Network Preferences not saving.... No Internet connection

Greetings,

I am running an iMac G3 600 Mhz machine. About a week and a half ago, a current update for various programs came up. I went a head and let the computer do the update. After that, the computer would not boot up at all. All I would get is a blue screen. I tried a few different T/S techniques from apple knowledge base. Nothing I tried worked. At the time, I was running OS 10.3.9. So, I decided to reload OS 10.3 installation disks. That seemed to fix most of the problems. However, I am not able to connect to the internet. One of the main problems I noticed is that there is no 'com.apple.networkConfig.plist' files in my Preferences folder. I did a search on my harddrive and that file doesn't exist anywhere.

Now, when I try to use Network Preferences, it doesn't seem to save anything. Nor does it see my cable modem. I set the preferences to DHCP and built-in ethernet (along with the other necessary steps). I then hit apply. I close System Preferences program and then reopen it, nothing I saved is there.

Any suggestions or recommendations? Sorry for the long post.....

Any ideas?

create a new admin user and log in as the new user to see if the problem follows the user. if not it's your profile

if so re-dowload and re-appy the 10.3.9 combo updater after you repair permissions. see what kind of mileage you get from that.

MacsWork said:

create a new admin user and log in as the new user to see if the problem follows the user. if not it's your profile

if so re-dowload and re-appy the 10.3.9 combo updater after you repair permissions. see what kind of mileage you get from that.

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Thanks for the suggestion MacsWork, however it didn't resolve the issue. The problem followed the new user. I did repair permissions, and again that didn't work. Could it be the lack of the file: 'com.apple.networkConfig.plist'? Is that where the config list gets saved? I looked to see if it got created when I created the new user, but it didn't. I did a search in the new user account for the file, and it wasn't there either.

Any other suggestions?