G4 400mhz and DHCP

[Fred Laxton]

When you configure the IP address, subnet, gateway, are you able to ping 
yourself?  Does /sbin/ifconfig show the network card up?  Are you able 
to ping other machines?

David A Dickson wrote:
> 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.
> 
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