At 2:29 PM +0200 2/25/2011, nick telis wrote:
MDD 1.42
2 GHz ram
OS 10.5.8
Ethernet connected to a Lynksys WRT160 N router with dd-wrt installed
I upgraded to OS 10.5 in January. Prior to then all was well with my setup.
Now a new problem has appeared this week. Just about every time I reboot I loose my ethernet settings. When I open Network preferences it shows Ethernet Status "Not Connected" and I get the message "A new ethernet port has been detected" and it labeled ethernet 2.
System Preferences > Security > Check "require password to unlock each secure system pref". See if that makes a diff.
Try a different ethernet cable. Try a different port on the
router. (thinking the continuity is intermittent, so the
port is not configuring or sync'ing properly).
I can not configure the old port ( I can put in all the info but it will not connect) although I can configure the new port.
After I configure the new port, I delete the old ethernet setting and rename the new setting "ethernet" (eliminating the number 2). This works and I can connect to the internet.
Confusing. Are you meaning port - as in a port on the
router, or do you mean configured interface in your Mac?
You do not have a separate ethernet card, correct?
Every time I change the network preferences TimeMachine loses it's disk settings. I get this error:
Volume at path /Volumes/Brizo does not appear to be the correct backup volume for this computer. (Cookies do not match)
_CSBackupGetMachineMACAddress - IOServiceGetMatchingServices did not find an ethernet service with kIOPrimaryInterface true
Backup failed with error: 18
Yea, TM is upset because the MAC is changing. The MAC is
the ethernet's hardware address. Turn off TM until you get this
resolved.
I have run AppleJack, reset the PMU, Reset the PRAM (not necessarily in that order)
Reasonable. Maybe swap out your pram battery too.
I have ordered a new DiskWarrior upgrade, but it hasn't arrived yet.
What's the point? What does this error have to do with your
file system? Kindof like buying a new car engine because you
have a flat tire. Disk Utility says the volume is clean?
I've searched the Apple support forum and the web and cannot come up with a solution.
Yea, not a normal issue. Seen it before tho - each time it
was due to failing/intermittent hardware. Sometimes it was the
NIC on the motherboard dying (soln is to install an ethernet card).
Mostly it's funky ethernet cables or a dying port on the switch or
router.
T'would be interesting to see your whole system.log. Zip
and email to me if you would please. But do not post such a big
thing to the whole list.
heh. It would rock if that one security setting change fix
it tho...
HTH,
- Dan.
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