Hi Tim
A good point - only the lack of an airport card in the iMac has
stopped me doing that! But the more I learn about ports being fixed
to motherboards the more I think I might be in the market for a card.
Especially since my initial fix packed up - got it going again by
adding a DNS and Mich just reported it has gone south again...
thanks
alastair
On 26 Dec 2009, at 00:17, Tim Law wrote:
I'm assuming you are trying to connect to a network. What about using
wireless and turning on Airport?
I did this with a 20" iMac PowerPC G5 when I felt the ethernet port
was
dicky (lots of network dropouts). The Firewire was also dicky
(would stop
data flow after a certain period), or so I felt, so priced a new
board. It
would have been better to buy a new machine. These ports are part
of the
main board.
Fortunately somehow or other they fixed themselves and with a few
restarts,
or maybe I ran some maintenance tasks I cannot recall.
Anyway, in the interim, I used Airport.
Tim
On 25/12/09 6:17 PM, "mince and pud" <minceand...@goatpix.com> wrote:
Hi James
Thanks for taking the trouble on such a day - I had re-plugged the
cable several times already, plus countless reboots, permission
repairs etc
But it's fixed! Though all I did was enter an IP address manually on
the laptop, something I had tried several times already, so it must
have worked in combination with some other inadvertent tweak. A bit
annoying not to have learnt anything much, but at least it's going.
Thanks again for your help
PS can anyone advise on getting the ethernet port repaired? Is that
an expensive bit of surgery?
thanks
On 25 Dec 2009, at 09:22, James Devenish wrote:
Hi Alastair,
On 25/12/2009, mince and pud <minceand...@goatpix.com> wrote:
I have followed all the tips I can find about networks and sharing
but although the laptop is now connected to the internet via
ethernet
through belkin router, and the iMac is connected to the laptop via
firewire, I can connect and fileshare between the two and the
network
status on the iMac even says it is connected to the net via
firewire
- safari disagrees and says I'm not connected.
IP over FireWire has always worked for me, but be aware that
Internet
access requires more than just a raw network connection. You also
need
to basic services, such as DNS, DHCP and NAT. On the laptop, ensure
that 'Internet Sharing' is enabled. You want to share 'from'
Ethernet
'to' FireWire. This should provide all three services to the
iMac. The
iMac might not pick up the new services instantly - you may want to
unplug and replug the FireWire cable and give it a few moments.
James
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