Odd networking problem

[Peter King]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:36:05PM -0400, William Park wrote:
 
> Firewall?  Try 'traceroute'.

Well, traceroute works by measuring the length of time between "ping" hops,
but I can't even ping the router -- so traceroute gives nothing, in either
direction. The router doesn't recognize the netbook as connected under OS X,
even though it registers the presence of a "live" ethernet connection at the
correct speed. I guess that's all lower down in the seven layers.

Tried reinstalling the drivers, too, without joy. 

Browsing the networking configuration plist, I *did* find that the router's
mac address associated with the ethernet port isn't correct. That might make
a difference, if I could figure out how to change it (short of blind-typing
over the configuration file which I'm hesitant to do without having a better
idea of what's going on in the internals).

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