inspiron2 Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 ASRock 775Dual-VSTA, VIA 880 chipset based, 2GB RAM, IDE hdd and DVD drive. No SATA devices. NVidia 6200 AGP. Ethernet is builtin: VIA PHY VT6103. I applied the theStevo patch to Kalyway 10.5.1 before install. All individual files and the resulting ISO passed the MD5 checks. During install customization, I selected theStevo's 775Dual-VSTA package, video driver, GUID EFI, and nothing else. I did NOT choose Vanilla kernel (choosing Vanilla will put system into endless reboot cycles!). The nework is not working. Error message: cable is unplugged. theStevo patch supposedly installed the network driver (and I did see VIARhine kext in the /System/Library/Extensions folder). I tried setting up the network manually (i.e. without DHCP), and tried a few other tricks too--like choosing off in the advanced settings, etc. But no go. I then downloaded another driver (http://www.pinxue.net/mac/viarhine-rel.tar.gz) listed on the 775Dual-VSTA page (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/775Dual-VSTA), and it didn't help either. CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP WITH GETTING NETWORK GOING ON 775Dual-VSTA running 10.5.1 (No Vanilla kernel)? By the way, despite reports that this board is well supported under Mac OS X, installing 10.5.1 was a hell. May be the "compatibility" reports are from older version of Mac OS. After install, system would either get into an endless reboot cycle, or sometimes it would just hang with a message about some com.apple.plist file not found. -v option didn't help during reboot cycles because it all happened so fast that you couldn't read. I tried Kalyway 10.5.1 with and without theStevo patch. Nothing helped. I also tried a SATA DVD, but that didn't help either. Finally, came accross a suggestion to NOT select Vanilla Kernel during install, and also zero out the hard drive. Did that, and I was able to install and boot into Mac OS X just fine. (Finally!) thanks much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspiron2 Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 any body? please... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspiron2 Posted September 30, 2008 Author Share Posted September 30, 2008 still no ideas... please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T. Rae Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 still no ideas... please help! Are you trying to get your network going? I've been searching online for the past 3 days! And finally found a solution, I just posted how I did it about an hour ago. Not sure if that will help with yours though, This is for a Realtek RTL8187B Wireless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspiron2 Posted September 30, 2008 Author Share Posted September 30, 2008 Hi T.Rae, Thanks for the help. But unforuntaley my network card is not RealTek. It is listed as VIA® PHY VT6103. Hi T.Rae, Thanks for the help. But unforuntaley my network card is not RealTek. It is listed as VIA® PHY VT6103. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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