Before embarking on reinstalling anything... Please describe your network setup more completely.
Its the other way around. Its DSL Router -> 4-port Ethernet hub -> various macs. There's a crossed Etherntet cable between router & hub, and regular cables between hub and macs. I have had up to three computers on it at one time, but ususally no more than two. It very well handles two macs surfing simualtaneously and doing file sharing (one mac having access to the others shared folder, and v/v). My DSL provider has no qualms about that.
IF you have exceeded the number of computers authorized by your ISP, then their DHCP server probably won't even talk to you... It might be possible to make the modem forget how many other computers it has seen by power-cycling it.
Possible, but then I usually unhook one computer and hook on the new. Hooking the old back again poses no problem.
While you're at it, verify that your ethernet interfaces are working. Turn off AppleTalk. Turn on TCP/IP. Give yourself an address like 192.168.100.100. Close the control panel. Look at the lights on the ethernet switch -- make sure the appropriate Link light for that Mac is on. If it isn't, then you have an interface or cabling problem.
The light on the hub indicating contact (link) shines up, and the light on the Asanté ethernet card shifts, indicating that there is some sort of contact. But in TCP/IP I do not get neither subnet mask nor IP address. I use DHCP setup, letting the host provide the numbers. All my other macs (except the 8600 I fried) have had IP addresses of the type 10.0.0.X. This 9600 does not have an IP address at all. Now, is that piece of information somehow hardwired? As mentioned earlier, it appears to follow the harddisk with the current system on. If I wipe the system totally, and re-install, is it likely that I'll rediscover an IP address in the 9600?
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