Realtek rtl8187 P5W DH Deluxe

[pkarza]

I successfully built a Hackintosh, and tried Kalyway, Ideneb, and iatkos - all worked - but I chose boot 132 as it worked with 10.5.5 and allowed all updates...

 

(just a little history)

 

Previously, I had the wireless working on the P5W DH deluxe motherboard that includes the Realtek rtl8187 chipset with drivers from Realtek - but they do not work on 10.5.5 ... weird.

 

The Marvel Yukon wired network works great! BUT I would like to know if anyone has and success with 8187 using boot132 and 10.5.5

 

Thanks!!

 

Hackintosh P5W DH deluxe, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4 gb ram, ATI X1900XTX with NATIT_edited, 500 gb hd, 21.6" Dell LCD, Antec Sonata case

[Peskydor]

I have the same motherboard and ran in the same issues and then some,

installing the just the package, uninstalling, searching the boards,

until I did a little tweaking:

 

1. Installed retail 10.5.5 with the EFI partition

2. Downloaded the driver package from Realtek and went through the whole thing until I found rtl8187.kext which I extracted.

3. installed the rtl8187.kext on the EFI partition /Volumes/EFI/Extensions (in one of the howtos)

4. installed the wireless package which installed everything like before.

5. Viola! at least for me the wireless Lan now works.

 

hope that helps

[peach-os]

the difference is the retail - same here........ with retail install 100% working

[pkarza]

Ok - so how do I install EFI? I tried Chameleon 1.0.11 and it killed my install and I had to re-install... IS EFI installed with retail install

 

YES... I am a NOOB - but not new to any kind of computer system... just Hackintosh for now... excuse my lack of knowledge.

[peach-os]

if applying EFI or chameleon doesn´t work, there is no need to reinstall. as soon you do it correctly it will boot again. for all other questions - a better search engine http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=00948655...297:e41g72sr-ba