[sudo-discuss] Ethernet down at liberated lens office, & iCrap upgrade

Hey fiends, I needed to take a bath anyway, so I overcame my revulsion and upgraded the iMac from 4GB to 12 GB of memory. as you can see from the attached screenshot. I also connected the big monitor to the right, I don't know if it was disconnected for a specific reason. It looks like the ethernet cable is disconnected, so the iMuck was using wifi. Anka came in and informed me that the ethernet is not working for the Hackintush, either, and has been down for a week or so. I screwed around with the DHCP settings in OSX, but no luck. So I rebooted to Linux on the Hackentosh and confirmed that the ethernet is not working there, either. Someone added a PCI-E network adapter to the Hack, so I tried jacking into the onboard ethernet, no joy. And I found a piece of ethernet cable lying on the ground, so I used to to directly jack in to each of the 2 ethernet ports that come in from the hall directly, squatissimo. So I connected the random bit of ethernet to the iMac and each of the ethernet jacks coming into the office, but as soon as I turned off the wifi I lost connectivity. So it appears that LL1 & LL2 ethernet jacks are no long connected to the server above the sudoroom. The ethernet was working in the LL orifice a couple of weeks ago when I hooked up the new monitor to the Hackentosh and replaced funky M.2 SSD with a new Linux SSD. Possibly something didn't get hooked up after the Omni router died from from heat stroke & got replaced on or about June 9th. I traced the white LL1 & LL2 cables back up to the sudoroom server farm, but then got lost in the hell-broth of cables, and my "brain" exploded, so fixing this issue is above my pay-grade. So, I scavenged a USB wifi dongle off of one of the GCEA boxes in the hall (that didn't have a mouse, anyway), so the Linux and Windows 10 sides of the Hackentosh now have internet, but with O$X with its wonderful tradition of "Think Different" refuses to recognize the cheesy Edimax EW-7811Un wifi dongle. Anyone have any suggestions to get the ethernet working again? Steamy puddles of affection, Einstein & Ed