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Hello everybody.

 

After a long time of searching I hope anyone of you can help.

 

My Hardware:

 

Asus P5Q Premium

Core 2 extreme

8GB DDR2 SDRAM

nvidia 8800GTX

 

sound & grafic works fine

 

The Ethernet chip on the board is "Marvell 88E8056"

 

I installed the driver "IONetworkingFamily.kext" with Kext Helper

 

When I try to open "System preferences - Network" the settings do not start, just keeps saying "Loading Network..." and I have to close "System preferences by "Force Quit"

 

 

I found the following solution, but every string I should change is already as it should be

 

(find and change: <key>Yukon-88E8053</key>)

(to: <key>Yukon-88E8056</key>) <-- change "53" to "56"

 

(find and change: <string>Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053</string>)

(to: <string>Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8056</string>) <-- change "53" to "56"

 

(find and change: <string>0x436211AB</string>)

(to: <string>0x436411AB</string>) <-- change "62" to "64"

 

(press Control-O) <-- saves changes

(press Y and Enter) <-- accepts saving to existing file

(press Control-X) <-- exits nano

 

sudo chown -R root:wheel IONetworkingFamily.kext

cd /System/Library

sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache

REBOOT

 

Has anyone ever heard about this problem?

Problem solved!

 

Edited the original IONetworkingFamily.kext (not the downloaded one!) by doing this (thanx Ryoko!):

 

To get your Yukon 88E8056 Ethernet to work, you need to add your device id to the AppleYukon.kext. Go to Terminal and type:

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions

 

sudo nano /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon2.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

 

(find and change: <key>Yukon-88E8053</key>)

(to: <key>Yukon-88E8056</key>) <-- change "53" to "56"

 

(find and change: <string>Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053</string>)

(to: <string>Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8056</string>) <-- change "53" to "56"

 

(find and change: <string>0x436211AB</string>)

(to: <string>0x436411AB</string>) <-- change "62" to "64"

 

(press Control-O) <-- saves changes

(press Y and Enter) <-- accepts saving to existing file

(press Control-X) <-- exits nano

 

sudo chown -R root:wheel IONetworkingFamily.kext

cd /System/Library

sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache

REBOOT

 

then copied IONetworkingFamily.kext to my boot USB stick, and it works fine!

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