Hi! I’ve been trying continuously for the past several weeks to get an old iMac G3 machine connected to the network at my dorm. It connected to my router at home (stadard home Belkin router) with zero config, but suddenly nothing I do will make the DHCP server give me an ip address here at the dorm. This applies to THREE separate OSs I’ve tried:
OSX
Ubuntu 7.04
and now, OpenSuse 10.2
The OS never gives me ANY indication that my network card (standard Apple brand) is somehow awry. It is detected and configured automatically in every case. Loopback seems fine, and I take that as an indicator that the network card is fuctioning. Yet always, always, attempts to get an address fail (a simple timeout, typically). I even plugged my WinXP laptop into the same rj-45 port in the wall (which is my connection to the network) and -it- got an IP within 20 seconds. What is going on? I even tried to spoof my MAC address to see if I was randomly being blacklisted, but under OpenSuse my NIC came up as unconfigured as a result, so I figure that is unsupported. Additionally I talked with a friend running OpenSuse in this building and he got on with zero config (tho he was running an x86 machine).
Any ideas whatsoever?