The panther that ate my NIC
ok, i admit it, i was stupid, pix werent enough for me and i got curious enough to go and dl panther.
every thing was fine, installed it on a sep partition, booted fine, looked great, and then i tried setting up internet.
i entered my dsl info, and was looking at the diff. tabs and i glanced at the advanced menu for ethernet to see what was there, but changed it back to automatic when i was done.
i then tried to connect and nothing, was being told that my ethernet cable was unplugged. i checked it, firm & secure. the little light for 100/10 connection wasnt lighting up on my dsl modem either.
thinking it was simply a bug in panther and nothing to worry about, i looked at a few of the other features, messed around w/ expose, fast user switching, etc.
i then decided to get back to doing real work and i could play later, so i rebooted back into 10.2
tried going online. no dice.
looked at my modem again, no light.
tried zapping pram, messing w/ enet settings again, plugging & unplugging cable, resetting modem, everything else i could think of
and nothing.
so here i am punching myself in the nuts on my 56k dialup trying to figure a way to fix this mess. it seems to kill the ethernet port as soon as x starts to boot, so i know the hardware is in tact, but does anyone have an idea how this could be fixed?
every thing was fine, installed it on a sep partition, booted fine, looked great, and then i tried setting up internet.
i entered my dsl info, and was looking at the diff. tabs and i glanced at the advanced menu for ethernet to see what was there, but changed it back to automatic when i was done.
i then tried to connect and nothing, was being told that my ethernet cable was unplugged. i checked it, firm & secure. the little light for 100/10 connection wasnt lighting up on my dsl modem either.
thinking it was simply a bug in panther and nothing to worry about, i looked at a few of the other features, messed around w/ expose, fast user switching, etc.
i then decided to get back to doing real work and i could play later, so i rebooted back into 10.2
tried going online. no dice.
looked at my modem again, no light.
tried zapping pram, messing w/ enet settings again, plugging & unplugging cable, resetting modem, everything else i could think of
and nothing.
so here i am punching myself in the nuts on my 56k dialup trying to figure a way to fix this mess. it seems to kill the ethernet port as soon as x starts to boot, so i know the hardware is in tact, but does anyone have an idea how this could be fixed?
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Sorry, you're going to have to look elsewhere for help on this one.
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