need more details: what release of OS X? Kernel version? do you get the panic if you try to kextload it AFTER booting into OS X (i.e. without the skge.kext in the Extentions folder)? ...
Please send me the log

Hi m.musashi!

thanks a lot for your driver, now I have a "homemade" mac with all my hardware working!

well, that`s it. Thanks again.

plprado

ps: By the way, I got it working on my p4p800...

I got this driver to work on my PCI D-Link DGE-530T but had to add another PCI Id (0x1186 0x4B01). It seems to work fine except it does not seem to support jumbo frames (MTU 9000). The same card in same machine dual booting to linux DOES support jumbo frames just fine.

Thanks for your work on the driver! I finally got my G4 Mac (B&W AGP) to see and configure the D-Link DGE-530T. However, I seem to be getting a problem when I actually try to use it.

skgeosx::probe(pci1186,4b01)
skgeosx::start(pci1186,4b01) <1>
skgeosx: SKGE for OSx86 v0.2d ---- M.Musashi ©2006
skgeosx: VendorID:1186 DeviceID:4b01 Rev:11
skgeosx: board is Yukon-Lite
skgeosx: Enabled!
skgeosx: setMulticastMode on
skgeosx: setMulticastMode off
skgeosx: setMulticastMode on
skgeosx: link speed now 100 Mbps, full duplex.
skgeosx ERR: ouputPacket() stall 125:125:0

And yes, I get the same error whether I hook it up to my 100Base-T hub or my new Apple Extreme with Gigabit Ethernet (except, of course, that it shows that it connects at Gigabit speed!)... here is a partial from that one...

skgeosx: Enabled!
skgeosx: setMulticastMode on
skgeosx: setMulticastMode off
skgeosx: setMulticastMode on
skgeosx: link speed now 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
skgeosx ERR: ouputPacket() stall 126:126:0

In both cases, the Network status shows that I'm connected to the "Internet", but Google Notifier, for instance, says "no Internet connection".

Any ideas? What other information might you need to help?

Cheers,
Tak

I found the performance of this driver to be much better than forcedeth for some reason. My motherboard has both the nForce4 GbE card and the Marvell. Running iperf tests, the Marvell beats it hands down with double throughput. I don't know if it's the driver or the card itself, but with both the bottle neck is the CPU, 100% CPU usage by kernel when testing.

Well...

I'm running an Abit AV8 mobo... OSX didn't even know i had built-in ethernet until i installed this driver (after editing it to the correct devid/vendid for my device).

So surely this means the driver has worked? Because now OSX says built in ethernet is there.

Only problem is, I still can't connect to my router. I've tried letting it assign an ip automatically but it gives me a total random ip which is nothing to do with my router.

When I add the ip manually (the correct ip)... still nothing.

any ideas? has the driver definately installed and osx just doesnt like my netgear router?

Danny x

worked like a charm.
ty very much.

Ok firstly big thanks as it worked perfectly on my 10.4.8 JAS version with a D-Link DGE-530T. IT took me three attemtps to get it just right but I was a total noob to Mac systems this morning and feel proud that I manged to instal it and get it all working with just doing a bit of research and reading.

Anyway this is a brief guide for the noobs out there (apologies if there is already a dumbed down version in this link but I couldn't find it easily).

1. Download the skge.kext.zip from Page 1 of this topis (its at the bottom of the first post)
2. Put it on a flash drive, disk, cd, whatever you need to take it over to the Mac, don't unzip it leave it be.
3. once on you mac open the device which the .zip is sitting on and right click there is an option to unzip in amungst the submenu.
4. once unziped you should have a new icon called skge.kext now drag that to your desktop.
5. open it up and keep going through the folders till you come across info.plist right click and select open with.
6. there is a scroll menu and right at the bottom isa text editor, open it with that.
7. about 2/3 of the way down the meaning less text (to us noobs anyway) you will see a sequence of numbers a letters that look like this: 0x432011AB highlight it and replace it with:
   • D-Link DGE-530T: 0x4C001186
   • Syskonnect SK 9521 v2.0: 0X43201148
   • 3COM 3C940: 0x432011AB
   • ASUS P4P800 Deluxe: 0x432011AB
8. Now make sure its correct and that you haven't accidently deleted anything around the edges, like the > or < once checked click File | Save then exit the editor
9. Now you need to open up a program called Terminal (located at Go | Utilities then scroll down and double click Terminal)
10. you will see a prompt which will be something like: Billy-Bobs-Computer:~ Billy$
11. at the prompt type: sudo -s <password> (If you set a password for root/admin at installation, that is the password you put in here, if you didn't leave it blank). Press ENTER.
12. You should now see a prompt like this: Billy-Bobs-Computer:~ root#
13. now type: cp -R (drag the file skge.kext from the desktop onto the terminal window, make sure you insert a space AFTER the -R AND delete the / after .kext) /System/Library/Extensions/
14. So the whole line should look something like this:
    • cp -R /Users/Billy/Desktop/skge.kext /System/Library/Extensions/
15. That copes the skge.kext to the correct location for your drivers.
16. next type: rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
17. and then: rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
18. last but not least type: reboot
19. now when you go to the System Pref and click on network, your adapter should show and your internet access be on.

I hope that I have made that nice and easy for you all and not just ocnfused the heck outta things. Its ment for guys, like me, that have little experience with Mac software and are trying it out first time.

Thanks for all the resources and to the orginal writers m.musashi and cyclonefr

I think I've found a lockup in this driver. It can be reproduced fairly easily by high throughput and simulatenously putting more load on the kernel, for instance, running an extended iperf test and then copying a large directory around or even just rsync'ng a large directory to another server. It locks up OSX completely, neither keyboard nor network reponds.

Sorry, but I've got a problem... My D-Link DGE-530T doesn't work with this driver =( I've changed device id and installed kext following instructions. What should I do?

My Dlink DGE-520T REV-A1 has a 8003 chip and the solution provided here does not work ( Any one has more ideas ? What is you guys' chip version ?

Steve

help me for worked with my Asus A8V ?

I have a 3com 3C905b, my dad said its very old. Too old to work with mac and this driver???

thanks very much for this very valuable driver!

Hi All,

I have recompiled the skge driver for Leopard (10.5.0). If you just want the driver grab leo_skge.zip below.

To get this driver to work for me initially I needed to manually set my IP address (and Subnet, Router).
After initially setting to manual the network connection worked. Then I could swap back to DHCP for normal use. This must create a file or some setting somewhere that I was missing.
I am not supporting this. I just provided this so others with leopard do not need to install the developer tools.

[EDIT]
I have had the driver cause kernel panics occasionally on startup. This seems to go away after you reboot from that panic. It does not seem to effect the card once the system is loaded. I am looking into it. If anyone sees a problem in the code please fix it and repost the result or inform m.musashi (if she/he is still interested...) and myself. Thanks
[/EDIT]

Changes:
The only change to the source is that it has had the Belkin ID (500511AB) added. The source, skge_02d_leo.zip has the driver both built as debug and as release for if you are having problems and know what you are doing.

Built against:
$ uname -a
Darwin zeus.local 9.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Credit:
This is the driver by m.musashi
From: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=100823

Good luck all.

thx I'll try it now.

Just downloaded .2d for my onboard yukon on a Asus P5P800 and it worked straight away. Followed instructions in 1st post, rebooted and now i'm posting from osx

Thank you very much!

Could you please write exactly what you did, because I didn't succeed it.It writes reinstall the driver, it can't use it.

GERGÖ:

I have done it twice now and both times succesfull. 2nd time as I broke osx with my lack of knowledge of it and attempting to install my video card, still without success

After fresh install of osx I downloaded these drivers. I placed them onto the desktop then I opened up a terminal. Then I typed:

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


When system boots back up, everything works perfect. I did not have to do a single other thing to get this to work. All I can suggest is to make sure your vendor and device ID actually match. Maybe you have a different revision ? 11AB & 4320 is what mine are.


****EDIT - your sig says you have a different mobo than mine ? If so then that maybe why...

This info isnt for this exact card but this thread was my first find in a google search on my Windows PC while trying to get the Mac PC to get online and is how I found Insanelymac.com so I must credit this thread for my success.

Ok I have success!!!

I have looked at many guides here on Insanelymac of how to do this and finally found a formula that works for me.

First off I am a noob to Mac the first thing that caught my eye was Bootcamp since its intro I have often thought cant the reverse be done? I have another rig running Solaris 10 and that is all new to me aswell.

Anyhow I have allot of threads & users here to thank for my success. Putting togethor 2 days of "CRASH" InsanelyMac reading/learning into this entire O.S. I have put togethor a way to get this rig online.

I wont go into the elementary steps that I had to learn but will simply list the process I used.

This is using the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard "flat" install with an 88E8050 Ethernet adapter.

If you have tried to get this working with no luck please "FIRST" do a clean Leopard install then simply apply this fix below you will be online in a matter of minutes.

you will have to edit the Info.plist inside the AppleYukon2.kext which is inside the IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns.

Change the following:
<key>Yukon-88E8053</key>
TO:
<key>Yukon-88E8050</key>

Change the following:
<string>Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053</string>
TO:
<string>Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8050</string>

Change the following: (Most important)
<string>0x436211AB</string>
TO:
<string>0x436111AB</string>

Repair Permissions then reboot.

load ethernet settings change to off then dhcp auto might need a restart of pc not the router etc... even though it says restart the router just restart the pc.

You should now have a working ethernet adapter!

Thanks again and all credit for these steps goes to the excellent help here at Insanelymac.com

NEW RELEASE
- added power management support (sleep now works fine on my Leo 10.5.1, pc_efi5.1, ToH kernel)
- LEOPARD build (please try with Tiger and report back)
- added various ven/dev ids in info.plist (you shouldn't need to edit them now)

I installed the latest version skge.kext(02e) on my G4 Macintosh(sawtooth,MacOS 10.4.11) for Dlink DGE530T.
but it doesn't work.
when I get info it display kind as Kernel Extension(Intel) not Kernel Extension(PowerPC).
I wonder Is this for both PowerPC and Intel? or Intel only? let me know.

thanks

Thanks b2unit!
You are right. 02e is intel only. does 02d work on your G4? I'll briefly upload a PPC version in the front
page for you to test. Please let me know if works

mm

ps: 120+ downloads and just one report?

Hello,

tested 02e from 17. Nov. works and has better sleep support than 02d but found the following:

I use a pppoe connection and system doesn´t sleep when connection is activ, if I close the connection
manually the sytem goes to sleep after the period of time which is set in energy saver.
As far as I know from my real mac (G4) the system should also go to sleep when connection is aktiv/should
close connection and than sleep.
Also when I send system to sleep from menu and wake it up the connection gets rebuild properly. In
case of system going to sleep on energy saver settings, it is not possible to connect
until I reboot.
Don´t know if this has to do with your driver or is something else, but i would give feedback about this.

Thanks for your work on this driver.
shila

shila: thanks. Unfortunately I don't have an ADSL to test PPPOE. I don't think this is due to the skge driver, but I'll investigate.

I have an older Belkin F5D5005 version 1.0 Gigabit Card wich uses the 88E8003 chip. I could not get your driver to work. I downloaded the skge.kext.02d.zip file. Just giving you a heads-up.

what skge error messages do you get after loading the kext?

type in terminal: sudo dmesg | grep "skge"

Nothing... sorry.

in this case you haven't loaded the driver correctly or set the pid/vid in info.plist. Download 0.2e and try again

I've installed it in the exact directory that you specified. If it's just the pid/vid is missing, that's actually good news! It should work once I modify the entries in the info.plist file. My next question would be is where do obtain the these IDs? Looking under the System Profiler is giving no useful information. I thought maybe looking through the information in the IORegistryExplorer App would reveal some useful data, but that was in vein as well.

OK,

Became slightly frustrated trying to obtain PCI info on my Mac box, so I installed the Belkin card on my RedHat box. lspci -xx returned this info....



I entered 0x17995005 in the info.plist file - Still no go. So for now, I'm pretty much dead in the water.

OK, on a whim I reversed the hex codes and entered this instead 0x50051799. The extension now seems to be recognised, but when it boots to the desktop I get this error:

So I reinstalled per the instructions on your initial post. Same error.

WORKING!!

Repairing permissions didn't fix squat (as per usual), so after doing a "ls -laF" I did notice that the owner and group were wrong. So "chown -R root:wheel skge.kext" saved the day.

Driver is loading but showing errors. Can't send or receive traffic. Couldn't get the 02D driver to work at all, even with the same settings. This is the listing from dmesg for the 02E driver.

skgeosx::probe(pci1799,5005)
skgeosx::start(pci1799,5005) <1>
skgeosx: SKGE for OSx86 v0.2e ---- M.Musashi ©2007
skgeosx: VendorID:11ab DeviceID:5005 Rev:12
skgeosx: board is Yukon
skgeosx: registerWithPolicyMaker
skgeosx: setPowerState state 1
skgeosx: board is built-in
skgeosx: Ethernet address 00:30:bd:b8:2f:47
skgeosx: Enabled!
skgeosx: setMulticastMode on
skgeosx: setMulticastMode off
skgeosx: setMulticastMode on
skgeosx ERR: ouputPacket() stall 125:125:0

I'll let you know what else I find.

try going into system preferences->network and check ethernet properties
what version of OSX have you got?
good luck

I'm running 10.4.11 on a G4 500. And yes, I went into Ethernet properties and tried every configuartion I could think of. Still no go.

works well.

thanks

I tried 02d but doesn't work.

the 02e(U) seem like working but doesn't.
when I tried 02e(U) I can see NIC's info on Hardware PCI card section in System profiler.
and can set network configure in Network Preference window
also can see green light. NIC H/W LED blinking.
but I can't access internet. everything seems perfect but doesn't work..
(my network environments have no problem. everything works fine)
when I used command line "sudo dmesg | grep "skge" in terminal
but I couldn't find any error messege.

please let me know what you want to know.
I really want to see my NIC is working on my G4(Mac OS 10.4.11)

thanks,

b2unit: what do you mean with: "my network environments have no problem. everything works fine"?

if you mean you can connect to shared drives, networked computers, etc. and only have problems with internet websites, that means the DNS is not set properly. And no, that has nothing to do with the driver.

anyway, please post the skge messages (even without errors)


5onlt: no idea how to help you further. Driver works but something is blocking traffic. Did you modify the IONetworkingFamily kext?

I have a Marvell Yukon 88E8001 and I first modified the IONetworking thing and then used your skge.kext (0.2e). Didn't work, reversed the IONetworking kext and now it's working with skge.kext version 0.2e

here's skge messages
Last login: Wed Nov 28 23:53:17 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
trhservers-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics:~ trhserver$ sudo dmesg | grep "skge"
Password:
skgeosx::probe(pci1186,4b01)
skgeosx::start(pci1186,4b01) <1>
skgeosx: SKGE for OSx86 v0.2e ---- M.Musashi ©2007
skgeosx: VendorID:1186 DeviceID:4b01 Rev:11
skgeosx: board is Yukon-Lite
skgeosx: registerWithPolicyMaker
skgeosx: setPowerState state 1
skgeosx: board is built-in
skgeosx: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00(I changed this address )
skgeosx: Enabled!
skgeosx: setMulticastMode on
skgeosx: setMulticastMode off
skgeosx: setMulticastMode on
skgeosx: link speed now 100 Mbps, full duplex.
skgeosx: link speed now 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
skgeosx: IS_MAC1
skgeosx ERR: ouputPacket() stall 125:125:0

yesterday I didn't notice the error message but it is. Same symptoms with 5onlt.
there are no shared drives, networked computers etc..

"my network environments have no problem. everything works fine" means
G4/450 works fine with network under originally installed ethernet port.

I didn't modify the IONetworkingFamily kext. MacOS 10.4.11 is almost pure condition.
I installed skge.kext right after reinstall MacOS w/uptodate OS environment.

thanks,

I really want to see it's working.

dunno
try from Terminal the following commands:

ifconfig (check if ethernet is en0, if not set it as en0)
ifconfig en0 down
ifconfig en0 up

now check dmesg log

I tried but followings I got..

g4-agp-graphics:~ trhserver$ sudo -s
Password:
g4-agp-graphics:~ root# ifconfig (check if ethernet is en0, if not set it as en0)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `check'
g4-agp-graphics:~ root# ifconfig en0 down
g4-agp-graphics:~ root# ifconfig en0 up
g4-agp-graphics:~ root#
g4-agp-graphics:~ root# now check dmesg log
bash: now: command not found

if you dont mind could you show me exactly same command line for terminal?
I dont know well about terminal thing.

Ahhhh... didn't know that. I have built-in Ethernet on the motherboard and I also have a RealTek 8139 card as well. So my Marvel card is showing up as en3. So in ifconfig there is a way to set the card to en0 and the built-in to some other number?

one thing I found. As I know DGE 530T support jumbo frame.
here's the DGE 530T product feature
http://www.dlink.com/products/resource.asp...d=879&sec=0

but when I installed the skge.kext it doesn't support jumbo frame.
(this option setting in System preference/network/ethernet/Maximum Packet Size(MTU)/Jumbo is dimmed. cannot select.)

I hope this could be helpful for solving this situation.

thanks,

b2unit:

I think jumbo frames is the last of your issues, if you cannot get the card to work. Anyway I don't have the time to implement them - I could explain what the issue is with IOKit compared to Linux but wouldn't help. The source is published so if somebody needs them ...

But first thing is you need to learn how to use terminal!! the list of ifconfig command I gave is not just to cut&paste in terminal the "(check if ethernet is en0, if not set it as en0)" is not a command to terminal but to your brain. and the same goes for "now check dmesg log". means use the dmesg command and check what comes out re skge

5onlt: not sure it has to be en0, but worth trying. As to how to set it, I've never done it and right now I'm not at a Mac to test. Check "man ifconfig" or search the forum

thanks anyway~ but if you have time please try again. I think almost done right?

OK... I'll try a few things in ifconfig. Maybe you can shed a little light to help guide my way?

My card is showing this info..

Vendor ID: 11AB
Subsystem Vender ID: 1799
Device ID: 5005

So what should I enter into the info.plist file... 0x17995005, 0x11AB5005, 0x50051799 ???

Also - Could you give me some insight as to what this error is...
"skgeosx ERR: ouputPacket() stall 125:125:0"

That should at least point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance!!

5onlt: 0x50051799, but why do u ask? the driver loads therefore the ids are correctly entered = no need to modify. The error means that the output queue is full and the system stalled. Most likely there's a problem with IONetworkingFamily.
Without access to the machine I cannot do anything more, but I'm inclined to believe that there's something wrongly setup in your system ... 30K+ downloads and 99.9% of people managed to get online so there's a good chance the driver actually works

b2unit: maybe I wasn't clear enough. Jumbo frames have nothing to do with your network not working. Plus, do you run a server? if the answer is no then you don't need jumbos.

OK - I booted from a clean install of OS 10.4.11. Haven't modified IONetworkingFamily at all. In fact, I haven't even touched that directory. Intalled the skge driver and still the same error.

Only thing I can think of is that Belkin must not be following standards and is doing some kind of "vodoo" with this card, and therefore your driver won't work. I'll keep trying a few things here and there, but for now it looks like your driver won't work with this card.

It's *slightly* possible that the card is damaged, but it works just fine in my RedHat box when I load the driver from the Belkin CD.