Dell C800 Ethernet Adapter Not Working

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wv_mba@earthlink-dot-net.no-spam.invalid (ddorrer) wrote:
>I have a Dell C800 laptop and the ethernet adapter does not want to
>work. If I have the laptop in the docking station I can see the
>ethernet adapter under the device manager and I have access to the
>internet. However, once the laptop is undocked the LAN port will not
>work, no lights, nada, and the device manager drops the ethernet
>adapter.

Does the docking station have it's own LAN hardware? Try looking at
it with "devices by connection" in Device Mangler. Sounds like a
hardware problem...