Ethernet on Lombard

I just got a G3 Lombard. Did a clean install of 9.2.1 and did an update to 9.2.2 Old was all messed up with two System folders. Did so by initializing(sp) hard drive.
I am trying to hook up to my ethernet internet. Running a DSL line. I did all the same settings as my other computers on the network. Set it up to configure using DHCP Server etc.... Same as all the others.
Does not work.
In looking at the System profiler it shows the ethernet as built-in but with the line afterwards as "link down".
Message(not really a message just info line) doesn't change no matter what I do. Is this a hardware problem? Could something got jiggled loose inside?
Was looking to going to 10.2.X in the future but just put this in to check out the computer.

First of all, forget 10.2, because 10.3 runs better on the Lombard in my experience. As for your ethernet problem...
Did your ethernet work before the clean install? If so, it's less like a hardware problem. Just so I understand this: you have a DSL modem which connects to a router, which in turn you connect your computers to? If that's the case, then 99.9% of the time, the router will act as a DHCP server, so you only have to set TCPIP to connect via Ethernet, Using DHCP server.
If it's not working, you might try booting to your OS 9 CD and looking in the chooser for other shared Macs. This is one way to bypass the installed software, potentially isolating a problem.
Also, try another ethernet cable. I've definitely troubleshooted network issues for hours, only to feel like a knucklehead when I discover that it was just a Cat5 cable gone bad.

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Lombard with Ethernet troubles -- any solutions?

I recently got my hands on a Lombard 333 (192MB/4GB/CD) and did a fresh install of 10.3 (updated to 10.3.9). While the 'Book works great, I think I have a bad Ethernet port.
With a known good, live connection plugged into the port, the networking System Preference is reporting "The cable for Built-in Ethernet is not plugged in." I've tried removing and replugging the cable, I've tried different known good cables, I reset the PRAM, tried it in OS 9...all to no avail.
So, my questions are these:
-- Is the port dead?
-- Is there anything else I can try to revive it? (not afraid to dig into the innards, but I'm a klutz with a soldering iron...)
-- Does anyone make a PCMCIA/CardBus card that lets OSX connect to Ethernet?
Any and all suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
Mike
B&W G4/500 (OWC ZIF) Rev. 1; PBG3 Wallstreet, Lombard; plus others! Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Mike,
It sounds like you have covered all the bases. You might carefully examine the pins in the port to make sure they are sound. Unfortunately, the only fix for a failed Ethernet chip is a replacement logic board.
You might consider using a wireless PC card, one that has the Broadcom chipset which supports AirPort software...it is just plug and play.
Ethernet PC cards are almost nonexistent which support OSX, but this may be the answer although I have never used one or read about it:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=132
They apparently released a driver dated 2/7/2006 version 1.03.
http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=132#drivers

My Lombard is having problems with Ethernet

I just bought a used Lombard and am having some really strange problems trying to connect to my lan. I'm using a Belkin wireless router, but until I find a wireless card was planning on wiring it directly. At the present time, I have a 400mhz G4 tower, an HP printer, and a Vonage phone box connected and all three work fine. My wife and daughters can connect their PeeCee laptops wirelessly so I've ruled out any router problems. I've swapped cables between my tower and laptop and both work with the tower, but the laptop is having problems. I'm using mac address filtering with my router and my router is recognizing that the Lombard is connected. It gives my computer name, mac address and even shows that the Lombard has a valid IP address: 192.168.2.6 however the Lombard says that this is it's address: 169.254.147.255 and it will not connect to anything. Since the router seems to think it's connected I guess I can rule out a bad network card.
Since I just bought the computer, I immediately reformatted the hard drive and installed 9.2 when I found I could not connect. Though now it boots much faster it didn't solve the connection problem. I've RTM over and over and checked Appletalk, Filesharing settings and anything else I could think of, but nothing seems to work.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
G3 333mhz Lombard Mac OS 9.2.x
G4 400mhz powermac Mac OS X (10.4.6)
G4 400mhz powermac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Thanks, that definitely is a consideration as I have an eMac at work that did something similar after a storm as it now only pulls a .255 broadcast address with DHCP. I have to set it with a static address or it drags the whole network down (our tech person gripes and claims you can't do that with a DHCP server, but it works).
As I said, I'm looking for a wireless card, but it would be nice to have a working ethernet port when wireless isn't available.
G4 400mhz powermac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

PowerBook G3 400 Mhz Lombard (2001) won't power up, no sign of life

Problem fixed now but I want to share this (rather scary) experience with anyone facing a similar problem.
All of a sudden the Powerbook G3 Lombard wouldn't turn on. I knew it wasn't the power supply as it worked fine on my other powerbook Clamshell. I'd press the power button and nothing. Not a sign of life anywhere. Suspecting a problem with the connection I went through the hassle of opening up the computer to check the connection (not a fun or necessary job, as it turned out).
Frustrated and running out of ideas I turned to this forum for help. The very first post I saw was from a user with a similar machine having the exact same problem, following a power outage at his house. It pointed to one small and often ignored little battery, the PRAM battery.
I didn't think it would make a difference but I followed the steps described by another user responding to that thread and sure enough my machine powers up again! Total time to fix: less than a minute.
So I want to share these findings in hopes that it helps someone with a similar problem. It really is easy:
1- Remove the battery, CD/DVD drive and unplug the power supply.
2- Remove the keyboard by pulling back the two tabs just above the 1 and zero keys (top row), then tilt up the keyboard and it will come off (careful, it connects via a wire so be gentle).
3- Disconnect the PRAM battery connector. The battery is located just below the DVD drive, so as you remove the drive in step 1, you can see it. It's a brown plastic casing with 3 wires coming out of it, being red, black and white. The connector itself is white. Just gently ply it upwards. This step is critical.
4- This may not be necessary but do try: press and hold the reset button at the back of the computer for a few seconds (use the end of a ball point pen, button is located beside the Ethernet port.
5- Plug in your power supply and power that sucker up!
Note that if your PRAM battery is dead as is the case with mine, the computer will still work fine but it won't save certain things, such as the current time. This is why you'll get a message that says: your computer clock is out of date, etc. Or sometimes something such as a power failure may confuse this battery, so this drill may be useful.
To test to see if your pram batt is dead, try this: power off the system and connect the pram batt back. Try to restart the Mac. if it starts then the batt probably just needed a flush. If it still won't start, then you need to replace the Pram batt.
Now I need to go buy a new PRAM battery. But I'm just so relieved that my old machine is still going strong. For a while there I thought I had lost the Powerbook but we all know that these Macs run forever.

Problem fixed now but I want to share this (rather scary) experience with anyone facing a similar problem.
All of a sudden the Powerbook G3 Lombard wouldn't turn on. I knew it wasn't the power supply as it worked fine on my other powerbook Clamshell. I'd press the power button and nothing. Not a sign of life anywhere. Suspecting a problem with the connection I went through the hassle of opening up the computer to check the connection (not a fun or necessary job, as it turned out).
Frustrated and running out of ideas I turned to this forum for help. The very first post I saw was from a user with a similar machine having the exact same problem, following a power outage at his house. It pointed to one small and often ignored little battery, the PRAM battery.
I didn't think it would make a difference but I followed the steps described by another user responding to that thread and sure enough my machine powers up again! Total time to fix: less than a minute.
So I want to share these findings in hopes that it helps someone with a similar problem. It really is easy:
1- Remove the battery, CD/DVD drive and unplug the power supply.
2- Remove the keyboard by pulling back the two tabs just above the 1 and zero keys (top row), then tilt up the keyboard and it will come off (careful, it connects via a wire so be gentle).
3- Disconnect the PRAM battery connector. The battery is located just below the DVD drive, so as you remove the drive in step 1, you can see it. It's a brown plastic casing with 3 wires coming out of it, being red, black and white. The connector itself is white. Just gently ply it upwards. This step is critical.
4- This may not be necessary but do try: press and hold the reset button at the back of the computer for a few seconds (use the end of a ball point pen, button is located beside the Ethernet port.
5- Plug in your power supply and power that sucker up!
Note that if your PRAM battery is dead as is the case with mine, the computer will still work fine but it won't save certain things, such as the current time. This is why you'll get a message that says: your computer clock is out of date, etc. Or sometimes something such as a power failure may confuse this battery, so this drill may be useful.
To test to see if your pram batt is dead, try this: power off the system and connect the pram batt back. Try to restart the Mac. if it starts then the batt probably just needed a flush. If it still won't start, then you need to replace the Pram batt.
Now I need to go buy a new PRAM battery. But I'm just so relieved that my old machine is still going strong. For a while there I thought I had lost the Powerbook but we all know that these Macs run forever.

How can I connect MacBook Pro OSX 10.5.2 to G3 Lombard (bronze) OSX 10.1.5?

Can anybody please tell me in simple terms how to connect my MacBook Pro OS X 10.5.2 to my G3 Lombard (bronze keyboard) laptop OS X 10.1.5 so that I can share files. I wish to drag files from the old G3 computer's hard drive into the hard drive of the new MacBook Pro as well as search the old hard drive from the MacBook Pro. I have an ethernet crossover cable as well as regular ethernet cables. Can I connect the computers directly, or should I disconnect my Linksys router from the modem and connect the computers through the router via ethernet?
I have tried both ways, and failed. However, I think I need clear instructions in how to share under both OS X system versions, to set a file's permissions (in both OS X versions), how to set the firewalls (I have Norton Personal Firewall in the G3 and the OS X firewall in the MacBook Pro), how to see the hard drives of the other computer, and how to set anything else properly, as well as any detail that will make this easy to do properly.
Finally, I need to be able to return the settings of the MacBook Pro back to secure settings that will allow me to connect safely when I take it to work and connect to the ethernet network there. Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Wilson

connect the computers through the router via ethernet
Both these computers are capable of File Sharing using IP. Only Macs running 10.3.9 and earlier can use AppleTalk File Sharing. Rendezvous/bonjour can help you on the later 10.5 Mac, but may not be too helpful on the 10.1.5 Mac. So you may need the IP address of the 10.1.5 Mac to connect to it.
On the Mac to share its files:
System Preferences > Sharing > Services
check "Personal File Sharing" AND
System Preferences > Sharing > FireWall
check "Personal File Sharing" to let that traffic come through.
I expect it is similar for Norton FireWall, but Norton has such a \[well deserved] rotten reputation, and has pretty much pulled out of the Mac market, so help on this may be hard to come by.
On the \[10.5.2] Mac that wants to mount the Shared Volumes:
In the Finder, Go Menu, select "Connect to Server"
Select your 10.2.5 Mac in the window that opens and click connect. If it is not seen, you can browse for it or specify its IP address.
You get a login Window. Login using an ID \[from the 10.1.5 Mac] that has Permissions to read and write the files you want to share. The drive(s) or Folder(s) you specified will mount as network Drives on the desktop. Drag and drop files in both directions to your heart's content.
N.B.: If you choose "Guest", you will have access to the "Shared" folder ONLY.
You have made no changes or compromises to your 10.5.2 Mac, so no Undo is necessary to take it back to work on Monday.
Message was edited by: Grant Bennet-Alder

Security Update 2007-5 damaged Powerbook G3-400 Lombard hard drive

Reporting unfortunate, possibly expensive, very time-consuming crash of my Powerbook G3-400 (Lombard) when I installed Apple's Security Update 2007-5 a couple of days ago:
• Logged on as admin user, no other app running (that I remember), but still had USB cables in (they were for iPod - not connected, and for external USB jump drive, connected). OS was 10.3.9, with all updates up to that date. Connected to broadband by Ethernet to switch to cable modem, NOT wireless.
Downloaded, installed, but then during optimization phase got spinning beachball with no progress for over 2 hrs.
• Side comment: HD has 3 partitions: OS X, OS9, and Storage for Users folders. Symlink from OS X's Users folder to actual user folders on the 3rd partition.
• Forced warm boot (Ctrl-Cmd-Pwr), then got nowhere - no OS load.
• Restarted with OS9 CD (no longer have OS X CD, only DVD that does Lombard won't read under OS X): OS X system partition flaky, unable to select it as Startup partition.
• Opened computer, removed hard drive, put it into external case with FW & USB, inspected HD with another FW computer: while OS X partition could be read (at first), running Disk Util showed it was a bad partition, and had to be re-initialized. Lucky I had backed up all non-OS X applications first!
• Re-installed OS X from DVD to the external HD case, applied updates.
• Moved HD back from external case to the PowerBook: now booted OK.
• Disk Util on HD now shows 3rd partition ("Storage") bad.
• However - when went to tighten screws of HD carrier and close Powerbook, lost the HD all over again. Best I can figure out now, somewhere in that process, the orange power/data cable connecting the HD to the IDE/Motherboard quit working (broke?), so I now have a dead Powerbook, until the hardware issue is fixed.
Bottom line: Applying this Security Update led to massive frustrations, frittering of humongous gobs of time (waiting for OS9 to load from CD whenever I tried to test and see if it recognized the internal HDD), and now a dead Powerbook G3. Hopefully a replacement ribbon cable will do the job; although if it's downstream from it (i.e., motherboard connector pins or IDE controller), that's going to be VERY expensive.
Reading this forum and others, perhaps I should have removed the attached USB devices (cable for iPod but without iPod attached, and USB thumbdrive). Also read somewhere that others have had problems with moving Users folders to separate partitions and symlinking to those cause problems with Security Update.
However: wish Apple's Security Updates were better behaved, this experience is making me much more scared of applying any updates in future…
12" iBookG4, iMacG3-400, 15" PowerBook G3-400 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Toying at OSX Server networking

I hear what you are saying.
Let's talk about failure probabilities over large populations. These trends may not apply to your specific case, since you do not have a large sample, you have one.
Of the components you mention, the ones least likely to fail are those that consist only of wires, such as the Hard drive cable. As I recall, it is a flex cable, which is even less likely to die in normal use unless you manage to stretch or pinch it -- it is made to be flexed.
Next least likely to fail is the motherboard electronics. Those drivers and connectors are meant to be plugged and unplugged a few times, but admittedly are not intended for harsh service, and are sometimes subject to zapping by static.
Most likely of all these components to fail is the spinning metal disk whose moveable heads fly much closer to the rapidly spinning surface than a smoke particle, a fingerprint, or a human hair. One good shock, or a few dozen smaller ones, and the head could crash onto the surface of the disk, scrubbing off some of the oxide and spraying it over the inside of the drive to cause more problems later.
If this is the original drive, it was manufactured in about 1999. The manufacturer probably sold the same drive at retail with a one-year warranty. Eight years later it has failed. Even if it is a replacement, it is the most likely the Drives that will fail. Thats why you were wise enough to make a backup.
I expect that the trouble you are having with multiple partitions is an indication that the disk is dying. The way to determine this is to re-write it with known patterns, and read back all those patterns and note which sectors require hardware error correction (to check for errors). A working drive has a number of spare sectors that can be low-level substituted for ones that are found to be bad during this test.
The way to accomplish this feat under Mac OS X is to initialize the drive with the "Zero All Data" option. It will take several hours to complete. If it passes, your disk has all good sectors. If it fails, running the test again sometimes does a second level of substitution and allows the drive to initialize OK.
I do not know your exact situation, but over a large sample, it is more likely that your drive died, and more likely that it is mostly a coincidence that it happened during this update, except that the optimize is known to read and write a lot of data in different parts of the disk.

Souping Up Lombard 333--OSX, DVD, Partition Questions

1) Am I right in thinking the reason I could not use my eBay iMac G5 Panther DVD is because (darn) OSX does not support the DVD function on the Lombard 333? Could I install it using my own iMac G5 and an ethernet connection? Will it have to be CDs?
2) Do I need to partition the drive if it is larger than 8 MB on a Lombard, or is that just the Wallstreet?
Right now I have a 10 GB HD and 320 MB RAM. It came with a 4 GB HD. The 10GB drive was already partitioned with 8 GB Jaguar and 2 GB 9.2. I mostly use the 9, though, because the X doesn't see my wavelan PC card and 9.2 uses it as Airport. And also because I still like 9, the OS that Would Not Die. I would like to upgrade to Panther and re-allot the partitions to give 9 more.
Tried buying a 20 GB drive for it on eBay, and it won't spin up no matter what I do with it. I think it's dead.
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Is there a minimum size for a partition for OSX?
Depending on the version of Mac OS X and the options you choose during the installation, the space requirement can be anywhere from 1.5GB to 10GB or more. Approximate minimum values are 2.0GB for 10.1, 3.1GB for 10.2, 3.8GB for 10.3, and 4.3GB for 10.4; to ensure that Mac OS X has enough space to function properly, set the partition to at least double the minimum requirement unless you're using a computer which limits the Mac OS X partition to 8GB.
Does it matter which partition X is on?
It will not have much effect on your machine.
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Difference Between Lombard and Pismo???

Hi,
How do you extinguish the difference the PowerBook Lombard and Pismo? I'm planning on purchasing one but the person don't know anything. The only thing that he know is it is 400MHz.

Hi Q-Tip,
Axl has covered most of the bases, but I thought I'd add a few details that my research took me to when buying my Pismo.
The major differences between the original Bronze Keyboard/Lombard and the Firewire/Pismo PowerBooks are indeed the ports - the Lombard has modem, display, TV-out (on some models),ethernet network, USB, audio in/out and a SCSI port (the SCSI port on a PowerBook looks like a large square connector with 30 pins) all under the rear flap; if the modem is elsewhere, it's a Wallstreet, but they never reached 400MHz. The Pismo has the same combination, but where the large, square port would be (sandwiched between the ethernet and TV-out ports), there are two vertical plugs that may look like large USB ports on first glance. However, they have a three-sided logo that looks like a radioactive symbol. If you have a 4th-generation or earlier iPod, have a look at the two leads you will have recieved with it; the USB is the flat lead, but the Firewire has the larger, wider plug. The symbol on the plug is what will tell you if you have a Pismo.
Now, the subtle differences. The Lombard uses a 66MHz bus on it's processor, which means it uses 66MHz memory. By comparison, the Pismo runs at 100MHz for CPU bus and memory interface, making it faster for the same clock speed.
The Lombard uses roughly the same graphics chip as the Pismo, but runs on a standard PCI interface like the early iMacs. The Pismo has AGP graphics, again making it faster for the same graphics chip.
The Lombard comes with either CD or DVD-ROM drives. This means it's hit or miss whether the notebook supports DVD playback - a decoder module is built into the logic board of some Lombards, but if the PowerBook originally had a CD drive and was upgraded to a DVD drive at a later date, chances are you'll need a decoder card (thats a: if the PowerBook has a DVD drive, and b: if the decoder card isn't present). The Pismo, by contrast, shipped with a DVD drive as standard; the decoder is featured on the logic board of all Pismos.
Otherwise, the chassis is roughly the same - bronze keyboard/trackpad/display release, black plastic case, 14.1" screen PC card slot, etc. The only way of knowing on sight whether you have the Lombard or Pismo is by checking the rear ports. Given what I've mentioned above, the Pismo is always going to have the edge in most applications, but if you need SCSI, then the Lombard is the natural choice. Be aware of what Axl said though; the Lombard isn't cut out for Tiger. You might get lucky and get OSX on it, but I'm not sure about it's capabilities. My Pismo G3-400 runs Tiger quite nicely, but the slower memory and bus of a Lombard might put OSX too far out of reach.
Hope this is helpful,
Rob Johnson
PowerBook G3 Pismo, 400MHz 1MB Cache, 192MB RAM, 6GB Hard Drive, DVD-ROM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Bye bye Microsoft! I've got a PowerBook now! Ha ha ha!

Basic home network setup troubles: Airport, ethernet, and cable modem

Hi,
Having only just subscribed to a cable broadband service we're experiencing some troubles setting up a mixed-mode home network and I'm wondering whether we've got some of the very basics messed-up.
What we have is:
1. Recent version (white) ibook, with airport, running 10.4.7;
2. Old G4 PowerPC (450MHz I think) running 10.4.7 ... airport card available;
3. Old powerbook (?Lombard) running 10.2.8 ... no airport;
4. A PC running Windows XP (not that important to have this in the network though) with no wireless;
5. A 3com SuperStack 1100 switch;
6. A cable modem;
7. A Linksys BEFSX41 Etherfast Cable/DSL Router ... 4 ethernet switch ports;
8. An airport express base station;
9. An HP laser printer connected into the ethernet LAN.
We'd like to keep both our wireless and ethernet networks running with all computers able to access one another, print to the laser printer, and access the broadband (fixed IP address) account. We're not (yet) conderned with hosting websites from our home computers.
I'm unsure of how we should configure this system. Do I connect the airport base station to the switch (which is what we presently have) or into the router? Do I connect each of the hardwired PCs (and the printer) into the switch
and then the switch to the router via single conenction?
If we use DHCP to access the router have I got the potential for the router and the airport base station to interfere with one another?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've pulled a few TCP/IP setup-for-idiots books from our local library but this specific situation doesn't seem to be well covered.
Cheers
Dougal

You probably have a few options here that will work. Considering the number of wired devices, I would suggest the following:
Cable modem > (Ethernet cable) > [Internet port] BEFSX41 [LAN_1] > (Ethernet cable) > SuperStack switch > (Ethernet cable) > [Ethernet port] AirPort Express Base Station (AX) > (wireless) > wireless clients, AND
SuperStack switch > (Ethernet cable) > wired clients
Then setup the AX as a bridge, as follows:
To set up the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) as a bridge, using the AirPort Admin Utility, connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to the Ethernet port of the AX, and then, make these settings:
Network tab
- Distribute IP addresses (unchecked)
- Apply the new setting.
- Wait at least 5 minutes.

Lombard connection problem

All of a sudden my trusty Lombard running 10.3 loses connection when closed and opened. Now I cannot get the connection back. I'm using a linksys network card. I have tried pulling the card, putting it back in and even gone to ethernet connection straight to DSL modem to no avail. Last hope would be to reinstall OS I guess. Any ideas?
G3 Lombard 333 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Bill,
Before a reinstall, I would perform basic maintenance if you have not done so.
- run Repair Disk Permissions from the HD;
- flush all of the caches with utilities like Onyx;
- run the cron scripts, again with a utility like Onyx;
- run first Aid while booted to the CD or run fsck -y from the HD.

PowerBook G3 OS 9.2.2 will not boot past ethernet icon

We have an old Powerbook G3 that refuses to boot past the first icon, I believe it's the Ethernet icon (the 2 way arrow). It will boot with no extensions but that doesn't help.
It will not even boot an installer disc since it hangs around the Ethernet part. I've tried zapping the PRAM and resetting the nvram but nothing works.
I've tried it with an Ethernet cable connected and again with one not connected.
It just gets to that first icon, then spins the black & white ball for a minute or 2, then gives the BOMB icon in the upper left where the cursor/ball was.
Any thoughts would really be appreciated.

ftra,
Well, without OT, you can't network or use file sharing with another local Mac, at least this is the case with my Wallstreet and 9.2.2.
When you mentioned no USB HDs plus not having built-in FireWire, you must have the Powerbook G3 Series Bronze Keyboard "Lombard" M5343.
Here are a few suggestions for retrieving files...
- Remove the HD and place it in an inexpensive USB HD enclosure like this one:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Century%20Global/25USB2/
- Or you could go with a combo HD enclosure for a few more dollars:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ME25AUFW/
- Use a FireWire PC card in your PCMCIA card slot, install the necessary FireWire extensions, then use your Lombard powerbook as the "host" and connect another Mac with built-in FireWire as the "target" via FireWire Target Disk Mode. You would then just copy files from your Lombard to the target computer's HD.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
Here is an inexpensive FireWire PC card:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/PCMCIA2P/
OWC is an excellent company but you can probably find better prices if you shop.
Also remember that if you buy a FireWire PC card, it does not supply the necessary bus power to run a 2.5" portable FireWire HD; any drive connected would require its own power supply. Built-in FireWire ports do supply enough bus power for these small drives. But if you buy the FireWire PC card for FireWire Target Disk Mode, no additional power is required.

How do I add an airport extreme to a cable modem with only one ethernet port, while keeping that port connected to my Mac?

I have a mac pro connected by ethernet to a cable modem via ethernet. There is only one ethernet port on the modem.
I want to keep the Mac connected via ethernet for speed. Is there a way that I can add an airport extreme to this set up - for my ipad and roku, and for guests to use - or do I need to buy a router to put between the modem and the mac?
If I need a router, what kind?
Thanks.

The modem connects to the WAN "O" port on an AirPort Extreme router.
The Mac Pro connects to one of the three LAN <-> ports on the AirPort Extreme router.
Or if you do not need the ability to connect a hard drive to the USB port on the router, you can save a bit by using an AirPort Express.
The modem connects to the WAN "O" port, the Mac Pro connects to the LAN <-> port
Either the AirPort Extreme router or AirPort Express router will allow up to 50 wireless device to connect.
There are many other wireless modems offered by other manufacturers as well.

GPIB Ethernet/100 Performance

Does anyone have some real world peformance measurements on the transfer speeds of the NI GPIB-Ethernet/100 box. I am very disappointed in the performance of a block read which is approximately 6ms/byte transfer (tested from 20 bytes to 32kbytes block transfers). This is on a 100 Mb Ethernet. I can ping the box with 64 byte round trip transfers at ~0.7ms/packet.
I almost feel that the GPIB-Ethernet Box is not buffering my GPIB transfers.
Thanks

Actually ignore my question. My transfer speeds are ~6 microseconds/byte (not milliseconds!). This is still a little slower than I would like, but not totally unreasonable! Note the vertical axis in the included plot (pdf) is in ms, so the linear coefficient in the fit equation is 13 microseconds/(16 bit word).
Attachments:
GPIB_ENET_Plot.pdf ‏25 KB

I have a TC which is connected wirelessly to my router. I would like to connect a mac in another location via ethernet to the TC. I can't seem to get it to connect. Am I missing something?

I have a virgin Superhub which serves my wireless needs throughout the house. I have a Timecapsule which connects wirelessly to the router with no issues. I can backup my MBP over wireless easily. I have now got another machine in a different part of the house that I would like to connect to the network. It doesn't have wireless so ethernet is the only option. I have a number of options 1) run cabling - not really possible 2) buy a powerline network system or 3) use the timecapsule to connect to the network/internet.
I like option 3 because
(a) - I don't have to spend any more money and
(b) - my wife wont complain about cables also see (a)
Should using mixed wifi and ethernet clients on a timecapsule work? if so is it a feature I can use out of the box so to speak?
Thanks

Should using mixed wifi and ethernet clients on a timecapsule work? if so is it a feature I can use out of the box so to speak?
Thanks
No a TC cannot do what you want.. it is now in dumb stupid wireless join mode.. and it turns off the ethernet ports.. in case you want to use the TC as a wireless bridge to multiple clients which is plainly wrong.. (only airport express is allowed to do this since it has only one ethernet port).
Welcome to Apple. (The plainly wrong above is a figment of Apple imagination.. of strict network protocols.. but unhelpful for a home device. maybe also to encourage sales of expresses.)

Blue screen error when connecting an ethernet cable

I have a Compaq Presario 5300US desktop that I'm trying to upgrade. It has 512mb (max) of memory and a newer video card than the factory one. I installed Vista Home Basic on it with no problems. I also installed a pci ethernet card along with the Vista drivers that came with it. I checked tha card's properties in "device manager" and it said "This device is working properly". I haven't plugged in an ethernet cable to the card at this point. Everything is working OK, but as soon as I try to connect the card to my router, I get a blue screen with this message:
Hardware Malfunction
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
*** The system has halted***
I don't get any memory errors as long as I don't try to use the ethernet card.

Hello @larrycarol99,
I understand that after upgrading your computer when you plug in an ethernet cord you get a hardware malfunction error. I am providing you with a Microsoft Support document: Hardware Malfunction Results in System Error Message that explains what causes that error and provides steps on fixing it. I am also including a link to the Compaq Presario 5300US Desktop PC Drivers page, which unfortunately does not have any drivers for your computer running Windows Vista.
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