limneos

Hello...

I managed to install SL on an ASUS P5LD2-X/1333 mobo using this guide :
(which probably makes it a success story on a non-Gigabyte mobo)
http://www.insanelym...howtopic=181699

(btw, it needed 2 Gigs of RAM, when I tried with 1 GIG, the installer paniced at boot... or my 1 gig alone had a problem)

Specs:

Mobo: ASUS P5LD2-X/1333

CPU: Intel E2160 DualCore 1.80GHz

Ram : 2Gigs DDR2 Kingston

Vga: Nvidia 7200GS 256MB

HDD: IDE + SATA

LAN: D-LINK DFE-528 (PCI), Onboard Intel Pro Card (disabled from BIOS,malfunctioning even in windows)


BIOS SETTINGS: ACPI 2.0 support=enabled, ACPI APIC Support=Enabled


Anyways, the point is , it worked fine on first boot...I had network, I didn't have sound and I didn't have my Nvidia OpenGL enabled. But I had network and internet, the DFE-528 was recognized.

Now, I did the following: I added my EFI string for my Nvidia 7200GS to com.apple.Boot.plist, rebooted and I had full graphics support (transparencies, etc). But I lost my network.

So I created hex string for my network card via osx86tool, joined the strings and rebooted.

I had vga acceleration,I didn't have network.

I figured, I must have done something wrong or there might be a conflict with the VGA string.

So, I restored com.apple.Boot.plist to it's original settings, like it was on first boot (no efi strings) and rebooted. Still no network.

I'm gonna try a REALTEK 8139 net card, but does anyone think of any solution?

I even removed the EFI string and used natit nvidia driver, which gave me vga acceleration, but still no net. Is it that DFE-528 is not supported in SL? Forgive me if it's mentioned anywhere and I didn't find it.



Thank you all in advance

edit: I made changes to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist, not in /Extra...

edit2: Realtek 8139 worked....