It's Working! I ran these two commands at the command prompt, with admin. privileges. 1.  IPCONFIG /RELEASE 2.  IPCONFIG /RENEW 3.  Restarted the system, and it works again
I believe I asked this question in the wrong forum.  Basically, my e4300 no longer picks up a wired connection after upgrading BIOS from A14 to A26.  Wireless works fine. Wired connection was working until BIOS update. Sorry to post in the wrong area Windows 7 PRO Centrino Processor
e4300 LAN not working after BIOS upgrade