Mark, I filled in 169.254.57.141 and pinged for 10 times ant it was 10 Tx and 10 Tr and 0% errors. Paul Moortgat On 31-okt-04, at 11:00, Mark Philip wrote: > On Sunday, Oct 31, 2004, at 17:47 Asia/Singapore, Paul Moortgat wrote: > >> Mark, >> >> IP address : 169.254.57.141 >> Link Speed : 10 Mb >> Link Status : Active >> Vendor : Apple >> Model : gmac+ >> >> I use Panther 10.3.5 > > Ok. I use Jaguar 10.2. > From the information above, OSX reports that your NIC is working fine. > The IP address allocated to your NIC is an internal number. Try to > ping your assigned IP address. If that works, it means that your NIC > is completely fine and working well. Then that puts to rest any doubts > about the functionality of the NIC. > > From then on, you will need to examine your cables to verify that they > indeed are ok. > > Let me know whether you can ping your assigned IP. > > -- > Best, > Mark.