polearbear Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 hi, everyone, I had succeeded install snowleopard on my f40a laptop using the boothink, but my realtek 8139 can't work, when i use the IORegistryExplorer to check the Ethernet, it only shows this: does anyone have troubles like this? if you had solved it, please tell me the method, thank you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193275-realtek-rtl8139-cant-works-in-snow-on-lenovo-f40a-t2080/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
okatodal Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Hi, are you running Snow in 64 bit mode? if yes, try 32 bit mode, via kernel flag. this worked with my 8139 network card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193275-realtek-rtl8139-cant-works-in-snow-on-lenovo-f40a-t2080/#findComment-1305946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
polearbear Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 Hi, are you running Snow in 64 bit mode? if yes, try 32 bit mode, via kernel flag. this worked with my 8139 network card. hi, okatodal, thanks for your replying, I also tried using '-X32' before booting the system, but there is nothing happened to the Ethernet but while i tested the kext in the terminal, it said that it seems available Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193275-realtek-rtl8139-cant-works-in-snow-on-lenovo-f40a-t2080/#findComment-1306722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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