Hackintosh Question

[TheStu]

I just picked up a PCI based gigabit ethernet card for my hackintosh, it should have a realtek chip on it (honestly haven't opened it yet to check, I just got it last night), how do I go about installing the 'drivers' in the even that OS X doesn't immediately recognize it?

 

[mshan]

I think Kaido mentioned this program before: http://cheetha.net/

 

[Zaap]

Chances are it'll work OOB.

If not, depending on the realtek chip, you can try the Psystar R1000 drivers.

 

[TheStu]

I'll have to try it out when I get home.

I know that I won't be able to get full gigabit speed, or even the same speed that I get out of my onboard gigabit, but at least I won't have to unplug my desktop from the net everytime I want to quickly transfer files to/from my macbook (thank god apple included gigabit on their consumer laptop... 3 years ago)

 

[Zaap]

Speed most likely just depends on the card. I put a Trendnet gigabit PCI card (realtek, works OOB) in my DS3L based Hackintosh and it shatters the on board transfer speed. A 4GB file transfers from my NAS in about two minutes.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Speed most likely just depends on the card. I put a Trendnet gigabit PCI card (realtek, works OOB) in my DS3L based Hackintosh and it shatters the on board transfer speed. A 4GB file transfers from my NAS in about two minutes.

Well, I was mostly thinking that PCI can't feed data at gigabit rate. I get fine speeds from one system to the other, basically the maximum speed of my notebook's hard drive since that is the weakest link.

 

[TheStu]

Well, it does in fact work right out of the box. $16 for a natively working gigabit card? I'll take it.