Hello everybody, I moved to another apartment last week and this place has an ethernet cable instead of wifi. Well now, I know for a fact my laptop was able to connect to ethernet cables last year, since my girlfriend had one and I used to use hers.
I still have the same laptop but for some reason it won't acknowledge that a cable is being plugged in. Also I have a Toshiba Sattelite (not sure about the serial number) and am running windows 10
Things I have tried:
-letting someone else use the cable (worked)
-using another cable myself (still not acknowledging a cable)
-updating the driver (using the built in detection, using detection software AND googling )
-reinstalling the driver (did nothing)
-turning of wireless signals (did nothing)
Extra information: in my control panel, under ethernet it says Network cable unplugged Qualcomm Atheros AR8172/8176/8178 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30)

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