I'm using it on one of my gigabyte hacks' AR8161, and it does work, but I don't know how stable it is yet.
The only killer I've used it on is the onboard E2200 on the MSI GT70-2OD.
That said, it works wonderfully for me, and while I didn't remove anything major, i would only recommend testing this driver on the KILLER E2200, and nothing else. I AM NOT LIABLE IF THIS BREAKS YOUR SYSTEM OR FRIES YOUR NIC, and this is very important in this case because I -REMOVED- a FAILSAFE in the DRIVER CODE. Accessing the MII will always succeed, even if it -really- is busy. Part of what I did is, I disabled the check to see if the MII is busy, in order to override that. (Normally) Only with the Killer, there is that fancy UDP offload engine in the way, and the MII always says that it's busy, because it's only expecting to get commands from the killer controller, and not the system. The PHY answers to the MII, and gives you your link.
With the normal AR8161s, and other ALX compatible chips, there is just the MII (Controller) and the PHY (Physical Link/Port). A couple days worth of digging later, I found out that I had to modify some low-level driver code to make it succeed.Ī bit of explanation is in order, I think. It would see the hardware properly (PCI addresses and such), and even did load and associate (Which was a very good sign), but it would always fail halfway through the initialization. At this point, I went back to OSX, downloaded the source for Shailua's ALX driver, manually added the patch, and compiled for mavericks.
I was pretty disappointed, until I found a patch that someone developed to allow the E2200 to work in linux through the ALX driver.Īpparently the ALX driver already did support the E2200, it just didn't know it. Lo and behold, the E2200 didn't work in Linux Mint 15 either.
I started looking for a solution, and decided to install linux in the meantime. After quite a bit of work getting OSX installed on the laptop I remembered that it has killer doubleshot wireless and LAN (E2200), and that finding a driver for either of those was going to be nigh impossible. Every PC and laptop I have all run Windows, OSX, and Linux, and I depend on that capability because I'm a computer repair guy, and I sometimes have to do work on exotic systems or do something that requires software exclusive to one platform or another. I recently purchased an MSI GT70-2OD laptop. I've used your resources for a very long time, and now I finally have something to contribute in return. Using 1 jack from speakers directly to mac (2.1 sound in all 5 speakers) - and the sound is the same without using the sound card. I am following these steps on my macbook air os 10.10 with c reative sound blaster x fi surround 5.1 pro.
A convenient volume control knob, headphone and microphone inputs for a. Easy to install, it replaces low quality on-board audio with high quality connectivity options.
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