14e4:1674 is my id. Can I have the kexts or is there one aready in this thread? I searched for it in this thread and did not find the download.

THANK YOU!! THANKS TO YOUR FILE MY BROADCOM NETWORK CARD (DEV ID 1600) IS NOW WORKING PERFECTLY!
YEAH!!!

THANKS

You're welcome!
I'm glad it helped.

I guess I'm in the same boat, been searching for hours on end and have come up with nothing. I have a the 5787 but my device id is different then most I've seen on this post, mine is 14e4 169b. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated. I've tried editing the kext and putting my device id in, and it appears to be connected but I have ba:ad:f0:0d:ba:ad as a mac address. Thanks in advance

seems apple got rid of AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext in snow leopard and left AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext. i tried hex patching the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext but got this:

AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 1680 getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown
AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 getAdapterInfo - init/sanity check of nvram failed
AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up

thats wher i'm stuck at now so if anybody got an idea please post

Thanks a lot! Mac can now find my network card, but when I try to change the MAC address in step 5 the whole computer freezes, can any one help me?

EDIT: it worked without modifying the MAC address

thank you sooooo mutchhhh now me ethernet work fineee!!!!

Is there a solution for broadcom 575x snow leopard?

You can still use the Leopard driver, patched as indicated on this thread. But as it's 32bits, it'll only work when booting in 32bits mode (arch=i386 or -x32 depends on the bootloader you are using).

There is no source for this extension? So someone could try to compile it in 64bits??

57XX does not work in snow leopard...anyone have a kext?

hi
broadcom bcm1698 working on acer 5738 laptop ......14e4 1698
dhcp and router ok.

and special thank to this forum who explained in detail how to edit the original 5151.kext

I have the exact same issue with my XPS 720. Any help at all would be appreciated. I'm running iPC 10.5.6 vanilla if that makes any difference.

VEN 14e4 DEV 167a (rev 02)

Hi to all.
Someone can help me?
I have Acer Extensa 5220, with BCM 5787M.
I start SnowLeopard 10.6.1 with arch=i386 , but if I use the BCM5787M.kext from Leopard, in Snow It doesn't work the Shutdown and Restart.

Can you help me?

Sorry for my english errors.
Thank you very very much.
Bye bye.

Very sad that all development has stopped on these drivers. Spent the past year or so waiting for a fix so either sleep would work, or the kext could be unloaded, or en0 turned off without instant complete lockup. No longer expecting any developments, just wanted to express my sadness. Seemed like it was nearly there, functioning well otherwise!

Hallo i'am new at this forum.

And i'am looking for a driver for my broadcom 57xx gigabyte onboard ehternet card.

I'am using a Lenovo and MAC 10.5.7 is there any body you can help me.

Also mac os is new for me so please put some installation guide white it.



Greetings Bart Dirkx

the driver in snow leopard 10.6.2 is different....... it support new cards even if still not working, lets see.

btw, it seem they added support for BCM5764M (same as in my laptop) is there any current mac model using it?
atm the driver don't find the nvram, so it don't load, maybe support is still not complete (10.6.3??) or apple ones
has the nvram located at a different memory location. needs investigating.....

This works for me iDeneb 10.5.5

AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...ost&id=2991

Have a mac address and DHCP should work (didn't try yet.)

Thanx to the gurus.

Hi

I have a 14e4 167b Broadcom 5755 and did what you had said step by step but I could not install the Lan card. Does anyone had a successful installation of this Kext file?

I am using an Ati chipset motherboiard with an onboard Broadcom 5755 NIC my OS is iDeneb 10.5.6

Also when booting with -v I can not see any specific message about BCM 5755.

Please Help me

I should add that when I use "kextload" command OS can identify Ethernet card until next restart but even with manual IP and DNS I can not connect to network or Internet.

Brothers I need some information. Is that true that a new imacs (i5 and i7) uses by default the bcm5764 Ethernet controller? And if it's so, why is my controller doesn't detected by system? That is what dmesg told me:

AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 d9 BJP firmware wakeup code unknown
AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 67020a02 InitNVRam - found non-5701 with serial eeprom or unbuffered flash
AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 getAdapterInfo - init/sanity check of nvram failed
AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up

As can I see, controller doesn't pass some test, but first of all its failed at nvram check. Is any one of you can say me how to disable nvram check in the driver. I know there are solution for 10.5 driver to disable nvram check, but in 10.6.2 absolutely different code, so I can not do it without your help.

hello, the driver isn't so much different in snow leopard, functions are about the same,i have seen too that now they dropped support for some old chips and added the 5764, i have already patched the nvram init and check, but without nvram you can't have the card working properly because of the lack of some vital informations. Using the hexedited driver i can get my 5764M working 50% of the times, the other 50% i get a panic as the driver load. i was trying to add the missing infos writing asm code directly into the driver, but this is not easy at all.
I don't know why the 5764m fail the nvram check, maybe the apple one has a proprietary nvram, or different in size.

Hi nobb1x! It's so good that here is some one who has same problems as me. As I can see you are more powerful in driver's editing, so can I ask you send me your modified driver for bcm5764? I will test it and report about errors. Maybe we will find decision together.

i got the 5761e, and i get the same error for nvram. what else did you edit to skip nvram checks? thanks

the 5764 is now officially included in the Apple driver, 5761 is not, there are hardware checks inside the code...
this snap is from GetAdapterInfo, and there are many others.

__text:0000B1CE movzx eax, word ptr [ebx+3CCh]
__text:0000B1D5 cmp ax, 106Bh ; is Apple?
__text:0000B1D9 jz short loc_B229
__text:0000B1DB cmp ax, 14E4h ; is Broadcom??
__text:0000B1DF jz short loc_B229
__text:0000B1E1 movzx eax, ax
__text:0000B1E4 mov [esp+38h+var_28], offset aGetadapterinfo ; "getAdapterInfo - Vendor is unknown"
__text:0000B1EC mov [esp+38h+var_2C], 0
__text:0000B1F4 mov [esp+38h+var_30], 0
__text:0000B1FC mov [esp+38h+var_34], eax
__text:0000B200 mov [esp+38h+var_38], 1
__text:0000B207 call BCM5701EnetIOLog ; BCM5701Enet::KIOLog(uchar,ulong,ulong,ulong,char const*)
__text:0000B20C movzx eax, word ptr [ebx+3CCh]
__text:0000B213 mov [esp+38h+var_2C], offset aGetadapterinfo ; "getAdapterInfo - Vendor is unknown"
__text:0000B21B mov [esp+38h+var_30], 0
__text:0000B223 mov [esp+38h+var_34], eax
__text:0000B227 jmp short loc_B294
__text:0000B229 ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
__text:0000B229
__text:0000B229 loc_B229: ;CODE XREF: BCM5701Enet::getAdapterInfo(void)+9Fj
__text:0000B229 ; BCM5701Enet::getAdapterInfo(void)+A5j
__text:0000B229 movzx eax, word ptr [ebx+3CEh]
__text:0000B230 cmp ax, 1659h ; is BCM5721????
__text:0000B234 jz loc_BCA4
__text:0000B23A cmp ax, 166Ah ; is BCM5780????
__text:0000B23E jz loc_BCA4
__text:0000B244 cmp ax, 1684h ; is BCM5764????
__text:0000B248 jz loc_BCA4
__text:0000B24E movzx eax, ax
__text:0000B251 mov [esp+38h+var_28], offset aGetadapterin_0 ; "getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown"
__text:0000B259 mov [esp+38h+var_2C], 0
__text:0000B261 mov [esp+38h+var_30], eax
__text:0000B265 mov [esp+38h+var_34], 0
__text:0000B26D mov [esp+38h+var_38], 1

Youve probably already checked, but are you getting link when you plug in your cable? Have you tried using another piece of cat5? Based on your troubleshooting thats where I would look first.

I just want to share install boardcom 57xx dell latitude D820.
Details:
1)i am using iATKOS-v7 - it is 10.5.7
2) from windows xp, netcard is Boradcom 14E4 & DEV1600 and the netcard net address can be found from windows command ipconfig /all
3)others sound:sigmatel stac 92xx hd audio, vga:nvidia quadro nvs 120m
4)during installation:not choose any VGA, but choose chamelon V2,kernel 9.7.0, network card choose Broardcom 5751(not 5787), choose sound default voodoo hd driver
5) result: keyboard and mouse are not working and network en0 is never shown up) i am using external keyboard and mouse and they working fine. Sound is working good but VGA not perfect, sometime vga not smooth.
6) Big problem is broadcom 57xx
7)change all below addresses to 66 81 FA 00 16
66 81 FA 93 16,
66 81 FA 96 16,
66 81 FA 59 16,
66 81 FA 77 16
66 81 FA 9D 16
to 66 81 FA 00 16 by flexhex from windows xp and using wordpad change info.pist to
<array>
<string>pci14e4,1600</string>
</array
8) copy it to MAC desktop
9) go to /System;/Library/Extensions/ , than remove applebcm5751.kext and replaced by new one
10) go to /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext,
then right click IONetworkingFamily.kext, shown package content, then to cotents and to plugins.
After that, remove applebcm5751.kext and replaced by new one.
11) from terminal do the followings steps
a)sudo -s
b)cd /System/Library/Extensions/
c)ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext
d)rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache (--no such file, don't know what happen)
e)rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
f)chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
g)kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions (---no such bundle file,don't know what happen)
h)shutdown -r now
After remote
a)sudo -s
b)chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/
c)cd /System/Library/Extensions/
d)chmod -R 755 AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
e)reboot

12) from terminal
a)ifconfig - enter
You will have en0 MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00
a)sudo -s
b)ifconfig en0 up
c)ifconfig en0 ether (your lan card address which can found from step 2)
d)sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP (-- capital DHCP)
After that, I can go to internet. Good but not perfect !!!
13) shutdown the computer and start it again.
you will get en0 MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00 again.
I am afraid you have run step 12 again if you want to connect to internet
14)To conclude: what a good experience play with Apple!! Thanks to all they share their experience too.

raybaba on 26 Dec 2009

Sorry to attach the file that was used in D820. So i post it again

I just want to share install boardcom 57xx dell latitude D820.
Details:
1)i am using iATKOS-v7 - it is 10.5.7
2) from windows xp, netcard is Boradcom 14E4 & DEV1600 and the netcard net address can be found from windows command ipconfig /all
3)others sound:sigmatel stac 92xx hd audio, vga:nvidia quadro nvs 120m
4)during installation:not choose any VGA, but choose chamelon V2,kernel 9.7.0, network card choose Broardcom 5751(not 5787), choose sound default voodoo hd driver
5) result: keyboard and mouse are not working and network en0 is never shown up) i am using external keyboard and mouse and they working fine. Sound is working good but VGA not perfect, sometime vga not smooth.
6) Big problem is broadcom 57xx
7)change all below addresses to 66 81 FA 00 16
66 81 FA 93 16,
66 81 FA 96 16,
66 81 FA 59 16,
66 81 FA 77 16
66 81 FA 9D 16
to 66 81 FA 00 16 by flexhex from windows xp and using wordpad change info.pist to
<array>
<string>pci14e4,1600</string>
</array
8) copy it to MAC desktop
9) go to /System;/Library/Extensions/ , than remove applebcm5751.kext and replaced by new one
10) go to /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext,
then right click IONetworkingFamily.kext, shown package content, then to cotents and to plugins.
After that, remove applebcm5751.kext and replaced by new one.
11) from terminal do the followings steps
a)sudo -s
b)cd /System/Library/Extensions/
c)ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext
d)rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache (--no such file, don't know what happen)
e)rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
f)chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
g)kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions (---no such bundle file,don't know what happen)
h)shutdown -r now
After remote
a)sudo -s
b)chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/
c)cd /System/Library/Extensions/
d)chmod -R 755 AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
e)reboot

12) from terminal
a)ifconfig - enter
You will have en0 MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00
a)sudo -s
b)ifconfig en0 up
c)ifconfig en0 ether (your lan card address which can found from step 2)
d)sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP (-- capital DHCP)
After that, I can go to internet. Good but not perfect !!!
13) shutdown the computer and start it again.
you will get en0 MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00 again.
I am afraid you have run step 12 again if you want to connect to internet
14)To conclude: what a good experience play with Apple!! Thanks to all they share their experience too.

raybaba on 26 Dec 2009

nobb1x:

I have this on my Laptop (Acer 7730G):


I'm usiung iPC updated to 10.5.7.
No news about it ? I haven't network on my OSx86. No Wireless (iwl5100agn) and no Ethernet

Thanks.

swap the intel card with a broadcom 4311 minipci express, so easy to find on ebay and cheap
and it works in airport mode (i did it, acer don't has any blacklist on the bios, it don't affect warranty and it works with windows too)

Thanks, but I prefer ethernet to wireless. No way for my ethernet card ?
(and don't care about Windows, i'm running under Gentoo )

why you don't switch to snow leopard? i think nobody will make a driver today for leopard 10.5.x
i did some hexediting to the snow leopard one and it works 50% of times (5764M only) in 32bit mode, of course it don't
work on leopard. i tried to hexedit the 64bit code too but it seem too much hard for me. i'm glad to let you try but
you need snow leopard.
My situation is opposite as yours, i use wireless network 100% of the times, but i did that just for fun.

Yes, okay.

I bought an Alpha 1000mW and it seem to work with (I bought it for gentoo at first).
Well, I wait to recept my wireless adapter

Thanks.

Has anybody found a working driver for a Dual Gigabit LAN by Broadcom® BCM5786 and BCM57880?

I am using a Foxconn destroyer.

Hi all, new to macs but fairly proficient programmer.

I have a broadcom 5754 with VEN_14e4 DEV_167a integrated with Dell Precition 390.

I have everyting working with iATKOS v7 10.5.7 except for my nic stated above.

I have tried just about every kext file and mod found in this thread but the best result i have gotten was the card be recognised by ifconfig but no connection possible via DHCP or Manual config. Although the mac networking preferences module says its connectd. Any attempt to change the MAC address using ifconfig i get "network down".

The last one i tried was with the 5787 dirver install as suggested below. Tried this on a clean install but this immidiatly locks up system after kext install.




So now i am just about done with this untill any body has a modified kext that they think will work on my system. I know most have moved onto snow leppord but its just not worth the upgrade time for me as there is now way to install snow with out first doing 10.5.x install first. correct me if i am wrong.

Running iATKOS v7 10.5.7 on DELL Precition 390

UPDATE: Aparently after a clean instal followed by the procees below it crash my system. However there is a fix.

raybabaPosted Dec 26 2009, 12:21 AM

raybabaPosted Dec 26 2009, 12:21 AM


Fifst install the kext in raybabas post above (no need for IONetworkingFamily update). Just modify the info.plist for your DEV_ID and install with kext helper, repair permissions then follow the instuctions below for my modified kext.

raybabaPosted Dec 26 2009, 12:21 AM


This worked perfect for me with a Broadcom 5754 DEV_167A !!!! But i can simplify the install process a bit as follows:

1) After you download BCM57XX.zip

2) Change entry pci14e4,167d to pci14e4,your device id here in both kext files:

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext/Contents/Info.plist

/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext/Contents/Info.plist

3)HexEdit:

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleBCM5751Ethernet

change "66 81 FA 7D 16" to "66 81 FA 7A 16" on all locations. Just substitute your the last two charicters of your device id for 7A.


4) After you make all your mods as described above just install them with KextHelper.

5)In diskutil repair permissions on your drive

6)Reboot with -f flag.

I have attached my modded kext files ONLY FOR Broadcom 5754 DEV_167A . For other DEV_ID you must follow the insturctions above.

Click to view attachment


MODERATORS PLEASE MAKE THIS A STICKY!!!!!

I spent 2 days and tried every soluton in these 40 pages and noting worked except for this.

Correct MAC address, DHCP, connected and working 100%.

UPDATE: On load the system rocognises the MAC address but says it is taken by another controller and gives me all zeros. very strange. But DHCP does work without having to change MAC address.

please help how to add vendor and device id in ethernet
i have a ibm thinkcenter s51

hi everyone i'm using a ibm s51 thinkcenter, i followed the specifications i used ideneb v1.4, i load bcm5751 as instructed, i just dont know to change the device id and vendor id to make it work. thanks.

Is there any way to hardcode the mac address in the BCM5715 kext for 14e4 1677?
When I try to set the mac address manually Leopard hangs, because of the nvram addressing problem.
I read in a BCM5787 thread that it's possible to enter the mac address with hexedit.

im sorry to trouble u but im not able to access that page tinhead posted a link, could u please help me with tht or could u send me a link to the netlink brodcom driver, i have Broadcom BCM5787M NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express please help me thank u in advance

hello folks, as you may know latest I7 IMacs use a Broadcom 5764M as wired ethernet chip. This chip is now fully supported
by the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext but it seem the Apple one has a proprietary nvram so our pc chips fail the nvram check
and the kext won't load. Here is an hexedited version of the kext for you to try, it come from 10.6.2 and it works only on 32 bit mode. Attempting to start it in 64bit mode lead to nothing because the 64bit code is not patched, feel free to reverse my mods and apply it to the 64bit portion if you have a such disassembler.
What i did here is to bypass the nvram type check and to apply huge patches to the Init_NVRAM routine. Leopard versions of the hexedited kext had a wrong patch imho, disabling at all the init_nvram, causing lot of troubles, like impossibility to unload, no sleep, no mac address and impossibility to change it manually.
All of these functions are supported by this, at least on my laptop
HOWTO:
make a backup and replace the System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext with this.
repair permission and reboot
Beware, don't use automatic installer because they install the kext on the S/L/E rather than in the Plugins folder of the IONetworkingFamilykext, you need to do it by hand.

to set your MacAddress (otherwise all 00) from the terminal: sudo ifconfig en0 (or en1) lladdr YO:UR:MA:CA:DD:RS

if it don't work work for you, you don't like or it crash your system, start with -s and remove it manually.

BEWARE NOOBS: this is only for SNOW LEOPARD and Broadcom 5764M chip, the code has many checks to read the chip ID, feel free to hack it and try on other BCM cards, a simple plist change won't do the job.

UPDATE: 64 bit mode too available!!!!
I'll remove the old version if i get positive feedbacks.

Thanks everybody. This is the solution for my HP nc 6400 (14e4 16fd). And i Thinks this will work for all broadcom (14e4 16fd). If your vender id or device id is not (14ed 16fd) follow sandr 's solution may be it will works for you.
Thanks to every body

Hi nobb1x, thank you for share one more time. Is this new version of kext and did you solved the problem with kernel panic at startup?

this is modified, i hope it start with no panic now, but let me know

Seems slowly the Broadcom chips start working:

I have used nobb1x 5787M kext, used the instructions provided to patch in my HW/MAC-address, modified the PCIid in Info.plist to match mine (i.e. pci14e4,167a). Using that I got a non crashing kext, that made the network card appear in System Preferences -> Network, with even notifying a network link properly.

However the interface wasn't "up", ifconfig did NOT report it as "RUNNING" as well. So I took the idea from arctelix above and searched Contents/MacOS/AppleBCM5787MEthernet for sequences with PCI-ids. I ended up replacing all 66 81 fa 77 16 byte sequences with 66 81 fa 7a 16 and ... except for the promiscuous issue I have a working network card now.

Thanks to all so far, maybe this final issue can be solved too.

Just noticing I must have picked up a different version of the kext from the Broadcom BCM5787M thread




--
MacOS 10.6.2
Hardware:
Dell Optiplex 740 (MCP51 chipset, AMD X2 4850E)
Broadcom 5754 NetXtreme BCM5754

Ok, it's seems to me that the kernel panic disappear, but the kext won't autoload. Every time when machine starts, I must Go to terminal and write kextload-comand. Is that ok or I was missinG somethinG?

hmm no, it autoload ok for me, are you sure the original apple kext isn't in the IONetworkingfamily.kext Plugins folder? or you have another applebcm kext lying in Extensions folder? try touching the Extensions folder forcing the system to rebuild the cache and start with -v to see if any other bcm kext is loaded.

Just as a hint on kexts that still seem to be there or are not loaded: Using chameleon as a boot-loader and placing the kext in /Extra/Extensions makes sure, that any extra kexts I have will have precedence over kexts in /S/L/E. I usually use pfix on SL to fix the permissions and to make sure that /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext will be rebuild too.

Maybe this will solve your problem too!?

Hi nobb1x. Thank you for supporting. After touching the Extensions folder all is going just fine besides detecting mac address. Every time after reboot I must type in the terminal 'ifconfig en0 lladdr 00:23:5A:EF:52:45'. Is there any way to put mac address somewhere else to take it autoload at startup?

i'm sure on this huge thread this has been already discuss, but i can't find it now, anyway i found this on another thread.
have a look.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&p=661178

my post updated, 64 bit mode workin too now.

nobb1x, I have to say your work is remarkable. My BCM5764 finally works by your kext!

You are so awesome, dude!