suddenly dead ethernet card

[Chris Foote]

>
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:15:46 -0400
>Subject: [X Newbies]
>From: Vince Venero <vincejr at ufl.edu>
>Message-Id: <79A2005B-A5B7-11D7-BDB7-000393469222 at ufl.edu>
>
>My girlfriend has an 800mhz iMac, circa May 2002.  Not sure of the
>exact revision code.  But anyways, she has been using is sucesfully on
>an apartment LAN for 9 months.  Recently, the lost connection to the
>network and internet.  A look in the network pref pane shows that no ip
>address was received from the DHCP server nor was a 169. class address
>self assigned.
>
>This is very strange and it has completely halted all ethernet
>connectivity of the iMac.
>
>I have tried repair disk permissions and ran fsck.  As a last attempt I
>even reinstalled jaguar last night.  Still no change.  We even moved to
>another network (one at my apartment).  Still no change.  I reset the
>PRAM also.... no change.  Opening up the network utility and showing
>the en0 deivce (ethernet), the link status is always inactive....
>
>Can anyone offer some advice or has the ethernet card gone belly up in
>this iMac.  It really cant be software related anymore as the new OS
>should have eliminated that problem.
>
>Thanks,
>Vince

I had this happen after a nearby lightning strike; It turned out, it 
was a destroyed ethernet chip, which required a motherboard 
replacement. Hope yours is not so serious.
Chris
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