alexo,

Sorry I missed that you were using OS 9.1. PPPoE is fully supported in OS X without anything additional, but as AHunter3 mentions, you need a third party app in OS 9.

Your next step is to ask SBC for a disc with OS 9 PPPoE software on it. Or else you can use OS X (up to and including Panther 10.3 but not including Tiger 10.4) on your Lombard rather than OS 9.1.

Trevor

PLEASE!!!!!!!Someone tell me how to check to see if my ethnert port is working. Yahaoo keeps saying it's a problem with my ethernet adapter.

I already answered that question.

Please tell us if you have SBC Yahoo!'s software disc, and whether or not you have installed it on your OS 9 system?

If you haven't got it, you need to get it from them, no matter what the Level 1 tech support people are telling you.

If you have got it but it's never been installed, you need to install it.

If you've got it and installed it, then you need to tell us that.

Trevor

PLEASE!!!!!! Some one tell me how to check my ethernet port to make sure it is working. If the ethernet port is dead is their any way to connect to my Yahoo SBC DSL by USB.SBC Yahoo is telling me the Sieman 4100 does not require software. MY Imac is working on the seiman 4100 without any software from SBC Yahoo

You have an iMac also, you say?

Hook an ethernet cable to the ethernet port on the iMac on one end and the PowerBook on the other. Create a new Network profile on the iMac as follows:

Name: Crossover

IP Address: 192.168.0.3
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.1

Now on the PowerBook (which is running OS 9), open the TCP/IP Control Panel, do ⌘-K to bring up "Configurations", duplicate existing Configuration, Rename it "Crossover", Make it active, then set it up like this:

IP Address: 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.1

Go back to the iMac (which I assume is running OS X, yes??). Open the Sharing PrefsPane. Turn on FTP Access.

Go back to the PowerBook. Using an FTP program (or a web browser if you don't have an FTP program), see if you can FTP to the iMac's IP address. If you can, you've got a working ethernet connection. If you can't....

Go to the iMac. Open Terminal. Type this and then hit return:

ping 192.168.0.1

See if you get a successful ping of the PowerBook.

If neither of those things work, I would think it highly likely that your ethernet port is roadkill.


Do they KNOW your PowerBook is running OS 9? Exactly what TCP/IP Control Panel setting did they have you enter, if they did not have you use 3rd-party software?

Oh, and if your iMac is not running OS X, that implies a difference in configuration of your TCP/IP Control Panel, and you should change the settings on the PowerBook to match those of the iMac.

Thank You again for trying to help me. Both the Imac and powrebook are running OS 9.1. When I go back to my Imac IN OS9.1 how do I turn on the FTP Acess

There's no native FTP access in OS 9*, but if you have OS 9 on both machines, ignore that step and do this instead:

Go to the AppleTalk Control Panel in each Mac and make sure both of them are set to Ethernet;

Go to the File Sharing Control Panel on the iMac and turn File Sharing on. Go to the PowerBook; go to the Chooser and select AppleShare and see if you now see the iMac listed on the right as a server.

Yes = Ethernet is working just fine
No = You got problems.


If Ethernet is working just fine, make sure the TCP/IP Control Panel settings are absolutely identical for hookup to DSL.


* There are freeware applications that provide FTP Server as an add-on: the ancient NCSA Telnet app and the MacSSH PPC app for making ssh connections. Both of them have FTP Server feature buried away in the Edit menu if I recall correctly.

Thanks AHunter3 I did as you said when I select appleshare in my powerbook,on the right side it says Select a file server and in the box it ask for a Server IP Address.

That is as this should be, except that the iMac should appear there as an Icon + name for you to select. Empty window on the right with no icon? El problemo.

Try it from the other end: See if, after turning on File Sharing on the PB, you can see the PB in the AppleShare window on the iMac.


Hmm..... someone else help me out here, would these Macs be old enough to need a crossover cable instead of a standard Cat-5?

alexo, unless someone chimes in to say that one or the other of these Macs has the build in mode-switcher that eliminates any need for a crossover cable, you should hie yourself off to CompUSA or RadioShack and snag a crossover cable and repeat the experiment before deciding that your ethernet port is hosed.

I know my WallStreet PowerBook (a generation or two older than yours) needs a crossover cable unless it's hooking to a new-enough Mac that the other Mac will do the mode-switching.

Yes, these Macs require a crossover cable.

Trevor

I have a cross over cable and try it. There is no Icon appearing in the Right Box.

Sounds like there's no functioning ethernet, then :(

Many Thanks to all you for working with me on this issue.