An interesting, if somewhat irritating, development!
i've recently had an adsl line installed in my flat over in bangkok...
i bought a micronet sp3350a ethernet router separately from the isp (asianet)
"if it doesn't work, we don't support this", they said. "we only support the benq modem."
"fine", says i, "i'll risk it..."
well, two weeks of driving myself to distraction trying to make the thing work, i finally give in and phoned asianet to tell them to send the benq modem across.
the guy arrived this morning and tried to install on my pb. no good. so he tried it on his "big, black brick" - immediate success.
"your ethernet port doesn't work" he says.
"don't be silly", i reply... "but try it on airport anyway." the connection is there, as i can see by the fact that weatherpop tells me it's 30 degrees outside, but absolutely nothing in terms of getting onto the internet or using entourage...
so he tries it on my girlfriend's pb - immediate success!
i'm about to launch my pb at the wall, when it suddenly occurs to me that i didn't upgrade her os the last time we had problems with 10.2.4 - i checked, and, sure enough, she's running 10.2.1 still from the last re-install process...
i overwrote my 10.2.4 and put it back to 10.2.1 and, 10 minutes later, i'm connected via the benq router...
5 minutes later, and i'm now writing this from across the room, using my airport...
in my experience, 10.2.4 has caused firewire, the internal modem, the ethernet port and airport to go absolutely loopy over here... basically, every problem i've experienced with os x can be attributed to this version...
fortunately, it's working again now that i've "regressed" to 10.2.1 - i was suffering MS deja vu!
