Mr. Xtreme Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hello. I though I would start a weekly feature highlighting a great hackintosh utility, a good kext for wll known hardware, a good app for OS X that could or could not be hackintosh related. Anyways, let's start Pretty much every motherboard has ethernet and even in this age of WiFi, people still use it for It's speed and ease of use compared to WiFi. So you definitely need a good kext/driver to use that ethernet adapter and when it comes to Realtek's RTL 8111 series Mieze's RTL8111 kext is the de facto kext considering Realtek, TRENDnet, and Atharos. Specs from Mieze's thread for it here. Key Features of the Driver Supports Realtek RTL8111/8168 B/C/D/E/F/G found on recent boards. Support for multisegment packets relieving the network stack of unnecessary copy operations when assembling packets for transmission. No-copy receive and transmit. Only small packets are copied on reception because creating a copy is more efficient than allocating a new buffer. TCP, UDP and IPv4 checksum offload (receive and transmit). TCP segmentation offload under IPv4. Support for TCP/IPv6 and UDP/IPv6 checksum offload. Fully optimized for Mountain Lion (64bit architecture) but should work with Lion too. As of now there is no support for Snow Leopard but it can be added if someone will create the necessary patches. Supports Wake on LAN. Support for Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) which can be disabled by setting enableEEE to NO in the drivers Info.plist without rebuild. The default is YES. The driver is published under GPLv2. You can download it from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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