Have you swapped the ethernet cable with a known good?
Do you get activity lights when the drivers are installed?
Can you get a connection using a static address?
Guy M
On Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:00 PM, Michael Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I picked up an Asante Ethernet board for my Performa 6214CD, but have been
>unable to get it to communicate with the Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router.
>The router currently has Win95, iMac, and PowerTower Pro machines attached
>and working.
>
>I have tried clean installs of System 7.6, 9.04, and 9.1, followed by
>Asante's Ethertalk 5.6.1. In each instance, I configure Appletalk for
>Ethernet, then TCP/IP to obtain an address from from a DHCP server. The
>settings are identical to the ones on the other Mac machines using the
>router.
>
>The PowerTower Pro works fine when connected to the same cable/port that I
>am using for the Performa, so I don't think it is a wiring or router
>problem.
>
>Asante Tech. Support has had be try reloading the operating system, rebuild
>the desktop, trash the relevant preference and MacTCP DNR files, and relaod
>the Asante software. I have been told by Asante that it must be a router
>problem (but it works fine with other machines) or the Ethernet card. The
>next Tech. Support person said it couldn't possibly be the card, but had to
>be a corrupted file somewhere. (I have been doing a low level format of the
>HD for every install.)
>
>Any ideas?
>--
>Michael J. Griffith
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