umbre Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Alright, well today I had a sucessful install of Snow leopard on an Emachines ET181 I got as a gift. Its stock with the exception of an added Evga 9800GTX. Everything installed and worked wonderfully without a hitch including the graphics card. However, the ethernet/network has been giving me some issues. Its reconised as the following on Windows 7 Realtek RTL8102E/RTL8103E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20) Any ideas on what would make it work? Thank you and keep up the great work, I know you guys work hard and probably play even harder. Oh Fyi the distro I used was IAtkos S3 v2 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233403-help-with-networkethernet/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 There are several Realtek drivers floating around for you to try. However, some of them will potentially conflict with one or both of the two Realtek kexts inside /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins. Backup IONetworkingFamily.kext, then delete the two Realtek kexts from the original before experimenting with other drivers - unless of course you discover a way to get your hardware working with one of them! If the driver you find comes with instructions that don't hint at this issue, then don't worry about it. Use the forum search to find a driver, sometimes you can get better/different results by using the device ID of the hardware in question as search keyword. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233403-help-with-networkethernet/#findComment-1557398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbre Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 ok I got it working but still no internet, It says that eth0 has a self assigned ip adress and will not be able to connect to the internet. What now? I am directly connected to my cable modem FYI which uses DHCP but it doesn't work, tried all options and even did a manual config with all my connection info. (IP adress, subnet, DNS severs) and it said i was connected but would never load anything. Is it a possibility I should try a new kext? And if so whats recomended? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233403-help-with-networkethernet/#findComment-1557442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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