To respond to your other post in the former thread:
for what its worth ive run into the same problem myself;
i just cant really remember what i did to fix it;)
i honestly have vague memory of fixing it by changing the ethernet cable?
I really wish it was that simple, I pretty much pulled out everything in my Ethernet cable box and nothing really worked. If you do remember though, please do tell me!
If you still have the device that had that issue, is there any possibility you could send me the pref files or maybe even a restore image?
As for your response:
"host fails to dynamically acquire an address"
your host is failing to dynamically grab an ip;
ie: its not talking to your DHCP server properly;
do u have any other computers on your network?
do u know the address of your router?
is it 192.168.0.x? or is it 192.168.2.x?
or it might be 10.x.x.x?
the fact that OSX can connect fine; shows u that its really software failing to interact with your dhcp server properly.
you can try to assign a proper ip address manually and circumvent the problem;
or you can experiment with your router configuration;
i would set your dns (name serve addr) to the same as your gateway (router)
notice that it put your ip on a diff subnet then the router
that might be your problem to begin with;
u might need to supply the proper address for your router/nameserver
I have quite a few other computers on my network - from my Desktop to my FTP server and even my BeBox, this Powerbook is sadly the first system to have given me this issue
My iMac G3 has no issues with connecting which has to make me discount an address allocation trouble.
I should note that the automatically allocated address comes up even when nothing is plugged into the RJ45 port.
Just in case I've royally messed up here, I used the "Mac OS 9.2.2 For Previously Unsupported G4s (G4s that shipped OS X Boot Only)" for this installation, if there is another image that I was supposed to use please do tell me.