GA-Z97M-D3H - Realtek Gbe Lan chip

[sebecam2000]

Hello,

I did a fresh install of 10.13.2 High Sierra with Unibeast 8.1.0 on a Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H equipped with a TP-Link TL-WDN4800 (N900 model with 3 antennas).
The install went ok and I could enter MacOS with no problem. Ethernet and Wi-fi connectivity seemed to be ok, but it appeared that wireless was not reliable (pinging google failed most of the time and the rare packets that passed had more then 1 sec transmission time). So I switched to ethernet connectivity with the embedded Realtek Gbe LAN, which ran successfully.
I downloaded Multibeast 10.2.0 and ran it to install the necessary kexts.
After a reboot, the wifi is still unstable (can connect to my SSID but pings are failing most of the time), and the Realtek chip does not detect my cable (show disconnected status), even after unplug-replug.

Any idea why this is happening?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that during installation, network kexts are loaded from my "usb install key". I assume it contained correct LAN kexts.
And after the reboot, the kexts used are the ones installed by Multibeast, which are not working in my case (missing or wrong kexts). [In the past I used the RTL8111 kext, I will try to install it this evening]

My 2 questions are:
- Do I understand correctly the kext selection?
- For other members having the same mobo, can you tell me which kexts/multibeast options/tweaks you are using?

 

[agrajag]

Hello,
- Do I understand correctly the kext selection?
- For other members having the same mobo, can you tell me which kexts/multibeast options/tweaks you are using?

I have the same mobo, now in my secondary machine (see my sig below). It is fully updated to 10.13.2 and I have the same wifi hardware. Both the wired and wireless connections work very well. The wired ethernet needs the RTL8111 kext- make sure you are using the current version, which is in MultiBeast. The WDN4800 needs no kexts added, as it uses the Apple supplied kexts.

Your added kexts should be in either the EFI partition EFI/Clover/kexts/Other folder or in the system partition /Library/Extensions folder.

If they are in L/E then if you boot with a USB stick, those extensions will load, but those in the EFI/C/k/O folder won't.

Something sounds fishy about your system, as it is a pretty compatible mobo to use for a hack.

 

[sebecam2000]

Thanks for the help and the list of kexts!
I will test further, maybe something is wrong with my WDN4800.
Btw, are you doing any special configuration (apart from Multibeast) for sound and usb3 ?

 

[agrajag]

Thanks for the help and the list of kexts!
I will test further, maybe something is wrong with my WDN4800.
Btw, are you doing any special configuration (apart from Multibeast) for sound and usb3 ?

For sound I used Toleda's guide and script to enable sound. I followed RehabMan's guide to create an ssdt to limit the number of USB ports https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-creating-a-custom-ssdt-for-usbinjectall-kext.211311/.