T510 found not ethernet card inside after buying 1 year?

Hi all,

I am sorry to bother you about this weird problem.

I bought my T510 around 13 months ago and finally found the RJ45 port was not working after I plugged a LAN cable....

I always used WLAN, and this time is my first time to plug in a cable into the port located on the right corner of laptop, and found its not working.

I've tried to install the driver but the driver could not be installed b/c the error message of kinda could not find ethernet card on my T510?? Which is really weird. I don't think the ethernet card is an options when I config my T510 around 1 year ago.

And today I entered the BIOS again and found message like below on the first screen:

MAC Address (Internal LAN): Not Applicable

Dear users, I google this message and got no body else encountered the same problem, any one can give some clue what I should do? I am going abroad for a trip a think the hotel usually got ethernet cable rather than expensive WLAN connection.

Please help.

Yi.

 

Have you checked the other BIOS settings? Maybe the onboard Ethernet is currently set to disabled. It might very well be that "Not Applicable" is the appropriate BIOS setting for the MAC address if the onboard Ethernet is set to disabled.

 

Thanks for your reply, lonewolf, I checked the BIOS setting, and without luck, I didn't see any settings to do with on-board ethernet ....really bad.....

Any other idea? Thanks in advance.

 

It's my personal bad, this was really stupid. Thanks so much lonewolf.
The setting is not located below the CONFIGURATION, it's located at the SECURITY.

Security/I/O Port Access/ Ethernet LAN

It seems THINKPAD could disable every specific equipment such like WLAN, MODEM PORT, USB HUB etc,. This is awesome, and it's really about security!!

Thanks so much for this and just want to post this as a reminder for others...hope no body else b/c this is stupid...

Have a good one for everyone!