porsche924 Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Hey guys, I've been lurking around studying everything everyone else is saying now for 3 weeks or more, and finally -- My wife let me take my knowledge & wallet down to the computer store (NCIX) and get the needed parts for my hackintosh (I'm writing this from my hackintosh actually!) Motherboard: G31M-ES2L RAM: 2x 1GB Crucial Rendition PC2-6400 - DDR2-800 CPU: 2.8Ghz E6300 Intel Duo - 1066FSB, 45nm core, 2mb L2 HDD: Seagate 160GB SATA Video: PCI-E Nvidia 7300GS Audio: Onboard 883 Ethernet: RTL-8111 (not working) Installed flawlessly with the Kalyway DVD... Audio simply needed the azalia thing in the bios enabled mine came disabled from the box for some reason. The Lan never did work, but apparently there's fixes all over this forum explaining going into windows and enabling wake on lan from device manager and then restarting into OS X as a fix. I don't have that option as I don't have windows loaded on this machine and I'm not about to do that when I'm too lazy. Side note: I plan to use Windows XP USB Stick edition to go in and enable that later. This thing is insanely fast it seems. Very nice. Just thought I'd add my experience and the functioning system pretty much running flawless, sound, internet, video's nice, burns well, usb on board works overall good. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182112-gigabyte-g31m-esl2/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edbanger Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 To get built-in ethernet working, try installing this kext using OSX86tools. It did the trick for me on a G31M-ES2L Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182112-gigabyte-g31m-esl2/#findComment-1238036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
porsche924 Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 To get built-in ethernet working, try installing this kext using OSX86tools. It did the trick for me on a G31M-ES2L I don't know what OSx86tools does differently than my various attempts at that driver, but I can try that at some point. I tried installing the kexts and setting permissions the whole nine yards with no results. What I did temporarily was throw an SMC 1211tx into the pci and use that for now until I have time to fiddle around with the onboard nic. I guess the trick to the 1211tx is having PNP PCI turned off. Or in this board's case, simply give an IRQ to each PCI slot in the BIOS. Dan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182112-gigabyte-g31m-esl2/#findComment-1238080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
porsche924 Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 Update: I'm an idiot... iWork wouldn't install without an update from 10.5.2 to 10.5.8 or something, so i did an apple update, rebooted and i'm dead in the water... Kernel panic of some kind... NO idea what my options are because this is day #2 of having a hackintosh up and running. Only 15 minutes ago i was jammin' along to itunes and working and now the silence is quickly filling my office. Dan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182112-gigabyte-g31m-esl2/#findComment-1238415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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