On Feb 25, 9:56 pm, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Eric Volker wrote:
>
> > I'm a bit confused - does your Powermac G5 actually have two
> > ethernet ports? To the best of my knowledge they normally only
> > shipped with one.
>
> I was confused too. The Late 2005 G5 is very different than my Early
> 2005. The Late 2005 came with two built-in ethernet ports according to
> MacTracker.

Thanks to all for the feedback.

FIRST, to clarify: The G5 is a late 2005 model (Dual Core 2.3GHz). It
has two built-in Ethernet ports.

SECOND, I checked the console.log and system.log. Hopefully, the
following will provide a clue:

The console.log shows (quotation marks added):

"WirelessAttach: getInterfaceWithName failed"    This line repeats
about twenty times, then

 "mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en0
(192.168.1.46); delaying packets by 5 seconds"

"mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service Discovery disabled to avoid
crashing defective DNS relay 192.168.1.1."

The system.log reads as follows:
Feb 25 23:17:34 Herbert-Goodfriends-Power-Mac-G5 kernel[0]:
AppleBCM5701Ethernet - en0 link active, 100-Mbit, full duplex, flow
control disabled
Feb 25 23:17:54 Herbert-Goodfriends-Power-Mac-G5 kernel[0]:
AppleBCM5701Ethernet:        0        4 setupCopperPhy - link is down
Feb 25 23:17:57 Herbert-Goodfriends-Power-Mac-G5 configd[38]: posting
notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Feb 25 23:18:00 Herbert-Goodfriends-Power-Mac-G5 lookupd[792]: lookupd
(version 369.8) starting - Thu Feb 25 23:18:00 2010


THIRD, I plugged the Ethernet cable into another computer (PowerMac G4
MDD 2003, also running 10.4.11) and there was no problem mainaining
the connection. The console.log reads similarly:

lookupd (version 369.8) starting - Fri Feb 26 09:38:56 2010
Feb 26 09:39:08 Herbert-Goodfriends-MDD mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area
Service Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay
192.168.1.1.
Feb 26 09:39:09 Herbert-Goodfriends-MDD configd[38]:   target=enable-
network: disabled

There was nothing in the system.log that seemed relevant.

Again, thanks in advance for any suggestions.


Herb Goodfriend




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