RealTek Drivers

[pee-air]

Does anyone have any experience with RealTek drivers on PCI PowerMacs?

I have a 7300 that had previously been running Linux. It is now running Mac OS 8.6 and connected to the network via the slow builtin 10base-T ethernet. I do have one fast ethernet card with a RealTek chip kicking around, that I'd like to try in the 7300. Don't know how well it will work, or if it will even work, but I'm going to give it a go.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. So I've got nothing to lose by giving it a shot. [] ]'>

 

[Mike Richardson]

The RealTek 8139 cards work great. Right now I have one in a 7200 where the onboard Ethernet may be damaged (it works, but everything goes at like 1K/sec or slower). It works great. We used one in a 6500 for a long time. It's a good card for Classic and OS X.

 

[pee-air]

Well, that was quick and painless. Just dropped the NIC into a PCIi slot, and rebooted the 7300. Then, I installed the RealTek driver in the extensions folder and rebooted again. Opened up my AppleTalk and TCP/IP control panels and selected "Ethernet Slot C1", got the MAC address by pressing "info" in the TCP/IP control panel, created an entry for the 7300 in my dhcpd.conf file on my server, restarted the dhcpd, and rebooted the 7300. Piece of cake.

Now my 7300 will always boot up with IP address 192.168.1.30, gateway 192.168.1.1, and DNS 192.168.1.5 which it will get from dhcpd on 192.168.1.5... It will then set the system clock by querying the ntpd on 192.168.1.5 and report for duty. Nice!

And the best part? It now does its network stuff at 100 Mb/s. Much better than that builtin 10Mb/s stuff.

Now I just have to get some fast ethernet cards for my Quadra 700 and 950 to replace the onboard 10Mbit NICs. Hmmm...

 

[trag]

I have been told that the SIIG USB/Firewire/Gb Enet card will work in the PCI Mac using the RealTek drivers for the 10/100/1000 ethernet. The fellow was actually writing about a generic version of the card which was briefly available from the factory which made the SIIG cards, but they're identical (except the price, $80 vs. $15).

Strangely, from what I understand the USB/FW/10/100 card does not work well in Macs.

If you need 10/100 Nubus cards email me and maybe we can work out a deal. I have some AsanteFast 10/100 NuBus cards still in boxes. They're refurbs. trag@io.com

 

[gobabushka]

ive got one in my c500, i love it, but ive had problems with plugging in a cable with the machine running. other than thhat, works great!

 

[protocol7]

I have a generic Sharkoon PCI NIC in my 5400 which is working great in OS9 and 7.5.3 with the Realtek 8169 driver. Seeing as the driver isn't available on their site anymore I upped it here in case anyone comes here looking for it.

From a search I see it's been posted a couple of times already, but you can never have too many mirrors

 

[trag]

I have a generic Sharkoon PCI NIC in my 5400 which is working great in OS9 and 7.5.3 with the Realtek 8169 driver. Seeing as the driver isn't available on their site anymore I upped it here in case anyone comes here looking for it.

So is the OS9 driver for the 8169 working in OS 7.5.3? I've been wondering about that and points in between

From a search I see it's been posted a couple of times already, but you can never have too many mirrors

That's for sure.

 

[protocol7]

So is the OS9 driver for the 8169 working in OS 7.5.3? I've been wondering about that and points in between

Yep seems to work just fine. I'm actually running 7.5.3 and 8.6 on the 5400 now and it works fine in both. I've browsed online and copied files over and back with the iMac on the same network via Personal Web Sharing and FTP. I can't get AppleTalk to talk but I've never used it before and there's a PC on this network too which might be interfering with things. Was hoping I could share my SW1500 with the iMac.

I can't check if it would work on anything before 7.5.3 as that's as low as this machine will go, but I'm sure someone here will take up the challenge.

 

[yuhong]

I can't check if it would work on anything before 7.5.3 as that's as low as this machine will go, but I'm sure someone here will take up the challenge.

7.5.3 is practically pretty much the lowest any PCI Mac should go anyway.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Yes. For all that is holy, stay far away from 7.5.2.