Realtek 8168/8111 solution Options

[Alex32339]

Can i use this Driver for my RTL8168B ?

[RikusHaven]

I've been trying to install this but honestly I do not know how to. Can someone please explain how to install this? I tried using kexthelperb7, but when I put in the password for root, which I changed using Director Utility and then repaired permissions, I get an error that it could not log into it or something. I've tried installing it by the terminal, but nothing. I've searched and tried many of the things in this thread, but it seems I am not doing it right.

My questions are:
How do install this?
Where exactly do I place the files?

Here is some other information just in case:
Acer Aspire M5630
Dual-booting with Windows XP
I use Darwin Bootloader
RTL8111B Lan


EDIT:
Never mind, I found a fix. I do not know why, but XP does not allow my ethernet to work on leopard, so all I did was delete Windows XP and installed Windows Vista, while I dislike Vista, most apps I need run nicely on Vista, must be that my computer can handle it, well anyways, I fixed my problem, just wished that it would have worked with XP, oh well, as long as Vista does not give me any problems, I'm fine.

This post has been edited by Rikus Haven: Oct 2 2008, 08:49 PM

[ckalli]

hi
im running kalyway 10.5.2
everything is working cept my internet is damn slow.. y is that????

i have a D865Gsa mother board with a RTL8100c ethernet card.. ive tried the drivers mentioned in this post but doesnt seem to help.

i installed it using the kext helper that came with the os

do i need to buy a new lan card or is there a way to sort things out?????

[Adamantium]

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 was having this exact same problem with my 8110 onboard ethernet, but not only did transmission stop, the mouse became erratic and unresponsible, so I went and brought a Netgear GA311 , and reinstalled from scratch. It detected the card out of the box, but I was still having the bloody transmission errors! ARGGGH! So bloody frustrating!


I've tried with the 'real' drivers too, same issue, on gigabit or 100mbit the same problem occurs. Now it looks like i'm going to have to go buy ANOTHER card (what model is your Intel gigabit?)

Anyone else got any better idea with why the GA311 has this problem? It's got a RTL 8169S on board..

[lhoang8500]

Hi everyone,
This driver recognize my realtek 8168/8111 PCI-e Gigabit ethernet controller, but it's alway in disconnected state althought i already pluged cable in, the other end is my switch.
Any sugestion ?

[The Sour Mango]

aberracus open teriminal window, than open RealtekR1000 dir from terminal and type sh installrelease

I did as you said, and the terminal gives me the following message:
extension Realtek1000.kext has potential problems:

"Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpl components; uso only one style" = true


kextload: extension Realtek1000.kext appears to be loadable
kextload: extension Realtek1000.kext loaded successfully


Am i doing something wrong or is it supposed to work now?

Vmware workstation 6.5 - Networking set to bridged - right? 

Ps. Really new to OSX, but pretty good w windows and linux

[Markus23]

Anyone checked this one from psystar -> http://store.psystar.com/opensource/r1000

They claim to enhance the r1000 driver , maybe it's worth a try ?



bye ,

Markus


[Update] Sorry this driver already mentioned by mtrr Post #458 , but this here is the current working link to the driver

[Markus23]

tested the psystar driver myself:

Bonjour ist working (instead of the orig. Realtek 2.0 Driver used before).
But I got various network problems (Mail can't connect to Accounts, ICQ Probs, etc. especially after wake from sleep).
Switched back to the Realtek 2.0 driver, which works alright except of the Bonjour Problem :-/

[Mayank Anand]

for all u people who have trouble installing these driver its actuall very simple. Thank u for putting up this driver it has really solved my earlier problem.

step1: download the file. RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip and RealtekR1000_1.04.zip. (Google it, i am sure u will find it in some forum somewhere.)
step2: install RTGMac and then reboot. U will see your net funtion already but their will be system crash's with this driver hence we need the other zip file. unzip the RealtekR1000.
step3: In the build folder u can find the RealtekR1000.kext file. right click and copy it.
step4: copy that file in the folder /System/Library/Extensions/(paste here) & /User/(your user)/(paste here)
step5: open the kext Helper b7 which is in the utilities folder.
step6: use the mouse to drag the file (realtek*****.mkext) on the kext helper.
step7: Press enter and install the driver. it will say cross your fingues and reboot (love the language) and so i did that and waaala. networks working AWSOME. and hasnt crashed either from the past 2 hours. Saw a movie already and finished a few downloads without a problem.

THanks a TON guys.

[Drakkul]

On Leopard it does not work ... I have an Realtek R8111B and either it says that it's connected and it does not work, or it says that it's connected to the internet but again, it doesn't work.

I've tried all the methods described here, none worked...

[mtrr]

tested the psystar driver myself:

Bonjour ist working (instead of the orig. Realtek 2.0 Driver used before).
But I got various network problems (Mail can't connect to Accounts, ICQ Probs, etc. especially after wake from sleep).
Switched back to the Realtek 2.0 driver, which works alright except of the Bonjour Problem :-/

What board do you have?

the psystar "enhanced" R1000 kext works for me on ga-p35-ds3 and on ga-ep35-ds3 (a friend owns a ga-ep35-ds3r and has no problems whatsoever with this driver)

cheers

[cwall64]

out of curiosity, what are the chipsets that are used on MacPro's and other Macs sold at the Apple store? Seems like it might be easiest just to buy a card with one of those chipsets?

[Artlace]

Hi Guys,

After came across the same problem and reading through the thread carefully I started to investigate other OS-es, since the problem surfaced on Linux too!

After a successful install the NIC didn't get its IP address from the router. To cut the lnog story short, I found this:



Situation
You are running a Realtek 8168, 8169, 8101 or 8111 chipset based card but the network doesn't work, but the driver reports that the interface is up and running. You are running dual boot Windows and Linux on your machine.

Reason
The Realtek Windows driver disables the NIC at Windows shutdown time. The current linux r8169 driver does not know how to turn on the NIC from this disabled state, therefor the device will not respond, even if the driver loads and reports that the device is up.

Workaround
Here are two workarounds for this issue:

1. You power down the machine completely and unplug the power supply for a few seconds (about 10 will do). This seems to reset the card and the Linux driver work until you boot Windows again.

2. You enable "Wake-on-lan after shutdown." in the Windows device manager. This prevents the Windows driver to disable the card.



Even if I don't run windows, the NIC went to sleep and none of the Linux or OSX drivers were able to wake it up. There is an official Linux driver (in source) which does wake up the card but I chose the simpler way and after 30 secs of powerdown, the card was up and running.

[Aluminum Sponge]

Hey all!

For those of you wanting to support your RTL8101L (or similar RTL810X), I recommend the PCGenRTL8139Ethernet KEXT driver avail from here.



I used this PCGenRTL8139Ethernet driver since OS X 10.4 days and popped it in when i first went to Leopard and it worked fine. However, when trying munky's boot method a few weeks ago, i used the opportunity to upgrade to this new driver specially designed for Leopard by some 'john stormdrake' avail from here. Do NOT use this! (At least if you have same or similar NIC as me, RTL8101L)

Although the guy claims he made it especially for Leopard from the orByte's PCGenRTL8139 source, he sets it to Disable Flow Control which causes problems once you download something for a long duration with many peers (eg. BitTorrent). My internet worked just fine at first for browsing for a few days, but once I put a 6 GB torrent to download, I started seeing "TX outbound packet transfer error" like crazy in my system.log and "corrupt chunks" errors from my BT program. I tried all how, all ways, and all user suggestions given to fix it, but nothing worked. Many people decided to get a Wii USB Ethernet converter to replace onboard RTL810X NIC. But in the end I came back to this ancient PCGenRTL8139Ethernet KEXT and my 6GB downloaded great without a single error in system.log or my torrent program.

It may be years old and unsupported, and not officially for Leopard, but I can deff say it solved my corrupt packet errors and works fine with 10.5.5 vanilla (on my EFI partition).



Hope this helps someone,

[Lihto]

Can I use this for Realtek 8169/8110? or chould someone give me link to right Kext I can't find it...

[ruslan120]

could you possibly attempt 8139d? the current kexts work but the connection drops after about an hour

[kanni]

i got some problems with my Realtek 8111C. the connection is damn slow, downloading with 6kb/s
any ideas on that?

[thelightkeeper]

@DaemonES: *************************************************

Hi,
I'm running Leopard 10.5.5, when I try to run "sudo sh loaddebug", I receive this message:

{
"Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.api components; use only one style" = true
}

kextload: extension RealtekR1000.kext appears to be loadable
kextload: RealtekR1000.kext loaded successfully.


===========
However I still can not see my network connection connected. What might be the problem ? Pls help, thanks

[mtrr]

@DaemonES: *************************************************

Hi,
I'm running Leopard 10.5.5, when I try to run "sudo sh loaddebug", I receive this message:

{
"Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.api components; use only one style" = true
}

kextload: extension RealtekR1000.kext appears to be loadable
kextload: RealtekR1000.kext loaded successfully.
===========
However I still can not see my network connection connected. What might be the problem ? Pls help, thanks

why not giving the psystar version a shot? seems to be a bit more recent and as stated by a couple of users: works

cheers

(at least on GA-(E)P35-DS{3,4}X)

[cenday]

Thanks DaemonEs!
I will report the test results