colacoca Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Hello, I have a Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3 Mainboard (Nforce 560, AMD Athlon X2 AM2) with onBoard Ethernet. After a long search, i've found a solution which could work. (I did like in this Thread) The Adapter has been recognized by Leopard 1.5.2 (Kalyway), and mac os says, "connected". But a connection to my router could not be established. I assume that through the edited info.plist the system thinks that there is a network adapter, but the driver cannot handle it. Or something like that. Would be great if someone could give me advice, what to do to get a network connection, cause an OS without internet is like a car without engine PS: My soundcard works fine (M-Audio Fast Track Pro), which does not run on Vista or XP without installing drivers from M-Audio homepage... so my ethernet adapter has to work to Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101656-realtek-rtl8211-detected-but-not-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDJ Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 I am in the same boat...did you ever find a solution? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101656-realtek-rtl8211-detected-but-not-working/#findComment-751764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haxzion Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Same here..i dont think there is a fully working driver for that NIC yet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101656-realtek-rtl8211-detected-but-not-working/#findComment-751800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDJ Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Ya, I am about to give up on that NIC....It detects if I plug the ethernet csble into the router and if I disconnect it, but it just self assigns a IP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101656-realtek-rtl8211-detected-but-not-working/#findComment-752837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sauce Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Bump! Has anyone resolved this issue yet or can guide us to where to go? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101656-realtek-rtl8211-detected-but-not-working/#findComment-893465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsos1os Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Hi. I installed JAS 10.5.4 the patched version, and downloaded this 0.62.3n beta_osx from here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=125569 After power down for a minute and disconnecting the network cable, once i pluged it in, it found the correct ip address under dhcp, and the internet works too, however the system hangs after the first webpage is loaded.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101656-realtek-rtl8211-detected-but-not-working/#findComment-949686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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