Bad news indeed.

Ok, I've decided I will use the X31 for this instead, which has Intel_VE-100-Nic (native support)

once I get the crashes out (0x001 / KERN_INVALID*...), I'll also buy a usb-wifi as both X's wireless don't work..

device id = 167D
VENDOR 14E4


laptop is a T43p, tried all the steps besides of the hex patching but doesn't work

What is needed to port the driver?

http://www.linbox.com/pipermail/lrs-cmslog...uly/000037.html

i have the BroadCom 57XX Gigabit controller (not sure if it is 5701 or 5751) and i patched and installed the kext. It says the kext is successfully loaded but the ehternet option is still grayed out in System preferences.

same here, Dell GX620 with BroadCom 5751 vendid 14e4,devid 1677. It says the kext is successfully loaded but the ehternet too.. but no device found.

thx in advance,

fullOut

I have changed the device ID in the array to match my card ID and vendor ID with TextEdit. When I restart the machine I get the error:



Could someone please help.

Thank you.

Yes, it cannot load it because you did not set the permissions. So do:

terminal
>sudo -s (login)
>chown -R root:wheel /path_to_kext_here/add_name_of_kext_here.kext
>chmod -R 755 /path_to_kext_here/add_name_of_kext_here.kext
>kextcache -k /system/library/extensions
>reboot

after that:

btw, I have some problems with the broadcom5701 drivers. sometimes (it always happens when uploading at full speed on a SMB share) it just hangs. no ping, nothing. i do a kextunload and a kextload again of the BCM57xx driver and it works successfully.

maybe this will help somebody.

hardware is HP NC8000 notebook.

My nb is Acer 3212 BCM5788


when i useAppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext
hex edit to offset 37336hex, change "66 81 FA 59 16" to"66 81 FA 9C 16";
and add"<string>pci14e4,169c</string>"in info.plist
when i boot i got this error :

"System extension cannot be used.

The system extension "/System/Library/Extensions/com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext" was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product's vendor for an update."

what can i do now?

I had the same issue and all I had to do was follow these original instructions from tinhead:



Could someone please help me with the hexedit instruction, I am new to OSX and don't understand tinhead's original instructions to :



Thank you in advance.

BCM5750 & BCM5751

i got one of those

PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1677&SUBSYS_FB951297&REV_01\4&11C4B0B5&0&00E0
to be exact

and i can't get this to work.. anyone have any ideas?

HI,

I have tried to patch away the test for this card devID=0x1677, than the card do not work. Seems, that the for some models the nvram has changes!

umm i have the following thing, with deadmoo img running.


[root@Fedora4 anshu]# dmesg | grep eth0
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95901A50) rev 3001 PHY(5705)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:06:1b:e0:6a:80
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
eth0: dma_rwctrl[763f0000]
[root@Fedora4 anshu]# cat network\ card.txt
Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5901 100Base-Tx internal lancard.
[root@Fedora4 anshu]#


will i get this to work?

I tried to put the kext file in the IONetworkingfamily, but i get a kernel panic then. When it tries to load the kext file, its says something like;

cannot allocate page memory


and i have to remove the kext...

Hi, I have a HP Compaq nc8230 (same Broadcom as nc6230) DevID : 167D. I want to know if someone got it finally working ??!

Thank you.

14e4,167d here also, in my slick HP nc4200. I get the bad magic event.....

Hey - can anyone post the link to the zip - it appears the popular tinman site has been taken down - alternatively can someone pm me the link ?

Much appreciated

can somebody help me abaut edit to kext ? I can not do it.

win2osx isn't opening.please can anyone sende me driver and terminal commands?

bonwes@gmail.com

There is not a solution yet? I have this BCM5751 (0x167714e4) i've readed ALL post here, but i can't download the kext file patched for this card, the post at win2osx is closed, can anybody post some help here? where can i get the working link?? I'm desesperated...

Thanks to everybody in advance,

.:Fido:.

Hey all does anyone know if they drivers work for 10.4.4/5 cuz if not does anyone know hwo to make it work with it.

please i am gonna get crazied.please help me abaut kext edit or add info to info.plist

did anyone manage to get this patched driver or let me know how to patch my own? Really need to get networking going on my nc6000 running 10.4.3

thanks!

Did anyone get this hosted yet as I am looking for the same driver.

Thanks, E

Ops... NM, see the link now. Thanks guys

hi - did anyone manage to find this driver anywhere?

thanks

Installed Driver and my Netxtreme is now detected , however, it does not detect there being a cable plugged in even though the cable is plugged in. If anybody knows how to solve this problem your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

hehehe same to me on HP nx8220 no errores during loading but then shows that the integrated ethernet is with unpluged cable but i can see that it trasmites or what ever it does

Didn't work for me, I entered the device id (1677) in the plist and entered it into the ionetworking kext and moved it into my extensions folder then root :wheeled and owned it, but still nothing. my intergrated ethernet is still greyed out.

i am in the exact same boat, i dont know what to enter into the info.plist file or more importantly WHERE to enter it, could someone help? ive been searching the forums for a while too. even a link would be ok with me thanx

o and heres my info:

ven: 14e4
dev: 165d

HP nx8220 here, VEN_14e4, DEV_167d... still waiting for working patch...

tinhead, anything new?

someone PLEASE help, ive run out of things to do until i get my LAN card working, my problem is that i dont know where in the info.plist file to input my devID and venID. i kow the format, i think the sentry should be:

<string>0x14e4165d</string>

but i have NO idea WHERE it should be placed.
if you would rather i email you the file so you can paste it in the right place ill be glad to do that i just need internet on my OSX transvestite laptop.

your PCI string is already there the driver should work for you try steps described by tinhead just stepst after sudo -s

OK someone tested this cards with 10.4.4 or 10.4.5 ?

I have a broadcom 5702 and I can't get it work...I know it doesn't work out of the box, but the patches I've tried have yet to work... Anyone know how to do it and be willing to help??? Dude, I'm totally using 10.4.4 and I can't get networking to work. any ideas? I've patched kexts but get an error about IOPCIFamily...asus p4g8x-deluxe mobo

Any updates on this? I've got a GX620 with a broadcom 57xx(pci14e4,1677), I'm still unable to configure this interface. Tried changing 0x37339 - 3733a from 59 16 to 77 16 and added my 1677 string to info.plist. Still no change.

AppleBCM5701Ethernet:4111cf01 669955aa CheckNVRam -- nvram does not start with magic constant
:: 0 0 getAdapterInfo - init/sanity check of nvram failed
:: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up

It's sad, the patched DVD install went flawlessly on this GX620, boot to DVD install! Alas, no network is a killer, and this 620 is a low profile, and I've got no low profile cards lying around.

what is info.plist? where is it? what do i put into it? my device id is 1653 according to windows xp, but spotlight returns nothing for info.plist. someone help me please?

You can find it at /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext/Contents/info.plist

To look inside the IONetworkingFamily.kext and AppleBCM5701Ethernet, right-click(control-click on a single button mouse) and select Show Package Contents. The PCI ID listed by XP should be correct, as this is a physical characteristic of the card/chipset, and thus isn't OS dependent.

tinhead --

please help!

i have a Dell D610 with Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller.

i added the following (in BOLD) to the Info.plist:

<key>IONameMatch</key>
<array>
----
----
----
<string>pci14e4,1677</string>
</array>

i did all the stuff you said, but no luck. do i need to use hexeditor? if so, what do i patch?





thanks
the vinyl avenger

Works great on my Dell M170 with 570x. However , I invariably lose it on reboot. It's happen like 4 times now and it's getting annoying. How hard is it to get a driver to stay put and load on startup everytime. It's got to be something simple yeah? I don't suppose repairing the disk permissions will do anything. I just tried that and it says it repaired the permissions, hopefully in the correct way, not whatever it changes on reboot..

This is in 10.4.5 btw..

edit: seems to have worked after one reboot. fingers crossed that was it..

Im still looking for this driver everyones talking about but no luck
I have the BCM5750A1 Broadcom NetXtreme 5750 Gigabit Controller but im not sure if its pci14e4,1677 or pci1462,0536 anyways i tried everything but i dont get my ethernet
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


I also have the Intel 82562 EZ Pro Lan chip on my MSI 925X Neo board but its also not working.

Can someone explain how I run the hexeditor (I could not find it on my machine) and also what I should be editing the hex to be?

My card details are
Product Type : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
device id = 167D
VENDOR 14E4

Any idea?

No luck here.

I've got an Acer Aspire 1800 that has an onboard Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit VEN_14e4 DEV_169c that has been confirmed to work earlier in this thread.

I have added the <string>pci14e4,169c</string> to the Info.plist
And I have hexedited line 37336 from "66 81 FA 59 16" to "66 81 9C 16" the file in the MAC folder
Then I ran the earlier posted commands from 'sudo -s' onwards and rebooted.

But I still can't see it in OSX. Anything I can double check?

Is this from the System Log? I have done all the recommended things but I don't see anything at all in the log about my broadcom adapter

Can you detail what do you mean ?

What is the MAC folder ?

I did exactly all of this, copied the kext into the Plugins folder as well as the /System/Library/Extensions folder, tried to load the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext as root and it loaded successfully but my network card does not show up in the network setup box. Also when I restart the pc it doesn't automaticaly load the module.

What am I doing wrong ?

I am having trouble understanding his directions on patching the kext. I am running 1.4.3 with a netXtreme 5751 id: 0x14 e4 16 54. I do not know what to substitude in the hex editor. Basically I do not understand how he converts:

-Expample, device id 169c ( bcm 5788 )
-patch on hex 37336 from "66 81 FA 59 16" to "66 81 FA 9C 16".

Can anyone tell me what I have to substitute or tell me how to covert my deviceid. I would appreciate it. I would also appreciate the dashing of my hopes. Is the 5751 compatible at all on 10.4.3? Any success or failure. It's driving my nuts, having to switch OS's to check forums for help.

I already did some patching and this is what I currently get:

Apr 9 19:52:47 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 1 1659 setPowerLevels - returning early, have a 5721. onoff=, fPciDeviceId=
Apr 9 19:52:47 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 InitNVRam - found non-5701 with serial eeprom or unbuffered flash
Apr 9 19:52:47 localhost kernel[0]: IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Apr 9 19:52:47 localhost kernel[0]: IOPCCardBridge::start failed
Apr 9 19:52:47 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 getAdapterInfo - init/sanity check of nvram failed
Apr 9 19:52:47 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up


Any suggestions how to fix this?

Thanks.

I'm using 10.4.5 now and the network ist not functioning.
Can i get a copy of the patch too? vandyjay AT gmail.com
The link provided above is not working.
Thanks a lot.

Edit: I just found the answer in this thread: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=8162
The method posted by humanmx has both instructions and the file needed to fix the network problem related to Broadcom 5701 type cards.
BTW, my card is identified by venderid: 14e4, device id: 1696. Those id#'s were identified in the info.list file in patched DVD but doesn't work.