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boot_wb wrote:
Is the router gigabit capable?
It's possible that a cable can be tolerant of 10/100, but fail trying to negotiate 1000Mbit cx.
If possible, it may be worth trying to set the router (temporarily) to always negotiate only 100Mbit connections (It's possible that OSX may fall back more gracefully to a slower cx in this case than MorphOS).
It's a remote possibility, but easy to check.
The only other similar case i can remember involved a dying hard drive - but that's heading into chicken-sacrificing territory...
I must admit i was dubious about this advice! I was using a cheap PoE adapter to extend the Ethernet cable. this one or very similar:
Ebay item Once I connected the cable directly to the Lan port (on a Powerline/homeplug device) dhcp acquired an address and hey presto - networking is up....
Many thanks!
I have never seen this behavior before - whats going on??
PowerMac Dual G5 2GHz, 3GB DDR Ram, Radeon 9600 (9650?), 750GB HD, MorphOS 3.9, MacOS X 10.5.8
