Magnus wrote:
> This is the strangest problem I have ever encountered - I moved to a
> new house and there was a wireless there but since my wireless is not
> working I connected straigt into the router - now to the strange part
> - if I have my power cable plugged in at the same time then my network
> connection says "network cable not connected" but when i unplug it
> then you can see the network connection acquiring for an ip address
> and it all works!
>
> I did try to reinstall the drivers for the ethernet, I tried to repair
> the connection and get a new IP, tried two different network
> cables....nothing works.
>
> HELP please!

what OS - and computer ?

seems like when the power is plugged in,
it might think it has some kind of "docking" profile
and is looking to use the Ethernet cable connection vs the Wifi ?