This document contains information about the customization of RTL8139x driver for Macintosh Power Mac series. Contents 1. PCI adapter's Subsystem Vendor ID and Subsystem ID for PCI adapter 2. PC Card's Vendor ID and Device ID 3. Version information and icon 4. Driver Installation 1. PCI adapter's Subsystem Vendor ID and Subsystem ID 1.1 The Mac system do the matching of a PCI adapter with it's driver by using the adapter's PCI name in Mac. A PCI adapter's PCI name is pcixxxx,yyyy. If the Subsystem Vendor ID and subSystem ID of the device are all zeros, xxxx is the Vendor ID of the device and yyyy is the Device ID of the device. Otherwise, xxxx is the Subsystem Vendor ID of the device and yyyy is the Subsystem ID of the device. note: xxxx and yyyy in pcixxxx,yyyy are made up of all small letters such as a,b,c..., and not A,B,C... 1.2 You can customize the pcixxxx,yyyy in the "RTL8139x Driver" file by using an appropriate editor. *** You can use "General Edit Lite" to customize the pcixxxx,yyyy. You can download "General Edit Lite" from ftp://physgi.phy.ncku.edu.tw/pub/mac/editor. Please follow the following steps to customize pcixxxx,yyyy: 1. Use this editor to open the driver file. 2. Select "Unlock Data" from the "View" menu item to unlock data of the driver file to enable the editor to modify the driver file. 3. Click on the lower frame to activate the lower frame. 4. 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. 5. 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. PC Card's Vendor ID and Device ID 2.1 The Mac system do the matching of a PC Card with it's driver by using the card's Vendor ID and Device ID. A PC Card's name in Mac is in the form of pcixxxx,yyyy where xxxx is the Vendor ID and yyyy is the Device ID of the PC Card. note: xxxx and yyyy in pcixxxx,yyyy are made up of all small letters such as a,b,c..., and not A,B,C... 2.2 You can customize the pcixxxx,yyyy in the "RTL8139x Driver" file by using an appropriate editor. *** You can use "General Edit Lite" to customize the pcixxxx,yyyy. You can download "General Edit Lite" from ftp://physgi.phy.ncku.edu.tw/pub/mac/editor. Please follow the following steps to customize pcixxxx,yyyy: 1. Use this editor to open the driver file. 2. Select "Unlock Data" from the "View" menu item to unlock data of the driver file to enable the editor to modify the driver file. 3. Click on the lower frame to activate the lower frame. 4. 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. 5. 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. Version information and icon 3.1 You can get the version information from the "General Information" menu item of the "Get Info" menu item of "File" menu item on the desktop's main menu. 3.2 You can customize the version information and icon using "ResEdit" resource editor. You can download "ResEdit" from http://developer.apple.com/macos/tools.html#editors . 3.3 Open the "Fast Ethernet Adapter" driver file using "ResEdit". Double click on the "vers" item to open it. Double click the only one item in the opened version information window. Then customize what you want. 3.4 If you just want to use the normal icon, select "Get Info for Fast Ethernet Adapter" from the "File" menu item and unmark the "Use Custom Icon" selection in the opened window. 3.5 If you want to have your own icons, please open all the items started with "ic" and customize all of them. You also must make sure that the "Use Custom Icon" selection mentioned in 3.4 is marked. 4. Driver Installation 4.1 You can customize the "Installer" program and the filenames of each files in the driver package. The "installer" program is just an Apple Script file. You can edit it with the "Script Editor" within the Mac OS platform. note: You must make sure the driver files with updated filenames can be installed correctly using your updated "installer" program.