Broadcom 570x and 575x, AppleBCM57xx does't have a clue.. Options

[OxiDe99]

IT WORKKKKKKSSSSS!!! IT WORKSS!! I REALLY LOVE YOU HATER!! YOU ARE THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!! WOOO FINALLY I CAN CONNECT MY MAC TO THE INTERNET I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!! THANKS ^^ I WANNA MARRY YOU!!!

^___^ i think this is the best day in my life!!! i'm talking to you from my own Safari!! thanks for all ^^

what i did is what you said, i went to System Preferences / Net and then i manually set my IP, NetMask and Gateway... and i began to cry when Google logo appeared on my Safari xD!!

thanks 4 all!!!!

I already had mine set manually, all 5 puters on home network have their IP'S manually set..I was able
to sudo ifconfig 1 more time, but after that, it still freezes..very strange..finally got startup to manually set
mac-addy..but that just freezes it quicker..I wonder why it works every once in a while.??

[ual808]

Hi BCM57xx owners,

Since my DELL GX520 started working with BCM5751 (thanks again! Hater!),
I added memory and HD to make this machine better.
Sometimes, LAN didn't work. Then I tried the followings.

1) Open Terminal and type...

sudo -s
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/*
kextcache -c
reboot

It works most case. But if NOT.

2) TURN OFF/ON your (swich) HUB.

So, don't PANIC!

I put 10.4.6 and set FIXed IP on GX520 and it works very stable.
It wakes up by network access.

For people who likes to know how to make BCM57xx work in this board. Start reading from PAGE-6 and newer. If you try the way Hater's and other peoples' POST, you can make yours work 90%, I believe.

[Emsi]

As I suspected setting MAC works through ifconfig command (at least for me)
After that DHCP is working as supposed

If someone needs the commands:
# set MAC address
sudo ifconfig en0 ether 12:34:56:78:90:AB
# renew IP
sudo ipconfig set en0 BOOTP
sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP

very strange way (for me) to renew the ip from DHCP but it's easy to write standart *NIX command dhclient as I did

I guess one of those >40 calls to nvram might be changed to something that returns a fake MAC number.
It might be hard to find a proper one though

[OxiDe99]

that did the trick...I unplugged router b4 booting and IP address is now set on every boot..tryed 10 in a row..
no problems..thx to everyone who helped =)

special thx to ual808 =)..unplug router/switch/hub is the dillio.

[edav]

Hi all,

[...]

1) Open Terminal and type...

sudo -s
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/*
kextcache -c
reboot

[...]

For people who likes to know how to make BCM57xx work in this board. Start reading from PAGE-6 and newer. If you try the way Hater's and other peoples' POST, you can make yours work 90%, I believe.

For those like me who went through all steps explained in this thread (starting from Hater's post) but did not succeed in having OSX recognize their NIC (i mean 'sudo ifconfig' did not returned any 'en0' device), I'd like to say that I finally got my BCM57xx working by recreating the symbolic link, i.e. before removing the mkext and cache with the 'rm' command, I did a

CODE

cd /System/Library/Extensions/

then a

CODE

ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext

and then flush the cache and reboot.

Please note that:
- I have a 00:00:00:00:00 MAC adress (I need to fix that)
- my device ID is 167D so I hexedited and textedited accordingly
- my little animal is a HP Compaq nc6220 with 10.4.5
- french locale and UI language did not come naturally: I had to do some garden mowing and digging in the system preferences, although the install process did talk to me like my mother uses to

Next frontier will be the 2200BG Intel wireless... but this will be another story

Again and again, many thanx to those of you that made the stuff possible

edav.

[jstraten]

Did somebody manage to automize the following steps?

# set MAC address
sudo ifconfig en0 ether 12:34:56:78:90:AB
# renew IP
sudo ipconfig set en0 BOOTP
sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP


I added them to /etc/rc, but it seems that the network card hasn't been initialized when this startup script is running. Is there another startup script? Or other method?

Anyhow, this is a big step forward and thank you very much to the people who figured it out for us.

Cheers,
JST

[philgeek]

still experiencing crashes when manually setting the mac address ive tried to hex-edit and re-hex-edit the drivers using versions of bcom5701 kext from 10.4.3 to 10.4.6 and still no luck, always crashes, even if run from inside a startup script... any suggestions?

[Gellius31]

Hi EveryBody...

After several tries, no result...
No en0, just lo0, gif0 and stf0...

And still same errors in dmesg :
AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 InitNVRam - found non-5701 with serial eeprom or unbuffered flash
localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 getAdapterInfo - init/sanity check of nvram failed
localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up


I'm using in 10.4.6 MacOSX version a "Broadcom 570x Gigabit Integrated Controller",
VenId: 14e4, DevId: 16a6 in a Dell Inspiron 600m.

1. I modified the AppleBCM5701Ethernet file like Hater recommandations (April 26, 9:26 AM posting),

2. I verified the Info.plist file... My card was already define : <string>pci14e4,16a6</string>...

3. I tried modified AppleBCM5701Ethernet files from tinhead (January 18, 4:04 PM posting),
evenif with mofications from 66 81 FA 59 16 to 66 81 FA A6 16 and 75 71 to EB 71...

4. I also verify the following commands :
cd /System/Library/Extensions/
ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions

No result, no progression and no more idea...
Could someone help me ?
Is this Topics is related to my ehernet card ?
Is it working with the 16a6 DevId and with the 10.4.6 MacOSX version ?

Thanks in advance...

[Nisa-it]

hi folks,

thx for all help me to get working drivers....

best regards,

Homar

@Gellius31: try the following instructions
1. unpack AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip
2. move AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext to /System/Library/Extensions/
3. open Terminal
4. sudo -s
5. chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/
6. cd /System/Library/Extensions/
7. chmod -R 755 AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
8. reboot

Attached File(s)

 AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip ( 206.52K ) Number of downloads: 5953

 

[macintoshy]

Write a script.

#!/bin/bash
echo "Setting MacAdress"

# where en? is you adapter
# your mac address in the format of xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ifconfig en0 ether 00:0C:00:00:0C:0C

Well, simply attach these lines above to your /etc/ec file just at the end like I did:

become a super user:

sudo -s
pico /etc/rc

and edit the end like I did......

export LANGUAGE

if [ -f /etc/rc.local ]; then
sh /etc/rc.local
fi

touch /var/run/.systemStarterRunning

if [ "${VerboseFlag}" != "-v" ] ; then
/usr/libexec/WaitingForLoginWindow
fi

# set MAC address
sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:01:6C:WW:XX:YY
# renew IP
sudo ipconfig set en1 BOOTP
sudo ipconfig set en1 DHCP

exit 0

en1 is my 2nd device. Your one and only network adapter should be en0 (check this 'ifconfig -a') and your real mac adress should be entered. Take a look at windows cmd lines and enter 'ipconfig /all' get read out which mac you have. Replace this mac with my pseudo mac 00:01:6C:WW:XX:YY.

You don' have to change the ownership of the rc file, just reboot and get connected

Maybe you have to reset caches from OSX by doing this to make fully work:

sudo -s
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/*
kextcache -c
reboot

Does anybody know a much better solution to fix the mac adress problem more OSX likely?
My network ist listed as disconnected with the red button in network config, but I still have 100%l network access.

[Luccio]

Hi everybody,

It's my first post... but I can say : It works
I can post this one under MacOS 10.4.6 with Broadcom 5751M (Ven_ID 14E4 , Dev_ID 167D) (IBM Laptop)


I try a new install with a new MacOS install and it's working...


I sum up :

First step (thanks to ual808 and Hater)

You need to install HexEdit before.

Run terminal

1/ sudo -s
2/ cd /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext/Contents/MacOS
3/ cp AppleBCM5701Ethernet /Users/your_account_name/Desktop

(back to Desktop)

4/ right click AppleBCM5701Ethernet, Get Info.
5/ change ownership & permissions as you can modify it.
6/ run HexEdit, then open AppleBCM5701Ethernet
7/ choose "Find & Replace" from menu.
8/ Find: "66 81 FA 59 16" /Replace with: "66 81 FA 7D 16"
(my DEV_ID is 167D, you type yours at last two bytes)
9/ Matching: "Hex: (<-choose this)
10/ push "Replace", push "Find Next", push "Replace", push "Find Next", .....
DON'T PUSH "Replace All" : there is created mistakes.
11/ scroll down to 37550
12/ change address 37554, 37555 of "75 71" to "EB 71"
13/ then save file and quit HexEdit.
14/ change ownership & permissions as before (by Get Info)
ownership="system" and group="wheel"

(return to terminal)

15/ cp /Users/your_account_name/Desktop/AppleBCM5701Ethernet ./


Second step :

16/ cd ..
17/ sudo pico Info.plist

You must include the following line under the section labeled "<array>":

18/ <string>pci14e4,167d</string>
19/ Save the file, of course
20/ reboot

After reboot, it's working ??? Not. So :


Third step (thankx to Comlete):

It has to do with the Kernel Cache copy. You need to reconstruct it to make the configuration stick.
Run terminal.

21/ sudo -s
22/ cd /
23/ cd /System/Library/Extensions/
24/ ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext

25/ rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
26/ rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
27/ chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
28/ kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions

29/ rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/*
30/ kextcache -c

31/ reboot


And now it must work... I hope so.

Have a nice day, folks.
And sorry for my poor english.

Luccio

[philgeek]

Hey ual808, Hater, tinhead and various other OSX magicians.. Just wondering if your still poking/prodding this lovely driver in search of a possible fix for the MAC-Address issues, sleep issues etc.
It would pretty much be the coolest thing on earth if we could somehow get DHCP working with this bad boy (my network for example filters unknown MAC-Addresses). Anyway thanks for all the work you've put in on this

[Phusho]

Luccio the last step is not neccessary it is only for 10.4.3 where there are no such driver

[Nisa-it]

Hi Folks,

the second try for getting Broadcom 5751 (1677) works.

Now MacOS can read the correct mac-adress and works several under DHCP and manually setting IP.

i'd be pleasure, if getting some response how it works on other system then my.

best regards...

Homar


....sorry for my bad english


How_to:
1. unpack AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip
2. copy AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext to /System/Library/Extensions/
3. open Terminal
4. sudo -s
5. chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/
6. chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
7. reboot

Attached File(s)

 AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip ( 308.7K ) Number of downloads: 3331

 

[Phusho]

What is the difference ? how you patch it ?

[grunt]

blah ...

tinheads patch workes fine with my hp nc6000 (BCM5701Enet) with 10.4.6, many thanks.

[whiteshit]

Great job! Nisa!
It works with my thinkpad z60t (with broadcom 5751).
In previous, I always need to set the MAC address by ifconfig command to get DHCP. Now, it cna work when the system boot up! However, the MAC address is still 00:00:00:00:00:00

Thank you for your great job!

ps. Could tell us how you make the patch?

[philgeek]

well I appreciate the work on the driver nisa, but I experience an nvram sanity failure with your driver, is it perhaps a 10.4.5 related incompatability (are you on 10.4.6)? my device ID is 1677 as well, i wonder whats up..
i can post a snippet containing the backtrace if you like?

[phototalk123]

with NISA driver and macintoshy's rc modification,
I got my 5701 working.

Actually, my built-in 5701 on my Dell D600 was dead,
and they just replaced the mainboard, and it is working !!!

[DiCroSi]

So, I got my card to work using the AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip and it seemed to work fine. I was able to get an IP address and ping stuff within my network.

he problem I have is that my MAC is set to all zero's. I tried to follow the instructions to do the ifconfig en0 ether 00:11:11:F:FF:FF (Not really mine) and everytime I run that command, the computer freezes and I have to restart it. I have let it run for hours, still no change.

Anyone know anything abou thtat that can help me out?

Thanks,

Ben