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- This document contains information about RTL8139x driver for Macintosh Power Mac
- series. We urge you to read this document to gain some understanding of this product.
- This document address the following topics:
- *** The RTL8139x driver does not support the HOT-SWAP functionality of a PC Card.
- Thus you must plug the PC Card into your system before booting and should not
- remove the PC Card from your system before shuting down. PLEASE DO NOT
- HOT-SWAP THE PC CARD WHEN YOUR MAC SYSTEM IS RUNNING.
- 1. Adapter requirement for PCI adapter
- 2. Adapter requirement for PC Card
- 3. Software Installation
- 4. Setting up Open Transport
- 5. Setting up the TCP/IP
- 1. Adapter requirement for PCI adapter
- 1.1 The NIC on your Ethernet adapter must be RTL8139 series and the Subsystem
- Vendor ID must be 10ec and the Subsystem ID must be 8139.
- * You can contact your card provider to get the Subsystem Vendor ID and Subsystem
- ID. Or you can use the following method by yourself to check the Subsystem
- Vendor ID and Subsystem ID.
- - Select the "Apple System Profiler" from the Apple Menu.
- - Select the "Devices and Volumes" page from the "Apple System Profiler" window.
- - Check the "Card Name" field in the information of the PCI-slot where your ethernet
- adapter is plugged. The content of "Card Name" is in the form of pcixxxx,yyyy where
- xxxx is the Subsystem Vendor ID and yyyy is the Subsystem ID.
- 1.2 If the Subsystem Vendor ID and Subsystem ID is not 10ec,8139, please contact your
- card provider to get the driver for your adapter or follow the following steps to patch
- our driver to work with your adapter.
- - Get a binary editor to edit the driver.
- *** You can use "General Edit Lite" editor You can download "General Edit Lite" from
- ftp://physgi.phy.ncku.edu.tw/pub/mac/editor.
- - Use this editor to open the driver file "RTL8139x Driver".
- - Select "Unlock Data" from the "View" menu item to unlock data of the driver file to
- enable the editor to modify the driver file.
- - Click on the lower frame to activate the lower frame.
- - Replace all the pci10ec,8139 items with your pcixxxx,yyyy by using the "Replace"
- function provied in the "Replace" menu item in the "Find" menu item.
- - Save the driver file.
- note: "Quadrivio General Edit Lite" is a product of Quadrivio corporation. Please read
- the text file within the "Quadrivio General Edit Lite". You can contact Quadrivio
- corporation for more information.
- 2. Adapter requirement for PC Card
- 2.1 The NIC on your PC Card must be RTL8139 series and the Vendor ID musb be 10ec
- and the Device ID must be 8139.
- * You can contact your PC Card provider to get the Vendor ID and Device ID of your
- PC Card.
- 2.2 If the Vendor ID and Device ID is not 10ec,8139, please contact your PC Card provider
- to get the driver for your PC Card or follow the following steps to patch our driver to
- work with your PC Card.
- - Get a binary editor to edit the driver.
- *** You can use "General Edit Lite" editor You can download "General Edit Lite" from
- ftp://physgi.phy.ncku.edu.tw/pub/mac/editor.
- - Use this editor to open the driver file "RTL8139x Driver".
- - Select "Unlock Data" from the "View" menu item to unlock data of the driver file to
- enable the editor to modify the driver file.
- - Click on the lower frame to activate the lower frame.
- - Replace all the pci10ec,8139 items with your pcixxxx,yyyy whree xxxx is the Vendor
- ID and yyyy is the Device ID of your PC Card by using the "Replace" function provided
- in the "Replace" menu item in the "Find" menu item.
- - Save the driver file.
- note: "Quadrivio General Edit Lite" is a product of Quadrivio corporation. Please read
- the text file within the "Quadrivio General Edit Lite". You can contact Quadrivio
- corporation for more information.
- 3. Software Installation
- 3.1 Double-click the "Installer" icon in the "RTL8139x Driver for Mac OS" folder. The
- installer program examines your computer and installs the appropriate driver
- according to your selection.
- 4. Setting up the AppleTalk Control Panel
- 4.1 Select the "Control Panels" from the Apple Menu.
- 4.2 Select "AppleTalk" from the Control Panels submeu.
- 4.3 Click the "Connect via:" dropdown list box to show available communication connections.
- 4.4 Select the slot where the adapter is installed.
- 4.5 Close the AppleTalk control panel. A dialog box will appear asking whether you
- want to save changes. Click the "Save" button.
- 5. Setting up the TCP/IP
- 5.1 Select "Control Panels" from the Apple Menu.
- 5.2 Select "TCP/IP" from te Control Panels submenu.
- 5.3 Click the "Connect via:" dropdown list box to show available communication connections.
- 5.4 Select the slot where the adapter is installed.
- 5.5 Close the TCP/IP control panel. A dialog box will appear asking whether you want
- to save changes. Click the "Save" button.
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