The Sorcerer Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 I am using Inspiron 1502 aka Vostro 1500. Here is 32/64 bit compiled AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext compiled from Darwin sources. I am using it in /S/L/E Hope works for others too. AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext_snowleo32_64.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alip Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 You're the man! Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiandragon Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Good work sorcerer, The kext loads perfect in 10.6.2 but loses connection after some time. I have a test 10.6.1 partition, the kext worked perfectly there (I disabled w/PXE boot in BIOS), also I was able to download complete 10.6.2 update and other updates. After 10.6.2 update the kext is not working properly anymore. Also I have doubts on little snitch, does it affect this kext it anyway? cause I saw some speed increase after I uninstalled little snitch program. I will do my tests again and post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 Good work sorcerer, The kext loads perfect in 10.6.2 but loses connection after some time. I have a test 10.6.1 partition, the kext worked perfectly there (I disabled w/PXE boot in BIOS), also I was able to download complete 10.6.2 update and other updates. After 10.6.2 update the kext is not working properly anymore. Also I have doubts on little snitch, does it affect this kext it anyway? cause I saw some speed increase after I uninstalled little snitch program. I will do my tests again and post it. And the results are ? do you still loose your connection after sometime ? Under leopard, my connection worked well until it drop, few hours after the boot. But now under Snow Leopard, it work good during few minutes, and the connection become very slow and unusable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiandragon Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 And the results are ?do you still loose your connection after sometime ? Under leopard, my connection worked well until it drop, few hours after the boot. But now under Snow Leopard, it work good during few minutes, and the connection become very slow and unusable. Yeah the same issue persists with snow leo. What I found out was the Ethernet card gets two ip's for the same MAC address so it looses connection over time. I guess the basic driver program it self has errors in it. It is best i guess to start a new forum on building BCM440X kext from Linux drivers like those guys who did the kext for nforce LAN. I have included the DHCP table snapshot to show what is happening with BCM440X kext . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamkey Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 Hello, I have install this kext by myself (because I can't install them with osx86tools), I have change the rights on it, but nothing change: Safari says that I'm not connected to internet, and nothing change when I choose to repair my connection. Any idea of what I can do? PS : when I used iPC v10.5.6, my ethernet card worked fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arshia Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 it didnt work for me vostro 1500 what can i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Indiandragon, if you still have your 10.6.1 working, could you try the IONetworking kext on 10.6.2 ? This tips worked for me with another PC and another network card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Delete AppleHPET.kext? It had Problems in Tiger/Leopard with this Broadcom LAN driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 i try to delete AppleHPET, but wasn't load before, and didn't resolve anything, i think it even worst :/ Exactly, i don't lost my connection, but it become so slooowwwwwww. edit: from this site : http://www.hackintosh-india.com/2009/12/ap...opard-3264.html where i got my kext, they said to delete some network preferences : /Library/Preferences/System Configuration/ com.apple.network.identification.plist NetworkInterfaces.plist preferences.plist then reboot but it didn't work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Set LAN Card Speed to 10MB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I change my MTU to 1420, as an old thread suggest, but didn't work either. What did you mean by changing the speed ? I didn't remember any option to change that, where can i find such an option ? another question, i can't get any DHCP table from my router, but i tried with the command arp -a, is it the same ? I saw others possible solutions like maxmem=1024 as kernel flag or cpus=1, if someone want to give it a try. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...41663&st=60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 System Preferences - Network - Ethernet - Advanced - Ethernet - Speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 ok, i'll try that this evening. edit : don't work :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlazy Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Here's another interesting note. I've got a Dell Optiplex 320, and this issue started happening when I upgraded from 1 to 2 gigs of RAM. The DIMMS are identical, and the right speed for the machine. If I pull one of them out, the network is fine. As soon as I put the second one in, the same issue with the network dying within a minute of boot time occurs. Stranger still, I borrowed a 2 gig DIMM from another box, and the same issue happens. Looks like I'm stuck at 1G of RAM for now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 yes, some reports than we could use maxmem=1024 or cpus=1 as kernel flag to avoid ethernet connection to drop, but it's not really a solution i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 yes, some reports than we could use maxmem=1024 or cpus=1 as kernel flag to avoid ethernet connection to drop, but it's not really a solution i think. So which is it? None worked for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 i didn't try those solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiandragon Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Indiandragon, if you still have your 10.6.1 working, could you try the IONetworking kext on 10.6.2 ?This tips worked for me with another PC and another network card. Hellboy, the IONetworking kext was a modified kext for BCM440X in leopard. I don't think a 32/64 bit version of it exists for snow leopard and I also don't remember what was there in that kext to make BCM440X work properly in leopard, I think more information on that kext would be helpful . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlazy Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 So which is it? None worked for you? I tried both: cpus=1 has no effect on the issue maxmem=1024 limits my system to 1 Gig of RAM and fixes the problem, but it's not a solution. I want to use all of my installed RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlazy Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I tried both: cpus=1 has no effect on the issue maxmem=1024 limits my system to 1 Gig of RAM and fixes the problem, but it's not a solution. I want to use all of my installed RAM. FIXED: I restored the original IONetworking.kext from 10.6 in my 10.6.2 install, and everything works normally again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlazy Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 FIXED: I restored the original IONetworking.kext from 10.6 in my 10.6.2 install, and everything works normally again! One more update: Launching Firefox or safari kills the network again, but chrome is fine. I'm stumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyRoadIsFine Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 One more update: Launching Firefox or safari kills the network again, but chrome is fine. I'm stumped. mlazy i have same problem in my laptop m1210 SL10.6.2 retail. anydriver(APPLEBCM440x.kext) is not work... i will have to try chrome. thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamba77 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 is this version for snow working for Leopard, too ? I dont get it working on my aspire 5610 ( with 10.5.6) many thanks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggred Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 anyone found a solution for this problem? I noticed when i start many network application my connection just hang out (like MAIL or VPN) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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