Realtek 8168/8111 solution Options

[alfamic]

@NiceTry

I have some problems at the ethernet too. Both with my onboard at a P35-DS3P and also an RTL8169 Card. And i discovered something strange, unfourtunatly after i bought the PCI Card. Unfourtunatly because i think all this is not related to the RTL drivers. Or maybe not completly, but also to my switch, a D-Link DGS1005.

Some additional information on this. I have three machines, an old G4 (rarely running), my MacBook Pro and the new part in the game, my Hackintosh. Some day when this kind of network breakdown happened the G4 was running too. And i discovered, that both machines disappered from the finder. I cannot connect to anything on the network but there was some heavy activity on the Switch LEDs. So i restarted it (pulled the power plug) and everthing was working as expected again. Nothing to do on the computers, simply restart the switch.

So as an idea for anybody with same problems on their networks. Try to restart your Switch, mybe you get the same healing effect i see. But at the end i dont know what to do. This happened sometimes three or four times a day so this is no solution at all. But on my network it is not related to traffic, but much traffic will "help" to get it

Discussion boards for networking are suggesting to buy a real switch first. HP or linksys or at least something more reliable than an d-Link. Not a cheap way but it might be the only one.

mfg
Michael

[NiceTry]

is it good on 8139 as well?

To All: Thanks for the advice.

All the tries with the drivers, even the 8139, showed the same symptom.

I used the BOOT-KABYL-BUMBY bootloader, installed my retail OS X and now the LAN works without a problem. I did not have to install any additional network-related drivers.

Now that it works, I gave up chasing the problem since I have so few diagnostics.

NiceTry

@NiceTry

I have some problems at the ethernet too. Both with my onboard at a P35-DS3P and also an RTL8169 Card. And i discovered something strange, unfourtunatly after i bought the PCI Card. Unfourtunatly because i think all this is not related to the RTL drivers. Or maybe not completly, but also to my switch, a D-Link DGS1005.

Some additional information on this. I have three machines, an old G4 (rarely running), my MacBook Pro and the new part in the game, my Hackintosh. Some day when this kind of network breakdown happened the G4 was running too. And i discovered, that both machines disappered from the finder. I cannot connect to anything on the network but there was some heavy activity on the Switch LEDs. So i restarted it (pulled the power plug) and everthing was working as expected again. Nothing to do on the computers, simply restart the switch.

So as an idea for anybody with same problems on their networks. Try to restart your Switch, mybe you get the same healing effect i see. But at the end i dont know what to do. This happened sometimes three or four times a day so this is no solution at all. But on my network it is not related to traffic, but much traffic will "help" to get it

Discussion boards for networking are suggesting to buy a real switch first. HP or linksys or at least something more reliable than an d-Link. Not a cheap way but it might be the only one.

mfg
Michael

I too noticed the shared systems dropping from the finder. I was able to manually connect to the server anyhow. You've given me a clue for the next time it happens: reset the switch (mine is a Netear).

[xsnapz]

nabend auch,

my solution for the {censored} realtek rtl 8168b with motherboard gb p35-ds3r (kalyway 10.5.2)

i had always the alert "cable unplugged"... arrgggharrrrrr

the way:

1) goto to /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/
2) destroy all the xxxxEthernet.kext stuff
3) repair the rights
4) install "GUT_RTGMac_v2.0.0"

and?! yes, you have connection... welcome to the internet. lol.

iam so happy.

btw: pcwiz and nice try, thank you

xsnapz

p.s.
link driver
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...;Downloads=true

[guide a mac]

i am despertley looking for RTL8139 kext. can someone help me?
using kalyway 10.5.2

[italiansnake]

Can anyone explain me how to install the rtl8111?

Thanks....


edit: I reinstalled leopard and it recognize my card by default.
But it says "self-assigned ip"...
How can I solve?

[DvTonder]

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:

Hi, does mDNS work for you with these drivers? (Bonjour, Rendezvous, or however it's called)

cheers

Hi, I just installed the 'real' 2.0 drivers and can report that they do NOT support Bonjour. Unfortunately! I found them to be faster than the RealtekR1000 driver, especially when spooling to my printer.

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

I installed the 'Real' drivers and my hack can no longer see my time capsule nor my appleTV (both Bonjour boxes). Reverted back to R1000.kext and the devices show up again. Seems like the official drivers dont have Bonjour support.

Maybe if we ask realtek they will add the support... I am going to try

[mtrr]

Hi, I just installed the 'real' 2.0 drivers and can report that they do NOT support Bonjour. Unfortunately! I found them to be faster than the RealtekR1000 driver, especially when spooling to my printer.
I installed the 'Real' drivers and my hack can no longer see my time capsule nor my appleTV (both Bonjour boxes). Reverted back to R1000.kext and the devices show up again. Seems like the official drivers dont have Bonjour support.

Maybe if we ask realtek they will add the support... I am going to try

so I'm not imagining things, good to know.

regards

mtrr

[BuildSmart]

so I'm not imagining things, good to know.

regards

mtrr

If the source for these drivers could be made available they would have a far better change of getting full support and functionality than waiting on them.

[bazz38]

Hi, I just installed the 'real' 2.0 drivers and can report that they do NOT support Bonjour. Unfortunately! I found them to be faster than the RealtekR1000 driver, especially when spooling to my printer.
I installed the 'Real' drivers and my hack can no longer see my time capsule nor my appleTV (both Bonjour boxes). Reverted back to R1000.kext and the devices show up again. Seems like the official drivers dont have Bonjour support.

Maybe if we ask realtek they will add the support... I am going to try

I have exactly the same problem, internet works out of the box, same with the "real" drivers. But there's no support for Bonjour, but they're faster . So installed R1000, everything working properly, except for the damn wake from sleep..

Does anyone know how to script DHCP renewal after wake from sleep?

[DvTonder]

If the source for these drivers could be made available they would have a far better change of getting full support and functionality than waiting on them.

If you look at the Release.txt file that comes with the 'real' drivers, it would seem that a realtek employee by the name of 'Chien Hao' is responsible for the driver. I suspected that his email is ChienHao@realtek.com if follows their naming convention but I got a bounceback.

Anyone have an idea of their naming convention?

[OnePlane]

If you look at the Release.txt file that comes with the 'real' drivers, it would seem that a realtek employee by the name of 'Chien Hao' is responsible for the driver. I suspect his email is ChienHao@realtek.com if follows their naming convention. Can I suggest we all contact him asking for Bonjour support to be added?

Or we ask for the source and fix it ourselves

[bazz38]

Or we ask for the source and fix it ourselves

Think that's the best solution

[Cosmyco]

Greetings all...

I´ve got success doing something that I don´t thing others tried here, but I haven´t read the whole post...

I have a Realtek 8169 that came with my HP DX6660 notebook, and:

1 - it was detected natively by MacOS 10.5.1 & 10.5.2 (current), but it wouldn´t detect the cable plugged in.

2 - I installed the drivers with sh installrelease, then the note wouldn´t boot (panic)

3 - boot with -s

4 - /sbin/mount -uw /

5 - cd /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns

6 - mv AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext.orig

7 - cp -R RealtekR1000.kext AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext

What I did was trick the system to load the RealtekR1000 driver as if it was the original one. Got web now, maybe this helps someone...

Good luck all, and thanks for everybodys effort on getting their macs to kick !

[logx]

i installed debug and release, but it wont work via dhcp it says no ip adress...Pls help
TIA!

[eject]

(just for the search engine, wich seems to working properly these days)
i used ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/RTGMac_v2.0.0.zip for the realtek RTL8111B on the foxconn 945g7md
all other solutions gave me network but it was damn slow, about 500kb/s for unknown reasons.
now it's fully functional

[quis]

Uh...Does anyone know how to do this in a retail Leopard using boot-132?
Help plz!

The purpose of using boot-132 is to make Leopard untouched, but as far as I'm concerned, this method got to patch some system files, which makes Leopard no more "pure".
And I also wonder that, would this method got screwed up by new updates?

Thx in advance.

[pmfoto]

Hi. I have got 8168 and i install drivers from first site. Ethernet conetion works only, when i disconnect first hd. At first hd i've got windows and at second os x. Any idea how to make it works?
there is no error or somethink like that, only at "web" tab it say that ethernet cabel is not plug in.


Ps. Sory for my english:)

[mtrr]

Seems that Psystar has a slighly updated version available:

http://www.psystar.com/realtek_r1000_driver.html

cheers

[chrisHHR]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This fix perfectly resolved my LAN issues.

I had working internet but could not see two airport extremes (despite being physically connected to one of them) and iTunes could not see the Apple TV.

With this fix in place both issues are gone. I added the kext to my USB boot loader, rebooted, and it all just works.

[Alexandre mancilha]

Hello everybody...

I'm a newbie with macs...and I installed the os in an intel core2duo...ok...everything is going great BUT the LAN...actualy, I dont have it...it just doesnt work...

my pc is connected to a router and the router to the modem...it just doesnt work...=(

I know that i have a realtek 8168...but i have no idea on how to install this driver...could you please do a step-by-step?!!?!?!?


thanks a lot