Realtek 8168/8111 solution Options

[bazz38]

Hi DeamonES, your driver is running just great; finally proper LAN etc.. Though i'd love to see the sleep issue fixed; IP-adress is lost when woken from sleep. Any idea's for that? Thanks!

[mtrr]

I haven't seen mDNS throw any errors and everything seems to be working fine and stable with the drivers from the realtek site.

Anything in particular you want me to check?

I've used them with Leo4allr3 and Kalyway 10.5.2 installs

Signal64,


sorry for the delay, been outta town,

yes I'd love to know if mDNS really works, never worked for me with the realtek drivers.

other machines on the lan can "see" my hack, but not the other way around. with the driver from DaemonES they show up.

regards

[kamzaf2]

Ok, version 1.01.
- Minor fixes to avoid memory leaks.
- Fixed bug with multiple loading/unloading.
- Fixed bug with ouput packet dropping.
- Implemented some features, like link status and speed reporting.

Dynamic MTU implemented, but not active.

First you must load debug version (in terminal type sh loaddebug). If everything is OK type sh unloaddebug. After that install release version (sh installrelease). Release version faster, that debug, cause debug version logging every packet and every OS system call.

See attachment in head post.

Thanks for a wonderfull job, I finally installed my rtl8169, on MSI MS6702 board under MAC OSX tiger release 10.4.8

Just followed your instructions and life was very easy.

thx
thx

[fcollingwood]

Works with the 8111 controller my MSI K9A2-CF MoBo

Really would love to have jumbo frames capability though, as now the NIC has become a bottleneck.....

[XweAponX]

I've got a Realtek 8201CL card in this motherboard... And no drivers.

Is that equivalent to another driver that has been nailed?

I tried searching the forum from the search box down there, but it seems that searches are disabled... I tested it by searching for something that I knew was listed in here, and nothing showed up, unless there is some other trick to using the topic/forum search box?

[szsong135246]

HI, DaemonES.

I've been follow the post for an hour, but I can't find anything for the 8111C. I will try to take a look again, since It's such a long post.. ^^

I got 8111C on the MB, the ven# 10EC and Dev# 8168
The driver is working on 8111b for sure, but I get 8111c.
After loading the driver, it can get the MAC address, and I can configure my IP. I believe the router see me too. It said connect on the network perfernce. I just can't get online.
Is there anything I can do?

Best
thx again for ur great work.
ANd Thanks for any suggestion. ^^

[SaYNo.Inc]

hello guys,i am new here,so please be patient with me

i already download the installer from neo and i install the installer,but nothing happens...
when i restart in booting menu they detect my LAN with something like this "DCHP blablabla".
when i conect the RJ45 cable,nothing happens,the ethernet light is not on.
please help me...

i'm sorry about my english,hope u can understand

[weaksauce12]

Hello,

I've installed the driver today, and it's working like a charm, thanks a lot . There's only one thing that doesn't work like it should, and that's the DHCP-lease. When woken from sleep, there's no DHCP adress configured. The driver loads perfectly, no errors in console whatsoever, only there's no DHCP configured. If I choose to renew the DHCP adress manually, it's working again... I guess the power management for this driver isn't stable yet. Any way to fix this?

Thanks in advance and thanks again for the great driver so far!

Btw: I'm using a GA-P35DS3R, with the Realtek 811B...

@ Tha_Messiah; did you try using Kexthelper, and you should try repairing permissions with Diskutil

Yeah I'm encountering this problem on my DS3L too - no IP address when woken from sleep. A manual reset grabs it, but that's kind of annoying to do every time I wake from sleep.

There a fix for this yet?

Edit: P35-DS3L's Ethernet is supported in Leopard by default, all I had to do was uncheck it from the Kalyway script Thanks Stella!

[~pcwiz]

If you are having problems with this driver, use this official Realtek driver (or at least it seems like it):

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip

Used it on Leopard and Tiger with RTL8111B, 0 problems.

[NiceTry]

Hi All,

I'm a recent explorer in the OSX86 world and have built a 10.5.2 Kalyway machine to use as an AFP fileserver.

Problem: RTL8111b 1GB LAN stalls after about 2-3GB outbound traffic; running, almost stopping (<100kb/sec), running again etc. In 100Mb mode seems to work without problem. Inbound traffic does not seem to have this problem.

MB: Intel D945GCNL
CPU: Allendale Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz E4600

I've read about using the Realtek RTGMac v_2.0.0 or RTGMac v_1.1.6 driver but am a bit confused if this is necessary.

If needed, how is the driver replacement done? I presume I need to remove the Realtek1000 driver?

All hints appreciated.

[~pcwiz]

Its actually very easy. Just go to the System/Library/Extensions folder, delete RealtekR1000.kext (if its there), run the RTGMac installer, repair permissions, and reboot

[NiceTry]

Its actually very easy. Just go to the System/Library/Extensions folder, delete RealtekR1000.kext (if its there), run the RTGMac installer, repair permissions, and reboot

Thanks. I'll use the 1.1.6 as you suggested in a previous post.

The Realtek1000.kext was in System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns Folder.

I got the hint from the permissions repair report.

[NiceTry]

I just made the same purchase for the same reason.

I used the "real" Realtek 2.0 drivers for OSX 10.5 found on their driver page here:

Realtek RTL8110SC(L)/RTL8110S-32/RTL8110SB(L)/RTL8169SB(L)/RTL8169SC(L)RTL8169

Scroll all the way down to the bottom "others" section for the 8169 OSX driver.

I removed the Kalyway installed kext, rebuilt caches, rebooted and installed this one.
Works fine.

How do you "rebuild caches?" After installing/uninstalling and returning the kext's to their original configuration, the LAN port reports "Cable Disconnected." Will rebuilding the cache help here?

[fcollingwood]

If you are having problems with this driver, use this official Realtek driver (or at least it seems like it):

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip

Used it on Leopard and Tiger with RTL8111B, 0 problems.

I had a look, and found a newer version (2.0.0). Works like a nicely, don't have to have LAN option ROM enabled in BIOS anymore for the damn thing to work.

HOWEVER.......

It still will not allow frame sizes above 1500. trying to set frame sizes above this result in the following:

hackintosh:/ user$ sudo ifconfig en0 mtu 7200
Password:
ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument

[~pcwiz]

Nice Try,

Oh, I see! Maybe that's why it didn't work when I was using it on 10.4.11...I put it in the Extensions folder. But strangely enough, that worked in 10.4.10 To rebuild caches just go into /System/Library and delete Extensions.mkext, or boot with -f flag.

fcollingwood,

Maybe try 1.1.6, possibly it might not have those restrictions.

[NiceTry]

Nice Try,

Oh, I see! Maybe that's why it didn't work when I was using it on 10.4.11...I put it in the Extensions folder. But strangely enough, that worked in 10.4.10 To rebuild caches just go into /System/Library and delete Extensions.mkext, or boot with -f flag.

fcollingwood,

Maybe try 1.1.6, possibly it might not have those restrictions.

I tracked the Realtek 1.1.6 and 2.0.0 install packages to the IONetworking.kext package folder. But, the RealtekR1000 (referenced in earlier posts via sourceforge) separate package installed in the "Extensions" folder. I'm not sure I understand all I know about this...

Thanks for the leads. I chased a few Red Herrings:

R.H.#1 After installing both the 1.1.6 and 2.0.0 Realtek drivers, the original symptom of erratic throughput remained. I reconfigured back to original and got the "Not Connected" message. Well, if I had pressed "Apply" in the Network setup panel, it would have configured, no cache cleaning required... "Operator Error." Oh Well, an another hour or two shot.

R.H#2 I spent a lot of time trying to identify this weird behavior of transmission nearly stopping. When it ran, it was spectacular; 65-70MB/sec. I don't have very good diagnostics but all the testing kept leading back to the server's NIC/drivers.

I installed an Intel Pro/1000 Dual Network Adapter in a PCI slot, installed some drivers from Small Tree and Voila! Actually, I think Leopard already knew how to use this card but I got suckered by the "Not Connected" message and went ahead and installed it. The card worked. I think it is slightly slower than the Realtek but it does not hiccup. I'm thinking the on-board interface is too fast in some way and the driver/AFP layer..., someone may know, can't deal with it. The "kernel task" cpu usage goes to zero during the stalled times. The result with the Intel PCI adapter is a 48-50MB/sec transfer rate that is stable.

Whew! a frustrating afternoon but I have a solution.

Thanks again.

[SaYNo.Inc]

how do i know my ethernet card is working or not??(without conecting to internet)

coz i've downloaded this

CODE

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip

and installer from neo.it still won't work

[NiceTry]

Hi All,

I'm a recent explorer in the OSX86 world and have built a 10.5.2 Kalyway machine to use as an AFP fileserver.

Problem: RTL8111b 1GB LAN stalls after about 2-3GB outbound traffic; running, almost stopping (<100kb/sec), running again etc. In 100Mb mode seems to work without problem. Inbound traffic does not seem to have this problem.

MB: Intel D945GCNL
CPU: Allendale Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz E4600

I've read about using the Realtek RTGMac v_2.0.0 or RTGMac v_1.1.6 driver but am a bit confused if this is necessary.

If needed, how is the driver replacement done? I presume I need to remove the Realtek1000 driver?

All hints appreciated.

Changed installation to use sleepkernel from vanillakernel and all seems to work with the RealtekR1000 driver.

[NiceTry]

Hi All,

I'm a recent explorer in the OSX86 world and have built a 10.5.2 Kalyway machine to use as an AFP fileserver.

Problem: RTL8111b 1GB LAN stalls after about 2-3GB outbound traffic; running, almost stopping (<100kb/sec), running again etc. In 100Mb mode seems to work without problem. Inbound traffic does not seem to have this problem.

MB: Intel D945GCNL
CPU: Allendale Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz E4600

I've read about using the Realtek RTGMac v_2.0.0 or RTGMac v_1.1.6 driver but am a bit confused if this is necessary.

If needed, how is the driver replacement done? I presume I need to remove the Realtek1000 driver?

All hints appreciated.

Symptom has returned. I've throttled back to 100Mbs and will re-install Intel PCI card.

[seliko2001]

is it good on 8139 as well?