On Jun 1, 12:41 pm, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > >> Look in the logs, there may be more info. > > > I'm a classic hold out, so my OSX-fu is pathetic. In which logs > > should I look and do you have any hints as to what I should look for? > > From dim, dim memory since 10.2.8 on my Beige was a loooong time ago... > > Start the Console App, and click on the 'More Logs' button. > > This should let you see the system log which *should* include all the boot > messages. > > There *might* be a boot log in /private/var/logs (one of the possible > collections of logs > in the 'More Logs' section. I cannot remember if this was present in 10.2 or > not. > > Both can be searched for the '8169' string. > > Alternatively you can hold down command-V whilst booting to get the verbose > start up > and watch carefully for things mentioning the card. > > Again, I"ve not used 10.2 in aaaaaages, but what happens if you add another > network > port in the Network prefs pane? Can you do that?
Thank you, Bruce. I will investigate these avenues this evening and report back. Perhaps I'll also try a different PCI slot and pull the USB card (far fetched, but unlikely to hurt). I did not see an option to add another network port last night. I did see an option to create (new), edit, delete "configurations" (IIRC) but when I clicked on "new" I was given the opportunity to enter a new name, and then associate it with the same old ports -- Built-in Ethernet, Modem, Firewire. The PCI ethernet still did not appear. (Not certain the third one was Firewire, as there's no Firewire card in the machine, although there was at one time...) I never went beyond 10.2.8 on this machine, because I didn't want to deal with xpostfacto, despite all the great things I've read about it. My other machines are running 10.4.11 (if they aren't still running 9.x), and, in fact, this effort is because I want to replace the Beige, which is the household iTunes server, with a tiny little G4 Mini running 10.4.11 and I don't want to move the music files at 10Mb/ s speeds. Pulling the drives and putting them in an external USB case is looking more and more attractive as a method of moving the files, although I'm not certain that the Acard 6280M drive initialization is compatible with a USB bridge. Jeff -- 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
