222 replies to this topic

[autoy]

Musashi, take your time to fix the bugs, don't be stressed because of that. If we waited for so many months some days more is just nothing.

Good luck.

[np_]

m.musashi, on Apr 12 2006, 05:59 PM, said:

guys, an update

driver is working but a big bug has been spotted (thanks to autoy).
basically it has to do with the transmitter stalling when there's a fast stream of outgoing UDP packets. This happens with some p2p apps, resulting in a system freeze.
It shouldn't be too hard to fix, but it requires time to stress test it (I use netperf for this which is a great little tool)

However work has catched up, and since yesterday unfortunately time is not something that I have aplenty.
If I don't find the time to fix it by Monday evening, I'll release the kext and the source as they are now. This way somebody else could have a look at it a help me speeding up the debugging.

Almost forgot, this driver is not only for the 88e8001 chip; when completed it will support:
+ Marvell 88E8001, Belkin F5D5005, CNet GigaCard, DLink DGE-530T,
+ Linksys EG1032/EG1064, 3Com 3C940/3C940B, SysKonnect SK-9871/9872
these are the card supported by skge in linux.
for yukon2 (88E8021,22,35,...) the linux driver is different (sky2) and currently implemented in appleyukon.kext (alas badly)

on Monday I'll create a new thread with kext and sources
bye
mm

good job !,

good idea also to replace stinky "AppleYukon.kext" with anythink better



thanks

[rjtd]

Any news on the new driver?
(hope this is not "pestering")

[sam_the_killer]

no new thread till now for marvel 8001.
was it not scheduled to be released today?

[m.musashi]

men of little faith
it's still Monday    

I had little time to sort out the UDP stream issue, but since the driver works fine for normal usage, I think some of you may appreciate to have it anyway

I haven't created a new thread as I really am in a rush now

The source will follow sometime during the week (need to edit a couple of comments and add a "license" header)

Please don't post asking how to install it or edit the .plist to add your vendorid/devid - there's plenty of instruction in this forum - I will not answer

anyway, enough talk, here's the driver


bye

[rjtd]

Thank you so much
I'm writting this now on my Laptop! Great work!

Too early: Oh my, it stopped working Do you need some output from myself?

[cyclonefr]

working great on my P4P800SE

[m.musashi]

from terminal, type "dmesg"
post the skgeosx:_______  messages
thanks

[myzar]

thx alot for your time wasted on this driver on pasquetta it works great beside the udp issue thx alot

[ChiefWiggum]

    

Works like a charm on my K8VSE Deluxe (Yukon 8001)!!
Finally can use the internet !!

Many Thanks to
m.musashi, myzar & sj !!

[floris]

Magic. An other Yukon 8001 online
kudos to m.musashi for this one.
bliss.....

[UnknownBadger]

Doesnt work for my card:
Van 11AB
Dev 4320

I get on startup "the system extention "/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ skge.kext" was not installed properly and cannot be used..."
I get the same message afterwards for the AppleYukon.kext too.

Removing the AppleYukon one doesnt do the trick. At one point i did have Built-In ethernet in the networking prefs pane but it said its not plugged in.

typing in sudo dmesg somewhere in the mist there is a line starting with yukonOsx and the cards mac address.

any ideas guys?

[npwski]

Guys, thanks for driver, my Yukon 8001 works good now.

[SaberSHO]

UnknownBadger- your permissions are wrong...try running disk utility or do this:

sudo chmod -R 755 System/Library/Extensions/
sudo chown -R root:wheel System/Library/Extensions/

(the -R is important)

-SaberSHO

[Jeb0921]

Thanks for all your work guys. Running great on my AMD machine with a Marvel Yukon 8139 Chip.

[gordo]

Great ! working with my P4P800-E builtin networking!

[Baal]

Awesome, I've been waiting for this.

[os_overload]

i guess ill join the crowd in saying that its an awesome job.
works great with 10.4.5 (myzar) on my p4p800se (which was a replacement for a previous MB of the same model that quit working, so it has a newer bios).

[helob]

cyclonefr, on Apr 18 2006, 03:53 AM, said:

working great on my P4P800SE

I also have a P4P800SE but still have problem getting skge.kext to work on Yukon 8001. Would apprecaite if you can detail out the steps on installing skge.kext as well as finding the vendorid/devid for Yukon 8001.
Thank you for your help.

[cyclonefr]

open terminal
sudo -s (password)
cp -R (drag and drop the file and remove the / at the end) /System/Library/Extensions/
reboot

done enjoy
go into network pref panel and c the Network adapter