*ALMOST* have 10.5.7 working except for networking.

[MrKrinkle]

I've managed to get everything working with 10.5.7 except the networking. Here is what I have, what I did, and what I can't do: (btw if I get this working I'll post this as a tutorial for others)

 

What I have:

ASUS P5E-VM HDMI

4 gig

used GUID for the drive

nvidia geforce 7600 gs

 

What I did:

1. I installed the iAtkos 10.5.7 distribution,

2. Installed the drivers from this thread:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=121548

3. (including the chamaleon dfe thing)

 

What I can't do:

1. Everything is awesome except no networking. (There was no networking before I installed the drivers either, so it's not like putting the drivers in removed something.)

2. If I go to the Networking pane in System settings, it hangs on the beachball forever.

3. If I go into safari and click the button (what's it called- on the page you get "you are not connected to the internet click here to....), then on the panel it gives me, I have no choices (Ethernet, Modem, etc) except other, which doesn't do anything either.

 

Here is my NetworkInterfaces.plist right now:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Interfaces</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>Active</key>

<true/>

<key>BSD Name</key>

<string>en1</string>

<key>IOBuiltin</key>

<true/>

<key>IOInterfaceType</key>

<integer>6</integer>

<key>IOInterfaceUnit</key>

<integer>1</integer>

<key>IOMACAddress</key>

<data>

ABRR3BE5

</data>

<key>IOPathMatch</key>

<string>IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P3@1C,2/IOPCI2PCIBridge/ethernet@0/AirPort_Athr5424ab/AtherosM35abInterface</string>

<key>SCNetworkInterfaceType</key>

<string>Ethernet</string>

</dict>

<dict>

<key>Active</key>

<true/>

<key>BSD Name</key>

<string>fw0</string>

<key>IOBuiltin</key>

<true/>

<key>IOInterfaceType</key>

<integer>144</integer>

<key>IOInterfaceUnit</key>

<integer>0</integer>

<key>IOMACAddress</key>

<data>

AB6MAAFwDZU=

</data>

<key>IOPathMatch</key>

<string>IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P1@1E/IOPCI2PCIBridge/pci1106,3044@3/AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController/IOFireWireLocalNode/IOFireWireIP/IOFWInterface</string>

<key>SCNetworkInterfaceType</key>

<string>FireWire</string>

</dict>

</array>

</dict>

</plist>

 

What other info should I give you experts? BTW, I admin linux boxes and write software, for 10 years, so you can throw stuff at me. I'm just newish to this macos hacking stuff...

 

BTW I can't settle for anything less than 10.5.7 because the whole point here is to play around with iphone apps. Need 10.5.7 for that at minimum. All I really want this for is iphone apps dev.

thanks

[Skyper]

is it wireless or ethernet ?

[MrKrinkle]

is it wireless or ethernet ?

 

ethernet.

[Skyper]

can you provide us with more specific info of your ethernet?

[MrKrinkle]

can you provide us with more specific info of your ethernet?

 

Sure yea, er you mean the chipset? Or the router? I'll give you a bunch:

 

First off- FYI, I had originally had 10.5.5 working according to that thread I meantioned:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=121548

 

And everything was working, with the same hardware, same drivers, as I'm trying now. No new hardware was added or removed...

 

So, the name of the driver in windows here is "Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100//1000Base-T Controller". The name of the driver kext is "AttansicL1Ethernet.kext". (Is what you're looking for?)

 

Here's the mobo specs if that helps:

http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&amp...amp;modelmenu=1

 

The router is a typical linksys router, I could look it up but it's pretty vanilla. DHCP, ethernet, etc etc. Nothing special. I could find out if you want. (I'm using it to send this right now btw.)

 

thanks for following up man

[Skyper]

Check this out mate

;

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1124283

[MrKrinkle]

Check this out mate

;

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1124283

 

Thanks! I'm going to reboot and try it right now, be back in 10 mins, (or 5 if it works!)

[Skyper]

Thanks! I'm going to reboot and try it right now, be back in 10 mins, (or 5 if it works!)

 

ok let us know how it goes.

[MrKrinkle]

ok let us know how it goes.

 

Same results. I also realized that it's the same driver as the one I already had. Or named the same, at least.

 

Aarrgh I'm so close! I f I could do this, I'd help all the other p5e owners do it too!!