CyberPrime Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 So, after finally somehow managing to install Kalway 10.5.1 on my Dell Latitude D800 (After playing with god only knows how many customize options, partition formats, names and what have you) I got everything to work beautifully, the video is at the right resolution and is crisp and pretty, the sound works fine and as far as I can tell the other ports work great. All except for one: the Ethernet. Of course. So, I have done research up the wazzo (originally trying to find a solution for a 10.4.x install XD) but to no avail. I don't know what the issue is. It's a standard gigabit card (that's all I can really be sure of, but I am confident it's a broadcom) and I have tried almost all the remedies I can find (there's this one: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...rt=#entry164383 but I haven't tried it yet) but nothing is working. My card isn't being recognized at all. Does anybody have any idea what the problem is? Could an update to 10.5.5 fix it? If so, how do I go about doing that? Thanks a lot for your help fellas. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146306-solveddell-latitude-d800-ethernet-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Post#5 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...howtopic=101283 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146306-solveddell-latitude-d800-ethernet-issues/#findComment-1037550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberPrime Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 EDIT: It Works!! It just took a few reboots and unplugs etc. and I'm in business! Thanks so much for making me look a little deeper into that. Now to write up how the f*ck I did it. Thanks again. I've done that multiple times (and once again just to check) and nothing (not copying the IONetworkingFamily.kext to the desktop and doing it, nor doing it right in the Library without copying it anywhere) works. It always returns me with a "System extension cannot be used" error, that it was installed improperly and cannot be used, and to try reinstalling it or calling the product's vendor for an update. I also tried doing this with that, which fixed that error but still didn't make the damn card work. sudo -s it will now ask you for your password, enter it here and how you are at the bash-3.2# prompt. Type in the following... chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/ cd /System/Library/Extensions chmod -R 755 AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext Now would be a good time to repair your disk permissions. To do that click on Go > Utilities > Disk Utility, and in that screen select your hard drive/partition with OS X installed. At this point, click the Apple menu and reboot the computer. Once you are back into to OSX, you will see that your ethernet card works... sorta. Restart your computer one more time and it will work. The only real problem now is you have no mac address for the nic. And the commands to manually define the mac address will lock up OSX. I manage to run without needing a mac address for my purposes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146306-solveddell-latitude-d800-ethernet-issues/#findComment-1038539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Nice! You can avoid all this typing by installing your modified kext with OXS86Tools or Kexthelper btw. If you have no MAC adress and have error messages about 'Platform UUID' when booting you can sort of fix it with Slice's UUID.kext. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...7029&st=112 (read the thread, it's important that the Platform UUID does not match Boot Volume UUID) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146306-solveddell-latitude-d800-ethernet-issues/#findComment-1038988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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