Re: HELP: Imag G3 Wired ethernet NIC seems to turn off with monitor power save

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<a37fae50-f480-41e6-8919-4776186e616b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
theosib <theosib@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have this old iMac G3 400MHz that I'm using to share an internet
connection through a Verizon EVDO 3G USB modem. (I'd rather have high
speed internet that used ethernet directly, but that isn't an option
at this location.)

We were scratching our heads trying to figure out why the internet
sharing kept disappearing on us. We'd set it up, it would share the
connection just fine, then mysteriously, it would die on us. Go back
to the Mac, and its connection to Verizon is fine, but internet
connection sharing would be off. We discovered (and verified with
experiment) that the internet sharing turns off the instant that the
monitor goes into power save ("Put the display(s) to sleep when the
compute is inactive for:"). Note that the computer power save is
always off ("Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for:
Never").

So, either the NIC is turning off at the same time as the monitor
(thereby causing some of settings to be lost), or the monitor power
save feature in the OS is affecting more than just the monitor.

Is there a way to allow the monitor to go into power save while
leaving the NIC enabled?

I don't know what is happening on your machine but it certainly isn't
normal for the Ethernet or USB to be turned off when the screen powers
off. I worked with a couple of hundred iMacs that I could access over
the network after the screen went to sleep. You could even wake them up
via the network after the computer slept.

--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting

"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
.

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