Ethernet Port not working?

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Ethernet Port not working?

Ethernet port on my Mid 2011 iMac is not working? I use my Time Capsule for backups and had a cat6 ethernet cord connected between the both and it was real slow to do a backup so I looked in Settings> Network and saw that the ethernet was red (not connected) so I looked at my TC and no green light on the back. Hum so I reset Pram reset my iMac tried deleting locations then make a new one and nothing is working? It was working before. Thanks. Their hasn't been any storms, everything was working fine.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iPhone 5, iPad 3, iPod

Posted on Jan 30, 2013 6:44 PM

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schroef

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Aug 28, 2013 10:35 PM in response to bjoyce24

bjoyce,

i had this problem for a while now as well. I used to have a timecapsule which had reasonable speed over wifi. Now i have a lacie cloubox which is terrible using wifi. So i tried the ethernet port again. As before it still doesnt work. When i connect the same cable to my macbook it instantly works. Tried every trick in the book there is, PRAM reset, Single user restart in safe mode, Apple Hardware Test. and a couple of terminal actions. System profiles shows my ethernet card and all specs so seems okay.

When i just bought the drive i did put it in the port as well and i got a message "cant read, intiliaze drive?" which i ofcourse canceled. Now the port doesnt connect to my router even.

Perhaps you got it fixed or have a different solution.

Im really thinking the port got somehow broken in the days between

Best regards,

Rombout

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Answer 2

Aug 28, 2013 11:02 PM in response to bjoyce24

Have you tried using a different Ethernet cable? Does the system properly recognize a physical connection if you plug the Ethernet cable into another device, such as a hub, or even the port of another computer, TV, AppleTV, DVR, or other device you might have?

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schroef

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Aug 29, 2013 3:02 PM in response to Topher Kessler

The cable works fine on my macbook. I t just doesnt see anythin i plugin into the imac ethernetport. But when i got a cloudbox last week it did say "cant read disk, would you like to initialze it" (something like that) So it did work than, now it some how doesnt recoignize anythin. In the system profile i do see all kind of specs.

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