Wired Ethernet Card from Microcenter

[Solved] Wired Ethernet Card from Microcenter

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I have a GA-Z77-DS3H rev 1.1 board and the Ethernet driver support is driving me insane with all the crashes. It works, but only for a while and not under load. So i want to buy a new 10/100 or gigabit card that is guaranteed to work and not have to rely on experimental drivers. I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 right now.

I'd prefer to pick one up locally, so if anyone knows a good card from Microcenter's catalog, I'd appreciate your advice:

http://microcenter.com/category/4294966885/Wired-Cards

If possible, please let me know which drivers I need to install from MultiBeast or other source.

I used to use this card all the time with various Hackintosh builds with Leopard to Snow Leopard.

http://microcenter.com/product/243519/32-bit_10-100-1000Mbps_Copper_Gigabit_PCI_Adapter

TRENDnet TEG-PCITXR. it worked great OOB.

HOWEVER... I have no idea if it will still work with Lion or Mountain Lion. No idea about any of the other cards.

Highly advise you google Hackintosh ethernet card support and search this site for working examples.

Thanks! It does appear from this post (http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=169&t=25877) that it works under lion, so I'm guessing not much keeping it working in ML. Hopefully modern HW revisions still use the Realtek8169 chipset.

I have been searching like crazy, but most threads I find concerning ethernet cards are old and for early osx versions as most people have working on-board solutions now.

Okay, you're in luck. I actually had one of these in my 'parts drawer' yanked out of some machine from who-knows-when. The card is TEG-PCITXR hardware version 3.0R

Just popped it into my signature system, disabled the onboard, plugged Ethernet into this card.

Ethernet works OOB on a fresh install of 10.8.2 and a fresh update to 10.8.3. I've done no kext additions or alterations on this system.

Interestingly, 'About this Mac' shows no PCI cards attached, even though this is.





Tested downloading some files, tested App store downloads, moved a DVD rip from my system to my NAS- everything with it works stable and at gigabit speeds as I'd expect. Sleep, shutdown, restart all working as normal.

If the microcenter card is the 3.0R version then you should be good with it.

@zaptoons if you take out the ethernet cable and connect it again, ethernet will work? (On lnx2mac you need to restart)

Just tried that. Yanked ethernet cord- Red light: Ethernet not connected.
Waited a minute, plugged ethernet cable back in. Green light: Ethernet connected.

Replying now after just doing that, no restart- so clearly my Ethernet is working. Seems to me like this card is 100%.

Hey guys, thanks for all the followups and for checking things out. I actually just got back from the store picking up the card. I disabled the built-in ethernet controller and booted up, no networking. So I used Multibeast 5.2.1 to install RTL8169 drivers. Not sure if you had those installed already to work as soon as you popped your's in, or because I still had ALXEthernet.kext installed from the onboard.



TrendNet TEG-PCITXR

Ethernet working: Vendor ID: 0x10ec, DeviceID 0x8169

AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext working properly. Will report back if I have any connection issues.

OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3



Again, thanks for the help ^^ If this solves my network issues I'll have a perfect running system!

Oops, I should have included a cap of the Ethernet Cards tab; mine reads exactly identical to yours. Still using the card rather than my onboard.

I should have clarified: I have drivers installed originally from Multibeast for my motherboard components, but I didn't add any drivers/kexts or changes of any kind to get the card working.