I have a 12" PB with a wifi card. The PB has a static IP address.
Occasionally I find that when using the ethernet connection the PB is
no longer able to transmit or receive across the network - no browsing,
What does ifconfig en0 tell you, though? ipconfig getipaddr doesn't work for me at all under OSX (I get the same error you do).
One thing I've noticed on our office LAN (mixed Mac/PC, and a combination of 10bT and 100bT devices) is that sustained file transfers between 10bT and 100bT devices cause problems. We'd get a large number of collisions, and then either the port on the hub would shut down for a couple of minutes, or the Ethernet transceiver at one or other computer (usually the 10bT device) would shut down for 30 seconds or so.
This problem got better when we removed all the 10bT hubs and replaced them with autosensing 10/100 switches. There are some devices that we can't upgrade to 100bT (printers, a fax server, and a couple of other things). These are the main troublemakers for us right now.
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