Yeah, i tried kexthelper, and i tried repairing permissions ... Still nothing ...

Hmm that's strange.. i didn't read your post good enough i guess, you said it is recognised etc. Do you have an option for LAN Boot ROM in your BIOS somewhere? If so, turn that on and see what happens.

edit: do you have XP installed? I read something about XP "disabling" the NIC; try to plug the power from your computer for a while (5 min or so), and then boot again into OS X.... I know lots of stupid ideas, but that's the only thing I can think of

Yeah. I dualboot with XP at the moment, because i have no net on OSX... Ill go try your suggestions now, and I'll report back with the results..

Edit: Tried the "LAN Option ROM [Enabled]" option in my bios, now the network is found, and im on the internet (from it now). Next problem, my Audio stopped working this time... But i think thats an IRQ error of some sort.. Im working on a better specification on the problem.

Try reinstalling the audio kexts... Glad your ethernet works now, though LAN Boot ROM does cost you quite some boot time i guess..

Any news for the sleep problem (the DHCP drop)?

Noob Question....
I purchased a Netgear GA311 today to fix my ethernet problems. Well it worked flawlessy for a few hours after a complete reinstall. Then it dropped connection and did a self-assigned ip thing on me. Followed the original OP instructions and it started working again, then it dropped connection again. I thought it was supposed to work out of the box. Chipset is a RTL8169S. Installed using Kalyway 10.5.2. Did I have to load the R1000 patch or should I have left it out?
Thanks,
Robio

Thanx everyone for the work on this driver and the hints in this thread, with the "boot windows - device manager - properties of your card - wake on lan ENABLE" hint I was able to get this running smooth as butter now.

Thanx!

I just made the same purchase for the same reason.

I used the "real" Realtek 2.0 drivers for OSX 10.5 found on their driver page here:

Realtek RTL8110SC(L)/RTL8110S-32/RTL8110SB(L)/RTL8169SB(L)/RTL8169SC(L)RTL8169

Scroll all the way down to the bottom "others" section for the 8169 OSX driver.

I removed the Kalyway installed kext, rebuilt caches, rebooted and installed this one.
Works fine.

[quote name='Signal64' date='May 18 2008, 02:07 AM' post='750144']
I just made the same purchase for the same reason.

I used the "real" Realtek 2.0 drivers for OSX 10.5 found on their driver page here:

Hi, does mDNS work for you with these drivers? (Bonjour, Rendezvous, or however it's called)

cheers

I haven't seen mDNS throw any errors and everything seems to be working fine and stable with the drivers from the realtek site.

Anything in particular you want me to check?

I've used them with Leo4allr3 and Kalyway 10.5.2 installs

Wow there is a lot of file in the zip !! Can someone explain how to install it. The newbie way please .. :-PP.S. I already have another realtek r1xxx driver version installed, i have problem with DHCP leasing (ip drop on sleep). Will this fix my problems ?copland007 do you have a 8111b ? can you go to sleep and don't loose your ip ?

hi... i have discovered this forum a few days ago and i´m really happy with all the people who help this forum. as you can imagine, i´m new on this world of mac and i installed mac os 10.5.1 on my pc. i have already now sound and graphics by still not internet.my lan/ethernet is RTL8111B with all people in this topic say that work fine with this driver, but i really don´t understand nothing about macif would be possible, i would apreciate that you could explain to me step by step how to install the drivers. i´m sorry, i know that there are many people the make the same request be i saw that is needed to put some codes and a really don´t understand nothing. i´ve been reading all text here but i´m still lost.can you help me?Thank you very much for everything, in specialy for the ´people who create this drivers and help this people.sorry for my bad inglishif already exist a driver that is more easy to istall please let me knowthanks

Having issues with NetGear GA311 RealTek 8169 ethernet. Any idea why Kalyway or Zephyroth can't see the card? This card is one of the preferred out of the box ethernet cards. I have a HP 9300 (Tyan K8WE S2895) with Nforce4 for ethernet and this card should be the answer. Ethernet has been the last hurdle for me. This AMD Dual Core Opteron system really screams along and appears quite stable. Once I get this issue sorted out, I'll post a install guide for the 9300 and Tyan 2895 users.

I read a fair amount in the various forums and not much info on Tyan or AMD Opteron - anything I should know. I would think there would be a ton of Tyan MoBos out there.

I tried loading the OSX 10.5 RTL 8169 drivers directly from the Realtek support site and no luck. I tried using the DeviceID identifier and it does not see any cards in the slots.

Anyone other AMD Tyan users have this working?

What kext files is responsible for the motherboard slots?

thanks....

Facking R1000 inet driver, it facked my Mac System (Kalyway 10.5.2 vers.) before this facking driver my mac startet and works without inet but it workeeeedddddd. My PC diddn´t start anymore, how do i get this facking driver fixed or deleted???

I thougt the driver is good ("It works on RTL8169, RTL8168, RTL8110, RTL8111, RTL8100, RTL8101 chips and their modifications") but it facked my PC (macosx).

rtl2news do not touch you computer, it can damage you brain.

Boot in singleuser mode and rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/RealtekR1000.kext

Goooood work MINIMIIIIIIII Good work!!!!!

Where are the Realtek 8139 driver in Linux (ubuntu hardy heron) in wich folder???
Perhaps i can use them for mac.

lol
No, use windows drivers instead.

with the patcher, it patched linux drivers.

Man I also have same realtek RTL8111B but its not working for me. please help me out

i have a Realtek RTL8169 and Leopard 10.5.1 from Zepyroth

I have installed drivers from Realtek official website, if you go to the console and make a "ifconfig", the lan board appears but if you connect the cable, nothing happens. Besides it's not shown on the System Preferences panel

Any ideas ??

I have a K9N Platinum MSI

Hi DeamonES, your driver is running just great; finally proper LAN etc.. Though i'd love to see the sleep issue fixed; IP-adress is lost when woken from sleep. Any idea's for that? Thanks!

Signal64,


sorry for the delay, been outta town,

yes I'd love to know if mDNS really works, never worked for me with the realtek drivers.

other machines on the lan can "see" my hack, but not the other way around. with the driver from DaemonES they show up.

regards

Thanks for a wonderfull job, I finally installed my rtl8169, on MSI MS6702 board under MAC OSX tiger release 10.4.8

Just followed your instructions and life was very easy.

thx
thx

Works with the 8111 controller my MSI K9A2-CF MoBo

Really would love to have jumbo frames capability though, as now the NIC has become a bottleneck.....

I've got a Realtek 8201CL card in this motherboard... And no drivers.

Is that equivalent to another driver that has been nailed?

I tried searching the forum from the search box down there, but it seems that searches are disabled... I tested it by searching for something that I knew was listed in here, and nothing showed up, unless there is some other trick to using the topic/forum search box?

HI, DaemonES.

I've been follow the post for an hour, but I can't find anything for the 8111C. I will try to take a look again, since It's such a long post.. ^^

I got 8111C on the MB, the ven# 10EC and Dev# 8168
The driver is working on 8111b for sure, but I get 8111c.
After loading the driver, it can get the MAC address, and I can configure my IP. I believe the router see me too. It said connect on the network perfernce. I just can't get online.
Is there anything I can do?

Best
thx again for ur great work.
ANd Thanks for any suggestion. ^^

hello guys,i am new here,so please be patient with me

i already download the installer from neo and i install the installer,but nothing happens...
when i restart in booting menu they detect my LAN with something like this "DCHP blablabla".
when i conect the RJ45 cable,nothing happens,the ethernet light is not on.
please help me...

i'm sorry about my english,hope u can understand

Yeah I'm encountering this problem on my DS3L too - no IP address when woken from sleep. A manual reset grabs it, but that's kind of annoying to do every time I wake from sleep.

There a fix for this yet?

Edit: P35-DS3L's Ethernet is supported in Leopard by default, all I had to do was uncheck it from the Kalyway script Thanks Stella!

If you are having problems with this driver, use this official Realtek driver (or at least it seems like it):

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip

Used it on Leopard and Tiger with RTL8111B, 0 problems.

Hi All,

I'm a recent explorer in the OSX86 world and have built a 10.5.2 Kalyway machine to use as an AFP fileserver.

Problem: RTL8111b 1GB LAN stalls after about 2-3GB outbound traffic; running, almost stopping (<100kb/sec), running again etc. In 100Mb mode seems to work without problem. Inbound traffic does not seem to have this problem.

MB: Intel D945GCNL
CPU: Allendale Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz E4600

I've read about using the Realtek RTGMac v_2.0.0 or RTGMac v_1.1.6 driver but am a bit confused if this is necessary.

If needed, how is the driver replacement done? I presume I need to remove the Realtek1000 driver?

All hints appreciated.

Its actually very easy. Just go to the System/Library/Extensions folder, delete RealtekR1000.kext (if its there), run the RTGMac installer, repair permissions, and reboot

Thanks. I'll use the 1.1.6 as you suggested in a previous post.

The Realtek1000.kext was in System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns Folder.

I got the hint from the permissions repair report.

How do you "rebuild caches?" After installing/uninstalling and returning the kext's to their original configuration, the LAN port reports "Cable Disconnected." Will rebuilding the cache help here?

I had a look, and found a newer version (2.0.0). Works like a nicely, don't have to have LAN option ROM enabled in BIOS anymore for the damn thing to work.

HOWEVER.......

It still will not allow frame sizes above 1500. trying to set frame sizes above this result in the following:

hackintosh:/ user$ sudo ifconfig en0 mtu 7200
Password:
ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument

Nice Try,

Oh, I see! Maybe that's why it didn't work when I was using it on 10.4.11...I put it in the Extensions folder. But strangely enough, that worked in 10.4.10 To rebuild caches just go into /System/Library and delete Extensions.mkext, or boot with -f flag.

fcollingwood,

Maybe try 1.1.6, possibly it might not have those restrictions.

I tracked the Realtek 1.1.6 and 2.0.0 install packages to the IONetworking.kext package folder. But, the RealtekR1000 (referenced in earlier posts via sourceforge) separate package installed in the "Extensions" folder. I'm not sure I understand all I know about this...

Thanks for the leads. I chased a few Red Herrings:

R.H.#1 After installing both the 1.1.6 and 2.0.0 Realtek drivers, the original symptom of erratic throughput remained. I reconfigured back to original and got the "Not Connected" message. Well, if I had pressed "Apply" in the Network setup panel, it would have configured, no cache cleaning required... "Operator Error." Oh Well, an another hour or two shot.

R.H#2 I spent a lot of time trying to identify this weird behavior of transmission nearly stopping. When it ran, it was spectacular; 65-70MB/sec. I don't have very good diagnostics but all the testing kept leading back to the server's NIC/drivers.

I installed an Intel Pro/1000 Dual Network Adapter in a PCI slot, installed some drivers from Small Tree and Voila! Actually, I think Leopard already knew how to use this card but I got suckered by the "Not Connected" message and went ahead and installed it. The card worked. I think it is slightly slower than the Realtek but it does not hiccup. I'm thinking the on-board interface is too fast in some way and the driver/AFP layer..., someone may know, can't deal with it. The "kernel task" cpu usage goes to zero during the stalled times. The result with the Intel PCI adapter is a 48-50MB/sec transfer rate that is stable.

Whew! a frustrating afternoon but I have a solution.

Thanks again.

how do i know my ethernet card is working or not??(without conecting to internet)

coz i've downloaded this and installer from neo.it still won't work

Changed installation to use sleepkernel from vanillakernel and all seems to work with the RealtekR1000 driver.

Symptom has returned. I've throttled back to 100Mbs and will re-install Intel PCI card.

is it good on 8139 as well?

@NiceTry

I have some problems at the ethernet too. Both with my onboard at a P35-DS3P and also an RTL8169 Card. And i discovered something strange, unfourtunatly after i bought the PCI Card. Unfourtunatly because i think all this is not related to the RTL drivers. Or maybe not completly, but also to my switch, a D-Link DGS1005.

Some additional information on this. I have three machines, an old G4 (rarely running), my MacBook Pro and the new part in the game, my Hackintosh. Some day when this kind of network breakdown happened the G4 was running too. And i discovered, that both machines disappered from the finder. I cannot connect to anything on the network but there was some heavy activity on the Switch LEDs. So i restarted it (pulled the power plug) and everthing was working as expected again. Nothing to do on the computers, simply restart the switch.

So as an idea for anybody with same problems on their networks. Try to restart your Switch, mybe you get the same healing effect i see. But at the end i dont know what to do. This happened sometimes three or four times a day so this is no solution at all. But on my network it is not related to traffic, but much traffic will "help" to get it

Discussion boards for networking are suggesting to buy a real switch first. HP or linksys or at least something more reliable than an d-Link. Not a cheap way but it might be the only one.

mfg
Michael

To All: Thanks for the advice.

All the tries with the drivers, even the 8139, showed the same symptom.

I used the BOOT-KABYL-BUMBY bootloader, installed my retail OS X and now the LAN works without a problem. I did not have to install any additional network-related drivers.

Now that it works, I gave up chasing the problem since I have so few diagnostics.

NiceTry



I too noticed the shared systems dropping from the finder. I was able to manually connect to the server anyhow. You've given me a clue for the next time it happens: reset the switch (mine is a Netear).

nabend auch,

my solution for the {censored} realtek rtl 8168b with motherboard gb p35-ds3r (kalyway 10.5.2)

i had always the alert "cable unplugged"... arrgggharrrrrr

the way:

1) goto to /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/
2) destroy all the xxxxEthernet.kext stuff
3) repair the rights
4) install "GUT_RTGMac_v2.0.0"

and?! yes, you have connection... welcome to the internet. lol.

iam so happy.

btw: pcwiz and nice try, thank you

xsnapz

p.s.
link driver
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...;Downloads=true

i am despertley looking for RTL8139 kext. can someone help me?
using kalyway 10.5.2

Can anyone explain me how to install the rtl8111?

Thanks....


edit: I reinstalled leopard and it recognize my card by default.
But it says "self-assigned ip"...
How can I solve?

Hi, I just installed the 'real' 2.0 drivers and can report that they do NOT support Bonjour. Unfortunately! I found them to be faster than the RealtekR1000 driver, especially when spooling to my printer.



I installed the 'Real' drivers and my hack can no longer see my time capsule nor my appleTV (both Bonjour boxes). Reverted back to R1000.kext and the devices show up again. Seems like the official drivers dont have Bonjour support.

Maybe if we ask realtek they will add the support... I am going to try

so I'm not imagining things, good to know.

regards

mtrr

If the source for these drivers could be made available they would have a far better change of getting full support and functionality than waiting on them.

I have exactly the same problem, internet works out of the box, same with the "real" drivers. But there's no support for Bonjour, but they're faster . So installed R1000, everything working properly, except for the damn wake from sleep..

Does anyone know how to script DHCP renewal after wake from sleep?

If you look at the Release.txt file that comes with the 'real' drivers, it would seem that a realtek employee by the name of 'Chien Hao' is responsible for the driver. I suspected that his email is ChienHao@realtek.com if follows their naming convention but I got a bounceback.

Anyone have an idea of their naming convention?