G4 400mhz and DHCP

[David A Dickson]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, David A Dickson wrote:

> I'm trying to connect a powermac g4 to my router. Under all 3 os's 
> (9/10.2/YDL 2.3) I get the same problem: DHCP fails to detect the router. 
> I have tried both simple and crosover ethernet cables. The light on the 
> router for the g4 just keeps flashing. I tried using the exact same 
> configuration on the desktop g4 that I have on my powerbook g4 with os 
> 10.2 but still no connection.
> Is there a problem with my ethernet card? How can I find out for sure 
> where the problem is?

I have also tried connfiguring the ip, gateway, subnet and DNS manually, 
but had no luck there either.