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In this spanish post, there is a fix.

 

Fix for Broadcomm 440x network issue

 

 

I have tried it, and now the Broadcom is working right.

 

Broadcom 440x card works without a specific driver. Just with IOPCIFamily.kext and IONetWorkingFamily.kext

 

Remove all AppleBCM kext files, and be sure you have IOPCIFamily.kext and IONetWorkingFamily.kext on /System/Library/Extensions

 

Then, restart....

 

The problem has been fixed for me.

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In this spanish post, there is a fix.

 

Fix for Broadcomm 440x network issue

I have tried it, and now the Broadcom is working right.

 

Broadcom 440x card works without a specific driver. Just with IOPCIFamily.kext and IONetWorkingFamily.kext

 

Remove all AppleBCM kext files, and be sure you have IOPCIFamily.kext and IONetWorkingFamily.kext on /System/Library/Extensions

 

Then, restart....

 

The problem has been fixed for me.

 

If this works....u are really our saviour....will start testing now after removing AppleBCM.kext....

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In this spanish post, there is a fix.

 

Fix for Broadcomm 440x network issue

I have tried it, and now the Broadcom is working right.

 

Broadcom 440x card works without a specific driver. Just with IOPCIFamily.kext and IONetWorkingFamily.kext

 

Remove all AppleBCM kext files, and be sure you have IOPCIFamily.kext and IONetWorkingFamily.kext on /System/Library/Extensions

 

Then, restart....

 

The problem has been fixed for me.

 

Still the same...once bitorrent transmission starts the internet drops after a while....

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HI I just have the same problem. I just install OSX86TOOLS ( find it on google ) and download the drivers for the broadcom 440x 10/100 Ethernet.

also, but i dont know if works, I install the IONetworkingFamily.kext from the 10.5.6 Apple update.

 

just need to put at work the 2 cores, SOON!. i got this :: tscsync.patch.tar

 

Dell Inspiron 640m

Core duo T280 @ 1.7GHZ

120GB HDD

INTEL GMA950

2GB RAM

BROADCOM wireless 1390 (Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.80.79.1) )

AUDIO sigmantel 9200 (PATCHED)

Apple keyboard.

USB LACIE HDD 500GB

USB LACIE DVD Burner

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acpi problem ? sleep mode ?

 

EDIT2: I started to think that AppleACPIPlatform.kext is causing this. (compat problem with

the old IONetworkingFamily.kext/IOPCI ?) to be continued...

 

 

EDIT#3: seem to be fixed with:

 

17 16 0x2df60000 0x10000 0xf000 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily (2.5) <7 6 5 4>

19 3 0x2dfc4000 0x3d000 0x3c000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform (1.2.1) <18 17 12 7 5 4>

75 1 0x341ed000 0x16000 0x15000 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily (1.6.0) <7 6 5 4 2>

76 0 0x2e321000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleBCM440XEthernet (1.2.0) <75 17 6 5 4 2>

 

 

then...again... CRASH.. GAH!

 

 

sorry again for my "english" [...]

pepere, using 10.5.6 and dell 640m/BCM4401-B0

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I finally can confirm a fully working BCM 4401 [14e4:170c] method, I have SL 10.6.4 running, installed with [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url]..

http://www.tonymacx86.com/

 

Step-by-step:

Open Finder and navigate to com.apple.Boot.plist

Add

max_valid_dma_addr=1024

to the kernel flags so your com.apple.Boot.plist files (inside Extra folder

and

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist)

that it looks like this:

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=i386 max_valid_dma_addr=1024</string>

 

cheers

AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext_3_.zip

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I finally can confirm a fully working BCM 4401 [14e4:170c] method, I have SL 10.6.4 running, installed with [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url]..

http://www.tonymacx86.com/

 

Step-by-step:

Open Finder and navigate to com.apple.Boot.plist

Add

max_valid_dma_addr=1024

to the kernel flags so your com.apple.Boot.plist files (inside Extra folder

and

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist)

that it looks like this:

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=i386 max_valid_dma_addr=1024</string>

 

cheers

 

 

Brilliant! I just added the above line and it has worked a treat. Thank you for posting.

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