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I had to rebuild my machine due to a faulty onboard nic. As a result I'm currently using a RealTek chipset usb wireless nic. I built my DSDT with the onboard nic so my DSDT does not have this nic's information. I believe due to this I'm not able to have these applications work. What I have done is the following:

Generate a UDID and add it to the smbios.plist
Remove the network plist to have it generate a new one
Use Chameleon Wizard to generate a new Serial
Use prebuild smbios in Chameleon Wizard
Using Chameleon 2.1 r1998

Still no dice. I have read in another thread where someone was able to resolve this by setting their usb nic as eth0 and this resolved the issue but I have not had luck in contacting them. Attached is my IOReg dump and DSDT if anyone can help with this.

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OSX Lion 10.7.2 (Apple Update to 10.7.4)
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 - rev3.3 - F14 BIOS (Chameleon v2.1 r2035)
Asus GeForce 8400GS 1Gb DDR3
E6420 Duo Core 2 | 4Gb RAM
23" Apple Cinema Display | BT Apple Magic Mouse | HP GX607AA Webcam

After playing around with this for a bit I'm seeing that my only NIC (the USB Nic) is showing as IOBuiltin as false under NetworkInterfaces.plist. Even setting it to True and rebooting sets it back to false.

I guess my ask here is how do I make this USB Nic set to true for IOBuiltIn? I do have EthernetBuiltin option set. What DSDT modifications do I need to do?

Edit: I dumped another DSDT using Ubuntu Live CD but when I use this DSDT I get a kernel panic about 10 seconds or so after the desktop is shown. I also did not see any reference to any RealTek devices (not my USB Nic nor my Audio chipset).

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OSX Lion 10.7.2 (Apple Update to 10.7.4)
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 - rev3.3 - F14 BIOS (Chameleon v2.1 r2035)
Asus GeForce 8400GS 1Gb DDR3
E6420 Duo Core 2 | 4Gb RAM
23" Apple Cinema Display | BT Apple Magic Mouse | HP GX607AA Webcam

I'm not sure you can inject a property into an USB device via DSDT or device-properties string, or if it would solve your problem.

Don't you have a Marvell 88E8056? If you load the kext you will have en0 ethernet set as built-in and your problem should be solved, even if you use the Realtek NIC to connect (set it as en1).

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ASUS N53Jq • CPU: Intel Core i7-740QM 1.73GHz • RAM: 6,0GB • HD: 500GB • GPU: GeForce GT 425M 1GB 1920x1080 • OS: OS X 10.8.3 • Linux Mint 14 • Windows 8

I do have that kext but I think I have a defective hardware NIC as when I install that kext now my system freezes or will stop booting up. Once I remove the kext my system works fine. I've used this same kext before so I know its not a corrupt kext. I really do think there is something wrong with this onboard nic. I guess I could solve this with a PCI nic card but trying to get this resolved using a USB nic for now.

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OSX Lion 10.7.2 (Apple Update to 10.7.4)
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 - rev3.3 - F14 BIOS (Chameleon v2.1 r2035)
Asus GeForce 8400GS 1Gb DDR3
E6420 Duo Core 2 | 4Gb RAM
23" Apple Cinema Display | BT Apple Magic Mouse | HP GX607AA Webcam

Maybe something like this

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ASUS N53Jq • CPU: Intel Core i7-740QM 1.73GHz • RAM: 6,0GB • HD: 500GB • GPU: GeForce GT 425M 1GB 1920x1080 • OS: OS X 10.8.3 • Linux Mint 14 • Windows 8

That didn't work but I did go back and re-enabled the nic in the bios and tried my Live Linux CD. Network card appeared to be working so I took a gamble and installed the kext. No more freeze ups. Weird. I'm now able to log into iCloud.

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OSX Lion 10.7.2 (Apple Update to 10.7.4)
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 - rev3.3 - F14 BIOS (Chameleon v2.1 r2035)
Asus GeForce 8400GS 1Gb DDR3
E6420 Duo Core 2 | 4Gb RAM
23" Apple Cinema Display | BT Apple Magic Mouse | HP GX607AA Webcam

I have the same problem, but the internal NIC is burnt out due to power surge on the ethernet cable

is there any way to fix?

thanks