OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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I have a virtual hard drive with OSX 10.4 Tiger installed that I use for messing around in old Xcode. I wanted to take some files from the Mac I use to emulate OSX 10.4 and put them in the VM. So I uploaded the files to an AWS server and tried to download them via old Safari by typing the URL in. It gave me a "You are not connected to the internet" error. My QEMU command line is this:

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qemu-system-ppc -hda osx -m 1G
Looking online it seems that internet should work out-of-the-box.
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Re: OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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Hi,

It should indeed by default have network access.
But as it hasn't you can try to add the following to your command line:
-device sungem,netdev=network01 -netdev user,id=network01

What do your 10.4 system preferences say at Network, Show Network Status and Built-in Ethernet?

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Re: OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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These are after adding those to the command line, with the internet still not working.
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Re: OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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I assume you cannot click "on" and then "apply now" in the network port configuration screen?

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Re: OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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yes
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Re: OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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Which version of Qemu are you running? and which minor version of OSX 10.4?
What does the system profiler show you at the network entry?

Is the disk image you use available somewhere?

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Re: OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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I am using QEMU 7.0, via brew. I am running 10.4.0.
The only menu under Network in SP that has anything in it is Locations, with this:
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All others are just "No information found."
I installed Tiger by first using an OS X 10.0 Cheetah install disk. I then used an OS X 10.4 Tiger + Xcode upgrade disk.
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Re: OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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Hi,

I have no idea why internet would not work besides that the driver might not have been updated correctly when upgrading.
I attempted to reproduce while booted from 10.0 (with working internet) with a 10.4.6 dmg set as cdrom. When I started the installer from the DVD it told me to restart from the cdrom. The installer said it could not upgrade from the current version so I archived the current settings and did a fresh installation.

I used the bootable 10.4.6 dmg from the macintoshgarden site. It contains xcode. You can search that site for Mac OS X for PPC.
I would suggest you download that and do a fresh installation after you used disk utility to repartition your disk image.

You can add it to the command line like this:
"-drive file=Tiger_4_6.dmg,format=dmg,media=cdrom"
and set "-boot d" to start from cdrom.

You might also run 10.4 with mac99,via=pmu to enable the smoother usb mouse and keyboard

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Re: OSX 10.4 Tiger cannot connect to the internet.

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I reinstalled the OS using that image and now the internet works fine. Thanks!
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