ethernet not working.

[SealClubber]

this sucks cause everything else is working well =[

Everest revealed i have two cards,
Ralink RT2790 - wireless
Realtek RTL8189 - ethernet

i dont really care about wireless, im on a desktop and i never used it in windows

found a kext on Realtek but i got into another problem.
first time installing a kext btw.

im using osxtools86, and when it prompts me to direct it to the kext, its greyed out
so like you cant select it? anything im doing wrong?

 

[MacMan]

this sucks cause everything else is working well =[

Everest revealed i have two cards,
Ralink RT2790 - wireless
Realtek RTL8189 - ethernet

i dont really care about wireless, im on a desktop and i never used it in windows

found a kext on Realtek but i got into another problem.
first time installing a kext btw.

im using osxtools86, and when it prompts me to direct it to the kext, its greyed out
so like you cant select it? anything im doing wrong?

Why don't you use MultiBeast, it has the Realtek driver.

 

[SealClubber]

actually i tried the driver in Multibeast and i got something in networking preferences.
It says connected but with an Orange light beside it. safari still doesnt work.
=[

 

[Burninator]

actually i tried the driver in Multibeast and i got something in networking preferences.
It says connected but with an Orange light beside it. safari still doesnt work.
=[

Does it say why there's an orange dot? That means there's a wire connected but it's not functioning properly, usually because you have a self-generated IP address or something like that.

 

[SealClubber]

actually your right, it does giveme a message like that..what does that mean, is there a way around it?

 

[hoob]

via application => utility => terminal
enter ifconfig and search for this info

autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active

ifconfig

en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::20d:93ff:fe7a:d294%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
        inet 10.119.1.120 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.119.1.255
        ether 00:0d:93:7a:d2:94 
        media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
        supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,hw-loopback>

list your interfaces (normally en0 is Ethernet cable)

sudo tcpdump -i en0 -n
Password:
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on en0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes

at this time unplug your Ethernet cable
wait 10 second
plug your Internet cable

you should see dhcp connexion, if it works fine

 

[SealClubber]

@hoob; i tried your method but still doesnt work; all i got was this

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06:20:44.296600 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 18:a9:05:19:2d:f0, length 300
06:20:45.791986 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 18:a9:05:19:2d:f0, length 300

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one funny thing to note is when i unplug my cable; Network Preferences still shows connected with the orange 'light'.

Is this supposed to happen?

 

[mickemus]

this sucks cause everything else is working well =[

Everest revealed i have two cards,
Ralink RT2790 - wireless
Realtek RTL8189 - ethernet

i dont really care about wireless, im on a desktop and i never used it in windows

found a kext on Realtek but i got into another problem.
first time installing a kext btw.

im using osxtools86, and when it prompts me to direct it to the kext, its greyed out
so like you cant select it? anything im doing wrong?

Ralink has Mac OS X drivers for their wireless stuff on their website. I chose that direction as I then use a supported driver.