Help! Dead built in ethernet on G4 450DP?

[Erik Gilchrist]

On Jan 22, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:

> From: "k s d" <ksd003 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [G4] Help! Dead built in ethernet on G4 450DP?
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:30:44 -0500
> Message-ID: <Sea2-F8OFXZ3mcrwPBh0003d7ae at hotmail.com>
>
> Hi all. I went home last night and wasn't able to connect to the 
> internet
> with either my browser
> or mail. I've had RR service for about 3 months with no problems until 
> last
> night. I sat on the phone
> w/tech support for about 3 hours troubleshooting and 
> re-troubleshooting.
> Finally they said that
> they would send someone out today. After I hung up I disconnected the 
> cable
> modem and took
> it over to my PC, set it up and it connects fine.
> I'm running OS 10.2.8, but if I boot into OS 9.2 it doesn't connect 
> either.
> I've read that there
> were problems with 10.2.8, but I installed it on Oct 7 and there had 
> been no
> signs of problems
> until now.
>

10.2.8 update had two releases. The first one did me fine on my machine 
(dual 867) but as a consultant, reports of ethernet failure on certain 
mac models as well as servers made me rethink a policy. I had to run 
around and do the ethernet patch before the second 10.2.8 hit the 
streets.  Not fun.

Especially nice was apple not acknowledging it publicly for at least 4 
days. Ya say 4 days is ok? Try telling that to people who need to work, 
servers that go down, and the like. 4 days of hell.

If you can re-install the 10.2.8 update, the second one(current) did 
fix a lot of issues where ethernets would get hosed totally (and this 
is not a minor issue in the admin community!) did fix the first 10.2.8. 
  What a fumble on the Apple team. I do hope somebody got fired. A minor 
update did kill ethernet ports essentially killing all traffic that a 
desktop or a server needed.

Re-installing the second 10.2.8 update more than once is sometimes 
needed. There are patches out because of the first 10.2.8 update. I may 
be able to still find them.

Please contact me off-lis and I will locate the patcht. I Came out of 
lurking because this was a sore spot.

e