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Security Update Breaks Ethernet Port on iMacs and MacBook Pros [Updated]

Not impressed at all by this one Apple.

We were in the middle of live streaming a tournament this weekend. Came in this morning to turn on the stream and spent the next 4 hours troubleshooting before I finally realized it was the network card. Had to move everything off the iMac and onto a MacBook that was still working to get the stream up and running. Missed 2 games.

Thanks Apple.
 
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I just realised what's going on with Mac App Store - it probably relies on unique ID of the Ethernet card / port to validate Macs. And with Ethernet disabled by bad update it fails to validate.

Good job Apple!
 
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pat500000 said:
You can simply just ignore them.
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Nah, I have a right to say something about them, and I'll choose to use that right.

These forums have been going downhill for a while now. I wonder if removing the downvote button had anything to do with that. Hmm.

Still, the mods and admins are great here, so it's worth sticking around.

In an effort to remain on topic, I think most of us can agree that it's kind of silly to inquire about the usefulness of ethernet ports. Especially on machines without Wi-Fi...
 
RonPriest said:
This is the same problem I was having, I couldn't run some of my apps and it wanted my password, after providing it, it was unable to verify my computer and gave me an error code. After reinstalling the OS, it took care of my ethernet problem as well as my App Store problems.
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This is ridiculous. I'm not reinstalling entire OS because of that! Surely there must be a way for Apple to develop a software patch??
 
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Futurix said:
This is ridiculous. I'm not reinstalling entire OS because of that! Surely there must be a way for Apple to develop a software patch??
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Honestly reinstalling the OS is the fastest way to fix this right now unless you want to spend a lot of time mucking about in the limited Terminal facilities available in the recovery partition.

Also, it won't affect your existing data or configuration. Just kick off the reinstall, walk away, come back to a working system.
 
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zorinlynx said:
Honestly reinstalling the OS is the fastest way to fix this right now unless you want to spend a lot of time mucking about in the limited Terminal facilities available in the recovery partition.

Also, it won't affect your existing data or configuration. Just kick off the reinstall, walk away, come back to a working system.
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I don't want to either do anything in Terminal or to reinstall OS X. Apple broke it - so Apple should fix it in the least painful way.

Last time I reinstalled OS X, it reset tons of my preferences to defaults - so I'd rather not do that. It's like shooting from bazooka to kill a tiny ant.
 
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Futurix said:
This is ridiculous. I'm not reinstalling entire OS because of that! Surely there must be a way for Apple to develop a software patch??
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As Zorin mentioned, simply selecting 'reinstall OS X' in the recovery partition (hold CMD + R on startup) will only reinstall OS X components. You won't lose a thing and everything will be as you left it, except your Ethernet will still work.

Just don't wipe in Disk Utility and you'll be fine :D
 
dumastudetto said:
Some people do, but nobody needs Ethernet. Wired data networks in the home are history. This "broken" update should encourage more people to adopt wireless connectivity.
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My Mac mini wifi connection has been flaky ever since I upgraded to Lion. Now on El Cap, it still drops out at least once a day. A crappy cheap Windows 7 machine in the same room is rock solid, as is an even cheaper - so cheap its sacrificial - machine I upgraded to Windows 10.

So I use Ethernet, but only on my Mac. My next desktop will not be a Mac.
 
I was in an Apple store paying for a screen replacement on my wife's iphone today. I used apple pay and the salesperson then asked for my email address. I quested that it is odd that it did not transfer automatically and her response was "That would violate your security, Apple Pay purchases are anonymous." I then went to Mayc's and made another small purchase with Apple Pay and the receipt magically appeared in my email box. Seems to me that Apple has lost touch with what security really is.
 
Tubamajuba said:
Nah, I have a right to say something about them, and I'll choose to use that right.

These forums have been going downhill for a while now. I wonder if removing the downvote button had anything to do with that. Hmm.

Still, the mods and admins are great here, so it's worth sticking around.

In an effort to remain on topic, I think most of us can agree that it's kind of silly to inquire about the usefulness of ethernet ports. Especially on machines without Wi-Fi...
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Okay...well..I have right to ignore you. It's so easy! -ignored-
toward the guy name pnju...something something.
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dylin said:
Yes, I like my connection stable
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i agree.
 
Nermal said:
Argh! I ended up reinstalling the whole OS yesterday when this suddenly broke after a reboot. I *had* been fiddling with settings on my router and assumed that it was related, but it seems not. I can only echo the posts above... how did this get through testing?!
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That's what I want to know...but I think it's safe to assume either they have no QA manager/staffs, don't care, or they take us for a fool.

What's your opinion about Apple's performance?
 
My Mac Pro (late 2013) with latest system also had this ethernet problem. Reinstalling OS X solved problem (restart - command r - reinstall Mac OS X).

Symptoms I had:
- Ethernet non-responsive
- 1Password stopped working - desktop app couldn't be verified on App Store
- iTunes only worked with already downloaded items - trying to authenticate account failed
- iTunes could not sync or backup iPhone
- Safari down, wouldn't connect to internet

WIFI worked and got Safari working again. However, 1Password, iTunes, App Store, still wouldn't work.
 
My first reaction today, before I really knew what was going on, was to go to the Apple store to buy a thunderbolt to ethernet dongle, to replace my "broken" ethernet card... Glad I didn't. Probably a lot of people did, though...
 
Out of curiosity, would also waiting till Apple officially releases 10.11.4 do the same thing as re-running 10.11.3 via Recovery?

I don't usually have my iMac restart that often, so considering they'll likely release it within the next few weeks or so, if that approach works I'd rather wait it out if at all possible.
 
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