On Jul 21, 2004, at 4:04 PM, gf sciacca wrote:
If you can connect to other machines on the local LAN, it can *not* be a hardware problem, since Appletalk uses the same hardware as TCP/IP.
However, Appletalk works independently of TCP/IP, so it could be a TCP/IP problem.
The errors you are getting are due to the 540 not being able to find it's gateway and DNS server(s).
Make sure you haven't typoed the MAC address in the static DHCP
configuration file. That's one that bites us regularly, since we use
DHCP as well, with manually added MAC addresses; it's easy to transpose
two numbers, mistake B's for 8's, etc.
It REALLY sounds like the DCP server is not giving it what it needs. Try manually setting the IP, DNS, and Gateway address it's supposed to have assigned by the DHCP server.
If all of this is correct, try a clean install of 8.1. Maybe your TCP/IP extensions are messed up.
ok, tried all of the above and more with no success: - wiped disk and re-installed OS 8: no go. - wiped disk, copied over in Target mode the HD contents of another 540 which connects well: still nothing. - Played with the IP address, re-configured the router, etc.
May be the TCP/IP control panel reports the MAC address of the Ethernet controller wrongly?? But:
- Set the router to asssign dynamically IP address and set TCP/IP control
panel accordingly: All other machines show the assigned IP address and
connect fine, this particular one does not get the address.
So the problem seems definitely between the router and the PB and not in
software. Considering that the connecting cable+transceiver work with
other machines, it must then be something in the PB. As you say, Appletalk uses
the same hardware as TCP/IP, it might be possible though that the hardware
is partially defective? (so that Appletalk goes through but TCP/IP has
problems). I'm out of ideas...
Have you tried it on a different port on the router? Clutching at straws here...
I'm at the 'shake a rattle and some chicken feathers at it' stage myself.
I don't know all the down and dirty hardware details of this particular ethernet adapter, but I'm hard pressed to see the difference between appletalk and TCP/IP down on that low hardware level...
You're right, citing Holmes, 'after all the possible has been eliminated, only the impossible remains.'
It's got to be the mobo and some demonically subtle hardware failure.
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