I have two Macintosh computers at home and I have them interconnected with each other using a router, (Netgear RT 314), my problem is that my newest Mac is a G4 Cube with auto negotiation on the ethernet port. The router also uses auto negotiation and neither computer nor router will talk to each other. This problem was solved using a utility called "Duplexer Tool" which works fine in OS 9.1, and that solved my ethernet problem by setting my G4 cube to 10 Mb/s, and letting the router set itself to the same speed.
I cannot do this in OS X as the Duplexer tool only works in OS 9.1, now in OS X there is a command "ifconfig" which seems to address this problem, but I do not know how to configure this to set my Ethernet port to 10 Mb/s. Can anyone help me, and is this a fairly common problem?
Thank you.
Paul Cooper
[Editor's note: About the only value I can add here is that there's a file called "iftab" in /etc that needs to be edited. It contains this line:
en0 inet -AUTOMATIC-which needs to be changed to specify the connect rate, I would imagine. Anyone have any info to help configure an Ethernet card manually?]
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