On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 13, 2010, at 11:46 PM, James Therrault wrote:
A call to tech support resulted in speaking with a Indian drone,
"Martha" to no avail. Modem would not mount as a CD on the
Powerbook G4 1.25MHz. After hanging up, decided to try it on the
desktop, G4 400MHz Gigabit and yep, it mounted there. (As an
aside, the modem contains the initialization/set up s/w. Only
problem here is that the Gigabit only has USB I as opposed to USB
II on the PowerBook.
So, am I on the right track thinking that somehow this modem was
not "put away" properly on the Powerbook? If so, what steps might
I take to recover it?
That is unlikely, the 'improperly put away' issue only affects read/
write media like flash drives, and is a warning about un-flushed
write caches for that volume filesystem, it wouldn't affect the
modem hardware. If this was the problem, it wouldn't mount on the
G4 either, since the breakage happens on the device, not in the OS.
When the modem "mounts" on the Gigabit, it does so as a CD which
opens up and contains the installation software. If you remove it
without unmounting it, you will get a warning to the effect that the
item was not closed properly and could suffer damage. Once the s/w
is installed, the modem is initialized.
Try installing and running it on the Gigabit G4 anyway, you should
be at least able to get it to work, albeit at slower speeds. If it
works it's probably worth the $10-$15 for a USB2 card for the G4,
WIndows has the same hardware requirements for USB2 as the Mac so
ANY USB2 PCI card will work regardless if it says 'Mac compatible'
or not.
On the powerbook, try the usual:
I hesitate to do this because for some reason, both Cricket and
Nutzero installation processes change the settings in the network/
modem area and practically imobilize Internet Connect.
Safe Boot, to clear caches, etc
That I'll do.
Try it as a different user.
I could try that.
Check the simple stuff: make sure you haven't accidentally turned
off the setting in Finder to show external media on the desktop.
I wouldn't even know where to begin doing that...
JT
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