I have a Belkin F5D7011 v.1212 PCMCIA wireless NIC, which apparantly has a Broadcom 4318 chipset. When I plug the card in and boot into OS X, the card is not powered on at all; the power LED is not on. I assume that without drivers, OS X should at least power the card? Otherwise how can I install drivers for it?

(Funnily enough, I could never get Ubuntu to detect this card either, or the Belkin F5D7010 for that matter.)

Well, there are two devices involved here: the PCMCIA card controller and the Broadcom card.

If the PCMCIA slot isn't being detected by OSX, then it doesn't matter what you put into the slot, it won't work. Once you are sure the PCMCIA controller is working, then you can try to get the card recognized.

Go in Windows and see if you can find out what kind of PC Card controller you have. Determine the vendor id and device id. Here are some OSX drivers for 2 different Texas Instruments controllers with different device id's:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=30295
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=29583

I see, thanks for clearing that up. I suspected it would be the PCMCIA controller after reading wondergod's recent post. In Window's device manager, it reports the controller to be Texas Instruments PCI4520; after a search it seems like there are currently no drivers for this controller. I hope it would be similar to wondergod's PCIxx21 drivers.

How would I get the exact device/vendor IDs in Windows?

I might be able to whip one up however i'd need to see some info from your pcmcia card


what are your vendor and device ids?

happen to have a linux live cd?

You need to find the PCMCIA device in Windows -> Device Manager. When you do, get Properties on it and click the Details tab. The vendor id is the 4 characters following VEN and the device id is the 4 characters following DEV.

The vendor ID is 104c and the device ID is ac46.

I am triple-booting, so I do have Linux available. Of course, I also have the Dapper live CD handy.

goto terminal and type sudo lspci -v

and give me the out put for your pcmcia bus...


make sure its not the one for your card readers....

Here are the relavent information:

0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0552
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: e8000000-e9fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: c2000000-c3fff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0552
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at b1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: ea000000-ebfff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: c4000000-c5fff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

Haha, I had just booted back into Mac OS X after getting the vendor ID and the device ID when I saw your post, so I had to restart again and go to Linux!

hmm you have two...i only had one...i'm prolly gonna have to give y a atest build to try out tomorrow...

do you have 2 pcmcia slots?

Yeah, there are two slots.

Thanks for your efforts.

104c = Texas Instruments
104c:ac46 = PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller

try this file...let me know if it works or not...and you might want to post what type of laptop you have so if someone tries to do a search in the future they can find this....

The kext loaded without problems, I replaced the old one with it and gave it 755 and root:wheel. No kernel panic when I restarted but the PCMCIA card is still not being detected.

If you need any additional testing/information then please ask. It's just that no errors occured when I loaded it.

when you hav ethe card in and look under system profiler..under the pc cards section what do you see?

Nothing at all, it says an error has occured. Nothing on the card either.

Any further developments?

I used these two files and my Thinkpad T42p PCMCIA slots started working on my clean JaS 10.4.8 installation.
Good luck.

Jeva Hose - and of course whoever did the hard work - BIG thank you!

Just kept fingers crossed and installed these on JaS 10.4.8 - Thinkpad R40 2681 - System Profiler now sees the cardbus and my Edimax Gigabit Ethernet card works very well, though is shown as unknown vendor. Very important for me cos my built in ethernet port is knackered - I mean physically broke. It was recognised before, but without these kexts I had no network on this machine.

Not 100% sure if this is a "native" recognition as I had previously replaced IONetworkingFamily.kext

Again - big thank you!

Hi all,

I have a Vaio VGN-FJ290:

PCMCIA Adapter:
PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_AC8E&SUBSYS_81F1104D&REV_00\4&AD1B67F&0&48F0

PCMCIA and Flash memory devices - guess this is the MagicGate Memory Stick Slot
PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_AC8F&SUBSYS_81F1104D&REV_00\4&AD1B67F&0&4BF0


Anybody know how to get these working?

Thanks/CT

i am trying to find a driver for it too.