I have an iMac 27" from 2011 and have recently experienced the following problems:
I would appreciate any suggestions to fix this problem. Although I can use wifi I would like to have this particular system hard wired.
- Ethernet will not acquire an IP address
- I have a new Time Capsule, a few switches, a smart panel in my closet...a configuration that is more complex than the normal house
- I have a 21" iMac in my kitchen that is also using ethernet through the same switches
- I connected my iMac directly to my Time Capsule and it still would not acquire an IP address
- I can successfully connect a PC (yuck) to the ethernet jack/cable that my iMac 27" uses; it worked without issue
- I can use wifi and it will connect to the internet and I can see the shared drives on my NAS, iMac 21" and Macbook Pro
- I cannot do screen sharing; I can do screen sharing from my Macbook Pro to my iMac 21" and from my iMac 21" to my Macbook Pro, but receive an error - Connection Failed - when I try it from my iMac 27" to either of the other two systems
- I cannot think of an event that happened that may have caused this
I would appreciate any suggestions to fix this problem. Although I can use wifi I would like to have this particular system hard wired.