I have a Power Mac 6500/275 that absolutely refuses to connect to anything via ethernet. I connect it via cat-5 cable from this Mac's onboard, Apple-supplied PCI ethernet card to a switch, and it will never obtain an IP address. I have tried Mac OS 8.5 and 9.1 with no luck whatsoever. I used OS 9 helper to upgrade it to Mac OS 9.2 but still no joy. TCP/IP and AppleTalk do not even see an ethernet card in this machine. I have used Apple's LocalTalk Switch, to no avail.
Let's see what else I have done to this machine... I bought a new-in-a-shrink-wrapped-box Asante 10/100 PCI card to replace the Apple card. No joy. I replaced the PCI Riser Card with a brand-new one. Nothing. I took the Comm Slot modem card out of it, as they are no longer supported by Apple. Nada. I swapped PCI slots for the ethernet card. Nope. The only thing I have not done is replaced the logic board. This seems a bridge too far. The lights on the back of both the Apple-branded PCI card and the Asante PCI card light up when connected to either a switch or a hub, but ethernet never works in TCP/IP or AppleTalk. There is no option to select ethernet in TCP/IP or AppleTalk in ANY OS. I have zapped PRAM, swore at it, sneezed on it, gave it the side eye as I held my mouth a certain way, and pounded on it a couple of times. One thing I have not done is replace the PRAM battery. My training suggests that a dead PRAM battery should not disable a PCI ethernet card on this particular machine, though I would love to be proven wrong. This 6500 has a 6 GB hard drive, 96 MB RAM. I have also dug through the 6400 Zone's vast knowledge about the quirks of this machine and the 6400. I am at my wit's end. Any direction at all you kind folks can offer me would be much appreciated. Thanks! -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
