I've got a G4 iMac that doesn't seem to recognize that it has Ethernet.
It worked fine on tuesday, but today when I went into the Network pref pane the network devices displayed were Bluetooth and Airport, but not Ethernet. It's been using Ethernet for as long as it's been around, as it doesn't have either Bluetooth or Airport. I went into the Network Port Configuration and unselected everything except Ethernet, but it still just kept showing Bluetooth and Airport and not Ethernet. (Although I could select Built-in Ethernet in the Show pull-down, but it didn't get any DHCP info even though it was definitely connected to a network with DHCP.)
After doing an archive and install, it still had the same problem, so I did an erase and install.
Now Bluetooth and Airport no longer show up (unless I select them in the configuration), but Ethernet still won't. If I uncheck everything except Ethernet nothing shows up at all.
I'm guessing this probably reflects a hardware issue with the ethernet card, but it's hard to say. Has anyone else run into this?
(Having not thought of it until now I'm going to go run the Apple Hardware Test. We'll see if that reveals anything.)
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