Sleep and an Ethernet connection

[Phil]

Thank you for reading this.

One annoying problem that I've yet to resolve is the dropping of the 
Ethernet connection after waking from sleep. I occasionally had the same 
problem with a wireless connection on my laptop but that was easily 
overcome by pressing the "connect" button. There isn't a "connect" 
button in the "Active connections" box after waking on the desktop 
computer. The "Active connections" box is blank until the computer is 
rebooted.

A Google search has shown that this is a common problem. A few 
workarounds have been offered, however, none have worked for me. How 
have other list members overcome this problem?

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Regards,
Phil