August 2024 update issue

[Marshall Lail]

I have several Dell Laptops running Win11 that received the monthly patches this last Tuesday. All was well until the required reboot when the Ethernet connection stopped working. The WIFI still works but I always use the laptop via the port replicator.Tasks completed with no positive results:Ran the network troubleshooter. It responded that it could not get a DHCP address.Disabled local firewall.Rebooted the laptop again.Ran the commands below:netsh int ip resetnetsh winsock resetipconfig /releaseipconfig /renewipconfig /flushdnsnetsh winhttp reset proxyremoved the Ethernet NIC driver and rei

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