Henryk Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 hey guys, bought an Encore ENUWI-G2 USB WiFi adapter, which has Realtek RTL8187 chipset, and using universal drivers just fine the only problem is that I have to reconnect every time I restart or sleep I have exactly the same issue. I'd like the wifi to reconnect automatically to my preferred network everytime it boots. Is there any way to connect automatically? And, BTW, I understand the situation of many of the posters: Of the 3 wireless nets I have access to, only 2 of them work. So that's a 66% success... Crappy drivers from realtek, but at least they do the job (somehow). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulo Greimel Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Henrik, I agree with you. Realtek drivers aren't perfect, they worked fine on Tiger, but there were major changes in Leopard and now we have flaws on the driver. As other user said here, floow control is something we should pay attention. Also, the crappy realtek utility selects a prefered network to connect automatically, maybe if we could connect to the wireless network every time we boot up (I mean manually)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williwilliwilli Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 my mobo has 8187 chipset in its integrated wifi too..works flawlessly on 10.4.9 with the drivers on realtek site but on leopard disconnects after a few seconds automatically.. any ideas? I have the same thing on leopard. Anyone managed to fix this? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I have the same thing on leopard. Anyone managed to fix this?Thanks I've seen some people post that they have the WiFi working on their Asus P5K Wifi boards, but I like you have the same problem. I wonder how we can get the people who say they have it working to post how they have it working...I'm all ears and willing to try anything. I have a 1500 Draft N card working in mine but want to move it to another PC so I'm real keen on getting the built in WiFi to work with 10.5.1. Kalyway... /mdg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphextom9 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I installed the latest drivers, but when I boot, it says "Please Enable the WLAN Card" it says it should be under system preferences in "network" But I don't see how to enable any wireless device under the new Leopard (10.5.1) Network Preferences pane. wtfff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippodark Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I installed the latest drivers, but when I boot, it says "Please Enable the WLAN Card" it says it should be under system preferences in "network"But I don't see how to enable any wireless device under the new Leopard (10.5.1) Network Preferences pane. wtfff? In preferences Network, click on + and you can see ALL ethernet that you have, enable ALL ethernet, do not touch anything, restart the PC. On restart you can see the realteck connected, at restart Leo or tiger use the DHCP but after you can change what you like. This is an mistake of Apple, that Does not recognize the USB network card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphextom9 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 In preferences Network, click on + and you can see ALL ethernet that you have, enable ALL ethernet, do not touch anything, restart the PC.On restart you can see the realteck connected, at restart Leo or tiger use the DHCP but after you can change what you like. This is an mistake of Apple, that Does not recognize the USB network card looks like that worked...haven't been connected for long though, we'll see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphextom9 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 how do i connect to a wireless network with 802.1x authentication through this though??? the WLAN client utility doesn't seem to have the setup options i need, and Network Preferences recognized the adapter as an ethernet port...therefore it doesn't have the 802.1x setup options i need to connect...anyone know how to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chul.K Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I sent an e-mail to Realtek for RTL8187L issue in Leopard, and they gave me a reply in just two days! Here's the reply from Realtek: Dear Sir, Thanks for your e-mail. Sorry for your inconvenience. But, we didn't support MAC OSX 10.5 at current stage. We will keep our best to release RTL8187L MAC OSX 10.5 driver as soon as possible. The release schedule is end of February. Best regards, Jason It looks like they will release a driver for Leopard, but we have to wait for another whole month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemof Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I can add that I have the same problem as everyone else - connects for a few seconds then disconnects again. Bring on Feb if they are going to release drivers for 10.5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nano07 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 rtl8187L mine stays connected all the time, but cant get an IP address. And if I put it manual it accepts it but if I ping, I get not response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolaks Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 i have a wg111v2.. it connects at random.. and disconnects.. sometimes when it connects, it works for hours together.. but it is lame to keep disconnecting and reconnecting the damn thing to wait for it to finally work.. but i have to do it nevertheless.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpabferreira Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 My card is working. You guys can try my configuration following the steps posted HERE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakedrake88 Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 If you have a p5w hd deluxe motherboard and are runing the rtl8187 off of the osx driver provided on the realtek site with sucess could you please tell me your bios information so that those with the same mother board can load that version of bios. thank you i am running bios version 2602 and my rtl8187 works for a couple second when i turn the radio on. It conects to a wifi network. It runs infastructure for a second and then turns off. durring this time the eth port 3 that it represents in my network preferences goes from orange to red. I am thinking of flashing to a different bios but i dont want to risk the functionality of my motherboard with no promise of the reward of a working wifi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williwilliwilli Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 New Leopard driver on the realtek site!! It has increased quite a bit in size... http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...s=true#RTL8187L I will try this tonight! Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I'll test it tonight --- new release... 10.5 v1309, almost 9Megs, the "Site 3" is faster to download... Results: Advice: Before you install it make sure you don't have the previous versions installed and Rename your working interfaces to something like "Marvel Yukon #1" and #2 or so... 1.- Run the installer, then reboot. Takes a while to the "Realtek USB WLAN Configuration Utility" to load!!!! 2.- Ok, a new restart will help you and is needed because the System Preferences, Network, is at first a little unstable with the new "Realtek USB WLAN Configuration Utility". 3.- After restarting... And waiting on "Realtek USB WLAN Configuration Utility" to finish loading, open the System Preferences, Network then click on the "+" to add a "New Service", On Interfaces select the 3rd "Ethernet" then click on Create After creating the service, it will get an IP automatically... it's wrong, but, it's ok! 4.- Rename your service to someting like "USB WiFi Solo" and go to "Realtek USB WLAN Configuration Utility" to the "Available Network" tab and pick your network, then "Add to Profile" type in your info and viola! You're connected!!! And if you have your sleep working, after a wake up! I was connected, still....... :thumbsup_anim: Finally Working The only bad side about this is the long wait for the "Realtek USB WLAN Configuration Utility" to load... :wink2: Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nano07 Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Woohooo!!!!!! Got it working!!!!! YEH!!!! FINALLY! Thanks guys!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronboi18 Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 has anyone managed to find a solution to the 802.1x authentication problem with the Realtek WLAN client utility? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger santos Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 the authentication doesn't work still.... dammit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westiside Mac God Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I couldn't install the latest drivers for Realtek 87_10.4_v1309 to work. I tried uninstalling, and installing, and i get installation failed. Then i tried installing after I reformated Kalyway 10.5.1 Leopard without having the lan drivers installed from kalyway. When I installed the older Realtek Drivers I can't load the realtek program and I can't access the network settings. I've tried multiple downloads of 87_10.4_v1309. This sucks I really just want the wifi to work. Help me please. My timemachine doesn't work either. Because I thought it would be cool to use timemachine to revert back instead of reinstalling each time. When I loaded the realtek drivers off the kalyway 10.5.1 it works for 1 second and when i go to configure, none of the wifi signals show up anymore. Help!!! My build is the hackintosh exactly with a Q6600 proc. I also reverted my bios back to 2206 from 2302 to see if it helped. It didn't matter. Can anyone help in los angeles. I'll drive a pay to have this working I'm so frustrated. i would also be willing to try an alternate wifi device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westiside Mac God Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 It's working finally. I got the drivers to install. I think time machine was running or maybe it was reverting to 2206 bios(doubt it). I'm so stoked. This is the greatest moment of my month. Of the year. Here we go. thanks for all the help insanelymac forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonhwang Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Okay I'm really getting frustrated. It alone took me 3 days to install leo on my toshiba laptop. I even got 3 dvds, kalyway, iatkos 1.0ir2 and iatkos 1.0i. Currently, the only one i could get it to boot up is iatkos 1.0i. So that's what i'm running. So basically, i got the realtek 8187L inside of the laptop. This doesn't work at all. There are no indiciations in leopard that it even detects the thing. I go to network in the preferences and all i see is Etherent (e0) and Airport (off). If i press the + button, all there is is VPC, PPPoE, and "6 to 4" or "4 to 6" this is at the top of my head. I installed the drivers and everything, the latest intel ones. The thing is, i the Realtek USB WLAN Client Utility loads up, bounces on the dock for a while, then just sits there. It doesn't do anything. No dock indicator. Nothing. I can't even apple tab to it. Everything else on the computer works, sound and video etc. WTF? I even accidently refreshed this page when iwas finished typing it, which made me start over. Additional info: In bios, it lists legacy usb, boot up with lan, boot up with wireless lan, enable lan, and that's it really. everything is is nothing. Computer specs: <h1 class="title">Toshiba Satellite® A205-S5803 15.4" Widescreen Notebook Computer With Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T2330</h1> Intel Pentium dual-core processor T2330 operating at 1.6GHz 1MB L2 cache Up to 533MHz frontside bus 1GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM memory (2 x 512MB); maximum memory capacity: 2GB 120GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive DVD SuperMulti drive with Double Layer support (reads/writes DVD±R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD±R Double Layer, CD-R/RW) Realtek® 802.11b/g wireless LAN 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN port 56K V.92 modem 2 USB 2.0 ports ExpressCard/54 slot: also compatible with ExpressCard/34 Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with from 128MB to 251MB shared memory PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williwilliwilli Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Is Airtunes working for anyone? Now that the wifi is working... Not for me, I am unable to select the remote speakers (which can be seen by itunes). For any suggestion I would be very thankful! More info here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=90851 Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawlessPPC Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 anyone had wpa-psk tkip working on this it will not let me enter anything under network key it has a flashing cursor in text field but wont accept text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverZero Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I'm getting an "install failed" error every time I try this. Uninstalled previous versions (or attempts), and I tried both the L and the B versions. Kaly 10.5.1, by the way. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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