I’m on 10.5.8 Leopard on my G4 MDD, and I have a Cablematters 4-Port USB Hub / Ethernet adapter with a Realtek chipset connected to my ethernet. It used to work before, but since yesterday it would no longer see the adapter’s ethernet signal, I say this because when I go into “About this mac” I find it’s hub and 10/100/1000 adapter listed there, it just doesn’t see the ethernet signal. It works fine on my MacBook and main computer still, yet not here, nor can I really figure out how I would manually add this in the Network tab.
I even tested out Debian before reinstalling Leopard in case something must’ve corrupted on my HDD and it saw the adapter just fine after install, I don’t know why know it can’t see it’s ethernet signal on only OS X. And my ethernet cable is too long for the normal G4 ethernet port to see it (I don’t have an option to use a shorter one there due to where it’s located.)
I hope this gives background on what’s going on. Since I have another Mac, internet over firewire is easier once the cable I ordered arrives but I would like some insight on how to possibly fix this (since that would be messy to set up every time I want to use my G4) or if it is even possible to fix this. I imagine something really stupid is right under my nose and I hope I can get pointed in the right direction.
I even tested out Debian before reinstalling Leopard in case something must’ve corrupted on my HDD and it saw the adapter just fine after install, I don’t know why know it can’t see it’s ethernet signal on only OS X. And my ethernet cable is too long for the normal G4 ethernet port to see it (I don’t have an option to use a shorter one there due to where it’s located.)
I hope this gives background on what’s going on. Since I have another Mac, internet over firewire is easier once the cable I ordered arrives but I would like some insight on how to possibly fix this (since that would be messy to set up every time I want to use my G4) or if it is even possible to fix this. I imagine something really stupid is right under my nose and I hope I can get pointed in the right direction.
