imac G3 and ethernet
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nixgeek
Mac of the SubGenius! :-)
Have you set the iMac to receive an IP address using DHCP (assuming that is how your ISP is giving you the IP)?
Click on the Apple menu (top left of menubar) and go to Control Panels-->TCP/IP. Once that's loaded, make sure that you have "Ethernet" and "DHCP" selected in the drop down lists. Close the window and confirm any dialog boxes that come up. You should then be able to get out to the Internet.
Post back with the results.
Click on the Apple menu (top left of menubar) and go to Control Panels-->TCP/IP. Once that's loaded, make sure that you have "Ethernet" and "DHCP" selected in the drop down lists. Close the window and confirm any dialog boxes that come up. You should then be able to get out to the Internet.
Post back with the results.
nixgeek
Mac of the SubGenius! :-)
Did you perform the above steps I mentioned? Did you close out of it when you finished configuring it and did you confirm to save the changes?
If you haven't done that, then it's not going to work.
As for the ethernet cable, it should work unless the cable is bad. Ethernet is an industry standard so any ethernet cable will work on any ethernet port. It doesn't matter if the computers are different, ethernet is the same standard no matter what.
Try testing with another ethernet cable. I don't think that the ethernet port itself is bad, but there's always the possibility. Try with another ethernet cable and see if things get fixed.
Also, in the TCP/IP settings you might need to include the DNS nameservers that your ISP uses in the "Nameservers" section. I've never had any luck with Mac OS 9 or below ever detecting the DNS servers automatically even through DHCP, but I could be wrong.
Hope this helps.
If you haven't done that, then it's not going to work.
As for the ethernet cable, it should work unless the cable is bad. Ethernet is an industry standard so any ethernet cable will work on any ethernet port. It doesn't matter if the computers are different, ethernet is the same standard no matter what.
Try testing with another ethernet cable. I don't think that the ethernet port itself is bad, but there's always the possibility. Try with another ethernet cable and see if things get fixed.
Also, in the TCP/IP settings you might need to include the DNS nameservers that your ISP uses in the "Nameservers" section. I've never had any luck with Mac OS 9 or below ever detecting the DNS servers automatically even through DHCP, but I could be wrong.
Hope this helps.
Interesting. I have never had a moment's difficulty with DHCP and any version of MacOS X or MacOS 8/9. And I work in a Microsoft shop.
nixgeek
Mac of the SubGenius! :-)
Well, not so much with DHCP but with the DNS servers supplied by the DHCP server being read on the Macs running Mac OS 9 or less. I've usually had to include the DNS servers manually, but that could have been to a poorly configured DHCP (one not including DNS servers). I haven't had that problem with OS X.
But like I said, I could be wrong.
Yes, I did follow your steps to the letter, but still no dice. When I intially installed this operating system, I copied the ISP information that came up in the network preferences in my iBook G4 using the same cable box. I think this was a mistake. I have a feeling this is what is messing everything up, because when I open up the TCP/IP settings on the imac to do the DHCP set-up, all the info is already entered in all the fields. How can I reset this? I'd like to do a clean install on this but I know that, for OS9, that involves clicking and draggin files to a new systems folder, right? Before I trash this seemingly prefectly good imac, I'd like to be able to reset everything from scratch and try one more time, anybody have any good pointers on how to do a "clean install" with OS9? I've tried reinstalling from the disc, but all the same ISP info is already in the TCP/IP fields, so it must not be clearing everything out.