Ethernet cable Unplugged (which isn't)

Anyone interested in pursuing a class action against this horseshit?

Clearly they are negligent in their ethernet ports on these computers and trying to get our computers working is causing undo psychological stress.

Have you tried the network assistant?

Open system preferences, Network, select Ethernet and click on Assist me, then on Assistant.

OK, so what is your actual setup?

Modem>Airport base>iMac?

Is there an Ethernet hub involved?

Also, where do you see your cable showing as unplugged?

What do you get when you run the Network diagnostics?

Where are the red lights?

One more thing, are you sure the Ethernet cable is good? 🙂

I believe that you need to configure the Airport Extreme with Airport utility to enable wired access.

See this discussion:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3652941?start=0&tstart=0

You may have to use an SMC reset and a PRAM reset to get your Mac to rebuild the Hardware what-is-where tables.

These are all the same solutions on the multiple threads that have been created. None of them work; the smc, the pram, the assistant the reboots, nothing....

everyone must understand that the only thing that changed was the os, and the os transfers over all the settings...

my experience, it works - then it doesnt...now it is working for me again....lets see what happens....possibly the only thing that will help is an apple update....

So here is what fixed it for me. I have no idea why but its fixed. I just happened to wire the house with ethernet and needed a ethernet router I have the D-Link dgs 1016d. I took a line out of that back to the extreme istead of plugging direct from router and hey presto that ethernet not connected thing flashing away on the airport utility is gone. As a layman I can only imaging the quality of the new ports on the d-link are better??

And before any says it I did try all the other stuff listed above..new cables etc etc etc.

Potential explanations for this solution working is that the Router-end port had trouble. It could just have been confused, and cycling the power or re-cabling may have straightened it out, is that the port you were plugging into is marginal or has died. This used to be a much more common problem, but has faded into obscurity with better driver circuits.

Doubt it as it was working perfectly before and I ryied several cables and ports all of which were working before hand. Also the apple air port which is downstream via wifi hooked up to boost the range of the wifi signal was fine? So the wifi via the extreme was on/off with the ethernet cable warning but the basestation was fine on the same network?

Any how go figure!!

Finally works with the update to 10.8.3

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And where did you find that update?

I was so excited that I was envisioning the future..sorry....10.8.2 is what I meant...hahahah bottom line is that ethernet works.