[wiki.p5e3-dsdt] push by - Edited wiki page Marvell88E8056 through web user interface. on 2011-08-23 00:02 GMT

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Revision: 9387f7fb4af1
Author: tkrotoff
Date: Mon Aug 22 17:02:45 2011
Log: Edited wiki page Marvell88E8056 through web user interface.
http://code.google.com/p/p5e3-dsdt/source/detail?r=9387f7fb4af1&repo=wiki

Modified:
/Marvell88E8056.wiki

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--- /Marvell88E8056.wiki Mon Jan 17 02:07:42 2011
+++ /Marvell88E8056.wiki Mon Aug 22 17:02:45 2011
@@ -5,18 +5,14 @@

The ASUS !P5E3 Premium motherboard is equipped with two LAN controllers:
* Marvell® 88E8056 Gigabit LAN controller
- * Realtek® RTL8110SC Gigabit LAN controller
-
-RTL8110SC is already supported out of the box by Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Small modifications are needed for the Marvell 88E8056.
+ * [RealtekRTL8110SC Realtek® RTL8110SC Gigabit LAN controller]

= Details =

Several methods and kext float around. Basically Marvell 88E8056 is
supported by Apple Yukon but the right ID is not specified and thus the LAN
controller is not recognized.
Some suggest to
[http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=73374 edit the
original kext from Apple]. I prefer instead another method which inserts
the right ID dynamically with a new kext named !AppleYukon2Injector.kext
inside [http://code.google.com/p/p5e3-dsdt/source/browse/Extensions/
/Extra/Extensions]

-Several !AppleYukon2Injector.kext-like exist and I have choosen the
smallest one
([http://code.google.com/p/p5e3-dsdt/source/browse/Extensions/AppleYukon2Injector.kext/Contents/Info.plist
Info.plist] from this !AppleYukon2Injector.kext is only 60 lines long)
-
-Unfortunately (as always with the Hackintosh scene), it is a bit of a
mess :/
+Several !AppleYukon2Injector.kext-like exist and I have chosen the
smallest one
([http://code.google.com/p/p5e3-dsdt/source/browse/Extensions/AppleYukon2Injector.kext/Contents/Info.plist
Info.plist] from this !AppleYukon2Injector.kext is only 60 lines long)

= Sources =