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Broadcom 5788 not working


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Hi haven't been able to get network running on a Acer Aspire 1501lmi ... it has an integrated Broadcom 5788 (bcm5788) gigabit ethernet... is there any available driver?

 

I also have a Xircom Cardbus Ethernet ... also no luck in getting it detected...any ideas?

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Welcome to the club m8 ;)

 

I also have one of these 5788 on my aspire 1694 WLMi and no luck so far :(

Apparently there aren't any drivers for this card so far, but there are some posts of ppl suggesting making some generic driver for onboard NIC's (not sure if it's possible, but would be interesting though).

What I can suggest if you really need to do have network on os x (I haven't tested this by the way, gonna test it this afternoon) is buying a firewire cable (if you have a firewire connection on your laptop and on another computer) and simply connect them both. Since firewire can be used as a network sharing device I think this is possible, but then again I haven't tested this yet.

If someone could take the time to make either a generic NIC driver (.kext) or if not possible just a simple driver for this specific card, I'm sure many users would be thankfull.

 

Update: As a temporary solution I`m able to access my network and the net over a firewire connection so the firewire option is possible, though not very practical.

 

Yuri

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