wardsenatorfe92
Well-known member
Hi, me again.
We have a Quicksilver G4 at my school, and I've recently set it up as a browsing machine. If I'm correct, its a 933 MHz Model with 128 MB RAM, not 100% sure on the HDD size but I don't think thats relevant to the topic, 40+ GB Free. I use it while I'm waiting for our main G5 to render stuff in Final Cut (which sometimes takes a while). It's worked fine up until now. Also, forgot to mention its running 10.3, using Camino as the primary browser.
It's worked great, but now it won't pick up the ethernet connection. I have the cable plugged in, and in the Sys. Preferences under networking, it simply says the network cable isn't plugged in. I know the connection and cable works, and I've tried other cables and other wall jacks, and the G5 will pick up the connection instantly. But for some reason, the Quicksilver refuses to pick up the connection. I've had similar problems when I first tried to hook it up to the internet but then it started working fine. To my knowledge, this G4 was bought new and then for some reason disconnected and sat for a few years after the teacher retired and the current teacher started having problems with all the G4 units so virtually unhooked them all, and this was one of the most decent ones I could get back to life. Could be a bad ethernet port, i'm not sure.
If possible, I'm looking for ways to diagnose this issue and see if I can get it working. Note, its not my property, so I can't do any "repairs" persay, but anything OS related I should be able to fix due to I'm the administrator account.
Thanks!
We have a Quicksilver G4 at my school, and I've recently set it up as a browsing machine. If I'm correct, its a 933 MHz Model with 128 MB RAM, not 100% sure on the HDD size but I don't think thats relevant to the topic, 40+ GB Free. I use it while I'm waiting for our main G5 to render stuff in Final Cut (which sometimes takes a while). It's worked fine up until now. Also, forgot to mention its running 10.3, using Camino as the primary browser.
It's worked great, but now it won't pick up the ethernet connection. I have the cable plugged in, and in the Sys. Preferences under networking, it simply says the network cable isn't plugged in. I know the connection and cable works, and I've tried other cables and other wall jacks, and the G5 will pick up the connection instantly. But for some reason, the Quicksilver refuses to pick up the connection. I've had similar problems when I first tried to hook it up to the internet but then it started working fine. To my knowledge, this G4 was bought new and then for some reason disconnected and sat for a few years after the teacher retired and the current teacher started having problems with all the G4 units so virtually unhooked them all, and this was one of the most decent ones I could get back to life. Could be a bad ethernet port, i'm not sure.
If possible, I'm looking for ways to diagnose this issue and see if I can get it working. Note, its not my property, so I can't do any "repairs" persay, but anything OS related I should be able to fix due to I'm the administrator account.
Thanks!