Leopard 10.5.2 hangs while booting

[rob van praat]

EDIT: When I disable the network card, there appears to be no problem, so the network card has to be the problem. The network card was working properly in windows. How can i avoid this problem?

 

Hello all,

 

First of all, I'm pretty new to all this, but somehow I seemed to have managed to install Leopard with the Iatkos v2.0i (or something like that) (no dualboot, just OSX). However, when the system tries to boot itself after installation, it hangs. Therefore i used the '-v' to see where it goes wrong. I tried to search for it on the forum but I was unable to find it. The last 5 lines that i get when i'm trying to boot are the following:

 

dsmos: Initializing

dsmos: Hook and decryption contexts set!

dsmos: Starting

RTL8139::fixEnetFlowControl - Flow Control is disabled

com_apple_driver_RTL8139: Ethernet address 00:0f:ea:b0:b7:13

I checked to forum to see whether it could be something with the network PCI card, but this network card should be supported, at least, that's what I discovered.

 

It just keeps hanging for hours after this last line. What could be the problem and might be a solution?

 

Thanks

[BigPimpin]

That RTL8139 driver seems to be hanging up the system, but it shouldn't. So it's weird. Where it says, "(should be given by the router (DHCP))" is that verbatim or is that your comment? The reason I ask is that a router will assign an IP Address, e.g. 192.168.1.100 or similar, whereas 00:0f:ea:b0:b7:13 is an ethernet hardware address, a MAC address, which is NEVER assigned by the router/DHCP. The MAC address is embedded in the hardware. (OK, if you want to get technical, the MAC address can be changed on certain hardware but it's rarely done and only in very unusual circumstances - even then it's not the router that does it.)

[rob van praat]

That RTL8139 driver seems to be hanging up the system, but it shouldn't. So it's weird. Where it says, "(should be given by the router (DHCP))" is that verbatim or is that your comment? The reason I ask is that a router will assign an IP Address, e.g. 192.168.1.100 or similar, whereas 00:0f:ea:b0:b7:13 is an ethernet hardware address, a MAC address, which is NEVER assigned by the router/DHCP. The MAC address is embedded in the hardware. (OK, if you want to get technical, the MAC address can be changed on certain hardware but it's rarely done and only in very unusual circumstances - even then it's not the router that does it.)

 

I added (should be given by the router (DHCP)). I'm confuing the mac address with the IP address, I'm sorry. But when I disable the network card in my BIOS, the computer boots up without problems.

[int3rc3pt0r]

Well I am also new to using Snow Leopard .. I have the same problem .. it hangs with the smiliar error message ..

I removed the Network Card it works fine ... Please anyone ..help ..

I am good with Windows and all but have fallen in love with Mac ..

 

Regards ,

int3rc3pt0r