Dear Bryan, Thanks so much for the advice. A new PCI adaptor did the trick!
Leah Bryan Forrest wrote: > If your mother is running OS X, you can try a terminal trick to see if > the network is indeed up or down. > > Open Terminal and at the command prompt, type: > > #sudo ifconfig en0 up > > Then enter your admin password when prompted for it. If the ethernet > is working properly, you should then be able to type: > > #ifconfig > > ... which should display your current IP address. If you are getting a > 169.254.x.x address, then your ethernet adapter is not seeing the > cable modem for some reason. If this is the case, and the computer is > out of warranty, you will probably find it cheaper and easier to buy a > PCI network adapter for the computer and not bother with a repair. > Apple will most likely charge for a motherboard replacement... > somewhere in the neighborhood of $400. A network card can be purchased > for less than $50. > > You should probably take it to a Mac shop like MacTown and have them > check it out. If could still be a software error, PRAM error or some > other hardware error as well. > > Hope this helps! > > Bryan C. Forrest > Macintosh Specialist > LifeNet > Virginia Beach, VA > http://www.lifenet.org > > On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Leah at Fearless Designs wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> It seems as though the ethernet link is "down" on my mom's G4. The >> cable modem gets a signal from the cable company but the modem and >> the computer can not see one another. The Insight tech told me to >> look under the Apple System Profiler under Network and it says that >> the Ethernet link is "down". Is there a way to make the link "up"? Or >> is the ethernet port just fried and I need to get it fixed. I also >> went out and bought another cable modem and it couldn't see her G4 >> either although Insight could see the modem. Any advice would be >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks so much! >> >> Leah >> >> -- >> Leah Dienes >> Fearless Designs, 622 E. Main St., Suite 206 >> Louisville, KY 40202 >> fearlessdesigns at bellsouth.net >> 502.584.1333 >> fax: 502.584.1332 >> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> >> > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > -- Leah Dienes Fearless Designs, 622 E. Main St., Suite 206 Louisville, KY 40202 fearlessdesigns at bellsouth.net 502.584.1333 fax: 502.584.1332 | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
