannot activate internal nic
Hi all,
I have some problems with activating the internal nic when working undocked. When in the port replicator the internal nic works fine.
Without the port replicator I was unable to activate the nic since I got the notebook. I already tried the two settings in the control panel: deactivate the nic if on battery or always on, but this seems not to work. When I try to activate the nic using the hardware manager, windows says that it was unable to activate the device.
BTW: the led on the port is always green when connected to a switch.
Thanks for any advice.
Adrian.
I have some problems with activating the internal nic when working undocked. When in the port replicator the internal nic works fine.
Without the port replicator I was unable to activate the nic since I got the notebook. I already tried the two settings in the control panel: deactivate the nic if on battery or always on, but this seems not to work. When I try to activate the nic using the hardware manager, windows says that it was unable to activate the device.
BTW: the led on the port is always green when connected to a switch.
Thanks for any advice.
Adrian.
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Posted August 24th, 2005 20:00
I have the same thing on the 410 and 610. If I press Undock and remove from the replicator and move to a conference room, enter a enternet cable in the back NIC port. No connectivity withour a reboot.
On the 410 I have listed adapters in the Device manager.
But on the 610 The Broadcomm 57xx will not work if moved from docked to undocked state.
If I reboot, with the laptop in the port replicator or undocked without the ethernet cable connected, I get no broadcom adapter in Device manager. I have just discovered today so still looking for thoughts like you.
Broadcomm webste might have some thoughts.