Realtek is perhaps the only manufacturer which has developed OS 9
drivers
for its 10/100/1000 card.
You have to dig really deeply to find those drivers, however.
Fortunately, OHS supplied the OS 9 drivers for me.
Anyway, the Realtek 8169 card is supported OOTB by MacOS from 10.2
on, so
I really wonder why Realtek bothered developing a driver for 10.3 and
10.4/10.5.
All the stranger that the card isn't working with Panther, and only
with Panther, and didn't from the get-go. What would interfere with
OOTB support? I don't think I tried connecting before installing the
driver from the OHS CD-ROM, but then again, why would I have, not
knowing about the OOTB support?
The following might hold a clue for someone who can decipher it:
When Tiger 10.4.11 starts up, the small startup window shows
"Starting Mac OS X." And that's it, before the login screen appears
very quickly.
When Panther 10.3.9 starts up, the small startup window is blank for
a couple seconds. Then (with some variation between testing instances):
(With ethernet cable in PCI card jack):
Welcome to Macintosh
Checking disks
Waiting for Network Initialization
Loading Shared IP Extension
Starting Printing Services
Loading IP Firewall Extension
Waiting for Network Extensions
(Login window appears)
(Software Update and Safari unable to connect)
(With ethernet cable in built-in ethernet jack):
(indecipherable blur)
Loading Shared IP Extension
Starting Printing Services
Loading Shared IP Extension
Waiting for Network Extensions
Loading IP Firewall Extension
Waiting for Network Extensions
(Login window appears)
(Software Update and Safari able to connect)
I don't believe I've seen much or any of this during a startup before
with any OS of mine, although it's been over 3 years since I used
Panther or had it installed at all. The appearance of "Printing"
seems suspicious. Part of the bloated installation I performed was
scads of unneccesary printer drivers. I'm haunted by the specter of
possibly having to write a report in Simplified Chinese on my work in
Xcode to send to a Lexmark printer and being unable to. There's
nothing at all complicated about my printing setup. HP DeskJet 935C
connected to a USB hub connected to the computer. Nothing shared or
Internet about it.
How might I inquire as to the status of the PCI ethernet card and its
drivers through Terminal? Is looking at a log (which log?) in Console
after I start Panther likely to shed any light on the situation?
Sean
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