Realtek 8168/8111 solution Options

[fabiopigi]

do the different versions of the RealtekR1000 driver make any difference with the GA311....?????????

i dunno, i gave up the GA311.
right now i'm using the onboard RT8168 from my GA-EP35-DS3P
it works with the R1000 drivers perfectly. i download torrents with 500kbyte (the speed i can get, no matter if via PC, powermac G5 or hackintosh) and bonjour works corectly.

[OnePlane]

I agree about the Netgear GA311 card... its not perfect but once was...

I've used the RealtekR1000 driver and the native 8169.kext and the card works but the problem is that every time I DL something like say a torrent with high speeds or high uploads... it'll suddenly stops working and i have to either restart or switch to my onboard RTL8111. At first I thought it was my ISP throttling me but I guess not.....

do the different versions of the RealtekR1000 driver make any difference with the GA311....?????????

Not that I know of..

The disconnect on high performance thingy is a driver problem.. Is bonjour working for you?

[kitmac]

Not that I know of..

The disconnect on high performance thingy is a driver problem.. Is bonjour working for you?

well "Itunes remote" works with my ipod touch. I believe that uses bonjour....
I'm on 10.5.5 ideneb with itunes 8.1

[mtrr]

well "Itunes remote" works with my ipod touch. I believe that uses bonjour....
I'm on 10.5.5 ideneb with itunes 8.1

the problem is not that other machines can't see the hack with the apple supplied realtek driver, but the other way around.
with the AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext (version independent) my iBook and my MacBook as well can see my hack, but the hack seems to ignore the mDNS stuff from other machines. In using either the psystar ot hte original version I get bonjour functionality back)

funny side note: with AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext I geht 1000mbit FD with the other kexts it's just HD, no idea why.

cheers

[pureofheart]

OK! I SOLVED THE PROBLEM!
Please write it on the first page: The Mac OS can't "power up" the network card. If it's not powered on, than Mac will say: No cable is plugged in and can't use. But if the lan boot rom is enabled the bios switches it on and everything works fine.
The boot is a bit longer because of the rom, but after than it's surely on.

this worked for me too, thanks !!!

[Requilence]

Nobody have solution to make ipv4 multicast (bonjour) work with this driver??

[kmare]

I went out and found a Netgear FA311 PCI (Fast Ethernet cousin of the GA311) at my local Electronics recyclers. Bonjour/AFP works with stock kexts on 10.5.6, no more flakiness!

[juanml82]

OK! I SOLVED THE PROBLEM!
Please write it on the first page: The Mac OS can't "power up" the network card. If it's not powered on, than Mac will say: No cable is plugged in and can't use. But if the lan boot rom is enabled the bios switches it on and everything works fine.
The boot is a bit longer because of the rom, but after than it's surely on

That's the key. I've just used the kext linked in page one and toogled the lan boot rom on and it works. Thanks!

[Nickodemus]

Update:

I am using Deneb v1.4 OSx86 10.5.6. I have a MSI P965 Platinum. RTL8111B The realtek R1000 drivers on the disk didn't work for me. I search for hours to solve this issue. I surf to realtek's home page and found drivers for the MAC OSX. I install these drive and it work perfectly. Hope this helps.

http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloads...8168C/RTL8111DP surf to the bottom of the list to the other section.





L8R Nick

[mtrr]

Update:

I am using Deneb v1.4 OSx86 10.5.6. I have a MSI P965 Platinum. RTL8111B The realtek R1000 drivers on the disk didn't work for me. I search for hours to solve this issue. I surf to realtek's home page and found drivers for the MAC OSX. I install these drive and it work perfectly. Hope this helps.

http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloads...8168C/RTL8111DP surf to the bottom of the list to the other section.





L8R Nick

does bonjour work?

[Requilence]

i finally have a solution for bonjour! You need to install RTGMac 2.0 driver from realtek site (FTP). After it install R1000 driver from psystar (1.8.1).
I think problem was in IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext/Contents/info.plist

Realtek 8111B have ID 0x816810ec . The standart IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext/Contents/info.plist doesn't contain it.
AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext from RTGMac 2.0 have 8168 section in plist.

So. R1000 driver work properly only with right IONetworkingFamily.kext .

[mtrr]

i finally have a solution for bonjour! You need to install RTGMac 2.0 driver from realtek site (FTP). After it install R1000 driver from psystar (1.8.1).
I think problem was in IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext/Contents/info.plist

Realtek 8111B have ID 0x816810ec . The standart IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext/Contents/info.plist doesn't contain it.
AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext from RTGMac 2.0 have 8168 section in plist.

So. R1000 driver work properly only with right IONetworkingFamily.kext .

nonsense

<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
<string>0x816810ec 0x813610ec</string>



kext version 1.0.3 definitive vanilla install (unibody macbook) if it's on that system it's on any retail install

[Requilence]

I think this problem take place because many OSX86 user install custom IONetworkingFamily.kext that solve Time Machine problem from iPC, XXX or other. That kext doesn't contain 8168.<br />

[mtrr]

I think this problem take place because many OSX86 user install custom IONetworkingFamily.kext that solve Time Machine problem from iPC, XXX or other. That kext doesn't contain 8168.<br />

might be, pimping the DSDT (or using dev-prop strings) is enough to get TM rollin' so no need to fiddle with weird kexts.

[pirloui]

For the moment this worked for me.
It's a server, so I don't know if it's time machine works, but that doesn't matter to me.
Thanks a lot

[tk31]

F**** I LOVE YOU~!!!!!! I was so FRUSTRATED trying to solve an ANNOYING DHCP problem with my Realtek card for 3 days straight... but it works now..

It worked on a ToH 10.5.4 RC2 perfectly without any additional drivers but it went funny after i upgraded to the iPC OSX 10.5.6.

Now i just need a sound card driver for my IDT Audio Codec =(

[jesuel]

Hi, guys!

I need drives for Lan Card Realtek RTL 8169/8110 Family PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDS 6.20) because the Ideneb v1.3 10.5.5 don´t work network in my pc. Help me, please!! Thank you!

[pirloui]

So look for it, don't spam like this.

[sebbee]

Hi!




I finally was able to install the "real" realtek driver from realtek. But i have a problem getting an ip address.




First i had the problem not showing i had a cable in at all. So i enabled boot rom and now it shows the cable is connected. So that seems to work just fine.




But now i don't get a correct IP from my router. I get a fine ip on my XP.




Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?

[redsimple]

Any one try streaming music to an airport express?

my built in 8111c works besides being able to use airtunes (file sharing and bonjour are fine). Music plays but playback suffers. Its like parts of the songs have been cut out, but there is no break in the music. Happens at random intervals.

My set up is
Hackintosh (10.5.1 vanilla) wired to Airport Extreme(N) and Airport express(n) joining network wirelesly. My legit macs have no issues streaming the shared music library(hooked up to extreme via usb)

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.

Using it with 8111c with leopard

one problem - airtunes music streaming is messed up. Sound comes out sounds ok, but chops out pieces of song. Any luck with Streaming music?