I'm having similar problems over the past few weeks.  I have an Intel Anypoint 10MB 
PCI NIC (Broadcom under the skin, I think), and am *constantly* getting intermittent 
"A network cable is unplugged" balloons.  (Then the connection comes back momentarily.) 
Never had this until a few weeks ago.  
- My first thought was the NIC was flaking out, so I bought a new one, but still 
the same results. 
- I re-installed the NIC into another PCI slot, no help. 
- I replace the RJ11 cable between the NIC and the wall jack.
- I uninstalled and re-installed the drivers (including the Anypoint "cleandrv" utility), 
still no help.

The only thing I can think of that's changed in my environment recently is the addition 
of another telephone on my home phone system... I have a lot of phones.  Is there 
any possibility that "too many phones" would cause a network connection to drop out 
intermittently?

I don't suspect the actual wires in the wall; the telephone connected out of the 
Anypoint NIC works fine. 

I have 3 other Anypoint devices in the house and none of them are having any trouble.

Thanks for any advice.
Michael Weiland





On Monday, September 15, 2003 at 9:01 pm, Karthik wrote:
>Try seeing through the following things...
>
> 1 Check the Cable,as also this message is a kind of information to check the cable 
>going bad.
> 
>  2Try updating the NIC drivers.
> 
>  3 In Device Manager,Right click the NIC adapter,select properties,if power management 
>tab available.,then click to uncheck the option to allow windows  to turn of the 
> device for power save..
> 
>  4 Try Reseating the NIC card or also try to seat it in different slot
>    
> 5 check the cable length,try limiting it to less that 6 ft.
> 
> 6 Try Flashing the bios
> 
> 7 If you are connecting to other computer then check the drivers in the other computer..
>
>
>

>:)