some questions about Mac

[ITlover]

I have some questions about Mac OS.

There is a Apple laptop with Mac OS and it has a built in NIC card in it. If I want to use internet on this laptop ,than I can connect ethernet cable into this laptop.

My question is that if the ethernet cable is faulty, than still will I get the built in ethernet option in the show box in network icon?

Can anyone of you give me a link which has snapshots of the troubleshooting steps for the latest version of Mac OS?

I would deeply appreciate if any one of you gives me the link?

[Jester]

http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/help/

If the cable is fualty then the Mac will show a red dot next to the ethernet option in your network settings.