Hey,

I tried to get my Intel Pro/1000 GT Desktop Adapter to work with 10.4.8.

I edited the AppleIntel8255xx.kext with my dev and vendor-ID, but no luck.

devid is 107c, vendor of course 8086.

After that i researched a little and found out that this card uses the 82541 chipset, so I'm now in the need of a matching kext.
If anyone already wrote one, or has an idea what's the difference to the 8255x, please tell me. I would really like to get that card rocking.

EDIT: I found that in IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/ is also a AppleIntel8254XEthernet.kext. Device ID in there is 1000, but when I replace that with 107c it doesn't change anything, except for maybe braking support for Pro/1000 MT or something like that.

If anyone has an idea, share it,

THX,

MisterMaggi

Anybody who have found a solution to the 82541 chipset?

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I'd like to see this, too.

Is there a way to fake or modify your device ID? The Small Tree drivers support the card, but only their re-branded models. So if you could fake the ID, you could get the driver to recognize and support the card.

What do you mean by only working with their rebranded models? What do their devices ident as? I looked at the Info.plist in the smalltree driver and it looked like it was still using 8086/xxxx.

I just tried a pro/1000 GT (82541PI id 107c 8086) in my D945GCLF (10.5.3). I edited the 8254x kext with the id number. There is no love. The card showed up in the network control panel but it wouldn't read the MAC address of the card. BARK! I know the card works in Ubuntu. Has anybody tried installing the Smalltree driver?