When the orange led is blinking data is being transferred. So the ethernet port is on board the motherboard.
Basic Network Troubleshooting
Ethernet cable orange light blinking. When the orange led is off no data is being transferred. Incessant amber light blinking for ethernet port. Loose wire connection between modem to the router may cause the flashing orange light problem on your netgear router. Now reconnect modem straight to the internet port named wan on the router. When the orange led is on the port is being connected but no data is being transferred. What do the green and orange light mean on ethernet.
Unplug all the wire connection of modem and router. These days of course you dont get packet collisions in the wild really since most hardware is full duplex these days. Back in the day you might have seen green lights for activity and orange lights for collisions for example. If you read the manual if the ethernet port light is blinking it means its passing traffic. When the green led is on there is 10100100mbps traffic. The orange color makes since the router you have is 10100mb wired lan port so the fastest speed t can handle is around a 100mb and flashing of the internet light is normal it would be green if a 1gb lan port was used.
Cm1000 ethernet flashing orange what router are you connected to. Have you checked your cable. Replace if the cable lan port and wire are damage. The blinking itself is fine that indicates there is traffic and that it recognizes there is traffic. 0 points 4 years ago. So you just get linkspeed of link and activity generally.
On the ethernet port. View solution in original post. And the lan connection does not show up on the second step of the link.