SL on GA-EG31MF-S2 with Realtek 8111C

[stoffmann]

Hello,

 

as a frustrated Windows User and Mac-Newbie i installed Snow Leopard from the original Apple Upgrade DVD following the installationguide on http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow...acking-required

 

Everything is working without problems, except the onboard LAN.

 

Hardware:

 

Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-EG31MF-S2

LAN: Realtek 8111C LAN Controller

CPU: Core2Duo E6550

 

The LAN worked "out of the box" without problems under Leopard.

 

In this thread i found many kexts to try and i read that there are different kext for 32k SL and 64k SL. None of them worked.

Is there a way to find out which version i require?

 

I'm installing the Kexts using Kext Helper b7. Maybe this is the problem, does it work under SL?

 

 

Hope someone can help me.

 

Stoffmann

[stoffmann]

OK, I'm a step further now. I found out that my OSX is running with the 64-bit Kernel ( uname -a) and the kexts for the 8111C seem to work only with the 32-bit Kernel.

First i will install the system new, because i tried so many kexts that i'm not sure what i've done allready.

 

Is there a point in the installation where i can configure with which kernel i want to boot?

[Slashapl]

OK, I'm a step further now. I found out that my OSX is running with the 64-bit Kernel ( uname -a) and the kexts for the 8111C seem to work only with the 32-bit Kernel.

First i will install the system new, because i tried so many kexts that i'm not sure what i've done allready.

 

Is there a point in the installation where i can configure with which kernel i want to boot?

 

Use the ES2L Kit method of installing Snow using a 8 GB flash drive. All works except for Audio which in my case didn't work even after DSDT Patch in 32 bit mode. There is a patched 64 bit AppleHDA.kext which makes even the audio work in 64bit mode. but i was preferring 32bit mode. How did you manage the audio. Does the board have Realtek ALC888 codec.