When I start TM and select an attached SATA II hard drive as the backup
device I get the following message:

"Time Machine could not be configured
The built in network interface could not be found"

This is confusing to me as I don't understand why TM would need a
network interface to do a backup.

Way back when I first installed ver 10.5.2 Kalyway distro I was prompted
to do a backup with TM and I chose the SATA ii hard drive that i'm
trying to use now. The backup then was successful,

When I installed the IPC 10.5.6 distro I again got the option to do a backup
but I opted not to do it till I was sure I had a functioning system.

Now every time I try to run TM I get the message above.

All I want to do is backup my working system to an internal SATA ii
hard drive.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe WIFI@N
Intel core 2 E8500
8gb Gskill dddr3 memory
EVGA 9800GT Graphics card
2 SATA II 500gb hard drives
1 Samsung SATA DVD drives
Mac OS X 10.6.1, Win Vista 64bit, Win 7 64 bit RC
Ubuntu Linux

There's another guy who has problems with Time Machine, I recommended him the Time Machine Fix which is on several installation DVDs. But I don't know about this Time Machine stuff, I find it unnecessary. With a little organization on the harddisks it's possible to avoid data loss and only have to backup your home folder sometimes.

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2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64

PM me if you want to try the TM fix pkg - I'll point you to a link that might help.

Cheers,
Andy.