You're more than welcome... I'm glad it worked for you! Bryan
On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 04:56 PM, Leah at Fearless Designs wrote: > 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>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
