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by **Pu7o** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 10:41 am

Tiger can run on that iMac, assuming you can find a way to actually get it on CD (maybe get it second-hand on eBay?). Leopard won't, because it will require a G4 as a minimum.

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by **Antony** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 10:12 pm

Purple Lizard wrote:So are there any major differences between Camino and Firefox for Mac?

If you have been using working on the Mac environment long enough, you will notice that Camino has much better Mac integration as well as Mac feeling.

Camino is written in Cocoa, a native language for OS X. Firefox is not.

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by **Purple Lizard** » Thu 26 Oct, 2006 4:29 am

Ok so I've got my iMac and It's got OS 10.3.0 on it. So I need to update to 10.3.9 but I use a LAN connection to access the internet and after I plug in the LAN cable nothing happens. I've looked in the network section of system preferences and it says the following:

Built In Ethernet: Built In Ethernet is connected and has the IP adress 192.168.x.x. You are connected to the internet via built-in ethernet.

OK so I go to Safari and I'm then met with the following message:

Server not found.
Could not open livepage.apple.com because the server livepage.apple.com cannot be found.

So...Why is the Network Preferences box telling me I'm connected and Safari telling me it can't find the server when I try and access any websites? I've found the network utility in applications but I'm not sure how to use it.

Any help much appreciated!

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by **Antony** » Thu 26 Oct, 2006 5:14 am

In your Cable/ADSL modem, it should have multiple ports for LAN connection, and if you have some sort of built-in protection, you should enable the iMac's to get connected (MAC address).

Also, you will need to check if you need to specify PPPoE or Proxy in your Mac, mostly, such settings can be configured in your cable/ADSL modem.

(based on Tiger, Panther should be similar)
In most cases,
under TCP/IP tab,
Configure IPv4: should be "Using DHCP"

under Ethernet tab,
configuration should be "Automatically"

Otherwise, try launching "Internet Connect" (under Applications) and see if it helps.

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by **Purple Lizard** » Thu 26 Oct, 2006 5:31 am

OK I changed the IPv4 to automatically and now the network status tab has changed to a little yellow bullet point and it says that my computer has a self-assigned ip address and may not be able to connect to the internet . Any Ideas what I should do? Safari and IE5.2 aren't connecting to the internet.

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by **Purple Lizard** » Thu 26 Oct, 2006 5:41 am

Antony wrote:In your Cable/ADSL modem, it should have multiple ports for LAN connection, and if you have some sort of built-in protection, you should enable the iMac's to get connected MAC Address

Whats a MAC address?, How would I go about configuring it? could the problem be because I'm the only mac on a windows xp network?

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by **Antony** » Thu 26 Oct, 2006 5:56 am

Are you using cable or ADSL?

Does your modem require manual set-up?

Can you check your ISP's website and see if Mac is supported? (I've experience once that I couldn't get my PowerBook connected.)

Purple Lizard wrote:Whats a MAC address?, How would I go about configuring it? could the problem be because I'm the only mac on a windows xp network?

MAC address is the identifying address in LAN card, "Media Access Control address". Only if your modem/network requires setup to allow access, otherwise you don't need to worry about this. (Most cable/ADSL modems nowadays are automatically configured.)

BTW, your ISP or the manual of cable/ADSL modem might provide a setup guide for Mac.

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by **Purple Lizard** » Thu 26 Oct, 2006 6:28 am

I'm using ADSL through a month old Netgear Wireless router. I'm using one of the Cable Connections in the back of the router. unfortunatley I dont have any of the CD's with me or the manual. I have looked at the network utility and on the info tab it has two items in a drop down list

-Ethernet Interface (fw0): This doesn't appear to be connected to anything.

Ethernet Interface (en0): This appears to be connected and is displaying the correct IP address and a link speed of 10 Mb.

The thing I don't understand is that the iMac has only one LAN port so how can there be 2 interfaces?

The only time i get a green light on the System Preferences app is when I set the TCP/IP to manual and enter my own subnet mask, IP etc... When I set it to DHCP it goes yellow and sometimes states that there is no cable plugged in when there is.

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by **Pu7o** » Thu 26 Oct, 2006 6:34 am

[tt]fw0[/tt] is the FireWire interface. [tt]en0[/tt] is the Ethernet interface.

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by **Purple Lizard** » Thu 26 Oct, 2006 6:37 am

hmm that makes sense. is it normal for the FireWire port to show up in the Network Utility?

I think that the problem lies not with the computer but with something that i have to do to get it to connect to the router properly.

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