Snow Leopard Vanilla Install cannot connect to internet

[sev1972]

Hi all,

 

I am running 10.6.2 on an Asus P5Q Deluxe Board. The install is a vanilla install booting from a usb stick with the latest chameleon and minimal kexts in the Extra folder.

 

My issue is this;

 

When I installed SL, with the help of the Captain Nemo and Shaumux threads I was supplied with the following kexts:

appleYukon.kext and appleYukoninjector.kext

 

Using Kext Helper I installed them and I get internet connectivity- everything is fine!

 

When I reboot, I cannot get internet - the network control panel says that the ethernet address is self assigned and therefore cannot connect to the isp.

 

I tried changing the order of the ethernet to first and that didn't work.

 

I tried changing the ip to fixed the router and using DHCP with manual address, and that didn't work.

 

I'm now at the mercy of you guys, I've gone into the S/L/E folder and deleted the yukon kext and injector and reapplied them with kext utility but still nothing

 

The most frustrating thing of all, is that the ethernet/internet on my leopard installation works absolutely fine!

 

I am now totally at a loss as to what to do. please could someone give me some help!

[sev1972]

Well, thanks for that people! - anyway, update:

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After removing and re-installing kexts over and over and not getting anywhere, I thought ok, this is what we've got...

 

an IONetworkingfamily kext which was modified in terminal to have the right ethernet identifiers - The package contents show the Yukon 2 kext therin.

 

The AppleYukon2.kext and AppleYukon2injector.kext also sitting in S/L/E .

 

I restarted in chameleon RC4 with all caches turned off. It booted and it all worked with internet straight away !?!

 

I stated to slim down my chameleon E/E folder to bare essentials, so now I have just HDA enablers IOAHCIportinjector fakesmc2.5 and EvOrboot kexts and that's it.

 

Ethernet still wouldn't work on reboot !

 

I then took the caches folders out of S/L and L/E and put them on the desktop

 

This time it hung on the grey apple boot screen!

 

SO I booted verbose, and it hung waiting for a debug on the ethernet, after 5 minutes I retarted on the reset button.

 

I also noticed that now that the identifiers were in the boot.plist on the chameleon stick, I now couldn't boot leopard.

 

Using an old boot 123 cd, I rebooted leopard and create folders in chameleon stick for 10.5 and 10.6, so now I boot with different boot.plists for each OS, it seems to work.

 

I then tried to move the old cache folders on the desktop back to their original locations in SnowLeopard from within Leopard and attempt a reboot. - Still no joy as it hangs on the same verbose boot message.

 

I decide to reboot Leopard - from within leopard, I go to the partition with Snowleopard installer and remove the E/E folder which I put in there from the guide I followed, and thus all I have is the original vanilla install medium files.

 

With minimal kexts in my chameleon 10.6 folder I reboot the installer and erase and re-install my Snowleopard partition. The installation goes fine, and without further ado, as I have the boot.plist and smbios.plist from the old installation, I immediately install the 10.6.2 updater and adjust boot-UUID flag values accordingly in boot.plist

 

I have yet to install any kexts or apps into SnowLeopard as I want a totally vanilla system with which to solve this ethernet problem - and everything is pointing to a cache issue.

 

I'v got this far with it, but if anyone can help me further I'd really appreciate it.