[Ti] Ahhhh! My ethernet is dead!

[Kynan Shook]

Hmmmm...  Could be a hardware problem; try running Apple Hardware Test. 
  Also, check what appears in Apple System Profiler, let us know.  It's 
also possible that the pins are bent in your Ethernet port; frequent 
use of the port combined with a lot of jiggling the cable and not 
inserting it straight can sometimes bend the pins out of contact with 
the cable, which is very, very difficult to fix without breaking them.
You might want to try booting off a different OS, if possible, but I'm 
going to guess that you only have one boot disk.  But if you have 
multiple ones, booting off a different drive can let you test the 
software quickly and easily.


ti at zlit.net writes:
> I have no clue what's going on... on my 1ghz TiBook, the ethernet is 
> no longer
> working (OS X 10.3).  When you go to the network pref pane, it doesn't 
> show
> ethernet, but you can still go to the ethernet config page... at that 
> page, it's
> not getting a DHCP address (or self assigning).
>
> Any advice?  I'm on (shutter) webmail-- and I will try to check in as 
> often as
> possible.  TIA for any help!