LeijonaSisu

I've been running Linux for a few years so I know the dangers of running the Sudo command. The installation is only a Hackintosh and can be rebuilt within about 20 minutes from my Lion USB with absolutely no trouble at all. I simply wiped the system and then reinstalled all of the .kexts properly the first time around. It's been 3 or so days now and I haven't had any problems with shut downs or anything. Though the PC did crash just once from going to 'sleep' and then never waking up. I just simply turned sleep off and haven't had the problem since.

Thanks for your help you were undoubtedly the one who found the fix for me and now I have a fully working Hackintosh, Linux and Windows 7 machine. I am very grateful.

Thanks for being so much help. I rebuilt permissions and deleted the cache. But after running the installer it didn't look like the .kext was removed... When I went to Apple > About this Mac > More Info > System Report > Ethernet cards, it was still the appleRTL8169 after the installation. So I would assume that i was still using the problematic .kext.

I then pulled up another terminal and ran: cd //system/extensions etc. etc. etc.
then I removed the .kext with: sudo rm -rf AppleExtensionEthernet.kext etc.

Now I'm going to do a reboot and try running the installer again because something tells me it didn't remove the .kext for me and I just did.

Apple > About this Mac > More Info > System Report > Ethernet cards, now shows an Ethernet card but no .kext is referenced.

EDIT: Ok rebooted and got a pretty uninformative kernel panic:

Rebooted again, no problem. I didn't run the .kext installer and I'm going to try running it now..

EDIT AGAIN: Ok it still doesn't look like anything has changed in system settings.. there is still no .kext referenced. So I don't know if it's working or not. I'm going to do a clean install. Fingers crossed that this will be the last one I have to do.

Ok.. so what can I do to fix it? If I use my wireless.. my speed is far, far less than if use my Ethernet.. is it just a case of what kext I am using for my Ethernet? Can I use a different one, will that fix the problem? This rebooting issue is the only negative thing I am dealing with when using this Hackintosh... I'd really like to be able to not have to worry about crashes.

EDIT: Apparently according to this: http://www.asus.com/...#specifications

My ethernet is a: Realtek® 8111E , 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller

I'm not 'usually' as dumb as I look but from that kernel panic it looks to me as if my Hackintosh is using the .kext RTL8169 for my Ethernet... am I right or wrong?
Putting 2 and 2 together would suggest that it's using the wrong .kext? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here...

Thanks a ton for the info. I fixed the permissions and so far it's been about 5 hours and there hasn't been any crashes. It crashed once an hour after I fixed permissions but that was the moment I ran a 'firewall' program. So I think it may have had something to do with that. I'll reboot the machine and run it in -v verbose.

So running it in -v means that it will give me an error screen next time that the crash occurs and I can read what the problem is? I thought it only 'booted verbosely'

Thanks again for the info my PC seems to be a lot more stable now anyway. I'd say I'm 99% of the way there.

Ok it crashed again, and then I rebooted and it crashed again instantly.. Here is a picture I took:



Can you guys make anything of that?

Didn't realise discussing that was banned edited my post.

Minor edit: Very funny except that this has happened 25 times now.. and it stops me from being able to do anything :/