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Hello all, almost there with my firsat install of leopard.

I have tried everthing, every patch, every kext and i cannot get my intel 100VE ethernet to work in leopard. It never shows my built in ehtenet. ^_^

What i am doing wrong?

I have red people that got it to work....

This is what i've tried:

 

1) past the kext into System/Library/Extensions ; put in a few comands in terminal and deletinf extensions.mkext and extensions.kextcache (i dont have this file). As it didnt work i tried the following

 

2) Change some parameters in IONetworkingFamily or something like that.. no work from this one.. Than i'vw tried the following

 

3) Paste kext into System/Library/Extensions; running some comands in terminal, manually load the kext, clear kext cache (the comand is kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/) then another comand in terminal to force reload drivers on next boot.

 

So thats it.. nothing works for me.....

Any ideas, sugestions, hopes, sorry etc.

Thanks for any help....

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The first thing to do is find the chipset ID of your onboard NIC. The motherboard specs wiil tell you.

 

Once you have the chipset ID, look in /system/library/extensions/ionetworkingfamily.kext/contents/plugins/ and see if any of the chip ID's listed match yours.

 

For instance, on my board, the chip is described as a "Intel 100Pro/VE". It is actually: Intel 82562V (Ekron-N). There is no Mac driver for the 82562V.

 

I can only assume you are both in a similar boat. Check the 5.0 HCL and run down to the local electronics store and buy a PCI NIC. In general, any card with a Realtek8139/8169 chip (such as NetGear, Dynatek), or 3Com (905C, 905-TX), or Yukon2 will work.

This is what I did, found a Intel 10/100 PCI card, shutdown PC, rebooted and disabled built in ethernet in bios, turn off machine and (unpluged it <- important) and put the intel PCI 10/100 card in, reboot and ToH 10.5 RC2 found it and I was up and running, no patches needed.

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