Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-08-02 Thread gf sciacca
> There may also be a way of getting it via appletalk. Go to the InfoMac > archives at there > is a tool, I probably got it there, that maps Appletalk networks...I > think it reports the MAC address. Way back when they routed Appletalk > on campu

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, July 31, 2004, at 06:17 AM, gf sciacca wrote: Thinking about obscurities, perhaps a problem when entering some carachters of a MAC address in the router configuration iof the web interface, or that the MAC address of the machine is reported corrupted when reading it from TCP/IP contro

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-31 Thread gf sciacca
> The logic boards are identical between the 520/540 series. Certainly > swapping in known-good LB is an excellent test. However, I'd try some > easier things first (one thing at a time of course), swapping the HD, > the ram, the processor, etc. > I also forget the exact problem - did you say Appl

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-28 Thread Dan K
I wrote: >> You have several PB500s IIRC. Have you tried swapping the HD from >> one of the working 'Books to the naughty, misbehaving 'Book? >> >> Also, I cannot recall the details of your various PBs 500, do all have >> the same amount of RAM? to which gianfranco replied: >I did not replace the

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-25 Thread gf sciacca
> You have several PB500s IIRC. Have you tried swapping the HD from one of > the working 'Books to the naughty, misbehaving 'Book? I did not replace the HD, but for my latter try I erased the HD of the "bad" book and copied over in SCSI mode the HD content from another working one. > Also, I cann

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-24 Thread Dan K
gianfranco wrote: >ok, tried all You have several PB500s IIRC. Have you tried swapping the HD from one of the working 'Books to the naughty, misbehaving 'Book? Also, I cannot recall the details of your various PBs 500, do all have the same amount of RAM? Dan K ...

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 21, 2004, at 4:04 PM, gf sciacca wrote: If you can connect to other machines on the local LAN, it can *not* be a hardware problem, since Appletalk uses the same hardware as TCP/IP. However, Appletalk works independently of TCP/IP, so it could be a TCP/IP problem. The errors you are getting a

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-21 Thread gf sciacca
> If you can connect to other machines on the local LAN, it can *not* be > a hardware problem, since Appletalk uses the same hardware as TCP/IP. > > However, Appletalk works independently of TCP/IP, so it could be a > TCP/IP problem. > > The errors you are getting are due to the 540 not being able

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 19, 2004, at 4:17 PM, gf sciacca wrote: One additional detail: when trying to connect to a remote host or website using their TCP/IP address (rather than the hostname or url), it keeps trying for a while, then reports that the connection was refused by the remote host. If using the hostname

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-19 Thread gf sciacca
One additional detail: when trying to connect to a remote host or website using their TCP/IP address (rather than the hostname or url), it keeps trying for a while, then reports that the connection was refused by the remote host. If using the hostname or url, it says that "cannot find a host with

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-19 Thread gf sciacca
> > I first thought the Ethernet port on the 520 would be bust, but local > > connectivity seems to indicate otherwise. Am I missing anything > > obvious??? > > How to proceed to troubleshoot this one?? > > If you're using static IP addresses it has to either be corrupted > TCP/IP prefs on the fail

Re: 520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, July 16, 2004, at 06:53 PM, gf sciacca wrote: This is one for the networking experts: I first thought the Ethernet port on the 520 would be bust, but local connectivity seems to indicate otherwise. Am I missing anything obvious??? How to proceed to troubleshoot this one?? If you're usi

520 / 540 networking enigma

2004-07-16 Thread gf sciacca
This is one for the networking experts: I'm testing a few 520 / 540 powerbooks for connectivity to my WLAN. I have a D-link router set up to distribute a static IP address to each machine connecting. All but one of the 520/540 books connect to Ethernet fine. They all run OS 8.1 and I have configur