I will definitely do that - I'm in the middle of converting a movie to AVI but right after I will try that. Hopefully I don't need to f*** with it and find any kexts for the pci card by dlink.

Also, another troubleshooting thing I thought of was using another torrent client for torrentz and seeing if that does anything. I'm still new to Mac - any other torrent clients out there for mac?

NVM - i read the article from TUAW that was give to me and they show Azereus - I'll try that out right now.

Okay I'm 15 minutes in to downloading a torrent with Azereus and everything is working fine (I tried this first instead of putting in my pci card) so I'm on my onboard lan and downloading...... working good. I'll update soon.

Thanks

Alright well I got too excited. I lost internet connectivity pretty fast after I posted that. Now I'm using my PCI card so I'm going to start a torrent on this and see if Eno is right.

Hey guys,

So I just got kicked off using my PCI card as well but there is a big difference in what happened.

With the onboard lan - i use osx fine until I turn on transmission (and azereus), after a few minutes I get a 169 address and my switch drops everyone on it (my brother's PC too) until I reboot everything.

With the PCI card - I use osx fine until I turn on transmission (and azereus), and a few a few minutes my sound, keyboard and mouse stop working but I still see the downloading going fine and my adium people logging in and out. Then I notice adium freezes and after a few seconds I see the download stops working too. Now everything seems like it has frozen so I restart and everything works fine again (switch did not drop anyone).

Wtf...... ?

eno, Just noticed in latest darwin 9.6, there are some modification in ionetworkingfamily.kext. Not sure if it will help to enhance nforcelan stability on any other mobo?

I am not sure why you are seeing additional problems with your PCI NIC. Perhaps is shares line interrupts with your onboard USB.

Anyway, transmission works fine with my MCP55 and MCP79 :-/ . Perhaps your router is having problems? Can you try using transmission and nForceLAN when connected directly to your cable modem?

Hi, Eno and all!!!
Install voodoo kernel is succeeded by no method... gives out an error! Possibly that did a driver work not on voodoo kernel? Or only on voodoo??? for whom what kernel does the last driver work on? I download a new ISO iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 [Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3] when Voodoo kernel included... Install SEATBELT.KEXT.... but sestem not load enymore and give error...

Sorry for Engish...

The driver should work with any kernel (iI have tested it with both Voodoo and vanilla kernels) but VooDoo XNU is recommended for AMD machines.

Are you getting the same kernel panic with iPC that you got with iDeneb + Voodoo?

yes... kernel panic the same... but during installing IPC i choose last time only Stage KNU kernel 9.4.0.... after system dont load with the same Voodoo kernel panic )))) it is mysticism))) after hdd format))) and in iDeneb, when i choose Stage KNU kernel 9.4.0, system load good!!! Any ideas? Thank you!!!

Just wanted to say that this version 0.62.7.kext.zip worked for my asus a8nsli mobo running iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5

LAN was the only thing I had been missing.

Very happy.

I simply ran OSX86Tools - Install Kexts - select 0.62.7 kext(i burned it to cd using a different computer) - restart and voila!!

Beautiful.

So I currently have OSX running on a SATA drive, installed from a SATA dvd burner with an old Nvidia 7600GT(QE and CI both seem to be running.

This was much easier than a previous install of JAS(sorry dont remember the version) LAN worked with that one straight away but getting QE/CI to work was quite the excercise.

Anyways, thanks much

got 0.62.7n and my amd x2 is downloading 10.5.6 combo update w/o a glitch.

before this I was using forcedeth 1.0.0d2 and always got KP w/voodoo kernel when leaving the sys boot w/o cpus= option, now I'm just very glad you managed to get both cores running.

thanks.

First of all, thanks for your efforts, eno!

Now the problem: my PC's still having a problem with version 0.62.7 regardless of HPET. Two things can occur in about 2 hours: if I'm watching a video using VLC, it just freezes, if I do anything else (I mean surfing, gaming, or just downloading), then my USB ports and ethernet stop working, so my mouse and my keyboard becomes useless, too.

Anyways, I'm back to 0.62.6n with HPET off and OptimizationMode on 0: this way my OS X works perfectly.

P.S.: Specs and OS ver. in sig.

Was getting desperate, saw a couple people got this to work with the MCP61, so i tried it, and it works!
lspci: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet [10de:03ef] (rev a2)
(RTL8201CL - 10/100 PHY Lan)
On mobo: Biostar NF520-A2 nForce 520LE Chipset (MCP61)
Haven't done any heavy testing yet but so far so good. I can't thank you enough.

I can finally take out that random lan card I found which was taking up a pci slot.

Hello everyone and a happy new year!!
I have a problem with the driver.
The lan card is recognized and i can assign the manual ip.I cannot get on line unless if i take out the power cable from my pc (after i shutdown) and the Ethernet cable.
Then i can connect for about 2-4 minutes or some download bytes and after i get the kernel panic attack!
I upload the voodoo kernel message so someone can help me.



i've been using the march_kernel and i was having this problem after installing the Voodoo_Kernel_Release_1.0_Rev_A.dmg and turning off the cool and quite option in the motherboard the problem is still there.

The version of drivers for my on board lan that i installed is the 0.62.8n.

Thanks in advanced and sorry for my English..

p.s. How can i find the id of the lan device so i can search for more informations to how to fix this?

GreeceDimitris: Looks like you need to trash forcedeth.kext(s) from /System/Library/Extensions

eno: You latest driver works on my system 100% stable. I still can't believe all 4 cores are running. Thanks so much!! (Read my signature for clues. I believe 10.5.6 and Voodoo Kernel has helped with my nForce hardware stability.)

Well, I tried installing Voodoo on my 10.5.2 Kalyway installation, but my computer just didn't start OS X after that. Is 10.5.5 a pre-requisite for the Voodoo kernel?

What error do you get (boot with -v).

Thank you!!!
I did thrash forcedeth and nforce from /System/Library/Extensions
Then i install the nForceLAN o.62.8. with the help of the Kext Helper and it worked as far..
I have downloaded 2gb and didnt crashed at all...with 2 cpu.

Finally i'm free!!!!

(((( only on my Pc this driver not work? (((( Heh.... When i have problem.. my problem not decide everytime...

Did you try the above solution that i mentioned?



καλημερα σε όλους!!!!

forcedeth kext i dont install ))) after install latest driver, gives out a tablet on different languages Restart or Press Power on that such

start in safe mode (-x) and remove the forcedeth.kext nForceLAN.kext or any other driver for your lan.
Then remove the extensions.kext and reboot.
Use only one driver at the time and istall it with the kext helper.
Good luck.

i did that all!!!!! But this problem not decide!!! and i dont have extensions.kext in my Extensions folder(((

how do u install it? i installed forcedeath which didnt work do i need to uninstall it? if yes how? im a new mac osx user and my internet is not working please help thanks

If you're not sure, I would just reinstall and this time don't install that but download ahead of time the nforcelan kext and use kext helper b7 to install it.

The folder is /System/Library/Extentions/ and not Extensions

)))) Where you find this folder? ))) I Find extensions.mkext That is?

Should be /System/Library/Extensions/

FYI: I was having a lot of kernel panics and I thought it might be related to the HPET or MSI signaling. Unfortunately, having the normal mac kernel panic provides*NO* information at all!!! I downloaded the latest voodoo xnu kernel and was happy to see actual debug information during a kernel panic! Appears my problems are not with the nForce driver at all but with the nForce ATA!

After some searching it appears some ATA drivers may have a RAM >2.5GB problem. I took out a stick to go down to 2GB and for the first time I got up in the morning without a kernel panic on the screen.

So, for those with nForce LAN on board, you probably have nForce ATA too...so beware!

C

MSI p7n Diamond on Q6600 Quad Core Intel
780i (North) & 570i (South) SLI Chipset
4GB RAM
MCP55 Series nForce LAN
nForce ATA

@Colin MacKenzie: Can you please check if it still does some abnormal things after a few hours and maybe torrent running while HPET is enabled? If so, then I'm having a problem with 2GB of RAM and this nForce ATA kext, too, not with the nForce LAN.

Use slashack's AppleNForceATA......for nForce chipset MOBOs see my Series 7nForce thread......

Hi, I've been following this thread for a few days now, on the 2nd or 3rd page some body mentioned about adding some id like 0x026910de to info.plist. My question is that do we still have to add this id in the latest kext available on first page i.e. 0.62.8n. If your answer is yes, can you pls tell me how can i find it for my card and in which field of info.plist do i have to enter this value. My system specifications are PC OSX86 10.5.6 (Voodoo 9.5.5), MoBo ASUS P5N-E SLi, Intel Quad Core @ 2.4GHz, 4GB DDR2 Ram, 500 GB SATA HDD, nVidia GeForce 8600GT 1GB Graphics Adaptor. Yes, I can see my ethernet card but can not access internet (i tried 60 sec power cut method as well).

I Have a Nforce 520 LE on Gigabyte motherboard witch AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core processor 4800+
on KALYWAY 10.5.2 but its still dont working for me...I mean osx dont even find my ethernet/lan port
i tried forcedeth and forcedeth nockd,but no results...
so i need HELP
Last thing Everest tels me that is a NForce610
my @ is md47@windowslive.com

i know))) but i cant find extensions.kext here (((( i lost hope....

It's called Extensions.mkext.

and wtf is up with the ))))) and ((((( ?

Trash forcedeth and use nForceLAN



They are referring to the extension cache which is located at /System/Library/Extensions.mkext



Interesting. Can you try the nForce ATA driver verdant posted a link to above?

try remove that kext? and install nForceLan.kext? ok i try....



i will try, but problem the same))) My problem not decide? and why Voodoo kernel dont install on my PC?

Eno, I have a problem with the 0.62.8n version, the second I load it my system turns into a 386
Don´t know why but every stupid task eates the whole cpu, but I get no kp and the console is clean. I thought it was the new voodoo kernel made by andy but it´s not (tested with regular voodoo too), so I´m using the 0.62.7n version right now and it´s pretty damned stable.
Any idea?

My system:
AMD athlon 64 3000+
1.5Gb DDR
Asus a8n-sli (nforce4 sli)

After a while, USB gone, and I could see the following messages in Console (so exactly the same like with the nForceATA kext I've had before):
nForceLAN: NIC ring full, stalling.
disk1s4 data underrun (My comment: maybe it's the Data partition, where torrent was running.)
(My comment: yes, an empty line, then it is repeated...)
-- The last message repeated 1 time --
(If they are not exactly correct, I was just unable to remember the messages perfectly. )

Id Install NforceLan(anyway KEXT) using kext helper b7 reboot and i get panic message...
So i install KALYWAY 10.5.2 again and still trying to get HELP
Also installed this (Trash)Forcedeth,nocdk witch no smile on my face,but a forcedeth_0.3_leopard have half worked...
i gets message that the ethernet was faund and tels my to configure it but mouse and keyboard freeze,only way restart but then it dont find my ethernet.I send to all of you a image it may be useful...
thenks by the way...

Hey Matthew L..

I totally have the same problem. If you look in the previous pages I was saying that. The thing is it knocks out my switch along with disabling USB and ethernet. SO I have to unplug it and plug it back in (the switch) after a restart. I'm stuck using my win 7 beta for now but if you think of anything.

I too am using the nforceATA that came with the iDeneb 10.5.5 installation (I saw Verdant's post about Slashack's version of nForceATA but I'm debating it - worried about potential issues if I screw that up) - IF i do it, and I won't be able to boot - how do you boot so you can remove that version and put the old one back?

Ok)) i decide my problem))) a have iDeneb 1.3, 10.5.5 But this driver get KP on this OS((( install upgrade to 10.5.6 and driver worked good))) Thanks))

Hey UnderOath, what did u use to upgrade to 10.5.6? I have iDeneb 1.3 10.5.5 and I want to upgrade (hopefully solve my nforceLan issues too) but I can't find a "How to upgrade" anywhere?

What did you use?

Actually that question goes out to anyone.... how to upgrade from 10.5.5 to .6 with iDeneb 10.5.5 installed

Hi))) I upgrade through Upgrade with icon AMD in iDeneb in Programs!!! And i mark "Modified " that such. After Install i have some problems with PS/2 keyboard and with Sound... But i Install kext, and all worked good))) Sorry for my English))


P.S. Sorry, i forgot to tell you, i use the any Network card Realtek 8139 for Download upgrade , after my internal network was working good!!! Thanks!!

Hmm... Really strange, that it can disable your switch, I've never experienced anything like this.

About the kext change: the thing you should do everytime you modify a kext is to backup the one you are going to change.

Plan A: Boot in single user mode (-s at boot), and restore your backup kext. (But you can't use this method in your case, because to mount your OS X drive, you need a working controller kext.)
Plan B: Boot your install DVD, and use terminal to restore your backup kext.
Plan C: Restore a Time Machine backup using your install DVD.
Plan D (if you ever would let Windows get write access your HFS+ partitions): Use TransMac to restore your backup kext.
Plan E (this thing can be useful at any time, even if some software makes your OS X unusable, you can still use the clone as an emergency system): create an other partition (resize the current ones), and clone your current working OS X install to the freshly created partition. This way, if things go totally wrong, boot your backup partition (that you've just cloned), then you can replace the kext.

But wait for an expert's comment to prove my ways to do it, I may be wrong.

I have the very same issue and I remain puzzled regarding a solution. I tried the 60-second reset method as well with no luck. My ethernet card is visible to the OS and it can see my network, but for some reason I can't access the internet.

Version: Mac OS X v10.5.6
Distro: iPC w/ PP2 patch
Kernel: Voodoo 9.5.5
Notes: added Slashack's AppleNForceATA.kext

System Info:

Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
Mainboard: Asus P5N-D SLI 750i
Other: 4GB DDR2-800, 320GB HD (SATA), LiteOn DVD-RW (IDE), GeForce 7100GS 256MB

With the NForceEthernet.kext included in the iPC installer, I get full speed network transfer and reliable internet service for about 4 hours at a time. Once the network connection quits, the rest of the system becomes unstable. Unfortunately, with the NForceEthernet kext I receive a kernel panic everytime I try to access the internet without the cpus=1 boot flag set.

I'd like to offer a quick word of thanks to Eno, as well as other OSX86 scene contributors, and not to forget the InsanelyMac forum staff. Your hard work is very much appreciated! After months of lurking, this is the first time I've ever had the need to post a question, simply due to the shear volume of information contained here. Truly amazing!

Best regards,

Tyler

*FIXED*

Throughout the installation and setup process, I've been connected directly to my cable modem (only because I thought it might limit the number sources for possible trouble). Adding my router into the loop instantly solved the connection issue and a correct local IP was assigned instantly. At the moment, everything works! (I've really been dying to say that.)

Eno, you are the man!

Do you have a PayPal donation link?

just made my onboard lan working with Eno's nForceLAN_0.62.8.kext...thanks ! to all the work done !!

I have had some very partial success with this driver (v.27) see http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=145217

However I find the NIC dies under two circumstances:

a) I start a heavy torrrent
I connect to my WHS server at home

All connectivity just vanishes, guaranteed everytime.

I tried v28 but that doesnt even detect the cable is plugged in.

I really need to buy a nForce 7xx series board and see if I can find where the problem is...

Anyway, have you tried updating to 10.5.6. The update contains platform support (more or less) for nForce chipsets.

Thanks Eno I will try (the kernel upgrade).

You should really get a donations address so we can help.... pocket change from a few people would be enough to buy one for you

Thanks for the input. It appears that matching against any network or bus pci device using the plist (for some reason my ethernet comes up as a bus device) causes problems on some machines. In the next update I will just add every pci id to the Info.plist. To verify this can you try 0.62.8n again but change the IOPCIPrimaryMatch in the Info.plist to match your NIC (remove the 0x000010de&0x0000ffff match).



Cool. Let me know if it fixes your problem.

BTW, added a donation link to the first post . I always appreciate help.