mediamac Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Hi, As verdant (senior member on this forum ) suggested to buy netgear GA311 i bought it but i still having network issues like self assigned IP or disconnection.I tried few 8169 kexts but the problem persists.As there are many 8169 kexts i dont know which one to use.I have 10.6.8 installed so let me know which one works 100% Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 @ mediamac I have the AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext (dated 1 August 2009 06:55 138 KB from OS X 10.6.8/Snow Leopard) in the PlugIns folder of the OS X Lion 10.7.5 IONetworkingFamily.kext, from which it is/was missing i.e. no longer included in the OS X Lion IONetworkingFamily.kext; in the PlugIns folder of the OS X Snow leopard IONetworkingFamily.kext; and in /System/Library/Extensions/ of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2.........in all these systems, the AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext is loading and connecting OS X to the Internet without any problems via my Netgear GA311......make sure that the kext ownership and permissions are correctly set..... From my System Report for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion: ethernet: Type: Ethernet Controller Bus: PCI Vendor ID: 0x10ec Device ID: 0x8169 Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1385 Subsystem ID: 0x311a Revision ID: 0x0010 BSD name: en2 Kext name: AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext Location: /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext Version: 1.1 From my System Report for OS X Mountain Lion: ethernet: Type: Ethernet Controller Bus: PCI Vendor ID: 0x10ec Device ID: 0x8169 Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1385 Subsystem ID: 0x311a Revision ID: 0x0010 BSD name: en2 Kext name: AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext Location: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext Version: 1.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediamac Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 @ mediamac I have the AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext (dated 1 August 2009 06:55 138 KB from OS X 10.6.8/Snow Leopard) in the PlugIns folder of the OS X Lion 10.7.5 IONetworkingFamily.kext, from which it is/was missing i.e. no longer included in the OS X Lion IONetworkingFamily.kext; in the PlugIns folder of the OS X Snow leopard IONetworkingFamily.kext; and in /System/Library/Extensions/ of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2.........in all these systems, the AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext is loading and connecting OS X to the Internet without any problems via my Netgear GA311......make sure that the kext ownership and permissions are correctly set..... From my System Report for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion: ethernet: Type: Ethernet Controller Bus: PCI Vendor ID: 0x10ec Device ID: 0x8169 Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1385 Subsystem ID: 0x311a Revision ID: 0x0010 BSD name: en2 Kext name: AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext Location: /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext Version: 1.1 From my System Report for OS X Mountain Lion: ethernet: Type: Ethernet Controller Bus: PCI Vendor ID: 0x10ec Device ID: 0x8169 Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1385 Subsystem ID: 0x311a Revision ID: 0x0010 BSD name: en2 Kext name: AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext Location: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext Version: 1.1 My Apple8169.kext version states 1.1.4a5 so is that a problem with this version ? Also can you attach your 8169 kext Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 @ mediamac It could be.......where did the kext come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediamac Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 Yes it is inside ionetworkingfamily contents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediamac Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 Not working.I just copied to ionetworkingfamily/contents/plugins and then repair permission from disk utility.The network is lost after sometime.It is working with cpus=1.I am booting with 32 bit let me know the solution. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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