planetbeing Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 Hmm. It's probably due to the timer IRQ. Could I actually have the reported device and subsystem ids too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kioshi Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 tested with forcedeth.kext and forcedeth-nockd.kext both works 15 seconds ok, and then the system freezes. only the mouse works. recognize dhcp but the system just freezes. Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo Nforce4 Processor : AMD Sempron64 2500+ Memory : 1gb HDD: Sata (via sata fix) Video : Radeon x300 (didn't know how to get a debug) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugob Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Thanks. Great job. Forcedeth.kext worked out of the box. I just downloaded Open Office (140 Mb) without a problem. System: Asus A8N-E with nForce-4 Ultra AMD X2 4200+ Gigabyte 6600GT Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4rD1g4n Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 it works for me with epox 9npa+ sli but i must repeat step 7 and 8 after reboot. otherwise i received a errormessage ("driver not loaded" or so) big thx (sorry für my bad english) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiras Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Hi there, just wanted to tell that it works right now. no panic anymore. i did a new install of all kexts i ever modified/added, and the prob is gone. So if anybody experiences anything like that, do it like i did right now. Thanks planetbeing, your driver seems to be alright. chiras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I have an ASUS A8N-E with nForce 4 Ultra AMD chipset, and a (installed using vmware, running native) OS X on a SATAII HD. I'm using the AppleVIAATA hack to boot it. Somehow I think that the number of "IOATAController device blocking bus" (which is common in the AppleVIAATA kext) per second rockets when I'm *using* forcedeth kext. It's just a feeling because I have no real proof, but as I use Safari to browse the web, I get lots of "blocking bus"; when I copy large files I don't get that many. Ultimately this makes the system freeze, and sometimes with severe data corruption on OS X partition. Thanks god this only happens once every hour of use, which is pretty good but still annoying. When forcedeth is unloaded, the system doesn't freeze: sometimes the VIAATA kext fails and the / partition is remounted read-only (not *really* ro, but every write attempt fails). Thanks for the kext anyway Hi hugob, are you using SATAII? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asktheprophet Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra D motherboard nForce 4 onboard ethernet LAN (device id 0057) Working!!! *Notes: Disabled onboard Marvell Yukon (device id 4320), removed D-Link wireless card as it was being seen but not working, disabled onboard firewire as being seen. This just made things more logical and helps to remove (my) human error. Run the forcedeth setup as per the instructions at the beginning of this thread. As "Network Utility" still didnt show the link as up i closed it down. started Safari used the "internet connection wizard" . Reported link found. Started Network utility and ethernet was up at 100Mb's (router NIC speed) Safari found apple.com!!!! Took me several hours though. ** I can get a USB network connection to my router USB port but I think that the USB bus must be reseting as it keeps dropping connection. My USB mouse and keyboard also kept dropping but were ok unplugging/plugging. Does anyone know if it is better with this OS to set in BIOS system resources "manual" or "auto/plug and play os . .etc". PS2 Keyboard and PS2 mouse Working!!! *Notes: Disabled USB Keyboard and USB Mouse support in BIOS (you need to do both) Hope that some of this information may be of use tto someone. A big heads up to planetbeing for all his hard work and on-going support. i am realy enjoying OS X. Prophet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toaogrimreaper Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Hi, is there the possibility that this driver is only working on specific versions of Mac OS x86? I can't install the driver on version 10.4.1, there's a conflict with some packages. I'm new to this stuff, so please fill me in. The NIC (NForce 4 on Gigabyte K8NF-9) is not recognized, the Built in Ethernet is greyed out. Thx for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krowten Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 My motherboard is Gigabyte whit nForce3 chipset. This driver work fine!!!!!! Thanks planetbeing !!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Works Great since installing not a single Problem. How about a Device name Change now, so in Network Propeties it show as nF3/4 Lan or something similar. PCI Ethernet Slot pci10de,XX looks lame. i know its only cosmetic but hey, would be a nice addition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malmostoso Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 Hello there, and thanks for this driver. Unfortunately I cannot load it properly on my A8N-E, using OSX86 under VMWare. The error I get is: kextload: extension forcedeth.kext appears to be valid20com_triton_forcedeth is not compatible with its superclass, 20IOEthernetController superclass changed? kextload: a link/load error occured for kernel extension forcedeth.kext load failed for extension forcedeth.kext (run kextload with -t for diagnostic output) Doesn't look a big issue, but still it doesn't work. Any help appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzlet Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Hello there, and thanks for this driver.Unfortunately I cannot load it properly on my A8N-E, using OSX86 under VMWare. The error I get is: Doesn't look a big issue, but still it doesn't work. Any help appreciated. Are you on 10.4.1? If so... upgrade, that's your problem. Anyways, here's my issue... forcedeth and forcedeth-nockd see the network card, doesn't do anything after com_triton_forcedeth. Log's attached. log.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malmostoso Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Are you on 10.4.1? If so... upgrade, that's your problem. If I have understood correctly the only way to upgrade from 10.4.1 is to perform a new installation... I'll try, thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henson Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 MacOS X 10.4.4 with update to 10.4.5 LAN is not working on my ASUS A8N-E Every time when I'm trying to make "kextload -v ~/Desktop/forcedeth/build/Release/forcedeth.kext", the MacOSX requires reboot and that's all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brodeur007 Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Thank you so much to making my mac internet-enable. My A8NE-FM wasn't supporting ethernet, for the rest it was ok. thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toaogrimreaper Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Thanks for your effort. LAN on Gigabyte K8NF-9 is working fine with 10.4.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTronic Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 it works just FLAWLESSLY on my Asus A8N-E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdf2002 Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 It is working great! Is loading at startup without a problem. On Asus A8N-E. Thank you! Great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henson Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 it works just FLAWLESSLY on my Asus A8N-E What's the version of MacOSX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTronic Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 What's the version of MacOSX? 10.4.5 patched DVD from newsgroups. Probably myzar based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklas Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Thanks dude, it worked like a charm. Running 10.4.6 Jas Install DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henson Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 10.4.5 patched DVD from newsgroups. Probably myzar based. Thank you, I have the same version but with problem 'loaded version 1.9 of module IOPCIFamily differs from requested version' inside ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictorCL Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Hi hey I try what you told .. and I get this : Apr 23 03:53:13 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Initializing. Apr 23 03:53:13 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Probing. Apr 23 03:53:13 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Starting. Apr 23 03:53:13 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: PCI system 0x10DE:0x0057, subsystem 0x1043:0x8141 opened. Apr 23 03:53:13 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Mapped from 0xD6000000 of length 4096. Apr 23 03:53:13 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x23d49000, tx at 0x23d49400, wired at 0xf8ce000. Apr 23 03:53:13 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:13:D4:B9:FF:FB. Apr 23 03:53:13 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Found PHY 0x5040:0x0003 at address 9. Apr 23 03:53:14 victors-computer kernel[0]: com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:13:d4:b9:ff:fb Apr 23 03:53:14 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Enabling... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Apr 23 03:53:14 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Starting transmit/receive engines Apr 23 03:53:14 victors-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Network link down. but then I set my ip and stuff I do a ping and it tells me that NO ROUTE TO HOST .. on the system preferences it shows THE CABLE IS NOT PLUG .. or something like that I have an ASUS MOTHERBOARD A8N-E hope you can help me thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krycek Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Thank you, this driver is working like a dream. Using A8N-SLI mobo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrono86 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Worked right away with no problems! Thanks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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