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As the title says... Having a few issues setting up the Internet on my iMac G4, anyone know how to do this, been a windows user for forever...
Thanks in advance
How are you connecting to the internet? What kit and we'll go from there.
If it is hard-wired into an existing network, then it should just work.
If it is a wireless network do you have wireless built in or is it a third-party wireless dongle?
don't mac's "just work?"
don't mac's "just work?"
Just like it wouldn't 'just work' if it was not plugged into the mains, it won't 'just work' if it isn't on a network!
YeH I thought they 'just worked' too.
Am trying to connect using an ether net connection following the steps it asks for a subnet mask, soninoutnin the one with the ip address and it doesn't recognise it.
I would start again - delete off everything you have set and switch the machine off. Plug in the ethernet cable and switch it back on.
Is it an iMac or eMac? I am on the internet on an eMac G4 and I use a wired connection. Just installed the disk which came with my modem and it does 'just work' just as it does on my very old G3 tower. No messing.
its an Imac you know the one with the domed base with the screen that comes off it on a stalk.
restarted it and its all blank, but still not liking the details that i put in even though every other sytem in the house uses these and works fine....
bloody mac, why cant they be like windows to set up and then run like a mac after.. ha
Odd - can you do a screen grab of the pop-up window - if you set the location to *automatic* it should just pick it up.
?? location is set to automatic...reset it and removed all previos inputs, tried again, put in all the 'correct' info for the IP, the router address and the subnet mask, and none of it corresponds.. beginning to get on my nerves. 😡
am going to try something (possible different subnet mask) do you kow how i would go about finding out where to get that info, fairly sure that the one i have been given is wrong an the chap who gave it me is out...
It might not work if it's not connected, difference is it'll keep working virtually for ever unlike the other sort that'll go all wonky after 12 months.
it is connected as far as i can tell, plugged in all the right numbers and what not, but still getting nothing back from it. gotta be something wrong with the numbers or our interweb. think i'm going to give up on it now. getting severley pissed off with it! and don't want to break it by throwing it out of thw window! 😛
Have you checked the ethernet cable is working and plugged in correctly.
Can you SEE the router? (click the 'Assist me' button in system > network) to help you.
Right kind of ethernet cable (i.e not a crossover cable if it is plugged into a router or a network connection in the wall)?
I always find ethernet cables a bit rubbish anyway. I'd start with a new cable if I were you.
ethernet cable works fine in my other laptops, checked that..
router not showing up...
If the router isn't even showing it sounds like there is a hardware/software problem with the Mac
in my experience it is probably your ISP who is restricting the amount of users on your network. Did you have a different computer plugged in before? If so the ISP may have saved its MAC address. You either have to wait for a few hours for the ISP to release the connection to a new MAC address or manually enter the previous computers MAC address onto your iMac under MAC address cloning or something like that.
Why are you putting in the subnet/IP details manually, not using DHCP?
cos the DHCP isn't doing anything...
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retro83 - MemberWhy are you putting in the subnet/IP details manually, not using DHCP?
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BMC09 - Membercos the DHCP isn't doing anything...
Okay, if DHCP is not working but it is on the other machines you need to start looking at other causes.
Set the Mac to use DHCP and set all the network options back to default values.
Plug a known good cable into a known good port on the router. Do you get blinking lights next to that port?
Post a pic of the system preferences window after you've plugged it all in (cmd-shift-3 then copy from desktop onto usb stick and upload to tinypic.com and post on here)
At this point i'm thinking either networking is disabled (not 'active' in mac speak) or your ethernet port is dead.
well i've not touched it for a while now, and it all appears to be working... internet connection sayis its working normal and i'm getting all the signs that i would expect.. rebooting the machine now..
pebkac then? 😉
rebooted and its now lost everything.... 😡 ❓
the network status on the network diagnostics window has gone from having green next to all of the check points (built-in ethernet, network setting, ISP, Internet, and Server) to green on the Buitl-in ethernet, yellow on Network settings and red on the last three.
Damn!!
this machine is about to take a 2 storey drop onto tarmac in a minute... 😈
moved the machine to theroom with the server in and have connected to the server directly, and no issues....
means i'm probably going to have to cock about with my network tonight. dman!
Sometimes it's damndest things. When I got BT Broadband it would work for a bit then lose connection. I'd spend half an hour talking to a nice Indian Mac geek, get it working then it would go again. Went through three free routers, until, after one marathon session, without a solution, I was reading back the code on the router as I entered it when the chap suddenly said "sorry, you need to put a dollar sign in front of that number" WTF! After a year or more of hastles, it turned out BT needed a dollar symbol put in front of the pass code, which was in none of the documentation or had been picked up by the helpline. Now you use the router serial number which seems to avoid the issue. Generally Macs [i]are[/i] easy, a friend of mine has a hotel with wifi, and her IT guy has just changed her password. My iPhone just showed the wifi network and asked for the new password, accepted, job done. Same with her brand new 21" iMac. Her windows laptop, on the other hand, just refused to log on. Seems he's changed from WEP to another protocol, and Windows can't see it, so it's got to be connected via an Ethernet cable and fiddled with, before it can see the network. She was getting more and more cross on the phone before I took over and found out what the issue was. Sadly, she's lost the Ethernet cable...