On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Goody2 wrote:
The console.log shows (quotation marks added): "WirelessAttach: getInterfaceWithName failed" This line repeats about twenty times, then
It's polling for a WiFi adapter.
"mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en0 (192.168.1.46); delaying packets by 5 seconds"
en0 is your ethernet port, here it has an address, although it may
"mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay 192.168.1.1."
Bonjour has been turned off.
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
Your ethernet port has talked to the router. Flow Control disabled may be a clue here, we might be having a problem with handshaking between the router and the Mac.
Feb 25 23:17:54 Herbert-Goodfriends-Power-Mac-G5 kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 4 setupCopperPhy - link is down
NOw the link is disconnected, a good indicator of the above.
Feb 25 23:17:57 Herbert-Goodfriends-Power-Mac-G5 configd[38]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
The lis a log entry noting the posting of a log entry , courtesy of the Department of Redundancy Department's crack team of crack-addled programmers :-)
Feb 25 23:18:00 Herbert-Goodfriends-Power-Mac-G5 lookupd[792]: lookupd (version 369.8) starting - Thu Feb 25 23:18:00 2010
What's happening, I think, is that your router and your Mac aren't properly establishing connections.
Unfortunately, the standard method of diagnosing these issues is to plug either a known-good computer into the router or the computer into a known-good router, and seeing which combination works or not.
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