Realtek Nic For Osx Drivers Show Up

I dont have a gigabit switch so cant shed any light on jumbo frame compatibility.

When reporting on PCI cards in Macs that support deep sleep (G4AGP and later towers) see if the card supports deep sleep also.

If the card supports Jumbo Frames (most dont seem to and everything on the network must support it also to work) include that info also.

Thanks.

When reporting on PCI cards see if the card supports sleep also.

If the card supports Jumbo Frames (remember everything on the network must support Jumbo Frames also to work) include that info also.

Thanks) NOTE: Remember that chipset used in various brands of cards can change over time.

For Gigabit Ethernet, a Category 6 cable (CAT6) is recommended.

I needed a replacement pronto as the G5 is (was) my work horse for development, so I drove over to Memory Express and picked up D-Link DGE-30T Gigabit PCI Adapter for 19.99 CDN as it had a Mac compatible sticker on it.

So I had a look at the included D-Link CD and they have.pkg Package component installer for OSX 10.3 and 10.4.

However I am running Leopard 10.5.8.

Realtek Nic For Osx Drivers Show Up

I ran the 10.4 pkg installer - rebooted and no drivers show up in the System Profile for the PCI card - so I was pretty sure they simply will not install on 10.5 but did not report an error either.

After a reboot, its up and running just fine now and has been rock solid for the past 5 days.

In fact I would say its got 10 to 20 speed improvement over the old built in Giga Ethernet too.

Finding an NIC Giga E card for the Mac is nearly impossible now - no one write drivers and I suspect Apple will kill off the remaining expandable Mac going forward - so no incentive for 3rd party companies going forward -Milton.

Netgear GA311 for instance (see reports below - unless theyve changed chipsets).

As of Oct. 1 2012, the Netgear GA311 is still available (google search showed stock at Amazon for instance, under 25US).

Also found a Sonnet Presto Gigabit PCI card at sponsor OWC, but Sonnet cards typically cost more (49.99).

This Netgear GA311 NIC has the Realtek 8169 chipset and was plug and play.

Needed a second NIC to multi-home a server (G5 1.8GHz Tower running 10.5.4 server).

I had tried a D-Link DFE530TX card that was supposed to work with 10.3 (server did have 10.3 server on it), but that card did not work even after installing the driver.

I then decided to put 10.5 server of the G5 for various reasons and so needed a nic with 10.5 support.

An Apple authorised dealer told me that it would cost about 200 to get an a NIC that would work.

I told him he must be joking After looking at your site, I got hold of a cheap second hand GA311 card from ebay (12 including delivery).

After boot up, checked system profiler and saw the card listed under PCI.

Presto, instant network access (at 100TX speed, since I dont have gigabit network).

No driver install.

Just recognised by the OS, which is always good.

TG-3269 which uses the realtek 8196sc Chipset works plug and play in my G4 400MHz AGP Model.

Just bought it new on Ebay for 8 Euros which is about 11 as of today (Feb.3rd 2010).

But I wont bother to install cause I dont need it for a home server, and the card is running just fine with built in network software.

This ten year old workhorse is back serving 1TB of media files every day - what a great machine.

Realtek Nic Driver For Osx