Odd networking problem

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>

| I have a netbook running OS X. The ethernet connection to my router is reported
| to be good, but I can't ping the router, much less connect to the net. Nor can I
| see the netbook from other computers on the LAN.

First question you might want to answer: is this a hardware or
software problem.

Since no netbook comes with OSX, it probably came with some version
of Microsoft Windows.  When you boot with Windows, can you do
networking?

If you blew your Windows partition away, you could test with a
live Linux on a USB memory stick.

Since OSX isn't supported by Apple on your platform, you might easily
get into the weeds.  Of course they say the same about Linux and that
has never stopped us.  But at least the Linux ecosystem is supportive
of such efforts.
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