Can someone please help me source the drivers (.kext?) for my Intel Integrated NIC?

My integrated card is an Intel 82566DC Gigabit Platform LAN Connect in a Dell XPS410!

I really appreciate all the help ive been getting from the members of the OSX86 community! You guys are great! Please help me out with this! I needed to get this running for school today... Im in trouble

Once again thanks for helping a n00b!

As an added incentive i will pay any developers (or anyone that is capable) that can get this driver running properly for us!

I need the same kexts, and i will pay too!

DITTO!!!


SticMAN

+1

Cheers.

me 2..

There aren't drivers for this ethernet chipset yet. There won't be any until/if Apple starts using this chip in real Macs. I have this in my machine also. Easiest solution is to get a cheap PCI LAN card and use that. I'm using an old 3COM 3C905 card. It's ancient, but it works in 10.5.1 just fine with no fuss, it Just Works.

Other supported chipsets are Broadcom 5701, Intel 8254, Intel 8255, Realtek 8139 and 8169.

3COM and Realtek cards are available on eBay for $10 including shipping.

I think this sucks that we can't get true apple support for these drivers since the other intel's fully supported we need to get to work on this and try to compile some new things and start testing!

Does this little bit of information maybe help us???
I have no clue and a total noob, so the pro's can have a look

Thanks.


> > I have an Intel 82566DC NIC, which is a fairly recent card, and I
> > can't find any drivers for it.
>
> Hmm, according to bug 6480859 / 6482530, opensolaris (build 58 or newer)
> does support the Intel 82566DC NIC:
>
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/vi...?bug_id=6480859
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/vi...?bug_id=6482530
>
>
> > Has anyone put this card to work?
> > If not, I believe the driver e1000g or iprb shouldn't need many
> > changes to work with this NIC.
>
> The 82566DC seems to be an Intel gigabit ethernet controller, so
> e1000g would be the correct driver...
>
> I think the e1000g driver has a compiled in pci device id table,
> and doesn't easily work with "unknown" variants of the Intel
> gigabit hardware.
>
>
> > I never worked with OpenSolaris source
> > code, so I would thank some directions to try something out.

Anyone?

topic dead? HELP!!! I'm need this driver

There is not, and most likely never will be a driver for this NIC.
You'll just have to buy one elsewhere that will be compatible.

If it helps anyone, I have this same card.

I just picked up a ThinkPad tablet that uses a similar chipset for the ethernet controller. In theory, it'd be pretty easy to port a driver over from FreeBSD, but I'm not sure I have the time to do so. I'll see what I can come up with over this week, and if I have any luck at all, will let you all know.

Coolio, and thank you. If you need help, I'm pretty sure some people would be glad to join in. PM me if necesssary.

Not exactly. Sure you can learn the idiosyncrasies of that chipset but the driver still has to be be re-written to fit in with the IOKit framework of OS X.

Is there a similar Intel device for which an open-source I/O Kit driver exists? The framework is pretty portable - perhaps we could just beat a similar one with a stick until it works?

Casey.

I am in the same boat. Has anyone found a driver yet?

Hey, did you found the driver for the NIC.

Waiting for reply soon, Thanks!

waiting too... :-)

PM me guys :-)

I got an onboard Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller, can anyone help me with this card?!?!?! See a lotta people holding their breath incl. me

A driver for the 82566mm was just released, it seems to work for other 82566 chips, and in any case the source is available. See: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=128931

many thx!

please give me driver intel 82566dc not to understand english ?i from to russia send it me/ it my mail

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=913163

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