Thread: Network just stops after a while

Hi all im running 10.6.8 with a dualcore e2160 and have network card RTL8169
using AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext the file is version 1.0.3/ shows under get info following info: "2.0.6, This product is covered by one or more of the following patents:
US5,307,459, US5,434,872, US5,732,094, US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625
Copyright Realtek semiconductor, Inc. 2004-2008"

and size is 745 KB on disk (714,049 bytes)

with cpus=2 it works only a little bit and then suddenly stopps,
the driver works if i run the system with cpus=1 flag but not satisfactory, its a dualcore for tomatoes sake.

kernel version
Darwin box 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
kernel file size 20.8 MB on disk (20,828,964 bytes)
is there a way to run in dualcore mode ? i mean with cpus=2?
or am i wasting my time?
this is the board im using
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - Motherboards- ASUS P5VD2-MX

First, that kext is included by default in Mac OS X 10.6, and should work OOB (out of the box) with cards that are based on that chipset, in 64-bit mode.

Second, i'm a little confused by your description, since the motherboard there it doesn't have that chipset for network. Are you using a dedicated one?

yes its PCI card RTL8169 and the system is runing in 32 bit mode

Then, this might be your problem. That kext is suppose to run in 64-bit mode (like i've already pointed out). It is included in this kext IONetworkingFamily.kext (if you navigate through its contents) (location S/L/E (System/Library/Extensions). So, if you have it duplicate there, delete it, and then run the OS X in 64-bit. It, then, should work well.

thank you for the help and advice, i tried 4 different kernels with -x flag and without with arch=x86_64 flag and in verbose mode ad without, with the -f -F flag separate and all together, it shows LP Kernel 64 loading or loaded in verbose mode but it starts just up till the blue screen of osx finder and then freezes, i dont get even an mouse courser, any idea why i cant boot into 64 bit kernel mode?

thank you in advance all help is welcome and apriciated

Have you tried loading the vanilla (untouched) kernel? You should been able to run it? How did you install the OS X? (method)

Edit: on second thought i see that the chipset is a VIA, and the vanilla kernel will not ...