
08-22-2009, 01:19 AM
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Cheetah
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 7
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Watch the rev#...
FYI, try to get the rev1.x version, not the rev2.0 kind. The lan on the 1.x works out of the box, but I bought the 2.0, and can't get it to work. They changed the lan chip from Realtek to Atheros, and the Atheros chip generally sucks on all OS's...
The LAN chip is a AR8131. There is a driver for that chip on kexts.com, but it's for the mobile version of the chip... Everything else was smooth as silk. Guess I'm gonna have to drop $10 on a lan card
As a side note, anyone think there is a way to tweak the existing AR8131 chip to work with this mobo? I would assume that there isn't much difference, but I am far from a driver programmer. Anyone want to be really awesome and make this motherboard perfect for OSX? 
Specs: SL retail install, Updated to 10.6.4, Pentium (Wolfdale) E6300, GA-G31M-ES2L rev2.0 mobo, Rosewill RC-402 NIC, Gigabyte Nvidia 9500GT, 250GB SATA HDD, IDE DVD burner, 2GB RAM, Happy User
Everything but sleep & mic working. If you have any ideas, PM me
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