gabereiser Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 So for the weekend I decided to make a hackintosh. I grabbed Kalyway Leopard 10.5.2 and installed it. After several re-installs with different options I'm stuck. I'm using a shuttle as my pc for this and it has an onboard nic, an nForce4. I installed osx with the nForce forcedeth option and great, it detects my card, but I can't get a real ip address. I keep getting 169.x.x.x addresses. I've tried the "remove cable for 30 seconds trick" to no avail. I also have a PCI wifi card, a TRENDNet TEW-443pi but that doesn't show up at all. It's really hard to debug/diagnose issues when you have no internet. I'm writing this on my macbook. I would really love to get the last piece of this puzzle working, networking as everything else is working wonderfully. I have graphics (though with the shuttles onboard NVidia 6100 LE which means all I get is 1024x768 but I can change the resolution in the boot options or boot.plist), I have sound (realtek drivers work great), I have sleep/wake up, I have reboot/shutdown, I've even flashed the bios to get rid of the xPC graphics to say X86 But without networking this thing is a brick. Any help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdave54 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 So for the weekend I decided to make a hackintosh. I grabbed Kalyway Leopard 10.5.2 and installed it. After several re-installs with different options I'm stuck. I'm using a shuttle as my pc for this and it has an onboard nic, an nForce4. I installed osx with the nForce forcedeth option and great, it detects my card, but I can't get a real ip address. I keep getting 169.x.x.x addresses. I've tried the "remove cable for 30 seconds trick" to no avail. I also have a PCI wifi card, a TRENDNet TEW-443pi but that doesn't show up at all. It's really hard to debug/diagnose issues when you have no internet. I'm writing this on my macbook. I would really love to get the last piece of this puzzle working, networking as everything else is working wonderfully. I have graphics (though with the shuttles onboard NVidia 6100 LE which means all I get is 1024x768 but I can change the resolution in the boot options or boot.plist), I have sound (realtek drivers work great), I have sleep/wake up, I have reboot/shutdown, I've even flashed the bios to get rid of the xPC graphics to say X86 But without networking this thing is a brick. Any help? Go to terminal type ifconfig see if you have a mac address or if it all zeros. You may have to configure it. Another thing to try is put the ip address in manually, do you know what it was under windows. put it in DHCP with manual address Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1346771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabereiser Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Go to terminal type ifconfig see if you have a mac address or if it all zeros. You may have to configure it. Another thing to try is put the ip address in manually, do you know what it was under windows. put it in DHCP with manual address I've already tried that. No matter what I do, DHCP, Manual w/ DHCP, or simply Manual and type in my router, ip, subnet nothing works. I have a valid mac address for my ethernet card. The wifi card, which i would prefer to use, doesn't show up at all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1346803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdave54 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I've already tried that. No matter what I do, DHCP, Manual w/ DHCP, or simply Manual and type in my router, ip, subnet nothing works. I have a valid mac address for my ethernet card. The wifi card, which i would prefer to use, doesn't show up at all. I assume you have looked here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=34071 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1346832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabereiser Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 I assume you have looked here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=34071 Yup, I know my device id and vendor id but I tried to edit the kext as described and it froze up my pc (got the big NO symbol with the different languages telling me to restart). So I reinstalled. Now I'm back to where I was before. EDIT: My vendor id and device id are pci168c,13 which from reading is similar to Atheros chips. My TEW-443pi is an Atheros chip (Atheros 5212) but editing the AirPortAtheros.kext kills bootup as described above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1347156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdave54 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Yup, I know my device id and vendor id but I tried to edit the kext as described and it froze up my pc (got the big NO symbol with the different languages telling me to restart). So I reinstalled. Now I'm back to where I was before. EDIT: My vendor id and device id are pci163c,13 which from reading is similar to Atheros chips. My TEW-443pi is an Atheros chip (Atheros 5212) but editing the AirPortAtheros.kext kills bootup as described above. Lot of people having trouble with Atheros chips, Why not get a more compatible card or dongle Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1347161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabereiser Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 Lot of people having trouble with Atheros chips, Why not get a more compatible card or dongle Cause I just bought this card and dont want to have to buy another so soon. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1347210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdave54 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Cause I just bought this card and dont want to have to buy another so soon. OK Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1347215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdave54 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Here is another thing to try the gfxutill method, inserts strings of device vendor id into boot.plist Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1347308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabereiser Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 Here is another thing to try the gfxutill method, inserts strings of device vendor id into boot.plist I have not tried the gfxutil fix yet, I'll try that when I get home. I've also been trying to get my ATI Radeon X1600XT working but none of the Kalyway drivers work so I'm using the onboard NVidia 6100 LE without drivers and forcing the graphics mode to 1280x1024. I'll post back with what I find using the gfxutil method. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1348003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabereiser Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 no luck using the gfxutil method... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1348375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabereiser Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 is there a wifi card that works out of the box with Kalyway 10.5.2? Try as I might, I can't get my wifi card to show up, second, I can't get my on board nic to connect using DHCP or manual address. Still stuck with a 169.x.x.x address no matter what I do. I'm running an XPC Shuttle S21G5. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1348700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabereiser Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 is there a wifi card that works out of the box with Kalyway 10.5.2? Try as I might, I can't get my wifi card to show up, second, I can't get my on board nic to connect using DHCP or manual address. Still stuck with a 169.x.x.x address no matter what I do. I'm running an XPC Shuttle S21G5. HOLY S**T I GOT IT WORKING!!!... Ok, so I've been trying many different driver kexts around the forums for my onboard nForce4 lan. I finally said screw it and deleted them all. Kalyway installs forcedeth.kext, I installed nforceEthernetAdapter.kext from here, I'll post the link in a bit, once I find it again... as well as nForceLAN.kext from the sticky. After deleting them all, and clearing my boot.plist full of the crazy gfxutil key evil, starting over with no LAN drivers at all (and no internet of course), I decided to install JUST the nForceLAN.kext fitted with my device id and vendor id in the hopes that since I only had ONE driver pointing directly at my device that supposidly supports it. I decided to place it in hex alphanumeric order in the list, and i'm leaving this comment ON MY HACKINTOSH SHUTTLE! You guys rox! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200203-need-some-help-tew-443pi-or-nforce4-on-board-network/#findComment-1349160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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