myron Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 OSX seems to have found my network card, but.. it cant seem to use it!! Any workarounds here? I'm very new to mac, and uh, according to the 1st ss is my network card detected? if it is why did the 2nd and 3rd screenie appear? My network card is a REALTEK RTL8139 Family PCI fast ethernet NIC. Modem is an aztech ASDL modem, and is turned on, and it works fine with windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4564-weird-ethernet-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggman Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 I read around here somewhere that VPN doesn't work. The guy tried everything, and eventually had to ask his ISP to change his connection for him somehow (I think it's something about the ISP making it accessible inside their system, rather than his home). Sorry dude! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4564-weird-ethernet-problem/#findComment-29105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
myron Posted November 18, 2005 Author Share Posted November 18, 2005 er my isp dosent use VPN. I could only open VPN and no network card unlike what apple's help told me to do so. Workarounds anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4564-weird-ethernet-problem/#findComment-29106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggman Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Do you use a home network/router? Or is the modem connected directly to the computer? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4564-weird-ethernet-problem/#findComment-29114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 OSX seems to have found my network card, but.. I doubt OSX has found your network card. Under WinXP you can do a "System Resource report" from the Control Panel. That will list all the chipsets and make it easier for everyone to see what works. Post that and the answer should be easier to find. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4564-weird-ethernet-problem/#findComment-29123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkle Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 I doubt OSX has found your network card. Mhm, or it's not installed correctly. VPN can be used on top of any network connection, which is why it's sitting there in the absence of a real device. You probably got it there by [mistakenly] using Internet Connect -- generally it only shows in the Network prefpane if you have VPN configured to actually do something. You don't need to use Windows though -- look in System Profiler and select en0, not VPN... alternately, open Terminal and type 'ifconfig en0' sans quotes... then give us screenies of that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4564-weird-ethernet-problem/#findComment-29128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
myron Posted November 18, 2005 Author Share Posted November 18, 2005 terminal.tiff looks like mac did not detect my network card after all..sigh And yes, this is the device ID of the network card Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4564-weird-ethernet-problem/#findComment-29153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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