Ethernet card driver rollback

Hi all. This is both a solution and a request. There seems to be a common problem with wireless WPA not functioning after SP3 is installed. I went through this some time ago, and learned that this problem can be solved by rolling back the Ethernet card driver back to their previous version - release 7.
My problem is, after rebuilding my T40, I can't find anywhere to download an older version of the Intel PRO/100/1000 LAN adapter - all I can find is the latest. Does anyone know where to get hold of older versions?
Thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Welcome to the forum! This one might work, give it a shot: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-54046 After downloading it, you must go into C>Drivers>Win>Ethernet and run the setup file from there. Good luck and keep us posted.
Cheers,
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I need a PCI ethernet card driver for my Performa 6360...

Roughly a week ago, I decided to add yet another one of my classic Macs to my LAN, a classic gaming LAN of sorts, with that mac being a Performa 6360. With it's single empty (at the time) PCI slot, the solution for an ethernet card for the system was basically screaming at me. Unfortunately, I went to my local electronics store with the assumption that PCI ethernet cards are fairly generic devices that should work in nearly everything without a problem. That turned out not to be the case. Once I finally aquired the time to install it, the card itself appeared to work, with the outer LEDs indicating network activity and a 100mbps network speed, however, when I went into the Appletalk or TCP/IP control panels, I came to the terrible realization that I needed a driver. The included CD was, much to my dismay, Windows only, Google searches haven't been much help, and worst of all, I seem to have misplaced my reciept. The "card" I keep mentioning is a Linksys LNE100TX version 5.1. Here is what is shown in the apple system profiler:
==============================
PCI Slot
Card type: ethernet
Card name: pci1317,574
Card model: -1
Card Rom #: Not available
Card Revision: 17
Card Vendor ID: 1317
==============================
What I am wondering is where I could find a driver for this card, and if that answer is "nowhere", is there any way I could get this card functioning under Mac OS 8.1? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Niteshooter wrote:
Well the good news is there was one,
http://www.welovemacs.com/net-cs2-fe.html
finding one, is a good question. Oddly enough the link you posted to the 10T version is the same company as above.
Yes, I have tried searching a number of places for it, and haven't come up with much. Here is what a google shopping search pulled up (eBay came up empty), the first being "unavailable" for purchase once you add it to your shopping cart and the second costing only $150! I could easily buy a new (used) mac with the card installed in it for that much!
As for the PCI slot cards you are trying, keep in mind that you are trying to use current cards which didn't exist back in the day your Mac and OS were made...... I have Asante 10/100 PCI cards in some of that generation mac and they work fine but then they were supported by the OS.
Good point. Even back when I purchased it, the card seemed a bit of a long-shot to me, too. However, being on sale for $15, I thought, "why not at least try?". Unfortunately, I came up with the results above. However, you have given me a good idea. I realize from reading a few posts around here on the issue that it is a good idea to keep the pci slot of the computer open on this computer until there is a need to upgrade, let's say, for a graphics card. However, what if I have no future plans to add anything (as is currently)? Is it really that necessary that I keep the slot open? I'm sure it would be exponentially easier to find a card for that.
A long shot might be to try loading OS 9.0.4 and see if you get lucky as 8 is pretty old plus there's a part of me that wonders with such a slow bus and cpu that 100T is going to make a big difference.
Kevin
Thank you for the suggestion, but that's how I collected the information for the card in the first place. The Performa 6360 didn't seem to take the card, so I popped it in to my Beige G3 running Mac OS 9.2.2 and hoped it might work on that. Same problem, however, the Apple System Profiler is much more thorough on that OS, so I was able to acquire the card's information. The reason for the 100-BaseT Ethernet, again, is not solely based on that one computer; It's the fact that I would prefer the network to run at the faster speed and with four macs currently on it, with a few more modern ones such as the iBook G3 shown below, the speed is a nice thing to have.
So, on that note, any suggestions for a PCI equivalent? Has Apple ever made any? If so, where could I find them at a reasonable (Read: Not $150) price?
Thanks again.

ThinkPad 390, Ethernet card driver

I have reinstall Windows 98 on ThinkPad 390. I install (almost) all drivers from this location (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/DSHY-45XN9C.html), but I have problem with two drivers (in device manager) one is PCI Ethernet Controller (I think it is from network card) other in PCI Serial Controller (don't know what is it)?
Where can I get this two drivers (especially for network card)?
Tnx

Welcome to the forum!
What's the 7-character model number of your ThinkPad?
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ThinkPad T510 Ethernet Card Driver on Debian Lenny

Hello,
I just bought my first Lenovo laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad T510, and received it just yesterday. I partitioned the HDD and installed Debian Lenny on it. During the installation, Debian was unable to detect a network connection and throws up saying that it can't find a network connection and that if I knew the driver for it, I can select it from a long list. I was using direct Ethernet connection.
So from the list, I tried about 15 of them (just the ones I thought are possible candidates) and no success. I managed to install Debian without configuring that. I can boot into Debian, but I can't connect to the Internet via Ethernet so I can't get the wifi driver or anything. This is so weird. This is the only computer that Debian has ever complained about Ethernet drivers in my experience.
Any help, advice, suggestion is much appreciated.
Thank you in advance. =)

Hello,
Thanks for the response. I don't like Ubuntu or prefer it over Debian. I managed to solve this however (despite my lack of update here). I'll list the steps for Debian Lenny ( base install) for those who still wish to stick to it.
1. Download e1000e driver from Intel's website. Unpack and install. Once set up, Ethernet will be working.
2. Download the package iwlagn, which requires a kernel upgrade. Wifi should work after a restart and boot into the new kernel.
The only problem with the new kernel is the brightness/dim controls are no longer working. The following can be set up via alias for easier controls, but they seem to require root. It's not the best way, but I hadn't messed with it much because Squeeze was going to be released soon at the time.
echo 4 > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
echo 5 > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
I'm currently not on my laptop but I believe 4 is dim and 5 is bright. Or vice-versa. Easy enough to test it yourself.
But that's about it. Everything else ran fine. Since Squeeze is finally released, I will be trying it real soon. =)
Thanks for your efforts!
Kays

Ethernet card Driver missing

When I switch to windows I cant get the port to work. After further investigation I found that the driver is missing, I looked for it in the manufacturers webpage but I couldn’t find it. I have wireless and it works fine on both operating systems. any suggestions?

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Driver wanted for SE/30 Ethernet Card (Cnet CN470E)

I have a beautiful SE/30 which has a CNet Technology CN470E network card in it. I think the reason i can not get it networked is that it needs a driver for its Ethernet card, and i could not find it on the net. It would be so great if someone could share it with me! Thanks!

Hello, thanks for caring! The case seems to be this: this card, as well as many other ethernet cards are supported by the Mac OS from 7.5 and above (drivers are embedded upon factory install even for 3rd party cards), and the previous versions could have these genuine Apple "drivers". However, when you acquire the original installs, the custom drivers may be more efficient, eg using larger cache buffers that leads to faster operation and so forth.
It might be not obvious for those who not use classic OS on a daily basis that:
1) IP addresses don't get shown instantly like they do in OS-X. It will get the DHCP configuration when starting a browser
2) I personally could not get Appletalk sharing files, which was another bag of hurt, as sending files over FTP is not straightforward (you have to stuff them, etc which is really painful to get a working version of the ancient software to do it).
3) configuring the OS is nothing like you can see in the tutorials on the web. one may discover soon that there are no certain control panels, and such.
I wish i could go back to 7.01 or 7.1 for a faster operation, but im not crazy Figuring this out took a whole night already...

G5 Can't See Gigabit Ethernet Card

Some months back, I installed a gigabit ethernet card into my G5. It worked fine for a few months, then stopped working with a message: The cable for PCI Ethernet Slot 3, Port 2 is not plugged in. I wasn't working on the project that required that connection, so I just let it go. Now I need to connect to a different gigabit switch. I installed a new D-Link card into the same slot as before - same result. I moved the D-Link card to a different slot - and got the same error - still referring to Slot 3. Just for kicks, I installed the old card back into slot 2 (the one above the video card). Same error - and no mention of finding two cards or of anything in the other slots. It seems as if somehow all of the PCI slots are being ignored.
Running the System Profiler, I get a "No Information Found" for PCI Cards. None of the lights on either ethernet card come on. Any ideas? Everything else on the machine seems to be working correctly - the built-in ethernet is fine. There are a lot of drives connected to the system (4 on the FireWire 800, 1 on FW 400, 4 on USB). Is there some way to force a re-scan of the PCI bus? or turn it on?
Thanks!!
G5 2 X 2 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thomas -
Yes - I tried swapping slots. A gigabit card worked fine in slot 3 for several months. It stopped working - I figured it was the card that was th eproblem. I have since replaced the card, and then moved the new one to a different slot. The Network control panel still reports a card in slot 3, even though there is nothing in slot 3. The new card is in slot 4 (and just for kicks the old card is in slot 2). Neither of these is recognized by the the System Profiler or the network control panel.

Ethernet card issue...can't get rid of self-assigned IP

Hi folks,
I am using an circa 2005 iMac G5 PPC desktop with 10.5.8. I am trying to connect the iMac to my Time Capsule via ethernet cable, but seem to be having problems with my ethernet card. When I plug into the TC ethernet port, the TC drive, does not mount and I cannot access the worldwide web.
When I go to System Preferences --> Networking, the tab on the left for ethernet connection shows a green dot, says "self-assigned IP" and the status says "connected" PRIOR TO CONNECTING THE ETHERNET CABLE TO THE TIME CAPSULE. It shows a "self-assigned" IP (DHCP selected) of 169.254.69.249, even though I know my TC is 10.0.1.1. Turning the ethernet off then back on, renewing the DHCP lease, nothing seems to be able to make this 169 IP address go away. The wireless connection to the TC is just fine... everything does what it should, I just can't get the ethernet cable connection to work.
Out of curriosity, I went to the System Profiler, and on the network tab it shows ethernet IPv4 169.254.69.249 (name en0).
I know it's not the Time Capsule, as I connected my laptop to it just fine via ethernet. The TC was IP 10.0.1.1 and it assigned 10.0.1.5 to my laptop (I have a variety of devices on my network), and I was able to transfer data and access the internet with no issues whatsoever.
I live in an 32 story apartment with a built-in ethernet network and ISP included in my rent. It's pretty nice, high speed. I connect from the wall to the Time Capsule via ethernet (circle dot connection port, so I know I have the right port), and then wirelessly out to a couple of laptops, a couple of Airport Express, and of course my desktop.
Bottom line, I think the ethernet card on iMac G5 desktop has gone bad: A few questions:
(1) Any ideas what may be wrong? Has anyone seen this self-assigned IP thing that won't go away?
(2) Any ideas how to fix it?
(3) How much will it cost? It may be time to replace my 6-year old desk top computer.
Thanks, Andy

I've swapped out several cables still with no luck, and the current cable definitely has 8 pins and worked with my laptop, so I'm confident it's not the cable. Also, the Time Capsule seems to be OK, because it too worked with my laptop using the same port. The only variable that doesn't seem to be cooperating is my desktop computer.
Also, I have tried to manually assign an IP consistent with the network & appropriate subnet mask. It seems to take the IP address manually, but still I can't get internet access, and can't ping the Time Capsule in network utility either.
Finally, when I connect the desktop directly to my wall outlet, taking the router out of the equation entirely, network diagnostics shows ethernet failure...
Does that sound like a bad ethernet card?
What does it take to replace an ethernet card in an iMac G5?
Cheers, Thanks, Andy

Time Machine not working after ethernet card failed

A couple of weeks back my iMac Core Duo's ethernet failed. As a logic board replacement for a 3.5 year old iMac would be expensive I instead bought an Apple USB Ethernet adapter (which works great). However, now Time Machine will not work, it says it cannot find the built in network interface. It does not matter whether I connect the external drive directly via firewire or over the network to my Mac Mini (which will backup with either connection).
Here is the console error:
+Time Machine: Error setting backup path: Error Domain=com.apple.TimeMachine.Preferences Code=-1 UserInfo=0x1864bdf0 "Time Machine could not be configured. The built-in network interface could not be found."+
+_CSBackupGetMachineMACAddress - IOServiceGetMatchingServices did not find an ethernet service with kIOPrimaryInterface true+
I tried the instructions on the Apple Support page http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275#5, but that did not work. Can anyone help?

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
It's a long shot, but try a "Full Reset" of Time Machine, per item #B3 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.
TM uses your Mac's Ethernet Address, which is embedded in the hardware of, guess what, your logic board, to identify your computer. This is how it keeps the backups for each Mac separate, so you can back-up more than one Mac to the same place without conflicts.
To find this address, use the System Profiler app (click the Apple icon at the left of your Menubar, then +About this Mac,+ then +More Info.+
Select Network in the sidebar, then Ethernet then find a line like this: +*MAC Address: 0a:1b:2c:3d:4e:5f+* That code, omitting the colons, is what TM puts in a hidden file on your TM volume to identify it as your Mac's backups.
Since your internal Ethernet card failed, you may not see that at all. If not, neither, apparently, can Time Machine. Other than getting a new logic board, I don't think there's a workaround.

Ethernet Card Stopped Working (BCM5785M)

My ethernet card stopped functioning about a week ago, at the time I thought my cable had died and did not think to much of it. Then I checked the cable in my desktop computer and it worked fine and was able to connect to my router as well as the interent. To the best of my recolection I did not install any new software that may have cuased the problem, just standard pacman package updates. I ran throught the Networking wiki to try and see if I could find anything wrong but was not able to solve the problem. The odd thing is when I try and connect to my router I obtain and IP address of 192.168.1.128 which to my recolection was a fall back address when an error occurs. I normally will run my laptop on my ethernet card just becuase of shotty wireless router suppled by my ISP. I am able to use my wireless card without problems, other then the substandard performace of the wireless router, so my networking appears to be generally functioning on the computer.
- Lspci -v gives the following output for the network card.
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
Subsystem: COMPAL Electronics Inc Device 0025
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: tg3
I went to Broadcom's website and the tg3 driver was the correct driver listed for the device.
I checked to ensure that the tg3 module was loaded and running at start up as well which it was.
-dmesg |grep tg3 returned the following (I did edit out my MAC address with all zeros)
[ 5.167906] tg3.c:v3.122 (December 7, 2011)
[ 5.236677] tg3 0000:04:00.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
[ 5.296677] tg3 0000:04:00.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
[ 5.356733] tg3 0000:04:00.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
[ 5.357927] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev b002] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:00:00:00:00:00
[ 5.357931] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5787 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[0])
[ 5.357934] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 5.357937] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
[ 9.667630] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 181.228436] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 181.228439] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 196.452292] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is down
[ 198.139080] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 198.139084] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 213.460062] tg3 0000:04:00.0: wake-up capability enabled by ACPI
[ 213.490759] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 213.594112] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 215.212240] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 215.212244] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 317.747290] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 319.365458] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 319.365462] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 677.340714] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 677.450541] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 679.089732] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 679.089736] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1458.870527] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1458.980505] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1460.537332] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1460.653833] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1463.029526] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1463.029530] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1463.460524] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1465.088599] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1465.088603] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1466.403974] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1466.534005] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1468.152175] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1468.152179] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1469.364042] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1471.003175] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1471.003179] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1474.737324] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1474.843977] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1476.462073] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1476.462076] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1538.923961] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1540.563060] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1540.563064] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
The firmware out of date looked odd to me but seems to be a common thing with the driver at least when I searched the net. I found that message appear several times but without anything posted about my specific problem.
-Running dhcpcd on the ethernet card produces the following output
dhcpcd[3932]: version 5.5.6 starting
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: offered 192.168.1.128 from 192.168.1.1
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: acknowledged 192.168.1.128 from 192.168.1.1
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: checking for 192.168.1.128
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: leased 192.168.1.128 for 86400 seconds
dhcpcd[3932]: forked to background, child pid 3975
The router IP address is 192.168.1.1
If anyone can be of assitance I would appreciate it. If any other command out put might help feel free to let me know.
Thanks

Trilby wrote:I only have one little thing to contribute - but first I wanted to say welcome to the forum and awesome first post. This is a great example of how to ask questions the "right way" to get a good answer. Sadly I am not the one with that good answer.
Well thanks for the compliment. this is my first post here but not my first go with linux. I started using linux back when Red Hat was still avalaible under the GNU as a free distro. Then to Fedora in beta, Gentoo. Ubuntu, and now Arch. I have been running arch for about two years and just have not needed to post do to generally finding my answers in the wiki or on a forum post either here or else linuxquestions as well. I guess that leads me to say that this distro is one of the most well documented ones I have ever used. Gentoo would be the only other who comes close but that is needed just with the complexity involved in the install.
Trilby wrote:
I will say though that everything looks perfectly in order. The DHCPCD is good, and it shows that you are connected. I assume you recognize an error as a browser does not connect. But have your tried other web-tools to see if they can connect? A good starting point would be ping. Try each of the following:
ping -c 3 google.com
ping -c 3 8.8.8.8
and post the output here.
I did try a ping on the google site both with the name server as well as the ip while going through the network wiki. I also tried a ping to the router it self without success.
[scar@thecube ~]$ ping -c 3 www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com
[scar@thecube ~]$ ping -c 3 google.com
ping: unknown host google.com
[scar@thecube ~]$ ping -c 3 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2008ms
pipe 3
[scar@thecube ~]$ ping -c 3 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2008ms
pipe 3
I guess one thing I did forget to mention is that the LEDs on the ethernet card seem to be functioning as well when I plug the cable in.
EDIT:
Interesting Update.
I was able to connect to my router as well as the internet by switching over to a static IP. I made sure to set it as high as possible but it did work. I was browsing around and saw another post on the forums and someone suggested to switch to static IP to help troubleshoot the problem.
Here was the post I found: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143183
Last edited by Ronin324 (2012-06-12 09:59:50)

My Cable Company says my Ethernet Card is Dead

Hi, after a lightning storm my High Speed Internet connection stopped working. The Cable company says my Ethernet Card is dead. But my understanding of my G4 Power Mac architecture is that it has built in 10BaseT support and there is no separate card. If true, might I still have a burned out driver for the Ethernet plug on the back of the computer? Alternately, might lack of Ethernet be caused by corrupted software which could be fixed by re-intalling?
Power Mac G4 Mac OS 9.2.x

Hi, after a lightning storm my High Speed Internet
connection stopped working. The Cable company says my
Ethernet Card is dead. But my understanding of my G4
Power Mac architecture is that it has built in
10BaseT support and there is no separate card. If
true, might I still have a burned out driver for the
Ethernet plug on the back of the computer?
Alternately, might lack of Ethernet be caused by
corrupted software which could be fixed by
re-intalling?
Power Mac
G4 Mac OS 9.2.x
If you dont already have one, get a utility like macTCPing.
Are you also using a router, or are you direct connected to the cable modem?
Are your modem lights flashing slow (1/sec) or fast?
at 1 per second or less, then the modem is not talking to the cable company.
Are you getting a connection light on the modem indicating a valid signal from the Mac?
Reset your modem. (Remove from power, wait a few minutes, reconnect) There may also be a reset button on it.
ping 127.0.0.1
If that succeeds
you have passed local loopback.
check your IP configuration.
ping your own IP address.
if it works, then your ethernet port is probably OK.
if it fails, release and renew your ip address, and try again.
if that works,
ping the modem or your gateway address
if this fails, then reset the modem and try again.
if it fails, the modem is likely the problem
If it works
ping any web site.
if it works, you are set.
if it fails, then ping the name servers for your ISP.
if those fail, then there is an issue with the ISP and its NS, which is beyond your control.
They are hard to find, but there were a couple of companys that made PCI ethernet cards for Mac.

Installing RealTek ethernet card in solaris 7 sparc machine

I inserted RealTek ethernet card in my Solaris-7 Sparc machine. But to work it properly ,need to install driver for the card. I searched a lot but i did't get the driver to download . I have read from some sites that the driver for solaris 7 sparc is not avaliable.How can i solve this problem.?
Anybody please help me to solve the problem.

You can try a NIC driver from RealTek, directly.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/
... but for a SPARC system? That may be problematic.
Does OBP see the device? Use show-devs at the OK prompt.
If it isn't seen at OBP's elementary hardware level, the OS will never use it.
If it is recognized at OBP, then try the manufacturer's drivers.
Return to the forum and let the rest of us know what happens..

PowerBook 1400 and PCMCIA Ethernet card

I have some problems to find out list of supported PCMCIA Ethernet cards by MacOS 7 (B1-7.5.3) on PowerBook 1400. I would be very please to receive driver for 3Com OfficeConnect 572B what I own. Is it available?
regards,

Hi,
A quick Google search indicates that 3Com XJAEM3336 Mac drivers were available for at least some PowerBook computers. However, it is unclear to me whether the files here are needed, appropriate or sufficient in your case. Perhaps you could look further into this.
If you cannot locate a suitable Ethernet PC Card with Mac drivers, another solution could possibly be to use a 16-bit wireless card (typically, 802.11b speed and WEP security). See, for example, this web page.
Jan

A20m Trouble with Ethernet Card and the Internet

I have a A20m Thinkpad that is not connecting to the internet. At first my problem was that I did not have an ethernet card as detailed on this forum post.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Legacy-ThinkPads-A-I-V-300-600/A20m-Network-Controller-Driver/m-p/219725...
Thus I bought this ethernet card and installed it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190223756432
From what I can tell I installed it correctly and then I preceded to install the drivers for this card. The ones located on this page.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4K4PWT
It seemed to work well and the controller shows up in hardware devices.
That went well, but I still cannot connect to the internet. I thought it might be the card itself but after running the 3Com NIC Utilities that came with the drivers it said that there were no problems with the card.
Also of note I have noticed that there are no lights on the port where the ethernet cable is plugged in. I am not sure if there should be. Any help people could offer would be most appreciated. This Thinkpad is running windows XP.

Called them up today and basically I got them to pay for shipping this time. They told me they did not have any more new ones of my model and are not willing to ship me a suitable new replacement model after all this trouble and just gonna keep on shipping me refurbished until we find one that works (the heck? ...his quotes). So basically by the time I get my 2nd refurbished replacement (and assume it actually works this time) my computer would been down for over 2 months.
I am currently saving up for a 9800gt from evga since they are budget priced now (heard they actually have a good customer service and good quality cards) and based on my experience with MSI I can't recommend their products to anyone now sadly.
Hopefully MSI will send me out a tested a verified to word refurbished card this time.

[Solved]Weird problem with ethernet card.

After update which I did 22.01.2010 dhcpcd doesn't get ip adress.
System: laptop Dell Ispiron 1520
List of updates. (ls -ltr in /var/cache/pacman/pkg)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4549165 Jan 22 12:43 coreutils-8.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1069024 Jan 22 12:43 kernel26-firmware-2.6.32.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31510711 Jan 22 12:43 kernel26-2.6.32.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5262256 Jan 22 12:43 kernel26-headers-2.6.32.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 587327 Jan 22 12:44 tzdata-2010a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132146 Jan 22 12:44 zlib-1.2.3.4-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 859259 Jan 22 12:44 allegro-4.4.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 628091 Jan 22 12:44 devil-1.7.8-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 305301 Jan 22 12:44 farsight2-0.0.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88020 Jan 22 12:44 fsarchiver-0.6.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8101066 Jan 22 12:44 git-1.6.6.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198102 Jan 22 12:44 mpd-0.15.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380584 Jan 22 12:44 papyon-0.4.4-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256908 Jan 22 12:44 python-telepathy-0.15.15-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 241891 Jan 22 12:44 rasqal-0.9.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329911 Jan 22 12:44 redland-1.0.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20665585 Jan 22 12:44 smbclient-3.4.5-1.1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90713 Jan 22 12:44 telepathy-butterfly-0.5.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91638 Jan 22 12:44 telepathy-farsight-0.0.13-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59389702 Jan 22 12:45 texlive-core-2009.16776-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 724633 Jan 22 16:21 vte-0.22.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 437432 Jan 22 16:21 kiwi-1.9.26-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 791323 Jan 22 16:21 pida-0.5.1-4.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1130262 Jan 22 17:13 gstreamer0.10-good-0.10.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74105 Jan 22 17:13 libraw1394-2.0.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42225 Jan 22 17:13 libavc1394-0.5.3-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62671 Jan 22 17:13 libiec61883-1.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 170815 Jan 22 17:13 libdv-1.0.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 422345 Jan 22 17:13 gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-0.10.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81028 Jan 22 18:57 dosfstools-3.0.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1149011 Jan 22 21:40 gstreamer0.10-bad-0.10.17-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66220 Jan 22 21:41 libusb1-1.0.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240347 Jan 22 21:41 libdc1394-2.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 991392 Jan 22 21:41 exempi-2.1.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204235 Jan 22 21:41 musicbrainz-2.1.5-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79710 Jan 22 21:41 libcdaudio-0.99.12-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1279260 Jan 22 21:41 mjpegtools-1.9.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29116 Jan 22 21:41 liblrdf-0.4.0-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107219 Jan 22 21:41 libofa-0.9.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 582288 Jan 22 21:41 gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins-0.10.17-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
lspci -v gives
...03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at f9bfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: b44
Kernel modules: b44
dmesg | grep b44
gives:
b44 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
b44.c:v2.0
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
dhcpcd -nd eth0
gives:dhcpcd: version 5.1.4 starting
dhcpcd: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason PREINIT
dhcpcd: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason CARRIER
dhcpcd: eth0: reading lease `/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease'
dhcpcd: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd: eth0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER (xid 0x20bdc1bd), next in 4.85 seconds
dhcpcd: eth0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER (xid 0x20bdc1bd), next in 7.49 seconds
dhcpcd: eth0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER (xid 0x20bdc1bd), next in 15.71 seconds
dhcpcd: eth0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER (xid 0x20bdc1bd), next in 32.74 seconds
dhcpcd: timed out
I tried also to increase timeout - don't work.
Additional info: wireless is working.
Ethernet card itself is working (cheked while booting from cd Knoppix\Ubuntu)
Downgrade of the kernel and firmware didn't help.
Last edited by comrad (2010-01-24 10:13:27)

I have allready found the solution on the forum:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88663
rm /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease

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