Shaj Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 Any of the Leopard users here having success with the onboard RTL8139? I've tried all the drivers availabe and keep having the same problem. The connection drops after about 1/2hr. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later. I've read about someone substituting the IONetwoking file from Tiger into Leopard. Anyone try this solution and would it generally cause any problems in Leopard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beeboo Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 download this Remove the AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext inside the /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns directory and place the extracted PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext from PCGenRTL8139Ethernet-1.2.0.zip in the same directory. Repair permissions, remove /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and reboot. have fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axethrower Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 Hello, I had the same problems with connection drops. I also tried the v1.2 but this didn't help. Then I found this kext : Click Here This comes from the guy here : Click (see his sig) Now I have a stable working RT8139. Before I had random drops. So you have 2 things to try out now :pirate2: Greetz Axethrower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaj Posted November 22, 2007 Author Share Posted November 22, 2007 download thisRemove the AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext inside the /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns directory and place the extracted PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext from PCGenRTL8139Ethernet-1.2.0.zip in the same directory. Repair permissions, remove /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and reboot. have funHey jdid...thanks for the link but, unfortunately, that's the one I'm using at present. I had the sudden connection drop with that one as well.Hello,I had the same problems with connection drops.I also tried the v1.2 but this didn't help.Then I found this kext :Click Here This comes from the guy here :Click (see his sig)Now I have a stable working RT8139. Before I had random drops.So you have 2 things to try out now GreetzAxethrowerHey Axe...thanks for the link...but can I confirm you're using this driver with Leopard and NOT Tiger?The author's problem seemed to be with Tiger and not leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axethrower Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 Hi, Yes I'm using this in Leopard and not in Tiger. The connection drops were a misery so I tried a lot to fix this. So I used this driver , even if it was meant for Tiger , on my leopard. I'm using this 3 days without a single connection drop so I'm pretty sure it fixed my problem. Greetz Axethrower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaj Posted November 22, 2007 Author Share Posted November 22, 2007 Hi, Yes I'm using this in Leopard and not in Tiger. The connection drops were a misery so I tried a lot to fix this. So I used this driver , even if it was meant for Tiger , on my leopard. I'm using this 3 days without a single connection drop so I'm pretty sure it fixed my problem. Greetz Axethrower Woo Hooo!!! That's got me all happy & excited!!!! I'm gonna go home and try it firtst thing! Thanks again Axe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaj Posted November 22, 2007 Author Share Posted November 22, 2007 Woo Hooo!!!That's got me all happy & excited!!!! I'm gonna go home and try it firtst thing! Thanks again Axe! Hey Axe... I tried the kext...I thought it was working and then all of a sudden disconnected I thought I'd try and re-do it but I'm having a bigger problem now!!!! For some reason it says 'Self-Assigned IP' instead of 'Connected'. And now I can't connect at all!!!!!!! I tried renewing DHCP lease but it still doesn't work!!! Nothing works!!!! Tiger works perfectly (where I'm posting from now). Does anyone know how I can fix this????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podarok Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 nice to hear It helps U guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyKelly Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 the kext from axe didn't work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podarok Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 try to install it via kexthelper - pissibly Your system starts up with another rtl8139 instance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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