PCI Ethernet card for Sawtooth PowerMac G4

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PCI Ethernet card for Sawtooth PowerMac G4

We have a Sawtooth PowerMac G4 which has an ethernet port which has become unreliable over the past several months. When it's connected, it seems fine. But every now and then, it loses a network connection, which requires restarting the computer and reconnecting the ethernet cord. I've recrimped the cord and also put it into another computer, so I feel that this is a hardware issue with the PowerMac itself.

Any recommendations on a PCI Ethernet card which can run under Mac OS 10.2? If it supports sleep mode, that would be wonderful.

Sawtooth G4 PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Posted on Jul 19, 2006 9:19 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 21, 2006 9:55 PM in response to Chad Armstrong

Not sure how high of a speed you'll need but this supports up to 1000mbps and I've heard it works great!
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/presto_gig.html

I don't know about sleep mode but it should be good for you!

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Answer 2

Jul 27, 2006 8:47 AM in response to Eric Ciesielski

Thanks for the tip. It looks like this could work, but at nearly $90 USD, that is a tad steep to fix a 6+ year old computer. I'll consider this, but it would probably just be more cost effective to swap out the computer with another Mac in storage.

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Answer 3

Jul 27, 2006 10:49 AM in response to Chad Armstrong

I also found this discussion on network cards for OS X: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/osx_networkcards.html

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