slugg Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 10.5.1 KALYWAY dvd Realtek 8111B ethernet (onboard) Gigabyte GA-P31-S3G motherboard My ethernet works perfectly fine in windows and linux, so it's not a defective cable. My ethernet adapter is reported to work "out of the box" with Leopard, but I seem to be having issues. The adapter shows up just fine in the system profiler, but when I go to network settings, the status is reported as "Cable Unplugged" even though it's plugged in. No lights are coming on, either. I've searched and tried several things, but I couldn't find a solution. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk249 Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 same problem here, waiting for solution! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-719314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slugg Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-721625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 10.5.1 KALYWAY dvdRealtek 8111B ethernet (onboard) Gigabyte GA-P31-S3G motherboard My ethernet works perfectly fine in windows and linux, so it's not a defective cable. My ethernet adapter is reported to work "out of the box" with Leopard, but I seem to be having issues. The "out of the box" reports are for 10.5.2. The 10.5.1 HCL says something about a driver you need from Realtek. Whooops! There's another report for the 10.5.1 HCL that says it does work right out of the box. The wiki is inconsistent. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-721630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnibak Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I have almost the same problem.. I can still use it even it say cable unplug/not connected I'm actually using my internet right now. weird huh!! But it's giving me hard time to get my IP thru DHCP it requires me to restart/shutdown many times. Still trying to find out what is wrong! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-721655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daforze Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I also have this problem.. Everything worked fine.. then suddenly after a restart my internet was gone. My networkcard also works natively (DS3L motherboard) This problem looks like the same when I first wrongly installed Kalyway 10.5.2 WITH networkcard drivers.. Wich has the same effect: networkcard recognized but no cable etc.. When i installed it without networkdrivers everything worked fine.. until today that is.. So maybe the problem is that there are 'suddenly' networkcarddrivers installed or something? Maybe we can delete them from the librarys?Althought I don't know what drivers to delete or how to check IF there are new drivers from an update installed.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-723967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
planetbeing Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Try: sudo ifconfig en0 up Where en0 is whatever the BSD name is of your ethernet interface. I had this issue when I was first testing my forcedeth driver for Leopard. Very weird and frustrating when you don't know what's going on. Note: That command isn't a magic bullet or anything. It just will work in the unlikely event that OS X "forgot" to actually enable your ethernet interface. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-724171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysick Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 i am having the same issue with my kalway install 10.5.1 , its as if it "forgets" my ip, and then a release/renew only gets me a wins ip address (169. whatever) i wonder what is causing this to happen to all of us suddenly??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-724306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daforze Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I think this is the solution for DS3L ( and other motherboards?): The Mac OS can't "power up" the network card. If it's not powered on, than Mac will say: No cable is plugged in and can't use. But if the lan boot rom is enabled the bios switches it on and everything works fine. The boot is a bit longer because of the rom, but after than it's surely on. I got this from : http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...9436&st=360 Did it work? : ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-724905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jreezee Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Guys, Daforze's suggestion works. Try it. Thanks again! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-725099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daforze Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 No problem! I'm going to try it too when I get home It seems to be Windows who is shutting of the card when shutting down. This is *another* solution to the problem from the same thread: If you are a windows user, make sure to enable "Wake on lan after shutdown" in the advanced tab of your network card driver settings dialog (at least for WinXP, no idea if this also applies to Vista) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-725146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slugg Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 No problem! I'm going to try it too when I get home It seems to be Windows who is shutting of the card when shutting down. This is *another* solution to the problem from the same thread: If you are a windows user, make sure to enable "Wake on lan after shutdown" in the advanced tab of your network card driver settings dialog (at least for WinXP, no idea if this also applies to Vista) ^^ This solution worked beautifully! Thank you! I'm on Safari right now posting this. Hopefully someone else will find this thread helpful while searching for answers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-728787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atechguy Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Hey guys. I was wondering if any of you could help me with my issue. I've tried a LOT of other methods to try to get my network going, but after everything I've tried, I still get "cable unplugged" when I check the Network in System Preferences. Can anyone help me out please?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-762985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prolific123 Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Didn't work for me... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-764545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buble Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Enabling network boot Worked!!!!!! Acer TravelMate 4230 Broadcom 4401 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-1128488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeyeq Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 No problem! I'm going to try it too when I get home It seems to be Windows who is shutting of the card when shutting down. This is *another* solution to the problem from the same thread: If you are a windows user, make sure to enable "Wake on lan after shutdown" in the advanced tab of your network card driver settings dialog (at least for WinXP, no idea if this also applies to Vista) Thanks, this problem comes up when I get rid of vista and install XP. Vista do not turn of my ethernet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-1159913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manx12 Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 10.5.1 KALYWAY dvdRealtek 8111B ethernet (onboard) Gigabyte GA-P31-S3G motherboard My ethernet works perfectly fine in windows and linux, so it's not a defective cable. My ethernet adapter is reported to work "out of the box" with Leopard, but I seem to be having issues. The adapter shows up just fine in the system profiler, but when I go to network settings, the status is reported as "Cable Unplugged" even though it's plugged in. No lights are coming on, either. I've searched and tried several things, but I couldn't find a solution. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. I encountered this problem recently while working on a clients brand new IMac and her known good Verizon DSL router and Ethernet cable. I looked through several posts with no luck. Finally I used the IMac assistant and I saw that one one of the choices was to connect through a dedicated Lan connection. No Ids, no passwords and no further problems. After a reboot the Ethernet connection initially comes up disabled (unplugged) but after a few minutes will enable itself and all is right with the world. Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100848-ethernet-adapter-is-recognized-but-status-cable-unplugged/#findComment-1513336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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