romanosgr Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Im just a little bit frustrated on how to make my network work on leopard. It worked great on all tiger releases and what i did was to use the network tulip method plus finding the vendor id on my card. I tried to replace the kext repair permissions and then ive installed xcode and after that ive installed the network tulip. That was the standard procedure ive been using on tiger but the same thing doesnt seems to work on toh leopard release. It worked some times but after i restarted it went off again. This is very bizarre and i was just wondering if anyone else managed to make this work. Any suggestions are very very welcome indeed. thanks :censored2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienbreed Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 if it happens that it cant connect to the internet or telling that there is no cable connected to it, delete /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and reboot your computer with -f flag. after that you should get your ethernet back and working.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roflcopter_Down Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Please forgive this incredibly newbie question (I haven't ran OS X until today), how can I "reboot with the -f Flag" Â Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanosgr Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 yes! I dont know how to do this either! How do i reboot with -f flag? Cheers for answering :censored2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienbreed Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 upon bootup press f8 furiously, it should give you an option to choose from which partition you want to boot. just select the osx partition and type -f then press enter.  if you dont want to always hit f8 when your booting, just add this values in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist  <key>Timeout</key> <string>10</string>  it should look something like this:  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string></string> </dict> </plist> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanosgr Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 thanx dude.. It works now. Do i have to do that -f trick everytime or just once? Oh btw do you have any idea why i cannot get that grey apple logo boot screen on some other releases? Is there any way to enable it? I only get verbose. Appreciate the feedback, thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roflcopter_Down Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 When I delete Extensions.mkext it regenerates itself within seconds. If I restart anyway and reboot as stated above nothing happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienbreed Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 @romanosgr you just need to do that everytime your ethernet dont seem to work. Â @Roflcopter_Down did you boot with -f flag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roflcopter_Down Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Yessir. It doesn't even work the first time I attempt it. I'm using the flat image installation, if that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanosgr Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 just place the -f flag in boot.plist. Works like a champ for me now. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pet1 Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 As the above method does work. What I did was simply use the intel pro ve kext from tiger. I deleted the appleintel8255x.kext dated 10/10/07 from the IONetworkingFamily.kext. I put the one that's been floating around for tiger in there. Repair permissions and it works perfectly. No more flushing the cache. I don't think there are any benefits to using the one shipped with leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roflcopter_Down Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 For you guys that use the delete the Extensions.mkext fix, does the file in question return even after deleting it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pet1 Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Deleting that file doesn't fix anything. Do what I said, and you'll have your internet without any hassle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roflcopter_Down Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Could you (or anyone else!) post the kext you mentioned? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roflcopter_Down Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Bump x4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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