[G4] Fried Ethernet Card

[Kevin Willis]

On Aug 10, 2006, at 4:33 PM, WDunwiddie at aol.com wrote:

> My built-in (I assume) Ethernet card was fried recently by  
> lightning storms despite a surge protector, UPS, and via a cable  
> modem. I have a Yikes! G4 400 MHz with 1 GB RAM running OS X Tiger.  
> Any advice on a PCI bus Ethernet card, or other options, would be  
> vastly appreciated. Dialup sucks.
>
> Walter Dunwiddie
> _______________________________________________

The same thing happened to my Gigabit G4.  I have been using a PCI  
card for about a year.  It works fine on my 100 Mb/s network.  I  
don't miss the other 900 Mb/s, since I never used them.  The loss of  
the PCI slot is what sucks.  I wouldn't mind finding a USB or  
Firewire based NIC though, to free up that slot.

Thanks,

Kevin