I have seen that on a lot of the D and E series machines in the past. I
have not played enough recently to know if any thing has changed but it was
alway, at least in cases I have seen, the issue. Battery power would drop
to some low level and the system would kill off wired NIC. Usually you can
Sounds to me like the power management isn't re-enabling the onboard nic
when wall power is returned to the laptop. Did you check to see if the
NIC is enabled in device manager? I see users disable them all the
time. Reboot fix anything?
From: Bill Lambert [m
Don't know about that model but I remember seeing this on the old Latitudes.
Bent pins in the dock connectors. I was able to gently straighten most of
them...
Seems the first thing to fail was always connectivity...
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Charlie Kaiser
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Kingman, AZ
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No specific experiences but I would update the BIOS as a first item.
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From: Bill
