Installed Nisa-it's kext and for the most part it works...my 5751 (ID 1677) is detected (MAC address : 00s) and can get an IP address through my wireless router, but can only access outside the LAN (internet) when the router's wireless radio is turned off! It's a cheap Dlink router (DI-624 rev C, firmware 2.76) so I'm not too surprised, but it works! So if anyone has similar problems, try messing around with your router, or just connect directly to your broadband modem...it may not be your OSX x86 installation that is at fault.

<Prone>.

I had tried Nisa's patch too and even edited it to include my card, but it didn't make any difference unfortunately.

Any advise from Nisa as to how to patch his patch for a Device ID of 1653 would be appreciated. :-)

Hi, All.

My PC is shuttle SD37P2 (Intel Core Duo 2) and Use 10.4.6 JaS DVD.
NIC is Broadcom Netlink (BCM 7589 B1).

The installation procedure is as follows. It works!!!!

1. Download kext from http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=2949 (Thanks to Nisa-it!!!)
2. Copy to /System/Library/Extentions
3. Open Terminal
# cd /System/Libarary/Extentions
# chown -R root:wheel AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
# vi /etc/rc.local
sudo ifconfig en0 ether [your MAC address]
sudo ipconfig set en0 BOOTP
sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP
4. reboot

It's done!!!
Thanks 4 all!!!!

Yep, I tried both kext's and edited the info list to add my device. I even hexedited the actual driver file to change one of the recognized devices (99 I think) to match my own 53 but to no avail. I still get the superclass error as before.

Ho hum. :-(

Any idea what to do if your system boots into a cancel sign? I tried installing this kext and now my system won't boot. Very frustrating. :-(

Sorry, i don't understand if the broadcom 5788 (169c) works or not.

I tried to edit whit hexedit my kext (from 5701) but when i start os i receive a load error message.

Can you help me?

Thanks and sorry for english...

I think the 169c is supported by Nisa's drivers that he published a few pages back. Go back a few pages and look for his postings and you should find a zip file attached to one of his posts that are the drivers you want. I seem to remember the 169c is in his list so you should be able to load it and simply have it work without any hexediting.

Good luck!

there isn't 169c in this post...

Anyone have instructions for patching dev id 1600 and making it work? Help is VERY appreciated. THANKS!!

169D -> Memory map error..... any ideas?

Bigo

Just want to thank you guys here for making it really easy to get my BCM5751M working! Although the MAC address is 0s, at least the DHCP works. I've never used terminal in my life (pretty fun too ^-^). If I can get this working anyone can. You just have to keep at it. Search the forums wisely

Thanks guys
You guys ROCK!!

For all of those struggling with complicated terminal coding; it isn't necessary. All you need is the 5751 kext and a plist edit. The common mistake (which i found myself to make over and over again), is to forget to re-apply system permissions back to the plist when its edited. As a standard security measure, the kernel doesn't allow the loading of read/write plists.. (you want it to be read-only; else you'll end up getting errors that your kext isn't correctly installed) So here is what i did;
1. Downloaded the 5751 apple/broadcom kext
2. place it /System/Library/Extensions
3. Go to /System/Library/Extensions
4. Select the 5751 extensions, right click it, and click "Show Package Contents"
5. you'll see "info.plist", copy it to your desktop, and open it there with plain simple text-edit..
---DONT CLOSE THE EXTENSION WINDOW, YOU'LL NEED IT SO LEAVE IT OPEN
6. scroll down until you see "array", because the driver has already been patched u'll see a few string IDs starting with <string>pci14e4,xxxx</string>, where xxxx is the device id
7. you make a new line under the last <string>pci14e4,xxxx</string> (should be 165e), again with <string>pci14e4,xxxx</string> where xxxx is your device id (in my case 169c).
8. you save the file
9. go back to the 5751 extension folder that i told you to leave open, you delete the plist that you see in that folder (it'll ask for authentication)
10. copy the plist on your desktop back to the 5751 extension folder (it will ask for authentication again)
11. right click on the plist and click "get info"
12. go to permissions
13. change user to "system"
14. change group to "wheel"
15. close the window
16. reboot
17. Enjoy! (i hope)

Hope my first post contributes to the poor souls with difficult broadcoms!

Haven't been in this thread for a while--sorry, but I got tired of questions of how to make the 14e4/169d work when there are plenty of great people right here with instructions!

Anyway, there's a new development--the 10.4.8 update includes a new version of AppleBCM5701Ethernet. And, for the first time since 10.4.3 8f1111, said driver is universal! Yes, Apple has finally *publically shipped* an i386 version of AppleBCM5701. This is quite curious however, since Apple does not currently ship any Intel systems with Broadcom 57xx Ethernet chips. My guess: they put it in so that the Mac Pro will work with a wider range of third-party PCI-e Ethernet cards.

Anyway, I haven't done anything with this driver, but I may examine it sometime and see what differences are present. The version number has been incremented, so there could be some changes. The Info.plist PCI-match section hasn't changed though, so don't get your hopes up for more seamless/better support of our cards. Have fun....

After reading last news on this thread,
I have upgraded my OSX to 10.4.8 version - Jas SSE2 Patch.

And my network card 14e4 / 16a6 still not working...

In preference / Network / Network status still have "The cable for Built-in-Ethernet is not plugged in"...

Check my post : #168, #183, #189, #192.

So disappointed...

There is a new patch based on hater's pacth.

This patch try to resove the following issue which happened in the hater's pacth:
The system hang up afer you want to configure the mac address by ifconfig. Due to all zero mac address , the network does not work.(You know you can't connect to network because mac address is 00:00:00:00:00:00 in some cases.)

This patch try to hack the getHardwareAddress function and put your mac address into that function. So this function return your really mac address.

Currently, this patch is not a perfect one. The issues are as follows:
1. During startup, the system hang up sometimes.
Workaround:
1. boot with -s
2. go to /System/Library
3. delete Extensions.kext and Extensions.kextcache.
4. reboot.
This workaround works for my dell D610 system.

2. You have to run the tcmpdump. Otherwise, there is still no network connection.

Based that, DHCP works. Autonegotiation works too.

How to install this patch?
Step 1: to install this patch, just like "hater's patch installation". Notes: please don't reboot it.
Step 2: to delete Extensions.kext and Extensions.kextcache.
Step 3: reboot

After successfully installation and start up successfully, if your network still does not work, please run tcpdump ( I meet this case in my dell D610. I feel strange in this case. But I have no time to resolve it. Hope others can resolve it ).

In my patch, current mac address is fixed to my computer mac address. If you want your own mac address, please follow steps to modify my attached file:
Address 2E92C: you will find the following Hex code
C6 02 00 C6 42 01 14 C6 42 02 22 C6 42 03 C9 C6
42 04 D6 C6 42 05 32

( assumpation, your mac address is UU:VV:WW:XX:YY:ZZ ) please replace above code as follows:
C6 02 UU C6 42 01 VV C6 42 02 WW C6 42 03 XX C6
42 04 YY C6 42 05 ZZ

Above works for my dell D610. But I can't make sure it works for other PC.

What about the Broadcom 5787 (DEV= 1693)? I tried it several ways but never managed to get it working (built in Ethernet shows up grey in network configuration, and I can't select it or do anything with it.. )
I'm new to mac so any help is welcome.

EDIT: by editing the info.plist file it no longer shows up in grey (so i guess the card is found) but now it says my cable is unplugged all the time.. any fix for this or will this patch just not work for the 5787?

Hey man, your patch only runs when the nic is at promiscous mode, i made a little software to enable promisc mode at startup. The file must be expanded at /Library/StartUpItems/. you must reboot...

Can you explain how you made the patch? May be we can help you to improve it, I have a kernel panic everytime that i booted restarting (shutdowning and booting worls flawless)...

The patch is working very well no other problems that i have found, THANK YOU VERY MUCH Mr. Dongzhi.

It's really a bad day. My Dell D610 is stolen. All work is lost including this patch.

Here I just describe how and what is done in my pathc. Hope other guy can continue to improve
it because my patch still have two issues:
1. Promiscuous Mode only
2. System panic after rebooting.

Based on the Hater's patch, all zero MAC address is returned. After looking at IONetworkFamily kext,
getHardwareAdress shall be implemented by all Ethernet kext, such as BCM5751.
getHardwareAddress( IOEthernetAddress * addr )

So I try to rewrite the binary instruction code for getHardwareAddress function and let this function return my own mac address.

You can use otool to disemble the AppleBCM5751Ethernet, then you will find where this function is located in the file.

Via analysing the assemble code, you can replace instruction code with another code. Since I have no OSX86 now, you can use otool to dissemble the original AppleBC5751Ethernet ( this is patched by Hater ) and my patched one. You will find what is done by me.

Because I am not familer with OSX system, I don't know why system panic happen. Please continue to improve it. Thank very much for Hater and moondark.

yippe!! Tinheads patched extension works for me .. cool. My ethernet card was detected on reboot. Writing this from Safri

I am on Dell600m with Broadcom 570x Gigabit Integrated Controller. Installed JaS10.4.6. sound working, internet working.

Thanks guys.

can anybody tell me what my mac address is? A have RTL8139(fully working and a mac address:00:e0:4c...) and onboard BCM5751(mac address:00:00...)
Can I just choose an address or do I have to do something for find out my mac address.

what should I do?
please help and sorry my english...

thanks...

> can anybody tell me what my mac address is?

No.

> Can I just choose an address or do I have to do something for find out my mac address.

Best if you find your correct address.

> what should I do?

I don't know your brand of computer, but some have the MAC-address written on a sticker on the bottom of the computer (laptop) or on the motherboard (if a desktop with onboard Ethernet). Otherwise the easiest would be to boot Linux or Windows and check with "ifconfig" under Linux or "ipconfig /all" under Windows.

-- zbob

would someone be so kind to email me a broadcom driver for an hp nc6000 please? i just got 10.4.6 installed and i just need a nic driver... thanks in advance! andrewpwells@gmail.com

I'm running Jas 10.4.6 on a Dell Latitude D820, Broadcom 5752, dev 1600.
I patched my installation with the following tutorial, that I've clipped from a previous post in this thread (quoted it below).

And it worked beautifully... for a few seconds. After loading about two pages, I get a nice and polite demand to reboot my machine (probably the GSOD. I'm new to the Mac world).
There have been two or three similar cases in a thread dedicated to the d820, but I thought others may have encountered this. Does anybody know what the problem is? I'd be pathetically greatful.

Nisa your drivers worked great for my device 14e4 1677

but i have just got the weirdest problem! i got it to work on 10.4.8 with my HP dc 7100 spff. then I took another exactly same machine (hp dc 7100 spff) and install it. It doesnt let me set the ifconfig en0 ether 00:xx it crashes straight away!!!

i tried fiddling around with the drivers all day and it doesnt let me set the mac address. and i tried setting the ip address and dhcp / dns manually but it still doesnt work. doesnt respond to ping and no internet.

so i took the hdd out and put it into the first machine that worked. and i can set the mac address fine!!! so that means the drivers are working.

this is very strange cos both device is 14e4 1677. same bios version. all identical computers. unless the firmware is different on the ethernet i highly doubt that is the problem.

i have also copied the bios settings and both machine got the same settings.

anyone got any idea whats wrong?

Finally a guide that worked!! I just got networking running in my nc6000. Thanks a lot for this.

On my broadcom 169D always Memory Map Error. Please help me

Hi lesigh:
I have Jas 10.4.7 installed on Dell Latitude D620, Broadcom 5752 , dev 1600.
I followed your instructions and my NIC looks work, but after explore two page, the screen display "You need to restart your computer......" And I have to power off the computer then restart it . Next time I do nothing with my computer, just wait after the reboot, after 2~3 minutes, the "You need to restart your computer...." comes again! So awful! The system works well before I use the patch though it can't use the NIC.
Can anyone help me?How to solve it? Thanks!

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let everyone know that this worked on a DELL Latitude D620 Dev ID 1600, and also fixed the wireless connection. The wireless would be detected as "built-in ethernet" after manually setting the SSID with the airport command. After doing these instructions the Broadcom 57xx gigabit works and the Broadcom wireless is correctly reporting as "airport". Thanks everyone here, my D620 is working wonderfully now!

Nisa-it. I follow your instructions but my system hang out. It's freezed. I don't know why. My system is DELL Dimension 8400 with Broadcom 57xx onboard. Dev ID: 14E4 - 1677; Can you help??

Downloaded patch, installed and...







i get this and computer hangs...





.:FiDo:.

I have a Sun W1100Z with Broadcom 5703 (rev 02) that I need to get working. Looks like the IDs are 14e4 16a7, could someone add this to the driver?

Hi Nisa-it, I have a 1600 device, and it hangs my system with a GrayScreenOfDeath after the patching as soon as there's a cable connected to it...

1. About the ethernet card: this and any other method works with my d620 for a couple of minute: after that my PC freezes with a GrayScreenOfDeath. (I'm using JaS 10.4.7 + 10.4.8 Combo Update, what are you using?)


2. What wireless card do you have? My d620 has an intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG (ID 8086/4222) that is not supported in any way...

Thanks!
Ste

I forgot to put my device and vendor's id, it's 1677 and 14E4. I'm using 10.4.8 with latest semthex kernel...

Anybody?¿?¿

I'm not sure which type (57xx) of broadcom I have, but my device ID is 165E, and Vendor ID is 14E4, the device shows up, but I cant connect to my router and thus to the internet, i'm on a HP NW8000, i figured this would all be easy since the laptop is "linux certified" boy was I wrong.

I have a dc7600 from hp:

Network interface
Integrated Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet for HP

I am guessing its the 57xx chip.
Vendor ID is 14E4 , The Dev ID is 1600,

Any help with installing this is great. I have tried the above options simply no go...eth0 does not exist,,,

14e4165e = NetXtreme BCM5705M_2 Gigabit Ethernet -- or -- NC8000 laptop -- or -- NC6000 laptop -- or -- NX6110/NC6120 laptop

14e41600 = NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express -- or -- E4500 Onboard

Instead of eth0 look for en0.

This worked like a champ for me. I have to set the mac address manually, but now I'm golden. I'm on a 5751M on a Thinkpad T43P.

Cheers!

I also have a D620 and has the same situation with you, the NIC on board can work only for a few minutes, and the screen freeze then have to power off and restart. It's too boring!
Anyone could help me?Thanks!

device ID 14E4 1600

I'm having the same difficulties as Fido above...

Installed 10.4.8 w/ Latest Semthex and put the modified BCM751...kext into my Extensions directory.

And everything worked Beautifully! (Well, with the exception of the 00::::00 issue, but my router didn't care).

Then about 3 days later, I rebooted, and *boom* system locks on:

AppleBCM5751Ethernet: 1 1659 setPowerLevels - returning early, have a 5721. onoff=, fPciDeviceId=

I see that twice, then system lockup.

Any ideas?

we need some soulution for this....i just cant get the network card to work...any one whos even got the broadcom dev id 1600 to work let me know.

En0 not working either. When i try to change mac address it says network is down or some thing like that.
Works fine on my other machine which had broadcom dev id1677 with this patch and adding mac address maually cant figure out whats the issue with this Dev id :1600

I figured out that if you move the AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext from /System/Library/Extensions to another folder and load it manually after you are in the Gui it works fine!

So what I did:

1. sudo -s
2. mkdir /System/Library/Extensions2
3. cd /System/Library/Extensions
4. mv AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext ../Extensions2/
5. cd ..
6. rm Extensions.*

That moved the kext to a different folder to prevent the autostart => halt of the system.

7. Than open your "/etc/rc" file with the editor of your choice and go to the end of the file. Before "exit 0" add the following line

kextload /System/Library/Extensions2/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext

Maybe

8. diskutil repairPermissions /

9. reboot

Using this method I got the card working on every startup and my Pentium M (SSE2 only) with the latest semthex kernel (beta9).

Working Broadcom/BCM5751 on OS X 10.4.8 at boot..

Note: After trying every method/hack in every forum here's what finally worked for me was the original hater mod *WITHOUT* the patched 5751 kext

1) grab the original AppleBCM5701Ethernet driver from any pre-10.4.8 install (it will be a larger file)
or
1a) grab the famous AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip (note: this kext crashes on load for me BUT it includes the older/pre-10.4.8 5701 driver as well!!)
1b) in its MacOS dir is both a patched AppleBCM5751 *AND* legacy/unpatched AppleBCM5701 driver, cp the 5701 to your 10.4.8 dir
3) overwrite the original 10.4.8 5701 driver with the older (and larger) one
4) from here revert to the original hater mod (manually edit Info.plist and hex edit the [newly installed] 5701 driver (again w/ hater instructions)
At this point you have replaced the 10.4.8 driver (/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworking/Contents/Plugins/AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext/Contents/MacOS/[file in here]) and done the old hater mod to both the driver and plist files
4) chmod/chown the driver to 755 and root:wheel
5) rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.*
6) sync
7) reboot
8) disable NIC (or in my case, on my shuttle I had to disable the PCI-e channels that my BCM5751 hung off of)
9) boot, disk util, repair
10) reboot, reable NIC

i got this card working on my IBM ThinkCentre after patching the driver with my ID Device (167E) and set the MAC address manually then receive ip from DHCP server. but in my network status in system preferences it show that my cable is connected but does not have an IP address ..how do this happen?and i cannot browse samba/cifs on my network...anyone can help??

thanks in advance

Broadcom NetExtreme Gigabit: Driver Installation Instructions Needed

Would someone be so kind as to re-post the instructions on this site so that anyone needing the information doesn't have to request to have it e-mailed? If so, that would be great! Thanks a bunch!

Hi nixblicker,

Were you able to correctly get the MAC address with this method ?

I have a Dimension 8400 - DEV_ID=1677. I've tried all method and I cannot change my MAC address. It boots up fine but with MAC address of all 0s.


Thanks.

Hello all.

I have notebook HP nc6320 with broadcom BCM5788(dev 169c) I tried 10.4.8 & 10.4.7 both with no sucess.
I have followed the instructions for this card(also patched with hexedit), unfortunately I get "bad magic number" in nvram problem.
Anything that could b helpful in this case?
Many thanks!

try this one solution
it works for me on Acer 4602 with 10.4.7