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Originally Posted by stripes
Hello Chris T.
Not completely sure what you mean by cross-referencing. We (Apple and me) have tried connecting using 'ordinary' DHCP, and occasionally manual DHCP (where we did enter various IP, router, etc., addresses), all with no success.
The G3 is OS8.6, the iMac is OS10.4 (Intel), so the way they are set up is only similar, not the same.
No, I didn't use Migration Asst. on setting up the iMac. All I did was turn it on. There is a point in the turning on process where the Mac tries to connect to the internet to register; that was the point (with each iMac) where the message 'unable to connect to the internet' came up.
The iMac, typically of Macs, hasn't got much in the way of setting up. Basically all you do is go to System Preferences, make sure Built-in Ethernet is chosen, even deselect the other options like Airport to make sure they don't interfere, make sure 'DHCP' is chosen rather than the other options (manual DHCP, for example) and that SHOULD be that.
Just a notion (something one of the Apple guys mentioned). Would it be worth me getting a router to plug into the modem, the purpose of which would be (hopefully) that the incoming signal would only care about the modem and router, not what was connected to it. Or is that just another forty quid down the drain? If there is the FAINTEST chance that this would work, I shall be round to my local Maplin before you can say Internet...
Thanks for your interest.
Allen.
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Aah, sorry, I hadn't appreciated that you had been persisting with quite such an elderly iMac for so long. Congratulations for keeping on going with OS 8! I'm not certain that the Migration Assistant would work for you anyway, if you don't have a version of OS X on your old machine. Never mind, it was just a thought and shouldn't prevent you from getting the right settings into your new machine anyway.
The iMac should indeed do as you describe. I have set two of them up on my home wireless network and never even needed them to be plugged into my router at any stage. Both immediately detected my wireless network and, as the network is unsecured (very rural and isolated so minimum risk) they just got online straight away.
I think it highly unlikely that two different iMacs would be supplied to you with faulty ethernet hardware so I don't think the fault is in the computer. If you have System Prefs set to use Ethernet, with automatic DHCP, that is all you should need. Either your modem is on the way out - unlikely, as it still consistently works with your old iMac - or, and this is the only alternative I can think of, the network is not wanting to register your new MAC address. In this instance, power-cycling the modem
should fix the problem. I notice you have tried that already but you do need to give it more than a few seconds so trying it overnight will be worthwhile.