'limited or no connectivity' status for direct ethernet connection
so I've got a dual 2.0ghz PPC PowerMac running OSX 10.5.8 that I'm trying to connect to an Aspire 5610 laptop running XP SP2 via of an ethernet direct connection. I'm able to get the XP machine to show up on my mac, but the transfer rate is ridiculously slow. The XP machine has a Broadcam 440x 10/100 integrated controller card-- I've been tinkering with the driver setting without success. So even though I can get the XP machine to show up under "network" on the mac, I'm still getting "limited or no conectivity" under connection status on the XP machine. "limited connectivity" sure is accurate-- it's taking over an hour to move less than 80MB. (?! )
any suggestions?
Comment on ras7seyoum's post
That was supposed to read "now able"///