I'd be very surprised if it REALLY doesn't work.
Yeah, i expect it does work really
but i've spent more time fiddling and I cannot get DHCP working.
With a static IP (192.168.0.44, with the router at .0.1) the Mac now networks perfectly. No LAN or Internet problems at all.
However, if I set the Mac to use DHCP it decides to use an IP address of 169.134.x.y
There's also a DCHP with forced-IP option, and that doesn't work either - the IP is now correct (obviously, it doesn't have a choice) but the netmask is wrong and the gateway isn't set correctly. The DCHP server is issuing addresses in the range 192.168.0.4 to .0.24, and everything else I have plugged in works fine (and that includes Win2k, XP Home & Pro, SuSE 8 Linux and, on occasion, a Sun box running Solaris). If there's something wrong with the DHCP server then it's very subtle.
I haven't asked elsewhere - i'm not all that fussed, because I can just switch back to a static IP - but the geek in me doesn't like these mystery problems