hautecontre Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Dear folks, Thank you for wonderful support on this forum. A lot of information. However I cannot find answer to one question. I have a Belkin FireWire and USB 2.0 ExpressCard, which is supposed to work on Macs. Though in my case only the USB port is working, but the FireWire sockets are dead. When starting up in verbose mode it says "FireWire: Unable to get device memory." I had the same problem with the built-in mini FireWire port. It resolved after I installed beta versions of IOPCIFamily and IOPCCardFamily kexts provided by Chun-Nan (currently beta3). However, the built-in chip is not made by Texas Instruments and does not function properly with my MOTU soundcard. Thus, I desperately need to get the ExpressCard FireWire ports working. I have a barebone notebook with Intel processor, chipset and graphics card, O2Micro Cardbus and FW controller, Iatkos v1.0r updated to 10.5.2, Belkin FireWire and USB 2.0 ExpressCard (F5U506) Would Kalyway installation solve my problem? Cordially, Hautecontre Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108676-getting-belkin-firewireusb-expresscard-to-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 So you actually have the express card slot working. Wow LUCKY! I cant even get that far. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108676-getting-belkin-firewireusb-expresscard-to-work/#findComment-770659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hautecontre Posted June 4, 2008 Author Share Posted June 4, 2008 So you actually have the express card slot working. Wow LUCKY! I cant even get that far. Well, USB woked by default. This should not come as a surprise, since the ExpressCard device supports USB 2.0 connectivity along with the PCI Express. So partially it can be regarded as a basic USB port. However, the card does not show up in any other way neither in the system profiler nor on the desktop. It is only visible as additional USB root hub. If you tried ExpressCard USB adapter, theoretically it should work, given that other built-in USB ports on your computer are functioning correctly. Other adapters is a different game. Have you tried it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108676-getting-belkin-firewireusb-expresscard-to-work/#findComment-771315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hautecontre Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Any additional feedback? I heard many people are buying Belkin devices for Mac and hackintosh computers. Would somebody be so kind and share some ideas and experience? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108676-getting-belkin-firewireusb-expresscard-to-work/#findComment-776552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDA Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I just plugged one into my macbook pro and the usb work but no firewire As you say nothing shows up as a device, did you get anywhere with this? What is really annoying is that I got it because apple have it listed on the store. RDA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108676-getting-belkin-firewireusb-expresscard-to-work/#findComment-802708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hautecontre Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 No progress as of yet. Maybe Apple will solve this in some of their OS updates. Otherwise we have to hope for help from some tech wizards on the forum. For an expert it should not be too much of a problem to add one more device and two arrays of addresses to the list of parameters. Just in case some developer reads this, I have copied the information from Windows device manager below. Device instance id: PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_8235&SUBSYS_12345678&REV_01\5&30EF5386&0&0000E0 Hardware ids: PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_8235&SUBSYS_12345678&REV_01 PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_8235&SUBSYS_12345678 PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_8235&CC_0C0010 PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_8235&CC_0C00 Memory range: FBFFB800 - FBFFBFFF Memory range: FBFFC000 - FBFFFFFF IRQ: 16 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108676-getting-belkin-firewireusb-expresscard-to-work/#findComment-824230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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