New Driver for Realtek RTL8111

[sjerseyspartan]

I have a asus rampage iv black edition. would this kext be the one for my motherboard?

the ethernet port doesn't show up 

[ZenGiga]

I've just realised that since I upgraded to El capitan (and switched from version 1.2.3 to 2.2.1d4) I've had an issue with slow upload speeds. Transfers are actually two slow to backup to my home server over gigabit ethernet and can't even keep up to the upload rate my fibre internet can handle.

 

My GA-ep15-ds3l mobo has an RTL8111/8168B Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02). If I boot into linux then I get the speeds I'd expect both on the LAN and WAN, so I think the issue is definitely about software and osx.

 

I've done some testing with iperf3 on both my server and hack. I get 936 Mbits/sec (1.09GB in 10 secs) when transfering from server to hack but a measly 16.6 Mbits/sec (19.8MB in 10 secs) from hack to server – that very neatly outlines my problem!

 

I can see no ethernet related error messages from the kernel in system.log that point to an obvious problem (but will attach those that are there below). Looking at netstat it seems that there are a lot of retransmitted packets and duplicate acks (netstat output attached below).

 

Through umpteen reboots I've:

Tried disabling various features in the kext.

Tried playing with sysctl settings with only a minimal improvement.
Looked again at cpu speedstep and it seems to be working, with the cpu switching states regularly. Not sure what else to look at if this is a 'power management' issue.

 

I can see one or two others had the same or similar issues but not really any solid solutions. Any advice anyone can give on further debugging would be welcome.

 

(@Mieze As a possible workaround does your Delock 89357 card still work on El Capitan? I had a Netgear GA311 (RTL8169 I think) for this hack when I first built it but sold it when Apple's driver stopped working on it. Happy to use a PCI GigE card if it will work.)

 

 

system.log messages filtered on 'ethernet'

 

 

Oct  7 09:24:42 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Tx timeout. Lost interrupt?
Oct  7 12:35:15 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Tx timeout. Lost interrupt?
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: PCIe ASPM support disabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: EEE support disabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: RxPoll support enabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: TCP/IPv4 segmentation offload enabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: TCP/IPv6 segmentation offload enabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: TCP/IPv6 checksum offload enabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Version 2.2.1d4 using interrupt mitigate value 0xcf58. Please don't support tonymacx86.com!
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: PCI power management capabilities: 0xffc3.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: PME# from D3 (cold) supported.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: PCIe link capabilities: 0x00073c11, link control: 0x0000.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: RTL8168C/8111C: (Chipset 5) at 0x<ptr>,  0:1f:d0:98:14:2a
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: MSI interrupt index: 1
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Already in power state 1.
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: No medium selected. Falling back to autonegotiation.
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: pollIntervalTime: 170us
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control
Oct  7 13:11:14 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: replaceOrCopyPacket() failed.
Oct  7 14:38:29 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Tx timeout. Lost interrupt?
Oct  7 14:45:10 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: replaceOrCopyPacket() failed.
 

 

 

system.log messages filtered on 'kernel'

 

 

Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Longterm timer threshold: 1000 ms
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 15.6.0: Mon Aug 29 20:21:34 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3248.60.11~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 2031713 free pages and 49055 wired pages
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: kext submap [0x<ptr> - 0x<ptr>], kernel text [0x<ptr> - 0x<ptr>]
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: zone leak detection enabled
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: "vm_compressor_mode" is 4
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: multiq scheduler config: deep-drain 0, ceiling 47, depth limit 4, band limit 127, sanity check 0
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: standard background quantum is 2500 us
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: WQ[lt_init]: init linktable with max:262144 elements (8388608 bytes)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: WQ[wqp_init]: init prepost table with max:262144 elements (8388608 bytes)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 16
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: kdp_core zlib memory 0x7000
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: "name" not a kext
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: "FailedCLUT" not a kext
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: "FailedImage" not a kext
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Refusing new kext org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC, v1394.0: already have prelinked v1412.0.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: FakeSMCKeyStore: started
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=3 Enabled
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=2 Enabled
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for AMFI
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Apple Mobile File Integrity (AMFI)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AppleCredentialManager::start called
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AssertMacros: tmpData (value: 0x0),  file: /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleCredentialManager/AppleCredentialManager-83.40.3/AppleCredentialManager/AppleCredentialManager.cpp, line: 785
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AppleKeyStore starting (BUILT: Aug 29 2016 21:33:30)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: sleep states S3 S4 S5
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: CPUSensors: CPU family 0x6, model 0xf, stepping 0xb, cores 4, threads 4, TJmax 90
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: CPUSensors: setting platform keys to [M75     ]
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: CPUSensors: started
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 20:47:29 Aug 29 2016) initialization completepci (build 20:48:30 Aug 29 2016), flags 0xe3000, pfm64 (36 cpu) 0xf80000000, 0x80000000
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration begin ]
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: RTC: Only single RAM bank (128 bytes)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: FakeSMC v6.21.1412 Copyright 2015 netkas, slice, usr-sse2, kozlek, navi, THe KiNG, RehabMan. All rights reserved.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: FakeSMC: 13 preconfigured keys added
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: FakeSMC: 5 keys exported by Clover EFI
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: SMC: successfully initialized
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: console relocated to 0xf89000000
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration end, bridges 6, devices 17 ]
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: 000001.225914 AppleUSBLegacyRoot@: AppleUSBLegacyRoot::init: enabling legacy matching
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: mcache: 4 CPU(s), 64 bytes CPU cache line size
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done [96 MB total pool size, (64/32) split]
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: GeforceSensors: starting early shadow VBIOS...
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: GeForceSensors (pci1): trying to shadow VBIOS...
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getFeatures() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getFeatures() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: JMicronATAPCIRoot: Driver v1.1.3 is loaded.rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: F6C08266-D7C6-33B9-B365-E9CB63EF4983
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: createWorkLoop() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: createWorkLoop() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getWorkLoop() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getWorkLoop() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: createOutputQueue() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: createOutputQueue() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getPacketBufferConstraints() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getPacketBufferConstraints() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: PCIe ASPM support disabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: EEE support disabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: RxPoll support enabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: TCP/IPv4 segmentation offload enabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: TCP/IPv6 segmentation offload enabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: TCP/IPv6 checksum offload enabled.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Version 2.2.1d4 using interrupt mitigate value 0xcf58. Please don't support tonymacx86.com!
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: PCI power management capabilities: 0xffc3.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: PME# from D3 (cold) supported.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: PCIe link capabilities: 0x00073c11, link control: 0x0000.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: RTL8168C/8111C: (Chipset 5) at 0x<ptr>,  0:1f:d0:98:14:2a
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: MSI interrupt index: 1
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: newVendorString() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: newVendorString() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: newModelString() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: newModelString() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getFeatures() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getFeatures() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getPacketFilters() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getPacketFilters() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getHardwareAddress() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getHardwareAddress() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getPacketFilters() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getPacketFilters() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getPacketFilters() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getPacketFilters() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: registerWithPolicyMaker() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: registerWithPolicyMaker() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: setPowerState() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Already in power state 1.
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: setPowerState() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: configureInterface() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: configureInterface() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: SuperIODevice: found ITE IT8718F on port=0x2e address=0x290
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: FakeSMCKeyStore: key VC0C handler CPUSensors has been replaced with new prioritized handler IT87xxSensors
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: FakeSMCKey: key VC0C handler IT87xxSensors has been replaced with new prioritized handler IT87xxSensors
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: IT87xxSensors: started
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST1000DX001-1CM162 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/osten@2
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 2
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: GeForceSensors (pci1): VBIOS successfully read from PROM
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: GeForceSensors (pci1): chipset: GK104 (NVE4) bios: 80.04.4b.00
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: GeForceSensors (pci1): started
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: JMicronATA: JMB368 (CMD 0xdd00, CTR 0xdc00, IRQ 16, BM 0xdb08)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: JMicronATA: JMB368 (CMD 0xdf00, CTR 0xde00, IRQ 16, BM 0xdb00)
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: hfs: mounted osten on device root_device
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: VM Swap Subsystem is ON
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for DSMOS...
Oct  7 13:10:20 localhost watchdogd[69]:  [watchdog_daemon] @(      wd_daemon_init) - could not open connection with the kernel watchdog
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getFeatures() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getFeatures() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getChecksumSupport() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getChecksumSupport() <===
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getChecksumSupport() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:22 localhost kernel[0]: getChecksumSupport() <===
Oct  7 13:10:27 localhost kernel[0]: IOGraphics flags 0x43
Oct  7 13:10:27 localhost kernel[0]: Previous shutdown cause: 5
Oct  7 13:10:27 localhost kernel[0]: NVDAStartupWeb: Web
Oct  7 13:10:27 localhost kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrivedNVDAGK100HAL loaded and registered
Oct  7 13:10:27 localhost kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothFamily][start] -- completed
Oct  7 13:10:27 localhost kernel[0]: hfs: mounted xvsu on device disk1s7
Oct  7 13:10:30 localhost kernel[0]: AmbrosiaAudioSupport: newUserClient connection attempt.
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: enable() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: No medium selected. Falling back to autonegotiation.
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: selectMedium() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: selectMedium() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setOffset79() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setOffset79() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: enable() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: f46
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: f
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: possible map ffffffffffffffff cpu_online_map f
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: haxm_error: -------- HAXM release 6.0.1 --------
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: haxm_error: This log collects running status of HAXM driver.
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: haxm: Unknown ioctl 
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: coreaudiod[256] triggered unnest of range 0x7fff96000000->0x7fff96200000 of DYLD shared region in VM map 0x6cbcce9b5497e2e3. While not abnormal for debuggers, this increases system memory footprint until the target exits.
Oct  7 13:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: AppleLPC::notifyPlatformASPM - registering with plugin with ASPM Support false
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:34 zen kernel[0]: in6_unlink_ifa: IPv6 address 0x6cbcce9b53e4874b has no prefix
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setOffset79() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setOffset79() <===
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastMode() <===
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: pollIntervalTime: 170us
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:36 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:38 zen kernel[0]: ignored is_io_service_close(0x100000379,IOHIDParamUserClient)
Oct  7 13:10:38 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:38 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:38 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:38 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:41 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:41 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:41 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:41 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:43 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() ===>
Oct  7 13:10:43 zen kernel[0]: setMulticastList() <===
Oct  7 13:10:49 zen kernel[0]: AppleKeyStore::handleUserClientCommandGated: asking for specific bag 501 (eff -501)
Oct  7 13:10:49 zen kernel[0]: AppleKeyStore::handleUserClientCommandGated: set handle 1 as special bag -501
Oct  7 13:10:49 zen kernel[0]: AppleKeyStore:Sending lock change 1 for handle 1
Oct  7 13:10:50 zen kernel[0]: AppleKeyStore:Sending lock change 0 for handle -501
Oct  7 13:10:52 zen kernel[0]: ignored is_io_service_close(0x100000379,IOHIDParamUserClient)
Oct  7 13:10:56 zen kernel[0]: ignored is_io_service_close(0x100000379,IOHIDParamUserClient)
Oct  7 13:11:13 zen kernel[0]: ignored is_io_service_close(0x100000379,IOHIDParamUserClient)
Oct  7 13:11:14 zen kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: replaceOrCopyPacket() failed.

 

 

 

 

 

tcp:
745498 packets sent
472981 data packets (755541833 bytes)
131687 data packets (114725344 bytes) retransmitted
0 resend initiated by MTU discovery
89069 ack-only packets (32 delayed)
0 URG only packet
0 window probe packet
48374 window update packets
3388 control packets
0 data packet sent after flow control
0 checksummed in software
0 segment (0 byte) over IPv4
0 segment (0 byte) over IPv6
888858 packets received
522973 acks (for 828923621 bytes)
112104 duplicate acks
0 ack for unsent data
244466 packets (324956518 bytes) received in-sequence
391 completely duplicate packets (137519 bytes)
0 old duplicate packet
0 received packet dropped due to low memory
1 packet with some dup. data (1098 bytes duped)
10006 out-of-order packets (13538751 bytes)
0 packet (0 byte) of data after window
0 window probe
1545 window update packets
172 packets received after close
0 bad reset
0 discarded for bad checksum
0 checksummed in software
0 segment (0 byte) over IPv4
0 segment (0 byte) over IPv6
0 discarded for bad header offset field
0 discarded because packet too short
1818 connection requests
24 connection accepts
0 bad connection attempt
0 listen queue overflow
1704 connections established (including accepts)
2194 connections closed (including 180 drops)
59 connections updated cached RTT on close
59 connections updated cached RTT variance on close
37 connections updated cached ssthresh on close
11 embryonic connections dropped
590790 segments updated rtt (of 303325 attempts)
27136 retransmit timeouts
15 connections dropped by rexmit timeout
0 connection dropped after retransmitting FIN
0 persist timeout
0 connection dropped by persist timeout
2622 keepalive timeouts
2616 keepalive probes sent
0 connection dropped by keepalive
78465 correct ACK header predictions
236221 correct data packet header predictions
26808 SACK recovery episodes
77724 segment rexmits in SACK recovery episodes
956420 byte rexmits in SACK recovery episodes
218414 SACK options (SACK blocks) received
8223 SACK options (SACK blocks) sent
0 SACK scoreboard overflow
0 LRO coalesced packet
0 time LRO flow table was full
0 collision in LRO flow table
0 time LRO coalesced 2 packets
0 time LRO coalesced 3 or 4 packets
0 time LRO coalesced 5 or more packets
54848 limited transmits done
707 early retransmits done
384 times cumulative ack advanced along with SACK
55 probe timeouts
11 times retransmit timeout triggered after probe
0 time probe packets were sent for an interface
0 time couldn't send probe packets for an interface
4 times fast recovery after tail loss
11 times recovered last packet
116 SACK based rescue retransmits
84 client connections attempted to negotiate ECN
39 client connections successfully negotiated ECN
37 times graceful fallback to Non-ECN connection
0 time lost ECN negotiating SYN, followed by retransmission
0 server connection attempted to negotiate ECN
0 server connection successfully negotiated ECN
0 time lost ECN negotiating SYN-ACK, followed by retransmission
0 time received congestion experienced (CE) notification
0 time CWR was sent in response to ECE
0 time sent ECE notification
0 connection received CE atleast once
0 connection received ECE atleast once
10 connections using ECN have seen packet loss but no CE
0 connection using ECN have seen packet loss and CE
0 connection using ECN received CE but no packet loss
27 times packet reordering was detected on a connection
598 times transmitted packets were reordered
25818 times fast recovery was delayed to handle reordering
598 times retransmission was avoided by delaying recovery
0 retransmission not needed
99 times DSACK option was sent
27853 times DSACK option was received
61 times DSACK was disabled on a connection
64 times recovered from bad retransmission using DSACK
0 time ignored DSACK due to ack loss
0 time ignored old DSACK options
0 time PMTU Blackhole detection, size reverted
0 connection were dropped after long sleep
0 time a TFO-cookie has been announced
0 SYN with data and a valid TFO-cookie have been received
0 SYN with TFO-cookie-request received
0 time an invalid TFO-cookie has been received
0 time we requested a TFO-cookie
0 time the peer announced a TFO-cookie
0 time we combined SYN with data and a TFO-cookie
0 time our SYN with data has been acknowledged
0 time a connection-attempt with TFO fell back to regular TCP
0 time a TFO-connection blackhole'd
udp:
15135 datagrams received
0 with incomplete header
0 with bad data length field
0 with bad checksum
0 with no checksum
0 checksummed in software
0 datagram (0 byte) over IPv4
0 datagram (0 byte) over IPv6
133 dropped due to no socket
4881 broadcast/multicast datagrams undelivered
0 time multicast source filter matched
14 dropped due to full socket buffers
0 not for hashed pcb
10107 delivered
8456 datagrams output
213 checksummed in software
0 datagram (0 byte) over IPv4
213 datagrams (48362 bytes) over IPv6
ip:
840511 total packets received
0 bad header checksum
0 header (0 byte) checksummed in software
0 with size smaller than minimum
0 with data size < data length
1621 with data size > data length
0 packet forced to software checksum
0 with ip length > max ip packet size
0 with header length < data size
0 with data length < header length
0 with bad options
0 with incorrect version number
0 fragment received
0 dropped (dup or out of space)
0 dropped after timeout
0 reassembled ok
839021 packets for this host
138 packets for unknown/unsupported protocol
0 packet forwarded (0 packet fast forwarded)
0 packet not forwardable
1352 packets received for unknown multicast group
0 redirect sent
494 input packets not chained due to collision
202373 input packets processed in a chain
14 input packets unable to chain
809 input packet chains processed with length greater than 2
79 input packet chains processed with length greater than 4
637630 input packets did not go through list processing path
727593 packets sent from this host
0 packet sent with fabricated ip header
0 output packet dropped due to no bufs, etc.
0 output packet discarded due to no route
0 output datagram fragmented
0 fragment created
0 datagram that can't be fragmented
0 tunneling packet that can't find gif
0 datagram with bad address in header
0 packet dropped due to no bufs for control data
312 headers (6612 bytes) checksummed in software
icmp:
131 calls to icmp_error
0 error not generated 'cuz old message was icmp
Output histogram:
destination unreachable: 131
0 message with bad code fields
0 message < minimum length
0 bad checksum
0 message with bad length
0 multicast echo requests ignored
0 multicast timestamp requests ignored
Input histogram:
destination unreachable: 46
0 message response generated
ICMP address mask responses are disabled
igmp:
92 messages received
0 message received with too few bytes
0 message received with wrong TTL
0 message received with bad checksum
92 V1/V2 membership queries received
0 V3 membership queries received
0 membership queries received with invalid field(s)
90 general queries received
2 group queries received
0 group-source queries received
0 group-source queries dropped
0 membership report received
0 membership report received with invalid field(s)
0 membership report received for groups to which we belong
0 V3 report received without Router Alert
93 membership reports sent
ipsec:
0 inbound packet processed successfully
0 inbound packet violated process security policy
0 inbound packet with no SA available
0 invalid inbound packet
0 inbound packet failed due to insufficient memory
0 inbound packet failed getting SPI
0 inbound packet failed on AH replay check
0 inbound packet failed on ESP replay check
0 inbound packet considered authentic
0 inbound packet failed on authentication
0 outbound packet processed successfully
0 outbound packet violated process security policy
0 outbound packet with no SA available
0 invalid outbound packet
0 outbound packet failed due to insufficient memory
0 outbound packet with no route
arp:
209 ARP requests sent
273 ARP replies sent
0 ARP announcement sent
872 ARP requests received
202 ARP replies received
1076 total ARP packets received
0 ARP conflict probe sent
0 invalid ARP resolve request
0 total packet dropped due to lack of memory
9 total packets dropped due to no ARP entry
1 total packet dropped during ARP entry removal
77 ARP entries timed out
0 Duplicate IP seen
mptcp:
0 data packet sent
0 data byte sent
0 data packet received
0 data byte received
0 packet with an invalid MPCAP option
0 packet with an invalid MPJOIN option
0 time primary subflow fell back to TCP
0 time secondary subflow fell back to TCP
0 DSS option drop
0 other invalid MPTCP option
0 time the MPTCP subflow window was reduced
0 bad DSS checksum
0 time received out of order data
0 subflow switch
0 subflow switche due to advisory
0 subflow switche due to rtt
0 subflow switche due to rto
0 subflow switche due to peer
0 number of subflow probe
ip6:
66655 total packets received
0 with size smaller than minimum
0 with data size < data length
0 with data size > data length
0 packet forced to software checksum
0 with bad options
0 with incorrect version number
0 fragment received
0 dropped (dup or out of space)
0 dropped after timeout
0 exceeded limit
0 reassembled ok
64974 packets for this host
0 packet forwarded
224 packets not forwardable
0 redirect sent
213 multicast packets which we don't join
0 packet whose headers are not continuous
0 tunneling packet that can't find gif
0 packet discarded due to too may headers
0 forward cache hit
0 forward cache miss
0 packet dropped due to no bufs for control data
32102 packets sent from this host
0 packet sent with fabricated ip header
0 output packet dropped due to no bufs, etc.
5 output packets discarded due to no route
1 output datagram fragmented
2 fragments created
0 datagram that can't be fragmented
0 packet that violated scope rules
Input histogram:
hop by hop: 430
TCP: 60094
UDP: 4886
ICMP6: 1245
Mbuf statistics:
167 one mbuf
two or more mbuf:
lo0= 245
66243 one ext mbuf
0 two or more ext mbuf
0 failure of source address selection
source addresses on an outgoing I/F
0 addresses scope=0
0 node-local
0 link-local
0 addresses scope=3
0 addresses scope=4
0 site-local
0 addresses scope=6
0 addresses scope=7
0 addresses scope=8
0 addresses scope=9
0 addresses scope=a
0 addresses scope=b
0 addresses scope=c
0 addresses scope=d
0 global
0 addresses scope=f
source addresses on a non-outgoing I/F
0 addresses scope=0
0 node-local
0 link-local
0 addresses scope=3
0 addresses scope=4
0 site-local
0 addresses scope=6
0 addresses scope=7
0 addresses scope=8
0 addresses scope=9
0 addresses scope=a
0 addresses scope=b
0 addresses scope=c
0 addresses scope=d
0 global
0 addresses scope=f
source addresses of same scope
0 addresses scope=0
0 node-local
0 link-local
0 addresses scope=3
0 addresses scope=4
0 site-local
0 addresses scope=6
0 addresses scope=7
0 addresses scope=8
0 addresses scope=9
0 addresses scope=a
0 addresses scope=b
0 addresses scope=c
0 addresses scope=d
0 global
0 addresses scope=f
source addresses of a different scope
0 addresses scope=0
0 node-local
0 link-local
0 addresses scope=3
0 addresses scope=4
0 site-local
0 addresses scope=6
0 addresses scope=7
0 addresses scope=8
0 addresses scope=9
0 addresses scope=a
0 addresses scope=b
0 addresses scope=c
0 addresses scope=d
0 global
0 addresses scope=f
deprecated source addresses
0 addresses scope=0
0 node-local
0 link-local
0 addresses scope=3
0 addresses scope=4
0 site-local
0 addresses scope=6
0 addresses scope=7
0 addresses scope=8
0 addresses scope=9
0 addresses scope=a
0 addresses scope=b
0 addresses scope=c
0 addresses scope=d
0 global
0 addresses scope=f
source addresse selection
1446 rules default
0 rule prefer same address
78 rules prefer appropriate scope
0 rule avoid deprecated addresses
0 rule prefer home addresses
0 rule prefer outgoing interface
0 rule prefer addresses in a prefix advertised by the next-hop
119 rules prefer matching label
1107 rules prefer temporary addresses
0 rule prefer addresses on alive interfaces
45 rules use longest matching prefix
0 duplicate address detection collision
0 times ignored source on secondary expensive I/F
icmp6:
2 calls to icmp_error
0 error not generated because old message was icmp error or so
0 error not generated because rate limitation
Output histogram:
unreach: 2
MLDv1 listener report: 589
MLDv1 listener done: 5
router solicitation: 4
neighbor solicitation: 630
neighbor advertisement: 675
MLDv2 listener report: 6
0 message with bad code fields
0 message < minimum length
0 bad checksum
0 message with bad length
Input histogram:
multicast listener query: 91
MLDv1 listener report: 89
MLDv1 listener done: 38
router advertisement: 14
neighbor solicitation: 675
neighbor advertisement: 552
Histogram of error messages to be generated:
0 no route
0 administratively prohibited
0 beyond scope
0 address unreachable
2 port unreachable
0 packet too big
0 time exceed transit
0 time exceed reassembly
0 erroneous header field
0 unrecognized next header
0 unrecognized option
0 redirect
0 unknown
0 message response generated
0 message with too many ND options
0 message with bad ND options
0 bad neighbor solicitation message
495 bad neighbor advertisement messages
0 bad router solicitation message
0 bad router advertisement message
0 bad redirect message
0 path MTU change
ipsec6:
0 inbound packet processed successfully
0 inbound packet violated process security policy
0 inbound packet with no SA available
0 invalid inbound packet
0 inbound packet failed due to insufficient memory
0 inbound packet failed getting SPI
0 inbound packet failed on AH replay check
0 inbound packet failed on ESP replay check
0 inbound packet considered authentic
0 inbound packet failed on authentication
0 outbound packet processed successfully
0 outbound packet violated process security policy
0 outbound packet with no SA available
0 invalid outbound packet
0 outbound packet failed due to insufficient memory
0 outbound packet with no route
rip6:
0 message received
0 checksum calcuration on inbound
0 message with bad checksum
0 message dropped due to no socket
0 multicast message dropped due to no socket
0 message dropped due to full socket buffers
0 delivered
0 datagram output
pfkey:
0 request sent to userland
0 byte sent to userland
0 message with invalid length field
0 message with invalid version field
0 message with invalid message type field
0 message too short
0 message with memory allocation failure
0 message with duplicate extension
0 message with invalid extension type
0 message with invalid sa type
0 message with invalid address extension
0 request sent from userland
0 byte sent from userland
0 message toward single socket
0 message toward all sockets
0 message toward registered sockets
0 message with memory allocation failure
kevt:
7 current kernel control sockets
7 kernel control generation count
0 bad vendor failure
564 message too big failures
0 out of memory failure
0 message dropped due to full socket buffers
131 messages posted
kctl:
0 total kernel control module registered
12 current kernel control modules registered
24 current kernel control sockets
1854 kernel control generation count
933 connection attempts
0 connection failure
12 send failures
0 send list failure
0 enqueue failure
0 packet dropped due to full socket buffers
xbkidle:
1 max per process
600 maximum time (seconds)
131072 high water mark
0 socket option not supported failure
0 too many sockets failure
0 total socket requested OK
0 extended bk idle socket
0 no cellular failure
0 no time failures
0 forced defunct socket
0 resumed socket
0 timeout expired failure
0 timer rescheduled
0 no delegated failure

 

 

[Mieze]

Well, there is only one advice I can give you: Upgrade your system because I don't know how to resolve it! The Gigabyte GA-EP45 series seems to have a problem with interrupt latency and/or power management causing serious performance issues with the driver. As Apple has improved power management with every major release of OS X, the situation has become worse in the course of time.

 

Mieze

[ZenGiga]

Heh. That would be nice...but not really feasible right now. So you think the latency/power management issues would affect an add in pci card like the Delock just the same as the motherboard's built in GigE? 

[Mieze]

You need a PCIe card because PCI cards are unable to perform DMA operations with 64bit addresses and yes, PCIe cards would be affected of the same issue too.

 

Mieze

[ZenGiga]

Thanks.

 

(Just as a follow up fyi for anyone else with slow uploads: I looked back over thread and found at least one person suggesting using the ancient Lnx2mac RealtekRTL81xx kext on el capitan even though it's not been updated since 2014. So I'm giving that a try, it works and has full upload speed I just hope it's stable. About to stress test it by running a full backup to my home server.)

Edited October 8, 2016 by ZenGiga

[pkdesign]

Hello. I've been using your kext for many years and it has been flawless until recently. In that last week or so I keep getting constant drops. I can actually see it happening in Outlook because it will drop connection. The only thing of any substance that I have changed is updating Clover. I do this regularly.
 
I normally have RealtekRTL8111.kext installed in Clover's kext folder but moved it into S/L/E to test but it still does the same thing. Here is just a sample from Console output:
 
Oct 19 13:02:37 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link down on en0
Oct 19 13:02:39 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: pollIntervalTime: 170us
Oct 19 13:02:39 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control
Oct 19 13:04:13 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link down on en0
Oct 19 13:04:16 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: pollIntervalTime: 170us
Oct 19 13:04:16 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control
Oct 19 13:07:43 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link down on en0
Oct 19 13:07:49 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: pollIntervalTime: 170us
Oct 19 13:07:49 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control
 
I reinstalled it today strictly following your instructions to see if that may have been the issue but still getting the same result.

 

I have attached output of "grep kernel /var/log/system.log"

 

I really appreciate any help. This is making me crazy and confuse since it just started happening.

Terminal_Output.txt

[Mieze]

Hello. I've been using your kext for many years and it has been flawless until recently. In that last week or so I keep getting constant drops. I can actually see it happening in Outlook because it will drop connection. The only thing of any substance that I have changed is updating Clover. I do this regularly.

 

I normally have RealtekRTL8111.kext installed in Clover's kext folder but moved it into S/L/E to test but it still does the same thing. Here is just a sample from Console output:

 

Oct 19 13:02:37 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link down on en0

Oct 19 13:02:39 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: pollIntervalTime: 170us

Oct 19 13:02:39 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control

Oct 19 13:04:13 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link down on en0

Oct 19 13:04:16 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: pollIntervalTime: 170us

Oct 19 13:04:16 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control

Oct 19 13:07:43 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link down on en0

Oct 19 13:07:49 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: pollIntervalTime: 170us

Oct 19 13:07:49 MacPro kernel[0]: Ethernet [RealtekRTL8111]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control

 

I reinstalled it today strictly following your instructions to see if that may have been the issue but still getting the same result.

 

I have attached output of "grep kernel /var/log/system.log"

 

I really appreciate any help. This is making me crazy and confuse since it just started happening.

The kernel log doesn't exhibit any sign of a driver issue. Either way it's a hardware problem or a wrong BIOS setting. Check the LAN related BIOS settings again. In case it doesn't help, check the hardware (dust on the connector, broken cable or switch).

 

Mieze

[pkdesign]

The kernel log doesn't exhibit any sign of a driver issue. Either way it's a hardware problem or a wrong BIOS setting. Check the LAN related BIOS settings again. In case it doesn't help, check the hardware (dust on the connector, broken cable or switch).

 

Mieze

 

Oh dear. But I am not crazy, right? It is disconnecting and reconnecting constantly?

 

I've checked BIOS settings, "Onboard LAN Boot ROM" is disabled. That seems to be the only BIOS LAN setting on my mobo.

 

There is a solid orange light on the port (1 Gbps data rate). I will try a new cable. I did blow the port and cable with compressed air but my system is kept clean.

[Mieze]

Oh dear. But I am not crazy, right? It is disconnecting and reconnecting constantly?

Your observation is correct. The connection is unstable so that it keeps dropping the link.

 

Mieze

[pkdesign]

There is something more nefarious happening with my hack. I am able to boot into Windows 10 on the same machine and have zero connectivity problems. Super fast browsing speed and general network traffic. Therefore it can't be a hardware issue.

 

I am writing this right now booted into Win10. Using Speedtest.net I get nearly full 100Mbs up and down. When booted into my hack I get a little less down but upload speeds are down to .5Mbs or less!

 

I also uninstalled your kext and used Lnx2Mac's old .90 version. Same if not worse behavior with my hack.

 

Now that I've ruled out a hardware issue, and it seems neither kexts are the issue at all, I am at a total loss of where to go next. Any clues or help would be appreciated.

 

Can Clover version be at all the issue? I might try to go back several versions and see if that changes things.

 

[Mieze]

There is something more nefarious happening with my hack. I am able to boot into Windows 10 on the same machine and have zero connectivity problems. Super fast browsing speed and general network traffic. Therefore it can't be a hardware issue.

 

I am writing this right now booted into Win10. Using Speedtest.net I get nearly full 100Mbs up and down. When booted into my hack I get a little less down but upload speeds are down to .5Mbs or less!

 

I also uninstalled your kext and used Lnx2Mac's old .90 version. Same if not worse behavior with my hack.

 

Now that I've ruled out a hardware issue, and it seems neither kexts are the issue at all, I am at a total loss of where to go next. Any clues or help would be appreciated.

 

Can Clover version be at all the issue? I might try to go back several versions and see if that changes things.

 

Check your BIOS settings again. According to your board's manual there is a "Green LAN" option which shuts down the LAN when there is no activity. It might be the root of the issue.

 

Mieze

[pkdesign]

Check your BIOS settings again. According to your board's manual there is a "Green LAN" option which shuts down the LAN when there is no activity. It might be the root of the issue.

 

Mieze

 

I've checked my BIOS settings and made sure that option wasn't checked.

[pkdesign]

FYI, I just deleted NetworkInterfaces.plist and preferences.plist from/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration to see if that would help. There was a lot of old info in them both so I had high hopes. But nope. Still dropping Ethernet.

 

I bought a new NIC and hopefully that will shed some more light when I get and install it.

[pkdesign]

Just installed a Marvel 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller which of course uses the AppleYukon2 kext. All is perfect now. I'm guessing that the onboard NIC was indeed somehow forked.

 

So I will, of course, not be need Mieze's Realtek kext anymore.

 

Just a note of thanks to Mieze. I have used her kext for years and was thrilled it worked so well. Thank you to her and all the hackintosh coders and developers out there.

[gundush]

It's not the motherboard. I'm having the same issue on a H55m-USB3. I haven't kept track of all my steps but I've done most of what you've described. Been too busy rebuilding this machine and reconfiguring El Capitan with clover.  This is the only bug left!!

 I do remember that when I disable the "green" bios setting the card doesn't connect at all. 

 

 

Update!!!  I know it's only been a few hours but I believe it to have found a work around. I believe there is a bandwidth or a voltage issue coming from the OS. My reason is this. On separate occasions and on 2 separate networks locations this machine exhibited the random dropouts. The similar factor on both was that there were long cable runs to the machine(20-50+ feet). This time I inserted a router in between my main switch and the realtek machine(keeping the original cable in the mix). I hooked up a cable that is no longer than 6 feet between the secondary router and the realtek machine and I haven't had a dropout since. I've actually made it towards the end of a 4gig app store dl while I type this. For the last 4 days I haven't made it past 100mb's. 

 

The short end of it is try using a shorter cable or boost the signal with a network switch when length is needed if you run into this issue. √    

Edited October 23, 2016 by gundush

[rednaz ugly]

Hello Mieze, 

 

If you could help-me, I need your advice

I am running a Sierra 10.12 on an Acer Aspire E5 571, i7 5500U and HD 5500, Clover - UEFI. I tried your RealtekRTL8111 v2.2.1 without success. I followed your "readme" and got this error “region #2 not an MMIO resource, aborting” during the boot.

 

My System Preferences shows:

 

I tried terminal command “grep RealtekRTL8111 /var/log/system.log” without luck:

 

My DPCIManager shows:

 

And the IORegistry related with RTL8111:

 

And the IORegistry related with Ethernet:

 

 

Also I tried your Debug version and "enableEEE = false/" , same result. Other problem related is that when I shutdown, using RealtekRTL8111 v2.2.1, my system reboot. Without your kext the shutdown goes well. 

 

Attached my boot.log and below the AIDA64 info about the Realtek RTL 81111:

 

[ / Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller #2 ]

      Descrição do controlador                           Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller #2
      Data do controlador                                  6/17/2014
      Versão do controlador                               8.34.617.2014
      Provedor do controlador                            Realtek
      Arquivo INF                                              oem8.inf
      INF Section                                              RTL8411B.ndi.NT
      ID do Hardware                                        PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_09401025&REV_12
      Localização da Informação                         Bus PCI 2, dispositivo 0, función 1
      Dispositivos PCI                                        Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

 

[ Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Adapter ]
    Propriedades do dispositivo:
      Descrição do dispositivo                          Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
      Tipo de Bus                                            PCI Express 2.0 x1
      Barramento / Dispositivo / Função            2 / 0 / 1
      Identificador do dispositivo                      10EC-8168
      ID do Sub-sistema                                  1025-0940
      Classe de dispositivo                               0200 (Ethernet Controller)
      Revisão                                                  12
      Fast Back-to-Back Transactions                Não suportado

 

I am missing anything? Could you help me? Can I help you with more information about?

 

Thank you

 

Rednaz 

bootlog.log.txt

[Mieze]

 

Hello Mieze, 

 

If you could help-me, I need your advice

I am running a Sierra 10.12 on an Acer Aspire E5 571, i7 5500U and HD 5500, Clover - UEFI. I tried your RealtekRTL8111 v2.2.1 without success. I followed your "readme" and got this error “region #2 not an MMIO resource, aborting” during the boot.

This is an issue with the BIOS settings. Something is still in control of the NIC preventing the driver form taking control. Disable the UEFI network stack and LAN boot in the BIOS setup. If this helps, congratulations, in case it doesn't get a new machine because there is nothing I can do for you, sorry!

 

Mieze

[rednaz ugly]

This is an issue with the BIOS settings. Something is still in control of the NIC preventing the driver form taking control. Disable the UEFI network stack and LAN boot in the BIOS setup. If this helps, congratulations, in case it doesn't get a new machine because there is nothin I can do for you, sorry!

 

Mieze

 

Thank you Mieze,

 

I double check the BIOS, again. Networking Boot is Disable and Wake on Lan also disable,

I just saw that my Boot Priority order has two options, the last two in fact: Networking Boot IPV4 and Networking Boot IPV6, but i can not delete them.

 

Well, thank you!

I really appreciated your help,

Rednaz

[Mieze]

Thank you Mieze,

 

I double check the BIOS, again. Networking Boot is Disable and Wake on Lan also disable,

I just saw that my Boot Priority order has two options, the last two in fact: Networking Boot IPV4 and Networking Boot IPV6, but i can not delete them.

 

Well, thank you!

I really appreciated your help,

Rednaz

Check the BIOS settings again for hidden entries affecting the NIC. Don't give up until you have check each and every entry. Unlike traditional board manufacturers, desktop and notebook vendors sometimes do strange things in their BIOS. Good luck!

 

Mieze

[Henzigo]

Hi mieze i have this problem too. But sometimes after reboot my ethernet is working. I posted screens in this post - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/317933-realtek-8168-doesnt-work/. 

[Mieze]

Hi mieze i have this problem too. But sometimes after reboot my ethernet is working. I posted screens in this post - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/317933-realtek-8168-doesnt-work/. 

Once again, this is a BIOS issue and I can do absolutely nothing about it inside the driver.

 

Mieze

[Henry2010]

hallo frau mieze, perhaps the new driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/ would fix some problems in recent posts? your latest version works perfectly on 10.12.1, but maybe some other people need it. ciao

 

LINUX driver for kernel 3.x and 2.6.x and 2.4.x

 

8.043

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[Mieze]

hallo frau mieze, perhaps the new driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/ would fix some problems in recent posts? your latest version works perfectly on 10.12.1, but maybe some other people need it. ciao

I'm aware of the new linux driver, I checked the code and came to the conclusion that there is nothing in it which would be a benefit for OS X. By the way, the error some users are reporting is a BIOS issue affecting only machines from Acer and Dell and in no way limited to a specific NIC. Atheros NIC's are affcetd too. The problem is that OS X fails to map the NIC's register space into kernel address space and there is nothing I can do about it.

baseMap = provider->mapDeviceMemoryWithRegister(kIOPCIConfigBaseAddress0, kIOMapInhibitCache);
    
    if (!baseMap) {
        IOLog("Ethernet [AtherosE2200]: region #0 not an MMIO resource, aborting.\n");
        goto done;
    }

Mieze

[Henry2010]

ok. cheers. perhaps modifying the bios a bit may help. (but of course, that isn't what this thread about.)