Hi,

Thought I would post in this section to see if I can get a better response.

I have modified the kext which Memorial had setup for the older 88E8039 (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=104276&view=findpost&p=744473) model.

See my post here:http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=83039&view=findpost&p=763926

I changed the IOPCIPrimaryMatch string from his Vendor and Device ID to mine (Ox435411ab) and the ethernet card is detected, however it does not detect that the cable is plugged in???

Any ideas?

Robfin.

Sorry man, no fix out there...
I have a Dell I1525 with the same ethernet card.
I was surfing hours and hours, day a day searching by a solution, and nothing.

In my experience, the best thing that you can do is buy a very cheap USB ethernet adaptor and follow this instructions

In fact, I wrote this message using a Belkin adaptor.

Good luck.

Try modding AppleYukon2.kext, newer models are better there. You have checked the ethernet cable and jack, right? Also, make sure you clicked Apply in the network interfaces.

You can try going into terminal and see what ifconfig tells you. Try ifconfig eth0 down and then ifconfig eth 0 up.

Best of luck.

I as talking to a guy on irc with the same card today. He hasn't had much luck himself, but he did find this: http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch

This is a BSD patch, that might work. According to the guy that made it, 8040 is a very different card. If you guys can, try and see if you can either patch the OS X driver (AppleYukon2 probably) or maybe write a new one. There is talks that the BSD source is out somewhere (can't find it).

This: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=781022 also might be helpful. The linux source can be found on the Marvell site.