I was recently browsing the internet via a connection at my dorm on my Acer Apsire One 532h Netbook. I was using the wired connection, as in ethernet plugged into the wall, because I didn't feel like getting my roommate to turn on his router. It was going fine until randomly I lost internet connection. I was puzzled and disconnected the ethernet cable, waited a few minutes, and reconnected it. I still had no internet so I began to investigate. It turns out that my Ethernet driver that is usually listed in my connection center was entirely absent. I looked in the driver list and it was gone from there as well. I tried user Acer's reinstallation tool to remove the old software for it and reinstall but all to no avail. It simply will not show up. There is nothing wrong with the wireless. I am connected right now and using it to post this. I just cannot seem to figure out the missing connection device. Any suggestions or help would be great. Thanks in advance.

Try asking Acer support. Some LOM (LAN on motherboard) netcards have a "power saving feature" that makes the netcard disappear when a. the machine runs on battery, b. the adapter does not sense network connection. The latter can occur because of netcard malfunction, or bad cable, or malfunction of the LAN switch. Sometimes setting a fixed network speed and duplex manually in the netcard properties (such as 100 or 10 mbps) can help. --pa