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amaloney
02-21-2002, 05:20 AM
System Information:
powerMac G4
Mac OS X (10.1)
OS9.2.2 - on a separate partit

I have a G4 with an AsanteFast 590 PCI installed.

Cable modem - DHCP.

Installed OS X 10.1.2.

Installed extension AsanteFast 590.kext.

(1) Both cards (built-in nic and AsanteFast nic) work when I boot with OS 9.2.2.

(2) Both cards work when I boot with LINUX.

(3) In OS X the Asante card works fully when I install the beta driver.

The problem is - the Apple built-in nic then returns the 169 address.

(4) The clue:

If I follow this sequence exactly

(a) - boot with OS X 10.1.2 and no Asante 590 driver installed - built-in nic works, Asante card is not recognized (as expected)

(b) - install the OS X beta driver - the built-in nic works, the Asante card is recognized

(c) - reboot using OS X 10.1.2 - the built-n nic does NOT work, the Asante card works

(d) - remove the Asante 590 extension from the Extensions folder

(e) - reboot using OS X 10.1.2 - the built-in nic works, the Asante card is not recognized

(f) - add back the Asante 590 extension by moving the file (not reinstalling it) to the Extensions folder

(g) - reboot using OS X 10.1.2 - the built-in nic works, the Asante card is recognized

(h) - reboot using OS X 10.1.2 - the built-n nic does NOT work, the Asante card works

(i) - repeating (d) to (h) is reproducible.

(j) - each step can be confirmed with <ping> from a networked Mac (through the Asante nic) running LINUX

(k) - it seems as if something is not closed down/released properly at reboot

The problem persists with OS X 10.1.3

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The Asante people say that I am the only one experiencing this problem, that they cannot reproduce the problem, and that the problem cannot be in their product.

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(1) What am I doing wrong?

(2) How do I correct it?

(3) Is there something wrong with my OS X installation?
:mad: