I'd like to: 0. have the G4 at 192.168.0.2, 255.255.255.0 1. use an HP 5Si via Ethernet at 192.168.0.11 2. connect to it with crossover cable 3. use the internal modem for Internet How can I set this up? When I set TCP/IP I can't access Internet through PPP.

Silly (but simple) thought here - but why don't you just plug in the printer, Install the HP Software, Select it in the Chooser (by selecting LaserWriter 8 first) - and print to it? I don't think you even need a cross-over cable for that - only a regular sraight-through ethernet cable. cheers clockwork

I installed the HP drivers. The printer is conencted over Ethernet so first I have to setup the ip addresses. I do not want DHCP. The printer does not appear in the chooser. I am supposed to select Laserwriter 8 but nothing appears in the right panel. My problem seems to be that when I enable TCP/IP over Ethernet I cannot also have PPP for the modem to conenct online. Surely taht can't be how things should work in Mac land! Since we're not going through a switch a crossover cable is required. Another question: how can I ping? Doing a search in Mac help for ping produces nothing. Surely I am able to do this? It's not funny how much simpler this can be done on my Win2K PC!

Zack, That's correct. Mac OS 9.1 / 9.2.2 has no terminal thus no ping utility. However - you can download one from here: http://download.info.apple.com/ Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/ English-North_American/Macintosh/Misc/ MacTCP_Ping_2.0.2.sea.bin Good, free, and a mere 42 kilobytes =) Now - about the printer - a contradiction in your former statements: If there's no ethernet switch - why the need to assign IP Addresses? (I'm not getting the full picture here. Just a G4 and a printer? Or a G4 within an office of PCs all going to the same printer?) Also - the printer will not communicate with the G4 via a cross-over ethernet cable. It needs just a standard RJ45 straight-through cable. How come? Because the printer is not another computer - and the crossover cable will only reverse the signals from the G4 to the printer - which is why you cannot see it in the G4's Chooser. Assigning IP addresses would make sense if you had a Switch acting as the junction for - let's say - a Star Topology Network - yet as you have stated - no switch - thus I cannot see any need for IP Addresses - unless the picture is bigger than what you've lain down here. Where the TCP/IP Control Panel is concerned - just leave it on PPP (to Configure: using PPP Server) - and enter the Name Server Addresses and (optionally) the Search Domain. Close TCP/IP. Save changes. Go back up to the rainbow Apple Menu -->> scroll back down to "Control Panels" -->> scroll across and up to "AppleTalk". In 'AppleTalk' - go up to the "Edit" menu and scroll down to "User Mode..." - and choose "Advanced" - then click "OK". Back in 'AppleTalk' click on the "Options..." button - and Make AppleTalk "Active". Hit 'OK'. Up the top of the 'AppleTalk' panel, make sure that the "Connect via:" is on "Ethernet" - not "Printer". Then Close AppleTalk and Save changes. Attach a standard straight-through ethernet cable from the G4 to the Printer. Shut down both. Start up both. Go to Chooser. Select "LaserWriter 8" from the left hand of the Chooser panel, and the HP from the right hand panel. (It should be there). You should now be able to Print straight through and simultaneously connect to the internet via internal modem. tell us how you go cheers clockwork

All I have is the G4 and the printer. No switch or hub. 1. I thought I needed to assign an IP address to the printer since I'm connecting via Ethernet? If so then I would need an IP address for the computer also, right? 2. I thought I needed a crossover if I'm not going through a switch?

Zack, Well - just try out a straight-through ethernet cable to la-Printer and tell us what happens. I mean - as far as I know - the cross-over ethernet cable's redeeming feature is in computer to computer communication (node to node) - without the need for anything between the two nodes to act as a traffic warden - yet here there is no second computer (and the tiny post-script computer onboard the HP doesn't count). Try it out. Try it both ways - in combination with the method shown above. Experiment. See what happens. Tell us if you came through with flying colours. cheers clockwork

i have g4 without system or enything else. i have cd with operating system and i don't know how to install it. this is the first time that i meet g4 or machintosh and i desperedly need help.Also i dont know how to boot g4. thanks