empyrion Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 just installed in 10.6.3 and it works great, but my question is, does it still work in mode promisc and what are the issues of doing so? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor 116 Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 This Kext http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A99AURUZ is for BCM5784 Snow leopard 10.6, 10.6.2, 10.6.3 tested and working. Dont know if it works for 10.6.4 but presumably will. This kext automatically retrieves MAC address, all you need to do is insert ethernet and it will work. Zip Contents: ionetworkingfamily.kext Instructions: Extract Zip Install with Kext Utility and reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muhammad Adnan Asim Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 This Kext http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A99AURUZ is for BCM5784 Snow leopard 10.6, 10.6.2, 10.6.3 tested and working. Dont know if it works for 10.6.4 but presumably will. This kext automatically retrieves MAC address, all you need to do is insert ethernet and it will work. Zip Contents: ionetworkingfamily.kext Instructions: Extract Zip Install with Kext Utility and reboot. My device ID is 1698 and after installing your Kext on my 10.6.3, i get kernal panic in boot. Any idea why this one did not work for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quinielascom Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 Nobb1x: your patched driver for Snow 10.6.3 still works fine after 10.6.4 update. Again, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wincsc Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 I will try this on 10.6.2...god bless me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelvin_ng Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Hi, I'm using acer aspire 4720 and it has a BCM5787M with it. Currently I'm using Mac OS 10.6.3, but facing some bandwidth speed problem with the latest kext. In Windows 7, i can surf internet, youtube smoothly, and ping to the ISP is very good around 16 - 40ms without any request time out. But when i switch to Mac OS, i can hardly surf the internet and youtube is just too slow to load. Ping to localhost will sometimes get request time out (it shud be no request time out when ping to localhost) and when i ping to ISP it will have around 3 to 10 request time out then continue with 2 or 3 times 16 - 40ms ping. but it is way too much of request time out then it is in windows 7. I've one friend from taiwan encountering the same problem. Others if u wanna test pls ping your localhost, if it get request time out means there is something wrong with it. It should not have any request time out when pinging localhost. =) So is there any solution to this? another thing to mention, before i use the new kext it works fine with the old kext which is the kext cannot detect MAC address itself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Jiang Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 I have the same situation as Kelvin_ng does. A few days ago I updated to 10.6.4 from 10.6.3 and the BCM5787M did not work. Reinstalling 10.6.3.5787M.zip of the first post brought back the network, along with the problems. The bandwidth slow down obviously. Right after the system start, it's nearly 10Mb/s when downloading files from a LAN server using YummyFTP or FileZilla. After several hours, it slows down to 400Kb/s. Nor kextunload IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext work, neither ifconfig en0 down then up does. Even worse, the bandwidth slows down to 100Kb/s. Reboot the system bring back the bandwidth. Somebody help me plz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelvin_ng Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 RicoJiang are you from China? just curious~ =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Jiang Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 RicoJiang are you from China? just curious~ =) Yes, are you familiar with China? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelvin_ng Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 just so so. I've got a china friend here, and I myself is a chinese from Malaysia. 高興認識你 =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engiu Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Hi all, i've a problem (naturally). I have an acer aspire 5920g with SnowLeopard 10.6.3 Retail installed, I've follow all these tutorial in this thread and nothing, my Broadcom still not work (yes..i cheked the hardware's ID, it is correct, the14e4 1693). I tried to install the AppleBCM5787MEthernet with KextHelper and nothing (I always fix the permission with "chmod" and "chown" command), I tried to put manually the kext in che folder Extensions, I also tried to put it into the folder "plugins" of the kext IONetworkfamily (or something like that..i don't remenber)..nothing. I have seen that sometimes it doesn't load the kext, for example I put the Power Management kext into the folder extensions and it didn't load it (under system information-extensions I haven't seen it),so is there a way to chek eventual errors of loaded (or not) kext?. I hope someone could help me. Thanks engiu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quinielascom Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 engiu read this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183356 BTW, I have an Aspire 4320 running 10.6.4, almost identical to 4720 and my BCM5787M integrated works fine, tested several hours; internet, utorrent, play online music... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engiu Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Thanks but it doesn't go, I tried to change the IOPCIFamily founded in the thread you gave me but nothing. I tried also to delete the IOPCMCIFamily kext. It's strange, even if the ethernet card is recognized, the MAC is wrong, and the ethernet card inactive. I tried to force the MAC with ifconfig n0 lladdr MY:MA:CA:DD:RE:SS, it changes but the card still not work. I tried to edit the kext with HexFiend, it boots with the right MAC but nothing. Another particular: when the system boots without any ethernet kext it goes very quickly, when I install with KextHelper an ethernet kext it mades a pause during the loading (about three minutes to load or more). I tried to boot with -x32, with -f..nothing. What can I do now? I think that the kext is the right one so I start to think that I have a problem with the DSDT.AML. Thank you very much man. engiu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engiu Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I tried to patch mi DSDT.aml, nothing. I need a help.. Thanks guys engiu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rDrG Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 I can confirm that Nobb1x's kext for BCM 5787M works on my laptop after updating to 10.6.4. I just followed the instructions for UPDATE 2 on the first post of this topic. Thxs!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blurio Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Hi, I tried doing what you Said in update 2. I just put the .kext into ionetworkblah insteaf of the original One. Then i ran th e Disk Utility permission repair Thing. Now what? It doesnt Show up in Network. I cant add an ethernet Connection. Is there anything i can do to get it Running on 10.6.4? I tried the .kext for 10.6.0 bevor updating to .4 and that One worked great. Im sorry for my Bad spelling, im Typung this on a German iPad, it really cripples my writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender666 Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Snow Leopard 10.6.3 only (untested on 10.6.2 and earlier) Attached File 10.6.3.5787M.zip ( 180.79K ) Number of downloads: 1199 works also fine on 10.6.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noflyzone Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 UPDATE 2 work! thanks. Acer Travelmate 4720 OS X 10.6.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Student-X Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 After installation ionetworkingfamily.kext BCM5787M good works on 10.6.4 (including 64-bit system). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KINdruchila Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 Hi guys, Thank you for your good efforts! I spent a lot of time, lost my hope to get my LAN working, but finally I did it, oh yes!!! My laptop is Acer Aspire 5920G and os is snow leo 10.6.2. I have read all this topic, I tried all kexts here, all methods (first on Leopard 10.5.2, later on Snow Leopard 10.6.0 and 10.6.2) but nothing worked for me. I never saw en0 in ifconfig. I always saw something like "BCM5701Mggg.kext .. - 0 0 .. memory page.. failed" during boot and in Console as well. After my last boot I saw another message, don't remember which one, but I can post later if you ask. What I did is: I installed Chun-Nan's IOPCIFamily.kext v113 with KextHelper_b7 and reboot. And that helped. But before this I installed UPDATE 2 into IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins or installed another version of IONetworkingFamily - one of those posted up in this thread, I don't remember what I did last. I'll write it if you ask later. Dmitry LAN is working now, but no internet ------ After restart internet works too. Didn't check speed though. But laptop hung at the first seconds of boot, I had to remove battery to get it working. Bye! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawie Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I found no way to get 5784 (not 5784M) to work. tried all the files from this thread include replies. kernel boot msg: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 1698 getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 1698 getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up My board (Dell 730x, MSI7543 oemed) have two 5784 NIC. anybody help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawie Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 I found no way to get 5784 (not 5784M) to work. tried all the files from this thread include replies. kernel boot msg: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 1698 getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 1698 getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up My board (Dell 730x, MSI7543 oemed) have two 5784 NIC. anybody help me? Try more options, the dmesg changes: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - no acpi-device? AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - no acpi-device? AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - Allocate Interrupt event source failed AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - Allocate Interrupt event source failed AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - Allocate Interrupt event source failed Previous Shutdown Cause: 3 AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - Allocate Interrupt event source failed AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - Allocate Interrupt event source failed AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - Allocate Interrupt event source failed AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - Allocate Interrupt event source failed AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - Allocate Interrupt event source failed NEED HELP?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariekur Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 i'm running on 10.6.4 (update from 10.6.3 iatkos s3 with combo update) and 5787m still not working after i installed the kext. anny suggestion?? sorry my english bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quinielascom Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 The BCM5787M patched driver from first post works in 10.6.5 too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robo_sz Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Hi guys ! I'm non-english person so be patient please. I've got Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M card working, but .... that's all. No internet no nothing. I've got home router with wifi. Wifi is another problem. In system properties in network tab, I have Ethernet with red dot. I've changed mac address of LAN card, as you wrote before. When I connect LAN cable, dot switches onto green and I have information that ethernet is available but can't connect. I've tried different methods, "by hand", automatically DHCP and nothing. Still without hands/intenet. On XP I have IP like 192.168.11.3 on cable, under OsX with automatic DHCP gets something like 192.235. and so on ... Any ideas friends ? I'm "green/yellow" with OsX but I couldn't find any answer with Uncle Google. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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