gergely_t Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Hello everyone! I am a starter osx user from this little country called Hungary from middle-europe! 2 weeks ago I succesfully installed Osx Tiger to my Acer Aspire 5710G notebook. So many things works, but the most important thing not...the ethernet. I read so many forum topic about my problem but none of them seems to be a solution to my problem. I am a college student and i live in a student hostel and it has a really fast ethernet 100mbit/sec! I need internet to continue my studiing! And because i study information sience of unix systems its a big problem to me that i cant use my ethernet card. So if there is someone who is good at driver.kext modifying please help me! I like osx but i haven't got enouh money to buy a real mac so i must use hackintosh to my studys! My network card is a Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Ethernet - BCM5787M Hardware deviceID, VendorID at win: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&SUBSYS_012E1025&REV_02 PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&SUBSYS_012E1025 PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&CC_020000 PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&CC_0200 Someone plz help me :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizwan Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Hi, Try locate this kext file:- /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext I use leopard right now so I don't know if tiger also have same kext file. I think you can figure it out. To make your ethernet card working, I think you have to add your Device ID & Vendor ID to the Info.plist file. You need to edit AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext's Info.plist file. Do like this in terminal, you need root privilege for this operation:- # vi /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext/Contents/Info.plist Scroll down & you should see something like this:- <key>IOClass</key> <string>BCM5701Enet</string> <key>IOMatchCategory</key> <string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string> <key>IONameMatch</key> <array> <string>pci106b,8</string> <string>pci106b,9</string> <string>pci106b,85</string> <string>pci14e4,16a6</string> <string>pci14e4,1648</string> <string>pci14e4,165d</string> <string>pci14e4,1696</string> <string>pci14e4,165e</string> <string>pci14e4,1659</string> </array> You need to add your device id & vendor id in that list, so it should look like this:- <key>IOClass</key> <string>BCM5701Enet</string> <key>IOMatchCategory</key> <string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string> <key>IONameMatch</key> <array> <string>pci106b,8</string> <string>pci106b,9</string> <string>pci106b,85</string> <string>pci14e4,16a6</string> <string>pci14e4,1648</string> <string>pci14e4,165d</string> <string>pci14e4,1696</string> <string>pci14e4,165e</string> <string>pci14e4,1659</string> <string>pci14e4,1693</string> </array> Now save & exit. Next, you need to remove kext cache file:- # rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache # rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.mkext Finally, reboot. However this way is not always working, you may get kernel panic. Do this at your own risk. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gergely_t Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Good thax for the answer i will try it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas_man Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I have a compal ifl90 with a Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&SUBSYS_002514C0&REV_02 PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&SUBSYS_002514C0 PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&CC_020000 PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&CC_0200 I also found this in properties: oem14.inf:Broadcom.NTamd64.6.0:BCM5787A1M_LHinst.NTamd64.6.0:10.9.0.0:pci\ven_14e4&dev_1693 BCM5787 I tryied your tip but doest did anything, can somebody help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsmart Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Try to use this file and add your device-id, if needed. mcsmart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas_man Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 i will try it . but i did a kextload manualy to both kexts 5701 and 575X and ethernet now shows at networks. but it doesnt work "cable not plugged" btw i instaled the IONEtwork blalal FIX from other post i hope that file works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas_man Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 i thinks its the same it that file the problem now is that it doesnt recognize the mac address apeear 00:00:00 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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