Darryl61677 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Hi, I've successfully installed OSX 10.5.6 about 5 or 6 times on my pc in an attempt to figure out when and why my network stops working. I've managed to figure out that it will work automatically from a fresh install, right up until I reboot it the first time. After that, it thinks no network cable is plugged in. It seems this message is generic (I assume) meaning it cannot find the drivers for the card. Trying to create a new network connection cannot find the card. Is there something I am supposed to do after initial installation to ensure the drivers reload on a reboot? I am using IPC version of OSX 10.5.6. Motherboard is Asus M2N68-AM SE2 Onboard NIC doesn't work when following the M2N68-VM instruction from the HCL (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.6#Asus) However, everything else works fine when selecting Base Install + 9.5.0 Voodoo Kernel AppleNForceATA AppleSMBIOS 800 Seatbelt Fix Other Applications Since the onboard NIC wouldn't work initially, I tried an older Intel SB82558B card and that was automatically detected by the base install and works fine... until I reboot. I've confirmed in Windows that the NIC works fine, I've tried 2 other identical NICs and they have the same behavior. And, of course, the NIC does work initially and I can surf until I reboot. I've also tried cpus=1 and that didn't help at all. Hoping someone might have thoughts or suggestions. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200627-network-stops-working-after-first-reboot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan_Man Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Hi, I had similar symptoms on a VE/100, turned out the hpet.kext was messing up the device timing. Try backing up and deleting the applehpet.kext from the Sys/Lib/Ext/ folder, let the cache rebuild and restart. See if that works. Prob not but it did in my case. Khan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200627-network-stops-working-after-first-reboot/#findComment-1349273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryl61677 Posted December 3, 2009 Author Share Posted December 3, 2009 Hi, I had similar symptoms on a VE/100, turned out the hpet.kext was messing up the device timing. Try backing up and deleting the applehpet.kext from the Sys/Lib/Ext/ folder, let the cache rebuild and restart. See if that works. Prob not but it did in my case. Khan Thanks Khan. I just checked and that file doesn't exist on my system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200627-network-stops-working-after-first-reboot/#findComment-1349286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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