nForce Lan disconnecting randomly

[eldest]

Hey I'm new I tryed searching the forum but didnt help. I'm having a problem with my nForce Lan Controller on my Leopard osx86 installation, it disconnects randomly and everytime i boot up i go to network options and it creates a new ethernet icon! Please help!!

[DrunkMechanicnHacker]

Hey I'm new I tryed searching the forum but didnt help. I'm having a problem with my nForce Lan Controller on my Leopard osx86 installation, it disconnects randomly and everytime i boot up i go to network options and it creates a new ethernet icon! Please help!!

 

obviously you havent looked all over, because the nforce lan controller is an EASY fix. nForceLAN_0.62.12. google that. took me all of but a minute.

though i have noticed these nVidia chipsets in OS-X are quite flaky. the IDE is fine, in fact, works as well as an intel IDE chipset. the sata doesnt seem to like DVD-RW much.

as for LAN, i never had a problem (because i connect through a netgear WG111v3 USB adapter thats natively supported ). let me know how that kext goes, as even though i am using snow leopard, nForceLAN is still nForceLAN, and i plan on ditching the wifi here soon. good luck.

[verdant]

Hey I'm new I tryed searching the forum but didnt help. I'm having a problem with my nForce Lan Controller on my Leopard osx86 installation, it disconnects randomly and everytime i boot up i go to network options and it creates a new ethernet icon! Please help!!

 

If present, remove forcedeth.kext and nForceEthernetController.kext, and remove nvenet.kext, or rename it to nvenet.kext.bad......this is because nvenet loads even when another Ethernet/LAN kext has already been loaded for the hardware. In 10.5.7 and later (including 10.6.x), look in /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns.......this is a new location for nvenet.kext; prior to 10.5.7, this kext was not in IONetworkingFamily.kext.......

 

In Terminal, type

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns 
ls
sudo mv nvenet.kext nvenet.kext.bad
ls

 

"ls will list the files in PlugIns"

 

Then in Terminal and type

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions/
ls

 

Confirm that the nForceLAN.0.64.6.kext is present in /System/Library/Extensions/

 

If it is, then type

 

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/
sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/
sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

 

and then reboot with -v -f