I've managed to install Kalyway 10.5.2 on an Abit NF M2 (nForce MCP51) with the forcedeth package that came with the DVD image.

The version listed with kstat is triton.forcedeth 1.0.0d2.

Looks like it is seeing the nforce network layer as there is an ethernet device and mac address, but no connection is being made.

I've also tried the 0.3 forcedeth listed on the first page here.
I can load it or the nock version without error, but no en0 device is created.

The board is using a Realtek 8211 ( RTL8211BL ).

Q1: Do I still need to hack a device id for the Realtek in forcedeth, or do I need an additional driver for the Realtek (as in Windows)?

Q2: After loading forcedeth kext using the commands in the package, should en0 automatically show up or is there another step to refresh the kernel to build it?

As a follow up to my follow up I'm now using the .3 forcedeth-nock kext listed on the front page with success.

The one strange hiccup was when I tried to install the kext using kext helper it caused immediate lock-up of the system and I couldn't recover until I booted into single user mode and removed the kext.

Awesomely enough a manual install went just fine.

Go team go!

Crashed the first time i tried using this driver (though i think that was my fault due to me playin with network settings at the same time)

Rebooted, started over, works great, great speeds, i thank you

EDIT : Hmm..take that back...leopard keeps doing a hard lock up since installing this =/

EDIT Again : Using cpus=1 at boot (as others on here do) works fine, thanks again!

If you try moving larger bandwidth across the network it will crash (~150mbs+).

hi all !
i have a MSI K9N Platinum, chipset nforce 570 at my work
i try the kext posted in the first page, the network works correctly, but when i try to download anything more than 200kb, the computer crash.

Anyone knows why is this ? i know it's a common bug

Cheers

tebi
I have MSI K9N Platinum (nForce 570) and this trouble too
System freeze when I trying download files from the network (smb:// ftp:// )

Please help.....

P.S. Sorry for my English

to both of the above, try using cpus=1 at boot...should solve it.

I'm solve it problem!
I'm remove old forcedeth kext
And install new driver (0.3) again!
Now sytem work stable!

Hi, i've got some problems using forcedeth 0.3.
I've got Leo 10.5.2 with ToH 9.2.0_sse2_only kernel. My MB is ASUS A8N-SLI(not deluxe one, just standard) and athlon64 3500+
My system works just fine, except the network.

With forcedeth v0.1 I've got random kernel panics about every 3-4 hours with intermediate load on my network, and it just crashes after I start any network application which uses many connections (like transmission with more than 3 torrents).

Forcedeth v0.3 works just fine too... I've followed the guide and tested on working system, and my system had no kernel panics for 3 day, even with VERY high load on network (I've tested it on moving huge files over local network, connecting to many peers (100+) and allowing 100+ peers to connect to my system at once. Si I though that I can use it instead of old one. So i removed old forcedeth.kext, copied a new one, changed permissions and cleared cache.

And after reboot my system stops loading at determining fireware security level... After waiting for about 30 minutes i've rebooted my system and lost my IDE hard drive, sata ones were still there! Shutting my Pc down solved the problem with ide hdd. And every time I try to boot with forcedeth0.3 my ide hdd stops working %) and I have to shut down my pc for some time.

So I had to remove new forcedeth and use the old one. My system logs show that everything's fine and no kernel panics appear. The forcedeth03.kext loads successfully, but everything stops at the loading fireware kexts and shutting down my ata hdd...

Can anyone give me some advice or had anybody same problems?

Hello!

Install was successful, but I still can't see Ethernet.

Log:


And:


I'm don't see any errors, but It's still don't a work!

Anybody can help me with this problem?

Dear Friends,

I have Asrock K8NF6G-VSTA motherboard with Realtek PHY RTL8201CL / NVidia MCP61 network controller (10DE-03EF, 1849-03EF). This commands:
sudo kextload-v forcedeth.kext
sudo kextload-v forcedeth-nockd.kext

give freezing of MacOS 10.5.2 (Leo4allv3), even with DHCP enabled on my router (I tried forcedeth_0.3_leopard.zip). Whether It is possible to solve this problem? Many thanks!

thanks DarkPrince86 !!!

it solve the problem !!

I can work perfectly now

Cheers

Can anyone help. I installed kalyway 10.5.2 on a Dell optiplex gx270. Everything looks great until I open a browser
( safari or firefox ). I get a kernal panic box telling me I have to power cycle my pc.

I'm having similar problems. After I install the driver the system wouldn't boot up. It just stops and with -v flag there is not much to do because it manages to run the boot sequence sometimes more sometimes less. So I have to manually execute (but not install) the kext in terminal every boot to connect.


Abit KN8 Ultra
Athlon X2 3800+
4GB RAM
160GB SATA
ATI Radeon HD 2600XT
Dual Display 1280x1024 with QE/CI
Onboard nForce4 LAN
Logitech MX Revolution
Zephyroth's Leopard-10 5 2-AMD-EFI-Rev2

...my problem is that I cant configure standard LAN, I have Asus M2N-E SLi MoBo with TP-Linh 543G AccessPoint Router, they're connected throu' LAN with DHCP Enabled, range between 192.168.1.100-199 with no other settings. How to enable LAN, in Network there is no LAN settings, I've tried forcedeth, & forcedeth-v that came with leo4all v3?
I even tried files atached on this forum, all thou didn't manage to run two terminal windows at the same time, ( maybe I'm too noobish ) lol!

Any help?

Thnx in advanced, cheers...

an intresting note is that this leopard r3 on the front page of this thread there, while it works on my GA-M61SME-S2 which is a MCP61 ethernet chipset - forcedeth_0.3_leopard.zip - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&id=26485 - it doesnt work well

so i have bandwidth limits that are unusable - i think the max i have gotten out of the patched lan connectin is 12K
usually it gives me 2K

running a ping on a empty network segment through the card gives me 8 packets at decent latency (0.something ms), then one packet with a latency thats quite large (anywhere from 20 something ms to 200ms)

in dev mode i get about 12 groups of these bunches of nine before it goes through and dies in the ass with no packets getting in or out

in normal mode it has lasted for hours...
i used the forcedeth-nock and nockd (i presume the d stands for debug mode or dev mode...)

i tried manually setting the details in my network controll pan as well, semed to have little or no effect

anyway - that was friday night, and i figured i would play with what was avaliable before going to the shop and buying a network card today being saturday - so i hope the observations of my evenings playing help you guys out a little
btw, i would have gone out anyway as i wanted to get gigabit networking so dont feel bad that i am giving up on your driver, i am not...

actually i will probably pop back and see if you want any further info thisevening...
thanks and good luck

I have a MSI K8N Neo2f (Nforce3 chipsets with nForce Networking) is nForce 3 Supported? and How Do I Install this?

Alright, before I drive myself completely mad I'd like to bounce my experience with this driver off of the people who could help me.

forcedeth: Initializing.
forcedeth: Probing.
Starting.
forcedeth: PCI subsystem 0x1043:0x8141 opened.
forcedeth: Mapped from 0xD2100000 of length 4096.
forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x34d22000, tx at 0x34d22400, wired at 0x2902e000.
forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:15:F2:50:EF:C6.
forcedeth: Found PHY 0x3080:0x000c at address 9.
com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:15:f2:50:ef:c6

That's basically what I get when I load the kext. If the addresses look familiar, it's the example that planetbeing left at some point in the thread. Everytime I load the kext, my machine locks up and requires a hard reset. It finds my interface and loads it, but it never enables and locks up my machine. I'm super confused right now and could use some help!

THANKS!

HELP!

I have posted my problem here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=108487

I would be thankful if anyone could help me!
Thanks in advance!

It's time for me to write again

I have a DFI infinity nforce 4 mbo, 5000+ x2 BE, 4gb ddr2 ram. I installed Leo4Allv3, it all worked straight out after install (I used recomended nforce lan driver), but I keep having random lock-ups of my sistem (computer just freezes). Tried booting with maxmem=2048 and with cpus=1, but it didnt help.

I tried manually installing all lan drivers that could help me (skge, forcedeth, forcedeth 02 and 03) but it also didnt help. All drivers accept forcedeth didnt even work ( i couldnt even install them using the method from the first post in this thread, my computer would just stop - i was able to use mouse but i couldnt open or do anything accept moving the mouse around)

Only forcedeth works for me but it keeps randomly freezing my computer. My mbo has Marvell 88E1115 Gigabit Lan.

Can anyone please help me with this, or give me advice on wath to do/try next?


Thanks

Hi,
i also had the reversed MAC and wrong DHCP address problem.

MB:Gigabyte GA-73UM
Device Id:0x07dc (10de)

Could someone put my device-id in the source and recompile for leo?
Could not get a mac-compiler-environment without working network

I have my eithernet working with the nforce.kext but only when I boot with cpus=1, after a while it stops working as well.

Anyone have any luck with this network card on a P5N-D?

NVIDIA nForce® 750i SLI built-in Gigabit MAC with external PHY

Hello all,I own a ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA board, which has the MCP61.Forcedeth (even 0.3) doesn't work for me, but I found another nForce driver, here:Needed to edit Info.plist file inside the kext, and using cpus=1 on boot, this driver works great for me!still looking for a driver to be able to use 2 cores..., but atleast I have a working LAN controller at high speedeeh, not 100% sure if it works, but try this:open the kext (show package contents), and look for the Info.plist filesomewhere inside the file you can easily add your device id

IF YOURE GETTING A "SELF-ASSIGNED IP"!!!

All you gotta do:


Then use kext helper to reinstall it. Reboot and you should be good to go. This is what I do to get it working. For the past 20 boots I get my proper working IP.

Please someone help me!
It doesn't work to me AT ALL.
everything seems to be ok during the install but when it finishes, it gets stuck and nothing happens. I tried to wait, but nothing happened.
I got no errors. I simply get stuck at the end.
Then I always have to reboot manually, and there's no fu****g driver.



Did it happen to anyone else but me?
Thanks.

I also have a GX270 with 10.5.2 and I am seeing the same results also with Opera.
I have also tried a different video card (GeForce FX5500) with the same results.

I am thinking it is the LAN driver or it's configuration. It is able to pull a page or two usually before causing the kernel panic. Perhaps it has to do with an interrupt or DMA resource not being handled properly but that is only a guess.

Hey !

I've got a problem too using forcedeth on ASUS M2N4 SLI with Tub Girl tiger

Here it is, I have this error when typing this in the Terminal :



Here is the error :



Any idea ? thx

Okay, what works for me is if I only load the forcedeth0.2 (computer would not boot up when installed). Also I have to have forcedeth.kext or forcedeth-nockd.kext installed (though they would cause kernel panics when cpus=1 is not used) or the system would freeze when loading forcedeth0.2. So I created a shell script with automator that will run at every login:

cd /System/Library/Extensions/
echo "password" | sudo -S kextunload forcedeth-nockd.kext (or forcedeth.kext, depends which one is installed)
cd ~/Library/forcedeth/build/Release (this line will point to where your forcedeth folder is placed, I have it in my user library folder)
echo "password" | sudo -S chown -R root:wheel forcedeth.kext
echo "password" | sudo -S chmod -R 755 forcedeth.kext
echo "password" | sudo -S kextload -v forcedeth.kext

Replace every "password" with your password without quotation marks.
You could test this in terminal before creating a script.
Sometimes after a crash the system would freeze when loading a forcedeth0.2 kext but after a restart it works just fine.

This is just a short description how I managed to get forcedeth to work with both cores, maybe someone else will find something useful from this replay. In other words I can't install forcedeth 0.2 or 0.3 and this is my workaround. At least no more kernel panics.

Anyone get jumbo frames to work with the nForce4 LAN driver? I checked out the latest source code and it most certainly is a port of the linux driver. In fact I found the exact spot where it sets the maximum MTU..which is my problem.
All my gigabit equipment run in jumbo frames (I dont need the argument, I know enough to get it going correctly without connectivity issues, and it IS faster). The particular line of code is in there, but it's setting it to a constant value of some sort--possibly related to Mac OS API. Otherwise there's a set value of 9202 or something. Identical to the linux port...
Great except mac barfs when i set a mtu over 9000.

So has anyone gotten their card to go above the 1500 typical limit? I know my particular card goes to 9000 as it works in both linux and windows.

With this driver it seems to load fine on nVidia MCP55 chipset but I got no link
at all although "ifconfig en0" shows it's in RUNNING state. Tried "cpu=1" for
boot parameter to no success.

Help! I have Asus M2N ( nForce 430 MCP). I connect to the Internet with forcedeth, but after 2 MB traffic my OS X hangs up. Help please...

How did you get your internet to work? I have the same motherboard (asus m2n) but it doesnt work. It doesnt even detect the card (i use kalyway 10.5.2)

Hi I have a Hp pavillion a1730n install went great everyhing works but the ethernet... I have asus board built in ethernet:nvidia nforce networking controller (my complete specs [url="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06b/12132708-12133156-12133158-12133158-12133158-12932758-78159005.html"[/url]

Here is my terminal log when I input the commands on page 3 for the forcedeth

Terminal:


My system log:


It thinks that my ethernet is actually Firewire and Don't know how to fix this. Thank you if you could help

I use Leo4All...
I detect my card by using forcedeth.kext.zip and THIS instruction:

Place kext in desktop
(in terminal)
sudo -s
chown -R root:wheel ~/Desktop/forcedeth.kext
chmod -R 755 ~/Desktop/forcedeth.kext
kextload -v ~/Desktop/forcedeth.kext

But I see only loop with
forcedeth: packet 80000000 - 8000062e
after that my system hangs up.

Ok, will try that. I think you have to boot with cpus=1 to fix it

a good post!:D but ican't use it . it can't work in my pc.there's something wrong there.

thank you all the same ~

NO it's not work

I now get an error saying that its not atuthenticated or its damaged and that i have to run forcedeth.kext with -t. When i do that its says that file permissions are wrong. How do I fix it?

YES!!! I slove my problem (loop with forcedeth: packet 80000000 - 8000062e) Just edit your kext's pslist. after string <key>debug<key/> change true to false and install this kext.

can somebody help me out? I think it reconizes it as firewire

Reporting not working, no link detected on switch and ifconfig en0 shows interface is inactive.

MCP55 chipset, vendor/device ID = 10DE/0373

Tried power off/unplug 30 seconds but did not help.

I have a perfectly running built-in MAC lan on my Nforce 790i SLI Ultra with the attached Forcedeth kext. BTW I installed my 10.5.2 from Leo4Allv3. Although I have not installed the 10.5.3 combo update but I DID however updated all my kexts to 10.5.3 kexts.

Let me know if the attached kext helps someone

My current flags are -f cpus=1.

Hi i just bought the board [Asus Striker II Formula] 4 days ago and now am running 10.5.2 using iATKOS v2

It would be gr8 if i can get a solution from one of u gurus for my problem ; whis is the network cards dont show up i used the nForceEthernetController.kext which ended up showin me one lan and one wifi port i guess i used the wrong one..

and now i found this post , got forcedeath and my card is not comming up here is the o/p

[0]: forcedeth: Initializing.
[0]: forcedeth: Probing.
[0]: forcedeth: WARNING - your nVidia device 0x10DE:0x0373 is not known to work. Continuing anyway...
[0]: forcedeth: Starting.
[0]: forcedeth: PCI system 0x10DE:0x0373, subsystem 0x1043:0xCB84 opened.
[0]: forcedeth: Mapped from 0xEFFFA000 of length 4096.
[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x5aa60000, tx at 0x5aa60400, wired at 0x2fb6f000.
[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:1F:C6:49:66:0B.
[0]: forcedeth: Found PHY 0x5040:0x0003 at address 1.
[0]: forcedeth: Initializing.
[0]: forcedeth: Probing.
[0]: forcedeth: WARNING - your nVidia device 0x10DE:0x0373 is not known to work. Continuing anyway...
[0]: forcedeth: Starting.
[0]: forcedeth: PCI system 0x10DE:0x0373, subsystem 0x1043:0xCB84 opened.
[0]: forcedeth: Mapped from 0xEFFF7000 of length 4096.
[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x5abd2000, tx at 0x5abd2400, wired at 0x2ed70000.
[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:1F:C6:49:70:99.
[0]: forcedeth: Found PHY 0x5040:0x0003 at address 1.
[0]: com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:1f:c6:49:66:0b
[0]: forcedeth: Enabling... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
[0]: forcedeth: Starting transmit/receive engines
[0]: forcedeth: Network link down.
[0]: com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:1f:c6:49:70:99
[0]: forcedeth: Enabling... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
[0]: forcedeth: Starting transmit/receive engines
[0]: forcedeth: Network link down.

and also this is needed i guess

Warnings
{
"Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style" = true
}

kextload: extension forcedeth.kext appears to be loadable
kextload: loading extension forcedeth.kext
kextload: forcedeth.kext loaded successfully
kextload: sending personalities to kernel:
kextload: from extension /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext:
kextload: IONetworkStack
kextload: Kernel Debugging Driver
kextload: from extension /System/Library/Extensions/IOPCIFamily.kext:
kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-Name
kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-i386
kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-PCI
kextload: from extension /Users/macosx/Desktop/forcedeth/build/Release/forcedeth.kext:
kextload: nForce 4 LAN
kextload: sending 6 personalities to the kernel
kextload: matching started for forcedeth.kext




pls tel me what i need to do

Hi,

After many tests i made 3 little scripts to make my MCP61 Ethernet work.
I used forcedeth driver from Andrewneo (but my computer froze when I downloaded a file)
I used forcedeth 0.3c from planetbeing (but it froze my computer when i launched the driver (both forcedeth & forcedeth-nockd)

Now i melt the two driver and my connection work (without the cpus=1 flag)
Just unzip the attachement on desktop and it works fine, launch the Internet, internet 2 & internet 3 scripts.

I'm looking for an easier solution, so if you can help me...

Hello Im new at this. I just got os x leopard running on my computer WOooHOoooo! But I had no networking. So I tried version 3 and 2 of the driver posted and when i tried version 3 I got to step 9 and when i entered the command a window apeared saying "A new network interface has been detected" then everything froze . Whats wrong? I tryed it like 5 different times and the same thing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

come on, please help. I get an error saying that i dont have permission/acces. But i have already done read&write on all folders.

I have an Asus M2NPV-VM board with onboard nForce4 NIC that I can not for the life of me get working... The device ID isn't in the plists in forcedeth, so I added it (0x026910DE), and it recognizes the card, picks up the MAC address and everything, but the link never comes up. It works fine in Windows, so I know it's not a physical problem. Any suggestions???

Thanks!

Does my solution works for you ?

Hello. Dude26 your solution is working for me. I have Asus M2N motherboard and Kalyway 10.5.2 amd installed. Both cores working, no freezing since yesterday. Planetbeing's 0.3 forcedeth-nock used to work with this MB with Zephyroth's 10.5.2 installed. Anyway thx for this.

what did u guys do to avoid the freezing? thanx