hi i cant seem to get my ethernet to work, there seems to be 2 adapters and both of them are "disconnected" what can i do to connect them?

my ifconfig is as follows

damian@damian-MS-7309 ~ $ ifconfig -a
enp0s7 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:85:36:dc:b6
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

enp2s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c4:6e:1f:01:d6:63
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:1037 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1037 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:110109 (110.1 KB) TX bytes:110109 (110.1 KB)

wlp3s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 18:d6:c7:28:7d:bc
inet addr:192.168.1.143 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::d54e:46b1:d85a:4dc2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:59742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33699 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:83384205 (83.3 MB) TX bytes:3734277 (3.7 MB)

wlx74da38007f7b Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:da:38:00:7f:7b
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

where do i go from here?

i have tried 3 different cables in different sockets on my router

Plug a cable from one to the other. See if lights blink? Usually I try a loopback cable tester.

Did you configure the wireless with a network manager? Does it allow you to select wired also?

Not sure if you have it configured or not at this point.

Hi more info would probably help.

Using mint 18.2 just installed and freshly updated with WiFi.

Thanks for your reply to my query and I will try your suggestion.

I have since however tried my windows laptop with the same result so I'm thinking my router might have issues

So I click my icon on the task bar and my network info pops out with all my network adapters listed but my ethernet is disconnected despite the cable being plugged in. I'm going to try your idea though and see what happens

Have you configured them?

Disconnected tends to mean it really is disconnected but I can't be sure from your posts yet. Use known good cable and test to another computer maybe. I suspect that your statement of disconnected is really not configured maybe? We will keep trying here.

A nice look into these commands with the cable connected would be awesome: