On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:34 PM, James Chapel wrote: > Switching both to DHCP, then restarting > the mac with the standard "apple enet" driver enabled, brought the > card back to life in Mac OS 9.2.1, indicating network activity on both > the switch and Apple PCI card. As an experiment, I thought I'd leave > the mac set to DHCP while retaining some control through manual > settings on the PC. After restart, that took down the connection and I > have yet to replicate my earlier solution. Again, thoughts or > suggestions will be very appreciated.
One comment: This is one of the myriad reasons why I moved to OS X at 10.2 and never looked back. Since it worked for you for a short period of time, you now know that the card works and OS 9.2 can see it. Have you tried re-installing OS-9, doing a custom install to include JUST the ethernet bits? OS 9 ONLY installs the drivers for hardware that was present at installation time..if you add a USB card or a Firewire card, for example, you need to install those drivers from the OS 9 install disk, or to re-apply the latest combo updater for OS 9.2.1. The fact that you're using the driver from 8.1 is likely the issue. SInce it's an Apple bit of hardware, if Apple doesn't offer drivers for OS 9, (you have looked, haven't you?) it means that the driver is included as part of the OS install, and not separately (USB is this way. The separate USB drivers Apple offers only work for OS 8, you use the OS 9 install disk or combo updaters to install USB drivers under OS 9) -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
