mainecrab Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I have an ECS Nforce3 Motherboard. I know the onboard LAN will not work, but I have tried a realtek card, a D-Link card and now a 3Com card all on the HCL. The bootup with -V always stops saying the IOPCIFamily and IONetworking have a problem. I am using 10.4.5 because 10.4.4 would never detect. Before in the 10.4.4 it would not detect but never gave an error on bootup. I wanted to know if anyone has gotten a PCI Ethernet card to work on an Nforce3 Motherboard. I am pretty much giving up besides ordering a USB card and trying that. Thanks, Mainecrab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camel Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 I tried the realtek 8139D and 3 com 3c905b tx, they both work prefect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxx2097 Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 I got the same problem here with a Gigabyte (NF3) Motherboard. Im using a no-name 8139D. I had to shuffle my PCI cards (e.g. choose another PCI slot, farmost from your VGA-card). Then it worked just out of the box with 10.4.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainecrab Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 I will try that today. I think I tried all the slots though. Also downloading 10.4.3 incase it does not work. Also did you have the same problem of it stopping like that? Or did it just not detect? If it stopped at those two kext then I will feel more confident that I can get it working. I will feel kind of stupid that just moving it from PCI slots would make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxx2097 Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Yes it did stop. Even in WindowsXP the card was not working at first (it was detected, but said "no media connected"). However, moving it to another slot solved the problem for me (Win and OSX). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainecrab Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 I finally got this working under 10.4.3. Since I downloaded it the other day and I wanted to try that first. It worked with no problem. But I did move the card to the last PCI slot on the board and maybe that was the kicker and not 10.4.3. So tonight ill go ahead and install 10.4.5 on another drive and see if it works under there. If not ill just stick with the 10.4.3. Mainecrab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxx2097 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 You can still use the IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.4.3 in 10.4.5 if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainecrab Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 Yes, but I think the Myzar image already has the kext for that in the image. But yes if I have any problems I will copy it over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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