Wired Connection to the Internet

My wife has a new MacBook Pro given to all teachers at her school, and I am having troubles getting it set up for her on my home network since I have not used a Mac before. The computer works wirelessly at school no problem.
Computer is a MacBook Pro, Operating System is Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, trying to us a LinkSys BEFSR41 Wired Router and ethernet cable. Internet is through a cable modem, provider Cablevision.
Can someone list the basic steps in order to get the Mac up and running on the internet with the above configuration?
I have played around with the MacBook Pro, and I even have it to say "Ethernet Connected, Status: Connected, and also it gives me the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Router numbers, however when I open Firefox, it does not connect to the internet.
I must be overlooking something.
Any help, no matter how basic, would be greatly appreciated.
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OK, here is what I am looking at while going through the router. On the network page, down the left side I see Ethernet Connected, Firewire Not Connected, and Airport Off (I assume this is for connecting wirelessly). In the center of the screen, it says Status: Connected, Configure Using DHCP,and the following numbers:
IP Address: 192.168.1.102
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.1.1
DNS Server: 167.206.245.129, 167.206.245.130
When I plug the ethernet cable directly into the modem instead of the router, even though I have power cycled the modem, it shows Ethernet as not connected and Status as cable unplugged.
Cable Modem is a Motorola SB5100 Surfboard Modem. After a power cycle, the power and receive lights came on solid, and the send light blinked. When I openned the Network Preferences and played around with Ethernet until I got the option to apply, then the send light went solid and the online light went solid. The PC Activity would not blink like it normally does when using the PC on the network.
I hope that helps you diagnose it further.

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brownwolf66 wrote:
No,I have a desk top and a laptop and I cannot access 192.168.1.1 on either of them.In my OP,I have used the Command Prompt dialogue on both computers to ping 192.168.1.1 and I have attached the results.This is what I got:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Gordon>ping 192.168.1.1
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=111
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=111
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=111
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=111
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
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The results I obtained using ipconfig in the command prompt have already been mentioned in my OP.
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06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
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Last edited by imtired (2011-09-08 12:36:51)

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No longer can connect to the internet after updating to 10.4.10 for Intel

I (fortunately) use a cloning program (SuperDuper) to clone my MacBook Pro hard drive now and then on to an external Firewire hard drive... I say "fortunately" because after reading some of the problems folks were having with this most recent OS X update (10.4.10) I chose to update the cloned hard drive first before installing the update on the main drive... On or about 6/20 an update came out (that I can't find anymore so maybe they pulled it??) that was called "MacOSXUpd10.4.10IntelPatch.pkg". First I installed that update on my cloned drive... It booted and worked fine except that when I would try to communicate with the internet wirelessly, I could not... I didn't try a "wired" connection because I am not interested in connecting that way. The system would claim to connect to my wireless router (NetGear WGU624) but pages would time out before loading... Next I tried installing the newer (7/02) Combo package called "MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.10Intel.pkg" but that improved nothing. Still no useable wireless internet connection... So in no way will I be putting this 10.4.10 update (Patch or Combo) on my main drive until something gets fixed... In fact, I went ahead and overwrote what I had on the firewire drive by recloning my main drive (running under 10.4.9) to that firewire drive again... Once I got 10.4.9 reinstalled on that firewire drive, it again connected to the internet just fine... So my experience is that there is something not happy about either the Patch or the Combo updates for 10.4.10, at least as it relates to my Intel system... I also have a G4 PPC and on that machine, the PPC version of the 10.4.10 update worked just fine (though that is a wired connection, if that matters)... Anything I am missing or can someone offer other input other than not to upgrade at this time??? Thanks... Bob...
FW800 G4 dual 1.25 Ghz and 17 inch MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hello Robert:
I infer from your post that you selected the updates to install, rather than using software update (IMHO a bad idea). At the moment, as I understand your post, your backup is not working properly and your internal HD has not been changed.
I suggest this:
Clone your HD to your external firewire drive (new copy, not an update of changed data.
Then you have a clone in case someting goes wrong.
Update your HD using software update. If everything is running well after that, you are OK. If not, you can restore your HD from the clone.
The reason I favor using software update is that the system selects the proper software. When Apple releases updates, there are several versions available.
If you know all this, forgive the explanation - I do not know your level of computer expertise.
As an aside, there is nothing (that I am aware of) organically wrong with the OS X 10.4.10 update. Apple did release a 10.4.10 v1. update for the Intel boxes (I do not run Intel-based Macs, so I have not investigated it):
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10410updatev11intel.html
Barry

Wired Connection to the Internet

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