> > I notice that the Appletalk control panel seems to revert
>> to Modem/Printer occasionally, perhaps a symptom of a PRAM battery going
> > low?
Maybe, but this will also happen if:
1. Appletalk is set to some other device (like Dock ethernet or a PC card)
2. The other device is removed from the system (ie. an undocked Duo)
3. Appletalk is subsequently turned on (or just left on while booting).
The network layer can't point to no interface at all, and
unfortunately it defaults to the printer serial port. My solution to
this is to use the Location Manager and control strip module to
switch to an Appletalk config that points to Remote Only and sets
Appletalk to Inactive, whenever I'm removing an ethernet device.
Personally I think it should default to Remote Only, but then I find
the whole Appletalk control system to be pretty broken.
You can also see this if the Appletalk Preferences file is somehow
corrupt, so try trashing that too. You won't ever see just one PRAM
setting disappear - it's all or nothing. I rely on the Keyboard
control panel as an indicator of PRAM problems, because it doesn't
have a preferences file and there isn't really any other way for it
to become messed up (nearly every other setting has been superseded
by a preference file at boot time in recent Mac OSes).
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