YOUNGZi Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 dell inspiron 8500 with broadcom 440x the Broadcom BCM4400 Ethernet doesn't work at all plugs in 10Mb hub shows connected,but disabled when plugs in 100Mb Router or Hub anyone who solve this problem please tell me OK!!! ps: i am a chinese student in china,poor in english i can't express myself clearly but Please Please Please help me!!! thx in advance! correct my writing, tell me the mistake, i 'll learn english well ,thk u! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lane Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 I Have a dell inspiron 1100 with a broadcom network card and while it requires some playing to get it working it does work. Try manually entering an IP into the network settings inside System Prefs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOUNGZi Posted September 5, 2005 Author Share Posted September 5, 2005 I Have a dell inspiron 1100 with a broadcom network card and while it requires some playing to get it working it does work. Try manually entering an IP into the network settings inside System Prefs. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> thx for your reply! did it! i entered the IP(192.168.1.113),Router(192.168.1.1) & net mask (255.255.255.0),however,it doesn't work! i connect my inspiron 8500 with 10Mb hub it shows connected but the led of the hub doesn't light! but it works well in the windows 2003 & vista! FT!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shila Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Hello, I´ve also a problem with the Broadcom Build in ethernet. Driver loads as far as I can see but it doesnt work! In Windows I checked which broadcom "chip" is used im my Laptop it´s something like 14e4 and c170. I browsed the OSX driver and found this string in the Broadcom 440x plist, so it should work. But in this case it doesnt! Maybe the people who get the broadcom 440x to work have one of the other "chipsets" which are in the driver?! Has sombody tried to use the Driver from Darwin CD or building it from the source which you can get at Apple´s Darwin site? Thanks in advance shila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amlucent23 Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 My Inspiron 5150 also has a problem with the Broadcom 440x (bcm4400.ktext) in OSX x86 10.4.4. I have been told by everyone that it should work right out of the box with OSX x86 but I believe they (everyone else) has been using OSX x86 10.4.1 or 10.4.3. If some one has the OSX 10.4.3 or 10.4.1 release could you copy the BCM4400.ktext file and email it to me so i can see if it works@ amlucent23@yahoo.com? Or just reply to the post to tell me were I can find it on the net. PLEASE ..... I am also open to any other suggestions for a fix. -Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 This might help: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=...indpost&p=67457 edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist and change "en0" to "en1" and "0" to "1" as below: <string>en1</string> <key>IOInterfaceUnit</key> <integer>1</integer> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amlucent23 Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Isn't that just for wireless cards? I am trying to get my ethernet working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amlucent23 Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Also how do I open the ionetworking ktext? what should I use to open with? textedit doesnt work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amlucent23 Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 ok I have tried that now and it doesnt give an option for ethernet (eth0). the only entry in the plist is firewire (fw0). I dont even have firewire on my notebook. strange. I see that the BCM4400 ktext cannot load when booting up in darwin. Does any body have the ktext from the previous release (10.4.3 or 10.4.1) and could send it to me???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dell700m Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Hi There, I am using BCM 440X in my Dell700M too. Use the attached IONetworkingFamily.kext form 10.4.3 you will be ok. IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Hey Dell700m What speeds do u get on ur BCM440X in OSX while transferring. I get good speeds when uploading to my laptop, but when taking files of my laptop 1 mb takes a minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amlucent23 Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Thank you so much dell700m im going to give it a try now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amlucent23 Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 yes it works... what I had to do was copy my existing ionetworking.ktext to my fat32 data drive, then get the new ktext file linked above open it up in windows (opens just like a folder with XP) go into a subfolder called plugins and copy the appleBCM4400.ktext and paste it in the same place in the ionetworking.ktext that was originally installed with 10.4.4. then reboot... and youi have internet! thanks for all you guys help. Now I need to work on my Gforce fx go 5200 video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonu Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 i have a simple question where and how do i install this set of files i have found no files on the sytem matching any of the files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dell700m Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Hi yonu, download the file, unzip it, copy the IONetworkingFamily.kext to system\library\extensions, do chmod and chown. the kextload it then reboot, Done! enjoy the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonu Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 ok got that now this is even stupider who do i ch it to root? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonu Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 ok i got it ched and all and when i try to kextload it it tells me not a kernal extention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timobo Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 yes it works... what I had to do was copy my existing ionetworking.ktext to my fat32 data drive, then get the new ktext file linked above open it up in windows (opens just like a folder with XP) go into a subfolder called plugins and copy the appleBCM4400.ktext and paste it in the same place in the ionetworking.ktext that was originally installed with 10.4.4. then reboot... and youi have internet! Super - this together with the en0 to en1 change led to success. THX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissdeath Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Unlucky, I use the book Acer Aspire 3602NWXM, broadcom 440x doesn't work in Mac OS X 10.4.6. I download the file above , change the same file in my system, then do chmod and chown . reboot nothing happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufulu Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 (edited) The first time I installed OS X 10.4.7 JaS my Broadcom 440 worked out of the box. After a reinstall it doesn't anymore! I tried the above mentionen solutions but they don't work... Any other tricks or work arounds? Ok figured it out: Well sort of: I have to unplug the ac from my notebook for a few secs. Then I get the card to work! Edited December 13, 2006 by ufulu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wextux Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I am having alot of trouble getting ethernet working for Broadcom 440x. I tried indstalling the new kext and then chmod 755 and chown root:wheel. when i do the kextload it tells me it is already loaded. In my netowork satus it says "Built in Ethernet is currently active and has the IP address ###.###.###.###. You are connected to the Internet via Built-in Ethernet." Not really sure what else to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshawn Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hi, I am sorry, but I am really UNIX stupid, with chmod and chown, I know those are UNIX commands, but where do I do them? Do I open up terminal and then go to the system\library\extensions directory (through terminal) and just run the two commands there. I know CHMOD had to do with file permisions and I know CHOWN is about ownership of files, but not much past that. If you could do a step by step on what exactly I type, I would be thankful. I know things like CD and such, but I am not as good with UNIX as much as I wish I were. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 if anyone else has that and had to do something special, i am extremely interested, also, is there a website to get wireless to work? Thank you so much for your help, it is great to know there are services like this! I just can't wait until my dell craps out so I have a reason to upgrade to a macbook. Shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshawn Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I totally forgot to mention, I have the 10.8 intel.amd JAS install, I tried to put on the file that you guys have been talking about, and it replaced one that was already on there, I can't even get it to recognize that I have an ethernet card, and now it is giving me an error that the library file I replaced is incorrect. Please help, Shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshawn Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 I got it figured out, I just used disk utility to fix permissions for me! Thanks anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eliot Huang Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Hi There,I am using BCM 440X in my Dell700M too. Use the attached IONetworkingFamily.kext form 10.4.3 you will be ok. I have tried but still not work. Mine is . Acer 2400,Broadcom 440X 10/100 . c-m 1.5G,1.25G DDRII, 60G ATA,Intel 2200wireless card, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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