Re: "Network Cable Unplugged" error (FR114P)

From: Somebody. (somebody._at_spamout.russdoucet.com)
Date: 10/30/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:54:40 -0400

"George" <george@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:jzN8f.36981$S_1.15651@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
> Hello, Russ,
>
> I highly appreciate all your help/suggestion and have not at all any
> intention to argue with anyone.
> I have tried both straight through cables and cross over cables, which I
> believe of good quality, as I read as "Enhanced CAT .5 UTP 350MHz.".
> The only thing I haven't done is updating the driver of the NIC because
> the
> OS reports that the driver works properly.
> I don't understand the point to updating the driver when the connection
> has
> not yet established (none of the green or orange light is on of the RJ45).
> Hopefully, my reply will not be interpreted as a offensive "argue" and I
> do
> realize the issue is not a simple/easy one.
> If you have any further advice, you are more than welcome. Thanks in
> anticipation.
>

Your NIC is *not* working correctly, for one connection at least. I've seen
drivers fix such thing. Specifically, if there is a bug in the driver for
one particular flavor of auto-sense -- sometimes even tied to what chipset
is used in the remote ethernet card. I've seen it happen. Ask yourself why
they release new drivers -- to fix bugs. Perhaps yours has a bug. Perhaps
not. Might it be possible that one of the bugs that was fixed with an
updated driver, is the one that is effecting you?

BTW, when the OS reports the driver is working correctly, that means little
to nothing. Only that it's properly installed and is functional. It could
be riddled with bugs or not even be capable of controlling the hardware it's
connected to in some cases, but still report as fine to the OS.

-Russ.

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