Thank you for your help and suggestions Madhur - much appreciated!
Hello I hope someone can help me with this issue as I've tried everything I can think of. I have a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. I can connect to the internet wirelessly but not with a wired connection. My wired network adapter card is not listed in the device manager. I am running Windows XP. I'm beginning to think the card is not working but how can I tell for sure? I can't even find how to replace it - I read it's part of the motherboard. Here is what I've done so far to no avail: 1. Updated all drivers listed on the Dell website including wireless network card, BIOS, chipset, and what I thought was the wired card but not sure. I installed anything that even looked like a network card. 2. Uninstalled and re-installed the wired card. 3. Tried to run the Dell system configuration tool to verify what hardware I have but it says it doesn't work for my system. 4. Tried to enable the network card in the BIOS by choosing "enable" to anything that said "NIC card." 5. Disabled the wireless card to see if the wired card would show up. 6. Ran the Intel System Identification Utility and it did not detect any wired networking card or driver on the computer. 7. Ran CC Cleaner. 8. Start>Run> msinfo32.exe clicked on Components, then Network, then Adapter. It says the Broadcom 570x Gigabit Integrated Controller is installed but no IP information is listed ….says Not available. But plenty of IP information is listed for the WLAN PCI card.  9. Control panel>admin tools>services. At the bottom I set both wired and wireless to automatic and started.  10. Verified the network services setting: Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs>Add/Remove Windows Components>Networking Services>Details. Simple TCP/IP Services is turned on.Any other suggestions on what I can do? Thanks!
Ethernet connection doesn't work, wired lan card not showing in device manager