brendanb581 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Installed mountain lion on my laptop... installed kext for my realtek ethernet! Plugged in ethernet cable, and then it doesn't connect to internet.. i go into diagnotics.. on the side ethernet is green (active)... Network settings is yellow and ISP is green, so surely i'm doing something wrong? I have restarted the router multiple times but same happens.. any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Specs, specs, specs. What Realtek card do you have? What kext did you install? What laptop are you trying to install on? How did you install Lion? Add your laptop specs to your signature so I can better help you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1843832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 ^ +1, and that diag thing for network is useless, it doesn't ever "fix" anything. You'll be able to tell as much and more just looking in network under system prefs, probably getting a "self assigned IP" and not one from your DHCP pool at the moment if it shows ethernet as active. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1843910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brendanb581 Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 Sorry! My realtek card (according to the system info) is RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller Installing the kext from ###### 5 (ML) can't remember what it's called! I install it and restart but no luck http://lnx2mac.blogspot.nl/p/realtekrtl81xx-osx-driver.html?commentPage=2 this is the one I tried to install Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1844573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Your card is listed as supported by lnx2mac which makes me think you may have conflicting kexts. Remove all network related kexts you have added and restore a vanilla IONetworkingFamily. Install Realtek81xx.kext, rebuild caches and repair permissions and reboot. You should now have Ethernet. You may need to add EthernetBuiltIn Yes to your org.chameleon.Boot.plist for App Store etc) And stop using crappy-beast, you have no idea what it is doing under the hood! Just do things manually. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1844607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brendanb581 Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 Thanks James, Can you guide me with what you said? I know i'm a total noob but I just wan't to get it working! Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1844632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 run kextstat in terminal and post the output Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1844635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brendanb581 Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 Oh it works now, but keep having loads of other problems... I can't get it booting without memory stick and sometimes it crashes and I have to power off and reboot! Any ideas? Also I neede to find a driver for gt 555m but can't locate a download :\ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1844640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 You need to install chameleon to your hard drive to boot without the USB. Use Chemeleon Wizard to create your smbios.plist and org.chameleon.Boot.plist Install fakesmc + any other kexts to S/L/E Repair permissions and rebuild caches with Kext Wizard Reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1844670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pentech Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Similar problem Just installed ML on its own HDD. Mobo is GA-Z77-D3H with i5 3570K 8MB RAM. Atheros 8161 on mobo and RTL8139 in PCI slot. Other two hdrives in the box have Win7 and Ubuntu12 on them and the cards work fine. OS X sys info says no cards fitted which is clearly b***s. kext plugin checked and drivers definitely there. Q Similar problem Just installed ML on its own HDD. Mobo is GA-Z77-D3H with i5 3570K 8MB RAM. Atheros 8161 on mobo and RTL8139 in PCI slot. Other two hdrives in the box have Win7 and Ubuntu12 on them and the cards work fine. OS X sys info says no cards fitted which is clearly b***s. kext plugin checked and drivers definitely there. Q Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/281796-trying-to-get-ethernet-working/#findComment-1869327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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