Comments (20)
Inga from
#1 | Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:37 PM
Dont give it back :)
Michael Tindall from Raleigh/NC/USA
#2 | Friday, March 24, 2006 9:30 PM
I TOLD you not to buy a Gen 1. I bought my Power Book G4 gen 1 and was plagued with display and various other problems. While I firmly believe in the Apple product I have learned my lesson. NO more gen 1's. I'll leave that to the suckers....oops.
Anders from RTP
#3 | Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:23 AM
Well, I guess that's the price I pay for being an early adopter. I'm fairly confident they will fix this soon as it seems to be driver related. I am still a fan though. The speed of the thing, the full screen 1080p HD video without dropping a frame and the fact that you can dual-boot Windows XP and Mac OS X makes this thing compelling.
Anders from RTP
#4 | Tuesday, April 4, 2006 10:50 AM
Looks like Apple is starting to release some fixes for the hardware issues. Of course I think my issues are driver related...
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1584
Anders from RTP
#5 | Friday, April 7, 2006 7:29 AM
Either Apple's 10.4.6 OS update or the 1.0 Firmware update fixes this problem. I tend to think the 10.4.6 update is the one that will fix it because I believe this was a driver problem but I'm not sure. Anyone out there know?
Anders from RTP
#6 | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:28 PM
OSX 10.4.6 update fixes this Ethernet issue.
http://www.anders.com/cms/165/MacBook.Pro/Ethernet
gdam from Atlanta/ Georgia/ USA
#7 | Tuesday, July 4, 2006 9:52 PM
Well I have a first generation dual core with 10.4.7 and I am having ethernet problems. It does not see the cable. I have have a regular MacBook Dual Core that does not have a problem.
This is not cool at all. I think it is driver since I loaded Win and it first started in Win mode then it began to happen in Mac.
Cheers.
Anders from RTP
#8 | Tuesday, July 4, 2006 10:14 PM
Doesn't sound like a driver issue if your machine went from working to not working. That sounds more like a hardware issue to me.
Penrod from Omaha, NE, USA
#9 | Friday, February 9, 2007 4:11 PM
Ethernet on my MacBook Pro Core 2 duo intel keeps dropping out. Restart usually gets it going again?for a few minutes. Once it drops out, a restart is the only way to get the ethernet functioning again.
Everything else on the hub (2 other Macs,laser printer, DSL modem) works perfectly. Cable replacement doesn't affect the flaky performance, nor does changing the hub socket or removing other devices.
OSX v. 10.4.8
Anders from RTP
#10 | Friday, February 9, 2007 11:00 PM
Sounds hardware-ish. I'd take it to the Apple store and see what they say. Doesn't sound like a common problem.
kate from rome, italy
#11 | Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:08 AM
i have a macbook.. my ethernet has been working fine with the modem at my residence for months.. but just last week i unplugged the yellow ethernet cable and when i plugged it back in it stopped working.. i have tried restarting the mac, turning on and off the modem.. and reseting the modem and still nothing. at the control panel under network, i have activated the ethernet and renewed the lease and still nothing. the settings are on automatic.
i have no idea whats wrong or how to solve this problem. others in the building are working fine, i have been using the modem for internet for months and it's been fine. i have gotten a new modem cuz the guy said maybe its not working cuz i reet the modem but the new one is not working either. the lights on the modem= there are four- are all lit up (DSL, Internet, and power) except for the Ethernet light.
Please help me.. let me know if you might be able to help.. I saw on the posts that doing the update would work.. how do i update? is it the same update as the firmware update? (i am performing that right now)
thanks so much everyone!
Anders from RTP
#12 | Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:10 PM
Kate, it looks like your problem is NOT what I am covering in this story. Because you don't get an Ethernet light on your DSL adapter, chances are it is a hardware problem with your Ethernet. The easiest thing to try is to change your Ethernet cable. Beyond that, try plugging your computer into someone else's DSL adapter and someone else's computer into your DSL adapter and see what you get. This should help narrow it down. It does look more like a physical problem than anything else. I'd also suggest you drop by the Apple store but I don't know if they have one in Rome yet.
kolin macaulay from scotland
#13 | Friday, April 4, 2008 9:04 AM
hi, i have the same problem, did you ever get it fixed? did you find a driver to download?cheers kolin
James Dylan from Doha, Qatar
#14 | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:56 AM
This is really weird. I have a 17" MBP, suddenly internet connection through ethernet doesn't work. When I go to network prefs, it says it is connected and green, but when I go to Diagnostics, it spins for awhile, then the lights for "internet" & "server" go red. However, if I bring my Dell PC in and hook it to the same ethernet cable, it works fine, so the connection and cable are good.
I took the Mac to a different cable and connected it, same thing. However, wireless works (which is what I am using now). zapped PRAM, too. Long story short; I reformatted the mac, zeroed out the HD and reinstalled OS 10.5, everything is updated, but....internet via ethernet jack still doesn't work. I don't know how this could be a software issue when I did a totally clean install. Is my ethernet jack faulty? I'm at the end of the line, don't know what else to do. Simply can't get it to work. PC works fine though on same connections.
Any help?
Anders from RTP
#15 | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:22 PM
James: Sounds like your Ethernet hardware is broken. There is a chance it got zapped electrically if it once worked and now does not after a software re-install. I'd say you should take it to an Apple store but that's probably a long drive for you in Qatar. There may be USB dongle type Ethernet adapters you could try though I have no experience with them.
Jeremy from Zeeland / Michigan / USA
#16 | Tuesday, August 5, 2008 8:48 PM
I have been having a similar issue with my MacBook Pro - OS 10.5.4 - I am using a simple Linksys 10/100/1000 switch, and I've found that when connected through the switch to a host which is using 100Mbit hardware, I drop packets like crazy. When I force the Ethernet connection speed to 100baseTX in Network preferences I do _not_ get this behavior... it almost seems as though the interface has difficulty translating between packet transmission speeds which could be a driver issue, or a hardware issue. The chipset used in the MacBook Pro seems to be the Marvell Yukon2 10/100/1000Base-T it that helps you out any :-)
Please let me know if you've heard of any fixes to this problem!
Jaco from Windhoek, Namibia
#17 | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:47 AM
A client of mine has a macbook Pro, with some weird LAN issues, the cable is pluged in and the DHCP configures the ip correctly but i can't ping the router or any other machines on the network. wifi works fine. restart the mac, and it works for a while and then again, lan is correctly configured but no data goes through. what can it be?
Anders from Cambridge, MA
#18 | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:06 AM
Jaco: Do you loose link support? (Does the link light stay on on the switch?) It sounds like a hardware problem but you could try a reinstall on the off chance it is driver related.
Rishikesh from India
#19 | Thursday, December 4, 2014 7:57 PM
I have a Macbook Pro with intel core i5. i used to play online games on my mac and it was working just perfectly fine. now suddenly the game stopped working because i'm getting 40% packet loss. I plugged in my windows laptop and works just fine. I'm running on OS X 10.9.5. So is it a problem with my hardware?
Anders from Cambridge, MA
#20 | Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:12 PM
Apple fixed this some time ago. Was there anything you changed before you started seeing packet loss? You might consider reinstalling the OS.