find out your devID for the ethernet... remember to swap the values around like we talked about in IRC... in the Finder menu, select "Go" then "Go to Folder..." then input "/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/"

right click through the files and select "Show Package Contents" and edit the info.plist located within them. Find the lines showing other devIDs and place yours at the end in the same format... (remember: 0x1345de43 or whatever yours happens to be)... repair extensions permissions using that same app and try out your ethernet after reboot. Hope something works... you can use Terminal and type "kextstat" to find out what extensions you are using (in order to determine which of the network kexts allows this to work)

you should try this out on each of them individually and don't edit the rest of the .plist...

let me know how/when/if its working. I realize this is pretty hit/miss by doing it this way but like I said before, I haven't found any direct fix for this except the mentioning of editing the kexts to include the devID.

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