I'm a noob.

[dydey90]

I have some pretty embarrassing computer trouble. I've somehow broken the LAN port on my computer. My house isn't wired, so this isn't normally a big problem as I use wifi, but now I'm having a play with a Pi and tried to share my connection.
I can't do it. It won't register at all, no lights on at the port or anything. Cable is good, I think the problem is my fault from installing some VPN software that's reconfigured the network adapter. I've removed said software as much as I can, but no joy. I don't know my way around the registry to have a rummage around in there either.

Solutions so far:
-Somebody on here knows how to fix this
-Call it a day, rebuild windows
-Ignore the problem and spend a fiver on a wifi adapter for the Pi

plx halp
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[RichardCraniu...]

[dydey90]

The network adapter is just the one that's on my motherboard, tried downloading the drivers from the manufacturers website but when I try to install it gives this error:
"The Realtek Network Controller was not found. If Deep Sleep Mode is enabled Please Plug the Cable."

I don't have any backups to do a restore from. I think the problem was caused in November, but it's only presented itself now.
My main PC has a wifi adapter, which is why I haven't noticed until now. It's just my Raspberry Pi that I need to use ethernet for.
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[CaNsA]

Device manager, network adapters, find ethernet one.
right click
hold "shift" and select remove device.
if you get the option to remove drivers, remove them.
once finished
reboot

[dydey90]

There's no device there, I removed and reinstalled drives and got nothing, even after I stripped all the vpn software including registry files. Did some googling and saw people fixed this by removing the bios battery but that didn't solve it either.

In the end I remembered that I also have a laptop, so I routed through that instead. Just have to do that in future...

Now I just have to be work out how to use the Pi!
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[prawny1]

check your lan isn't disabled in your bios, it wont show up in the os if it is disabled in bios.
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