1) If PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext is at the both locations i.e.
[i] /System/Library/Extensions &
[ii] /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/

the kext is loaded but i get error as following:



and "dmesg | grep 8139" gives results as below




2) If PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext is only at one locations i.e. /System/Library/Extensions

then kext load fails with no PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext in the System Profiler.



i feel i'm very near, but dont know what exactly i'm doing wrong...

how to make PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext to act as plug-in of IONetworkingFamily.kext i.e. /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/ without making two copies of PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext as one is already there in /System/Library/Extensions ??

Delete one of the two (e.g., /System/Library/Extensions) , then fix permissions, and reboot with the -f flag. That should do it.

You only need one. Two will create a problem. You could also delete both, then reinstall one at either location.

Best

Solved...!

I just tried anathor LAN card from the RealTek which shows RTL8139/810x on windows, and it has 8139c printed on it instead of 8139d.

and booommm... it worked as soon as i restarted the system after plugging it in without installing any kext what so ever...!!

Loved Safari...

Thankyou. Thankyou. Thankyou.

I installed mac os x 10.4.9 tubgirl release today on my amd 64 e-machines computer...

Sound didn't work but I found a realtek pkg on this forum, worked great. My ethernet did not work so first I tried using the nforce4 kext, it didn't work at all...

I noticed my other computer had an old ethernet card so I tried plugging that in. Mac os had a new kext error message. I had no idea what kind of ethernet card this was but I searched for the error message on this forum and came to your post. I did the 'risk takers' approach and went into system preferences>networking and low and behold built in ethernet was finally detected. I now have a fully working mac os x system! (i think)

So you can add that this will work with 10.4.9, at least the tubgirl amd release

Okay... When I type in "dmesg" I get:

dmesg:
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: vendorID = 0x10ec deviceID = 0x8139 revisionID = 0x0010
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: found PIO accessor at d001
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: found MMIO accessor at F8110000
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: using PIO access mode...
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: io access at csrBase=d000.
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: Ethernet address 00:40:f4:17:3b:ef

But, i can't see my network card in the networkwindow

Can somebody please help me?

PS: In dthe System Profiler it says:

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingfamili

"No valid version of this depency can be foun"

Can smb upload PCGenRTL8139Ethernet-1.2.0.zip file to other site. Sendspace sux:/

Works like a charm with uphuck's 10.4.9. v1.2 release! Thanks a whole bunch!

Problemo. The network card is present , but I can`t get IP address from DHCP. My ISP assings IP from DHCP automatically . In System Preference/Network always shows me that IP is 169.xxx.xxx.xx . I tried renew , but nothing changed . Any ideas????

I use Mac 10.4.8 SSE2/SSE3 by Jas kernel 8.8.1.

Compaq Presario R3275US(P4 Northwood SSE2, igp9100, ati mobility radeon 9200)

Thanks, this worked like a charm on my HP a1130n with an onboard Realtek RTL8139/810x NIC.

Hi guys!

I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pa1510 notebook, with Realtek 8139 ethernet, and installed Uphuck 1.4a successfully, but i dont have internet. I think Airport would work, but i cant test it right now. I tried with AppleRTL8139 modified and this PCGenRTL, but still, when i want to look at the network preferences it crashes, saying unexpected quit. Crash report says:Exc_bad_access, and Kern_invalid_id_address (0X0001) at 0Xa3250002. I dont know what to do, i followed the steps written here step to step. I deleted all instances of AppleRTL, and only PCGenRTL is shown in system profiler in software->Extensions Still nothing. Crashes all the time.
Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!
i been at this for a week, now heres the thing, i have a broadcom 802.11 multiband network card (wireless with bluetooth)
now, i have tubgirls 10.4.10 and it see's the bluetooth but i cant get the wireless to work

Have you solved the problem, because i've got the same or can anybody else solve it?
thank you

I had the DHCP issue getting an address. Deleted the Apple3189.kext and it's now working fine.

It helped. Thanks a lot. The card was al-cheapo RTL8139D based. Have to delete the RealtekR1000.kext

I patch it on my laptop Compaq Presario C500 (xXx 10.4.10, kernel 8.10.1) and it work perfectly ...thanks oRbyte

Hi,

Thanks it works on my mobo. however just a small problem where everytime i restart it gives

Thanks

Worked perfectly on my compaq v500 laptop. Tubgirl 10.4.10

Don

hi,

If I'm right, I can get my onboard RTL8139 Ethernet working on my uphuck 10.4.9 v1.4, if I use a kext from Tubgirl's appropriate release. Would someone help me and email it to me? having no other downloading opportunity, just my non-working osx86 laptop, I could hardly go on without your kind help... please pm me, if you could send me this kext!

thanks in advance!

In installation information file there is a path to delete AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext directory
rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext

But additional this driver is located in another location and in some situation (like I was) system hang out after start. So additional it shoud be deleted from /System/Library/Extension/:
rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext

Hi,
i've a PC on VMware...
i've tried to rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext
but he said "no such file or directory"
i've a OS 10.4.8...

WHY?!?!?

Thanks, this works well on Leopard.

Hi Envying,

I have a dfe-538tx card..ver:f2. (which is RTL8139 chips.I guess your is early version..)
I saw your messages on the forum..
I still cannot get it work..could you please give me some help ?
Thanks in advance..

My onboard 8139 is very slow with the leopard stock driver, and older versions of ionetworkingfamily don't work (appears as cable disconnected)

anyone can make this to work with IONetworkingfamily.kext from leopard?
maybe recompile this?

Hi, I have tried the driverr but i fails... any idea, the output is here


com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: vendorID = 0x1904 deviceID = 0x8139 revisionID = 0x0001
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: found PIO accessor at febffc00
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: found MMIO accessor at E801
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: using PIO access mode...
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: io access at csrBase=2aa9ec00.
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: Software reset failed...
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: Attempting hard reset...
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: chip reset timed out
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: initAdapter() failed


i am stuck...

Hey Pal,

I made that mistake long time ago, actually my Dlink DFE-538TX is a Via Rhine Chip based NIC. I am using the driver from www.pinxue.net. It works for me under tiger and Leo! Make sure exact chip your NIC is using, then apply correct driver...

Good Luck,

Envying

Hi this means that this driver will not work for your card.

Best.

On other news a Leo version of the driver has been made by John Stormdrake. People having problems under Leo should try this.

I use leopard baut the driver by john don't work .
the ven ist 100b und dev 0020.
the nr. fault in the info.plist.
can i write the nummber in the info.plist?
what is the nummer of my device for the plist?

0x0020100B dosent't work (it's wrong?)

it's no rtl card:(
netgeasr say it'S "Single-Chip-Lösung (RTL8139D)" (faa311)
but den vendor/device id says its a National Semiconductor DP83815.
give it a driver for thise chip?



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I have an external (PCI) DLink DFE 520TX (RTL 8139?) Lan Card.

I installed the patch mentioned above for leopard but it still won't enable my card.

I would appreciate any help. TIA.

Okay, I just bought a PCI LAN with Realtek 8139D chipset, installed the leopard patch above but it still won't detect my card.

I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks.

Well I'd would really appreciate some help.I'm running IATKOS 1.0 - the Leopard install. All has gone well except that my machine refuses to find the 8139 wifi card.I have deleted all references to the AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext I could find and then installed the John Stormdrake version from 30/12/07."about this mac" system extensions reports that this extension is installed. It tells me it is valid, it is authorised and that the dependencies are satisfied.If I go to /system/library/extensions/ionetworkingfamily.kext/contents/plugins/applertl8139ethernet.kext/contents/info.plistthe realtek 8139 card is there, complete with the correct device and vendor id, which is 0x813910ec under IOPCIMatchI know the wifi card works, because it worked under Windows Vista and also works under Ubuntu (which is how I found the device and vendor ID)The only hint I can get from the directories that something isn't right is that /system/library contains a file Extensions.mkext with a date and time stamp of when I installed the new drivers. This is the same date and time stamp as /system/library/extensions, so I guess both relate to the new driver installation.I'm not clear where this should appear as an option - I assume it should appear as an ethernet card. However Ethernet shows "Cable Unplugged" on adaptor en0, with no other adaptor presentI guess this must be very close to working, but haven't any idea where to go next - all ideas welcome!A bit more info - network utility reports that my interface (en0) is a Realtek 8139. Link Status is "Inactive" It also gives me what looks like a MAC Address 00:03:0d:5b:40:08I guess that is some progress - I was assuming that en0 was the built in network card

richardyates i think the problem is because you card is wifi and the chipset have the same name but it's completely diferent model and that is unsuported rigth now, this driver is only for onboard or pci that uses cable, in you case you must look for a wifi driver who may suit for you card

any way i think this is the problem, anyway i dont have a wifi card to test, if someome have a more detailed explain please post you results

Hi all,
I have a Realtek 8139d based card installed , which works perfectly with windows.But when i check for pci card in system profiler in Leopard, it dosent even list the card.
I have tried installing PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext, which is loading with some errors.

I cant figure out the problem is in the driver or something to do with the hardware installation .

help really appreciated , thanks

Hey all. Just wondering if I could take this opportunity to pick your gargantuan brains.

Using a Dell Dimension 9200 - on-board Intel NIC not working, so I went and bought a cheapo Dynamode NC-100TX-DL internal PCI NIC (after unsuccessfully trying a few NICs we had lying around in the office).

DCPI Manager reports that I have:

1904:8139
Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
RTL8139D [Realtek] PCI 10/100BaseTX ethernet adaptor

So I've been looking for drivers for Realtek RTL819D cards. I've tried PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext and John Stormdrake's AppleRTL8139Ethernet for Leopard. This is on a completely fresh install of Kalyway. Nothing appears to be happening at all.

In System Profiler, I can't see any of these extensions being loaded.

Should either of these drivers work? Or do I have a very unfortunate unsupported card? Thanks for any help!

I think you ll need to add the driver ID details to the info.plist file.

Best

I think I've tried adding the device ID number to the plist, but to no avail. Can you suggest which driver I should use?

Should one of these drivers work? Might there be a reason why the driver might not work, even though its based on the realtek 8139 chipset.

If it doesn't work after trying to add the device ID again, should I go out and buy a different card, and give up on this one? If I do one, can anyone suggest one that is known to work on 10.5.1 Kalyway?

Thanks!

On my computer with Kalyway 10.5.1, RTL8139C is working out of the box as they say, but its working so slowly that I can't download anything from Local Network or Internet!

Can anybody give me some advise what could be problem?
Bugsy

I have been trying to fix my rtl8139d card for more than month now with no success..
Finally exchanged the dreaded card with a friend ...
Installed the RTl8139C ,loaded the PCGen kext and boom my network started workin..


Thanks a lot orByte for the driver!!..

RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10), Posted Today, 01:17 PM | Report Edit | Quote
Is there a solution to make rtl8139 stable on iatkos ( ToH:xnu-1228.0.2~1/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386)?
The driver PCGenRTL8139Ethernet.kext works. Only when heavy network traffic, the networkinterface lost connections. The follow specs from the network card:


0000:00:0a.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at febff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
When kext is loaded, all looks okay:
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: vendorID = 0x10ec deviceID = 0x8139 revisionID = 0x0010
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: found PIO accessor at d001
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: found MMIO accessor at FEBFF800
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: using PIO access mode...
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: io access at csrBase=d000.
com_orByte_driver_RTL8139: Ethernet address 00:02:44:71:11:9d


Thanks for the great release.
Spec system Asrock 4coredual-vsta, GeForce 7300 GT, SATA

Hi orByte,

Your driver works on Leopard releases, however, on nforce mobos (I dont know if the issue exist on other chipsets as well) has drops after heavy usage... Looking at your notes, you are saying specific IONetworkingFamily, and kernel versions in mind when compiling the driver... as last kernel to be 8.8.1 in your note, since 8.8.1 the kernel had a major change since than! new scheduler and some other things added to all future kernels after 8.8.1 I think...

I am just wondering, if you could recompile your driver to get it work on new IONetworkingFamily (i dont know if it is kernel depended), and new kernel on Leopard releases... If you could consider recompling, we will be greatefull to your efforts... Thank you...

note: I tried the one you posted as link (for leo one), it has same results... drops the connection and cant get back on, so I dont know if the driver has some flow control issues or miscommunication with kernel... it s odd but device showing up ok, but it doesnt connect to network, and cant get ip address, even if u unload/reload the driver... i m not so technical, but if it exist, something related to flow and if any buffers exist it cant flush them or something like that occuring, that only restart gets it back on... but when you have heavy usage, it disconnects and never come alive until next restart...

note 2: my guess is like i said in previously, problem is related to either driver design, or kernel, and caused by caches/buffers (if anything related to it in the driver) being flooded and cant be flushed automatically, not even reloading of the driver works, only full restart gets it back...

i ve this theory bcoz new kernels all after 8.8.1 had new scheduler that has a new function to flush caches/buffers (according to Kabyl, who made the nforce kernels after finding the cause and patching the nforce kernel available...) so if there is anything related to flushing caches/buffers in the rtl8139 driver structure, it is first to be looked... if you would we will all appreciate it...

Sorry. I no longer own an RTL board and am no longer working on this project. However, my source code is out there. And interested parties pls. feel free to refer to it when making a new version. I think John Stormdrake had posted a Leo version (link at post 1 of this thread). That might be a good lead.

Best.

I've got a 8139D and a 8139C card. The C card didnt work at all and the D card establishes a connection gets IP but then nothing works :-( is there any solution? Tried already with unplugging computer for some minutes.

EDIT:
made a clean reinstall now with the iAtkos DVDs built in drivers for the 8139. Now the D card was found the C card still not. But if i have a bit more network load than with normal website browsing, the connection terminats :-(

Hi John/orByte,

Running Xephyroth Leopard 10.5.2 on a Hackinstosh. Tried the Leo driver. Network very smooth, not slow - BUT dmesg and Console show these message recurring every few seconds:

{ 0 8003a03c} RTL8139::outputPacket - Tx Error
{ 1 8003a03c} RTL8139::outputPacket - Tx Error
{ 2 8003a03c} RTL8139::outputPacket - Tx Error
{ 3 8003a03c} RTL8139::outputPacket - Tx Error

Is this bad? Why is this happening?

Network Utility confirms these errors. There are zero Received packet errors - only errors are sent packets. But strangely (and fortunately!) it is not contributing to any network slowness or erratic behaviour.

Hello ,

I added my IOPCIMatch for the SiS900 (0x09001039) but therre is a problem ,
The driver seems to get the correct revisionID and the MMIO accessor btu dies on the reset



thank's

Hi it looks like this driver does not support your network card. Your card likely has a different register layout that the RTL one. There might be a sis driver out there.

Best

Does anybody knows if it works with the Dlink DFE 520TX? Thanks so much for the answer...

I have tried this on my CompaQ Presaro R3000 (R3230us) that has onboard Realtek 8139 and it worked for me with JaS 10.4.8


I made sure that AppleRTL8139.kext was removed from both the ../Library/Extensions folder, and from within the IONetworkingFamily kext.

I used the following commands:


Upon reboot, it worked for me. Thank you guys for making this thread. Two things though:

1 - It seems that my lan is still not detected, because when I go to the "System Preferences -- Network" area, built in ethernet does not seem active. But, when I plug in the ethernet, the lights come on from the jack and the internet works -- and yes, i made sure the airport was disabled.

2. - Good job guys!

Kalyway 10.5.2 runs without problems on my packard bell iMedia. But I want to know if I can get my wifi working.
Read thru this topic, but I didn't get much wiser
Maybe cause I been using OS X for just 1 singele day now (in my whole life!)

Can anyone tell me if my wifi will work?
And what I have to do to get it to work?!

See screenshot for little more info.

If someone wants more info.
It's this computer

http://support.packardbell.com/uk/item/ind...0310&g=1400

does anybody know how to get the Realtek 8139 on -board ethernet working with iATKOS 2.0i?
will it work wirelessly?