donmerlin
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I've tried both our tech mailing list and a Google search to find a good answer for my connectivity problem, but have not found a solution yet. I'm hoping someone here can help.
I have had these freakish network outages on my G4 Quicksilver for awhile now (over a year). I'll be working along, and then for no apparent reason, my connectivity is dropped (cannot access email, iChat connection drops, unable to reach any websites, you get the picture). All of the other computers on my network are still connected, so it's pretty obvious that it's only happening to the G4. A reboot always (without exception) restores the connection to the internet. Timing appears to be random. Sometimes it happens after being up for a few hours, sometimes it happens after only a few minutes. Sometimes I can go days without it happening, but then it eventually does happen. Oddly, I went through a period of 6 months or so last year where the problem never happened, but then late last year it started happening again.
Here's what I've tried to resolve it. I've done an nv-ram reset. I've done several iterations of permission fixes. Last November I upgraded from 10.3.9 to Tiger hoping that would resolve the problem (note, it was an upgrade, not a clean install). The problem is still here.
I have found a way to reset the connection using Terminal:
sudo ifconfig en0 down
sudo ifconfig en0 up
The above brings the connection back up, but it goes back down within a few minutes. A reboot, however, keeps the connection up much longer (hours and/or days), so a reboot must reset something else that the above does not.
That's where I am today. I'm trying to avoid having to do a clean install of Tiger (due to the painful number of 3rd party re-installs that will be required), not to mention I'm not certain it will resolve it.
Any suggestions?
I have had these freakish network outages on my G4 Quicksilver for awhile now (over a year). I'll be working along, and then for no apparent reason, my connectivity is dropped (cannot access email, iChat connection drops, unable to reach any websites, you get the picture). All of the other computers on my network are still connected, so it's pretty obvious that it's only happening to the G4. A reboot always (without exception) restores the connection to the internet. Timing appears to be random. Sometimes it happens after being up for a few hours, sometimes it happens after only a few minutes. Sometimes I can go days without it happening, but then it eventually does happen. Oddly, I went through a period of 6 months or so last year where the problem never happened, but then late last year it started happening again.
Here's what I've tried to resolve it. I've done an nv-ram reset. I've done several iterations of permission fixes. Last November I upgraded from 10.3.9 to Tiger hoping that would resolve the problem (note, it was an upgrade, not a clean install). The problem is still here.
I have found a way to reset the connection using Terminal:
sudo ifconfig en0 down
sudo ifconfig en0 up
The above brings the connection back up, but it goes back down within a few minutes. A reboot, however, keeps the connection up much longer (hours and/or days), so a reboot must reset something else that the above does not.
That's where I am today. I'm trying to avoid having to do a clean install of Tiger (due to the painful number of 3rd party re-installs that will be required), not to mention I'm not certain it will resolve it.
Any suggestions?
