i think he was talking to sjoer, i cant find lspci for windows anywhere, only for linux.
is there another app i can use in windows?
about the drivers i think i only tried planetbeing second drivers and yours.

Well, then I don't know what to do. You have the same id as the rest of us so its something else. Have you tried some of the Marvell nic theads? Maybe they will be able to help.

OK, I have tried this a few times to no avail, but then again I probably missed something. I did check the HCl, and have crawled the forums for about two weeks now. I have installed and running 10.4.6 HotIso, installed native, not VMware, system runs stable, just no nic, sound, SATA and of course the no vid accelration, but one thing at a time.

I am trying to get the Nic running first, but from the looks of things I am the first to post anything on the nForce 570 chipset.

My setup:
AMD 3200+ skt AM2
M2N-SLI Deluxe MOBO Here, Clicky Clicky...
3gb Crucial DDR2
80gb WD 8mb PATA 133 drive for OSX
250 Gb Samsung Spinpoint SATA2 300
160 Gb Seagate Barracuda SATA1 150
XFX GeForce 7600GT

EDIT: Just found this crawling...

LAN Dual Gigabit LAN controllers support NVIDIA DualNet® technology
NVIDIA nForce® 570 SLI™ MCP built-in dual Gigabit MAC with external Marvell PHY
- Support Teaming and Fail-Over functions
- Support TCP/IP Acceleration


When I run the forcedeth.kext i get the enableing 1.2.3...etc, then link goes down. I have tried with both nic's enabled in the bios and also with just the primary enabled. When it says link down The link light goes out and when I reboot into XP, I get a bios warning about the cable being unplugged until i go into xp full then all is joyful.

When I run the forcedeth-nockd.kext, the log shows a repeating readout of what looks to be memory addresses. and again the link light goes out, mac osx tells me that a network cable is unplugged in both instances. I then have to reboot back into xp to get my nics back. I would post logs, but I forgot to bring them with me to work. I can post them later if needed.

My hardware Id's appear to be DEV0373 for both nics. They are reported as Nvidia Network Adapters.

On a side note, With OS X being compiled on top of BSD for all intensive purposes, I have seen on other distro's ie: Debian use a program called fwcutter to cut the driver firmware coding for wireless applications, could it be reworked to do something for us here, Not a programmer myself so just a thought.

Any help is appreciated in advance.

Thanks!!

Did you try to shut the pc down and remove the nic cable for about 30 seconds. That has work for most of us. I don't know much about that board myself. Sorry.

hello i am having trouble wiht the installaltion when i do the kextload part i get this log.

Yes that works to reset the nic, but it does not help that when either kext is loaded it essentially turns the nics off. After working and playing with code for 2 weeks on this now, I went out and bought a $10 nic for now, its got me online and now I can work on the rest of my issues.

Thanks again.

Sorry to hear that, but you didn't post the log.



Alot of us had to do that. Sorry, but at least you got something that works with out a bunch of tinkering.

I love the work everyones doing with the forcedeth driver but I have a request.

I am one of the unfortunate few who have a 410 with an external 8201...

Forcedeth works for about 1000 packets than just gives up after 5 recv errors. Is there anyway to force forcedeth to work even when encountering errors, or is this a hardware limitation?

If forcedeth kind of works... wouldnt it be easy for the knowing to make it completely work?

Adam

sorry guys here is my error log:



that i get after a type:



can anyone pls help since i really got nothing to do with no internet.

can someone please help i love this x86 thing soo much and it just wouldnt feel right without the net. pls i beg of anyone

Thanks guy, it work with my board (K8N4-E Deluxe)

if somone can get me the source for this ethernet driver I'll spend some time resolving the various issues and make the driver dynamic in hardware matching detection to cover several models supporting the same/compatible chipset.

If you download the original zip on the first post of this thread, the whole xcode project is included (source code)..

You might be a bit in over your head as the nforce lan device is not documented at all by Nvidia and this driver is basically a rewrite of the linux code that basically was reverse engineered. Well, good luck anyway.. any updates are welcome for this..

i have an KN8 Ultra with NForce 4, i tried to load the kernerl extension but it gave me this error ( i paste the entire log run with the -t option)sorry if it's too long, but maybe it can help.

valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/Adaptec29160x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/Adaptec39160.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/Apple02Audio.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAD741x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleADM103x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleADT746x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort3.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleCore99NVRAM.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleCore99PE.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleDallasDriver.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleFan.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleFCU.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleFlashNVRAM.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleFPMemDriver.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleGossamerPE.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleGPIO.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHeathrow.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHWSensor.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleI386GenericPlatform.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntel915.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleK2.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleK2Driver.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleK2Fan.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleK2SATA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleK2SATARoot.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleKauaiATA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleKeyLargo.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleKiwiATA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleKiwiRoot.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLM7x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLM8x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLMUController.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMacRISC2PE.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMacRiscPCI.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMaxim1989.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMaxim6690.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMPIC.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleOnboardAudio.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleOnboardDisplay.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRAID.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMUMonitor.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTPMACPI.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBAudio.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleVIA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleVSP.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/ATTOExpressPCIPlus.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AudioDeviceTreeUpdater.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/BootCache.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/CM4040.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/CMD646ATA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/CMD646Root.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/HeathrowATA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/I2CGPIO.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOHDIXController.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CAD741x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CADT746x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CControllerPMU.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CControllerPPC.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CControllerSMU.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CDeviceFCU.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CDriveBayGPIO.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CFamily.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CLM6x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CLM7x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CLM8x.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CMaxim1989.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOI2CMaxim6690.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOKeyLargo.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformFunction.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/KeyLargoATA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/Lexmark X422.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/LSIUltra320.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/MacIOGPIO.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/MegaRAID.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/SCR24X_Apple_Driver.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/SharedIP.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/SoftRAID.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/tulip.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/VirtualAudioDriver.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleI2SModemFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleModemOnHoldService.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleBMacEthernet.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOSerialFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleRS574Serial.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOSerialFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleSCCIrDA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOSerialFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBIrDA.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOSerialFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/InternalUSBModem.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOSerialFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MotorolaSM56K.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCDCDMM.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCDCECMControl.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCDCECMData.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCDCEEM.kext is not valid
kextload: kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCDCWCM.kext is not valid
kextload: resolving dependencies for kernel extensions with validation and authentication failures
kextload: extension forcedeth-nockd.kext appears to be valid
kextload: loading extension forcedeth-nockd.kext
20com_triton_forcedeth is not compatible with its superclass, 20IOEthernetController superclass changed?
kextload: a link/load error occured for kernel extension forcedeth-nockd.kext
load failed for extension forcedeth-nockd.kext

Hi...

I'm using forcedeth for my A8N-SLI Deluxe too. Everythings works fine but my network breaks down when i upload big (>5MB) files to a samba share. Downloading works absolutly fine incl. websurfing! When the network crashed i need to disconnect my D-Link 10/100MB switch from power supply for some seconds. What is the reason? To many request?

I've seen that before with an early Windows Vista Beta build.

I hope you can help me. Network without upload is only a half network.

Here my syslog:

Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Initializing.
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Probing.
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Starting.
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: PCI system 0x10DE:0x0057, subsystem 0x1043:0x8141 opened.
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Mapped from 0xD0000000 of length 4096.
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x2914a000, tx at 0x2914a400, wired at 0x194f5000.
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:11:D8:7E:9D:EB.
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Found PHY 0x5040:0x0003 at address 1.
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:11:d8:7e:9d:eb
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Enabling... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Starting transmit/receive engines
Aug 25 21:16:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Network link down.
Aug 25 21:16:49 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Link speed now 100Mbps, code 0x10064.
Aug 25 21:16:52 davids-computer mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en0 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:0211:D8FF:FE7E:9DEB); delaying packets by 5 seconds
Aug 25 21:16:53 davids-computer launchd: Server 484b in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[319]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Aug 25 21:16:53 davids-computer configd[50]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Aug 25 21:16:53 davids-computer configd[50]: WirelessAirPortDeviceNameCopy(): no AirPort driver found
Aug 25 21:16:53 davids-computer lookupd[321]: lookupd (version 369.5) starting - Fri Aug 25 21:16:53 2006
Aug 25 21:16:55 davids-computer mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en0 (192.168.0.17); delaying packets by 5 seconds
Aug 25 21:17:02 davids-computer kernel[0]: smb_iod_recvall: drop resp: mid 262, cmd 16
Aug 25 21:17:02 davids-computer kernel[0]: smb_iod_recvall: drop resp: mid 263, cmd 50
Aug 25 21:17:02 davids-computer kernel[0]: smb_iod_recvall: drop resp: mid 271, cmd 50
Aug 25 21:17:02 davids-computer KernelEventAgent[45]: tid 00000000 received VQ_NOTRESP event (1)
Aug 25 21:20:52 davids-computer KernelEventAgent[45]: tid 00000000 received VQ_NOTRESP event (1)
Aug 25 21:20:52 davids-computer KernelEventAgent[45]: tid 00000000 type 'smbfs', mounted on '/Volumes/ARBEITSGRUPPE;BOO', from '//ARBEITSGRUPPE;DAVID@BOO/BACKUPS', not responding
Aug 25 21:20:52 davids-computer KernelEventAgent[45]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
Aug 25 21:21:55 davids-computer KernelEventAgent[45]: tid 00000000 unmounting 1 filesystems
Aug 25 21:24:28 davids-computer sudo: david : TTY=ttyp1; PWD=/Users/david; USER=root; COMMAND=/bin/bash
Aug 25 21:35:57 davids-computer kernel[0]: System Doze
Aug 25 21:46:47 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Network link down.
Aug 25 21:46:50 davids-computer launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[321]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Aug 25 21:46:50 davids-computer configd[50]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Aug 25 21:46:50 davids-computer configd[50]: WirelessAirPortDeviceNameCopy(): no AirPort driver found
Aug 25 21:46:52 davids-computer kernel[0]: forcedeth: Link speed now 100Mbps, code 0x10064.
Aug 25 21:46:55 davids-computer configd[50]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Aug 25 21:46:55 davids-computer configd[50]: WirelessAirPortDeviceNameCopy(): no AirPort driver found

works fine here with nf4Lan onboard! thx for the patch!

Bord: DFI LanParty UT nf4 Ultra

regards

XHess

Hi, I'd like to ask if anyone noticed the same problem like me. My network connection goes fine at 100 mbit, samba copying, network, like i've used it for 5 days without any interruptions on a lan for quake and things like that. However when my ADSL modem hangs up the line (my ISP hangs up every 24 hours), the driver hangs or something like this, and the card transmits something up (according to menumeter, my switch doesn't blink like it would normally do), but there is no receive. I've already tried to replug the cable and reconnect, tried enabling and disabling the network card in Network Preferences, but both were useless, only reboot helped. Interesting though, that I can unplug the cable anytime and it would reconnect fine, and if I want to hang up the line manually, i can do it, it would reconnect without any problems - just 'forced disconnect' knocks out the driver, however it is quite bad to restart my box for every 24 hours.
I'd like to try the nockd and other builds, maybe someone can tell me what's the difference between the different builds...
Thanks for your help.

Hi,

Works perfect with JAS 10.4.7 and a Gigabyte GA-K8NF9 Ultra (Athlon 64 3500+ Venice)

Thanks a lot !!!!

ok i fallow you directions but when i restart i lose everything and it works too before i restart i have full internet

sorry to double post but i thought id throw my specs down

amd 4200x2
evga nforce4 sli motherboard with on baord gigabit
nvidia 6200 with turbochache
1 gb ddr 3200 rAm

I installed the driver and my LAN works but after about a day l will get a 169 IP address and I have to restart in order to get it working again.

System specs:
Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 939 (clocked to 2.5ghz stock 1.8ghz)
Msi K8n Neo4 Platinum(Nforce4 Ultra:P)
Corsair 1gb dual channel ddr
Ati X1600 pro 512mb PCI-x
pata Maxtor 300gb(macos here:P also windows:P)
sata Seagate 320gb(ntfs full across)

oddest thing.... I installed MacOSX 10.4.6 goatsecx(100gb of 300gb), 10.4.6 to 10.4.7 AMD one(Myzar), then installed the smb fix by forgot whats his face... and lastly the ATI fix for my X1600 using borisbadenov.... then after I had that all going I installed Windows X64 on second half of drive, after that was done I installed acronis and all... and boot into macosx.....

remember I did nothing but boot macosx.... previously only 1 nic was working..... somehow it, seems to have loaded the forcedeth drivers.... where from I dunno and how I dunno...... but thats ok..... though thats the wierd part since I was reading this topic all while windows was installing on my main comp....


well anyway I'm gonna try installing the forcedeth drivers from here......

the ones that appeared on my osx seem to work fine but for whatever reason dns doesn't seem to be working:S I dunno.... we'll see:P

up until I installed windows xp x64.... OSX was fully working no prob, detecting one of the nic's as whatever.... but non the less working:P...

Everytime i try the 4th step i get the error.

-Bash: Tail -f /var/log/system.log : No Such File Or Directory

TANKS TANKS WORK PERFECT IN MY NFORCE4

I tried 2 times in second I gave certain perfect I function 100%

When I follow the step 9
I knew the reason:
when I type:9. sudo kextload -v forcedeth.kext
the LAN guiding lights is not shining
so I can't use the card.
But When I use the safty mode, which forcedeth.kext is not loading,
and the LAN guiding lights is shining normally.
I don't know why? What should I do?

It is nForce 550
My netcard ID is 0x037310DE

Oh， who can help me?It should be work successful!

Working on Abit Fatal1ty Nforce4 Ultra SLI

THANKS!

FYI, after hours of searching and trying all kind of different things I finally got the network working on 10.4.6 release. Thanks for everyones help.

I used the forcedeth_nock_fixed.zip file posted a couple of pages back and followed to instructions found on the first page.

My mobo is ECS KN1 SLI Lite.

Next is sound, XFX 7600GT, dual monitor, USB mouse!, dual boot with XP x64 on 2 different IDE drives...

This is just the beginning of my adventure.

Hi folks,

First: Thanks for this drivers
Seconds: It wont work

Okay, I have the same network card (at least forcedeth works sometimes (depends from time to time) on linux), but it wont work. The extenstion loads great, but my ethernet device is already detected by something else and that extension blocks the device for forcedeth. In other words: does anyone know how to disable that extension? I found the following in the system.log file:



I put some other stuff with it, to let you know where it happends

I searched for AirPortPCI_MM, but it is not in /System/Libraries/Extensions

can anyone help? thanks

has anyone tried modifying this driver to enable full support for nForce 590 Tritium boards? I'd love to get LAN fully working on my P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi.
Someone reported that it is partially working (recognized adapter and MAC address), so it might only involve a small modification to the code.

Please, please, pretty please! with pink bows and cherries on top, and lots of fiddly icing

great job, i had never problems with that kext

not working with my Asus A8N-VM. Not really sure why since its in the same family as the A8N-SLI. Anyone got it working with this board? I tried the method listed in the first post but not really sure where to go from there.

* edit * heres the tail. I used the -nock-fixed version posted a few pages back for this after trying original ones... sorry had to take a screen shot cant even get a text file off my machine

Hi, I am pleased to report a successful installation of the forcedeth driver (this is being typed in Camino). The mobo I have is a Winfast 6100K8MA with nForce4 LAN (device ID 0269) and previously I had messed about with Tulip with no success at all. However although the forcedeth.kext did not work, the alternative nockd.kext worked first time!
Many thanks to Planetbeing for starting this project and all those others, especially Aien and letni who helped in making it so straightforward. As others have commented a Mac without the net is not much use.
Kudos to all

Ah, good news. I hope this is still gonna work for the new 8.8.1 kernel. I'll be trying it out soon.

its actually working for me with the driver for nforce 410 boards posted earlier in this thread. I also had to uninstall some drivers for a ralink wireless usb stick i had been using. Works well though, occasionally i get a crash at reboot but thats not a big issue really.

Crap, this driver isn't working for me. I'm using a Marvell 88E1111. The driver detects my chip and sets up the interface, but it doesn't attempt to link or check the link state. In network util, link state shows up as unreported. Anyone have a solution?

I am currenting using 10.4.6 Hot.Iso with DFI nForce SLI Ultra .. and it works
thanks heaps.

It doesn't work for me, it says "could not find a valid PHY"... whatever that may be

Thanx for the driver!!

Here is my setup:

OS X 10.4.8 AMD TEST1
Mobo: Msi K8n Neo4-F (nForce4 chipset)
CPU: Athlon 64 Venice 3200+
Gainward 7300GS video

Forcedeth worked basically out of the box. But with extended usage following things happened: when i disconnect from net (i have DSL with PPPoE) and try to connect again, it hangs. Only reboot helps. And sometimes it would disconnect by itself and then problem as described. And since i download a lot from rapidhsare and have a dynamic IP, it is really uncomfortable.

work in via chipset vt8251 ? :'(

I have two Via6102 onboard and rtl8139C/C+ in pci! but I doesn't make working
none of the two! : '(

Can someone compile and upload the diver for 10.4.1 'cause i cannot download Xcode(it is very big for dialup)

Please

thank you very much .

Am I really the only one with this problem??

@planetbeing - hey dude, thanks for your work and this forcedeth guide man, f**** awesome. seems the post is a bit old but i'm completely new at this and did about 10 re-install easy these past two weeks.

i had a few problems at first like most ppl in here but once up and running, it's amazing how fast my link is. (my modem can connect via usb too with no setup, but very sluggish and hangs alot).

anyway there is a couple of more steps i did that solved the problem everytime and dunno if ppl are still getting the same problems. lemme know if it helps, otherwise thanks for yer guide.

Works with charm on nforce 3 chipset tested on asus K8N-E Deluxe ethernet card came to life thanks to forcedeth

okay so at least i'm making some progress but i'm still not there.
I've used Alien's 6100 modified stuff and that's the only thing that's worked so far, but all it's done is got it recognized. It's got the right mac address and everything, the only problem is, it pulls nothing from the dhcp. No 169 no nothing. When I try and force the proper settings on it, nothing works and there's no connection. What could be going on. By the way, the device ID is 0269. Could it be a problem with the router?

Runs brilliantly on an Asus A8N5X (untill now, knock knock...). Thanks for the excellent work !

Today i will try this one on Asus A8N-SLI SE Thanx in advance for trying to help

..pulled in a file around 3.45 mbit/sec

BFGRNF4U

Having trouble, this the system.log really doesnt show anything, just the command I execute.

And this is the terminal output I get:
kextload: extension forcedeth.kext appears to be valid
kextload: loading extension forcedeth.kext
kextload: forcedeth.kext loaded successfully
kextload: loading personalities named:
kextload: nForce 4 LAN
kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel
kextload: matching started for forcedeth.kext

Finally, there isnt actually an entry for en0 in ifconfig I dont think at all - Currently running the system in a vmware but the output is from an actual boot.

Thanks in advance

Btw, motherboard is nforce4, with a "mcp51 ethernet controller"