atavus Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Hi everyone! I'm working on my second Hackintosh, this one with a Gigabyte GA-G41-ES2H board with a built-in Realtek 8110SC/8169SC gigabit ethernet chip (hardware ID 10ec:8167 rev10). Despite my greatest effort I cannot get ethernet to function properly under any version or distribution of 10.5 or 10.6. The problem is this: Even with the latest kext drivers like the RealTekR1000, RTG_Mac v2.0.3, default OS X drivers or anything else currently available (believe me, I've searched for weeks) it always behaves the same - when I plug the ethernet cable and set the configuration to DHCP it defaults to "Self-Assigned IP" and gives me a green dot showing it's connected, only it isn't. Entering network information like IP and router addresses manually also gives a green dot but it does not work. No amount of fiddling with the control panel setting will make it function. If I unplug the ethernet wire OS X remains unaware of the fact and continues to show a network connection. No amount of BIOS adjustments make any improvement. The ethernet hardware does indeed work, in the BIOS it can identify whether or not a connection is present and I have successfully used it under Fedora. My best guess is a hardware addessing issue, but still it's just a guess. OS X can identify the ethernet chip, get the MAC address and load the proper kext driver but does not seem to communicate with it. Please, PLEASE I'm begging at my whit's end and need a solution, this is driving my mad! I realize this is a very new board and few people have used it, but others must have a need for this too, I can't be alone here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207186-gigabyte-ga-g41m-es2h-ethernet-solutions-needed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicktoast Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I used SnowOSX and ethernet came up right away. How did you get audio to work with that mobo? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207186-gigabyte-ga-g41m-es2h-ethernet-solutions-needed/#findComment-1393148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbrewster Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 I got it working with iDeneb v1.5.1. I wrote a quick guide here, but need help with the whole 'power down' situation, if anyone can help I'd appreciate it! http://markbrewster.wordpress.com/2010/01/...-n8400gs-d512h/ IIRC ethernet works out the box with iATKOS v7 as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207186-gigabyte-ga-g41m-es2h-ethernet-solutions-needed/#findComment-1393474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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