THe RJ45 port is not working on this R40 Thinkpad. Even that activity lights 
on the back of the laptop do not flash. I have tried several different RJ-45 
connections to routers and no activity lights. The diagnostics performed by 
"Access IBM" does not indicate any issues. I also downloaded the latest 
ethernet drivers with no change.

Is this probably a hardware failure on the motherboard?

I can get access to WWW via the USB on the cable modem and the PCMCIA 
wireless card also connects to www so its not a desperate situation. At 
worse I can get a USB to RJ45 converter to get to RKJ45 jacks.

any thoughts to fix the ethernet port? 

"trs80" <trs80@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> THe RJ45 port is not working on this R40 Thinkpad. Even that activity 
> lights on the back of the laptop do not flash. I have tried several 
> different RJ-45 connections to routers and no activity lights. The 
> diagnostics performed by "Access IBM" does not indicate any issues. I also 
> downloaded the latest ethernet drivers with no change.
>
> Is this probably a hardware failure on the motherboard?
>
> I can get access to WWW via the USB on the cable modem and the PCMCIA 
> wireless card also connects to www so its not a desperate situation. At 
> worse I can get a USB to RJ45 converter to get to RKJ45 jacks.
>
> any thoughts to fix the ethernet port?

Are you sure that ethernet is enabled in the BIOS?  Sorry to ask, but it 
sounds like you only just acquired the laptop.

ss.