[SL] BCM4315

[nick93]

I installed Snow Leopard Retail yesterday with the NetbookBootMaker. I have been spending some hours now to find a solution for my Wifi which is a Broadcom BCM4315 chipset. I've tried the bcm43xx_enabler_0.5.3.sh script, but the only change I saw was an icon in my menubar and when I clicked on it I had a pull down menu with Network Controller, which was gray and Power off Card. When I go to System Profiler and then look at PCI Cards it says Other Netwrok Controller and no driver installed. The vendor ID and device ID are correct they are 14e4 and 4315 respectively. When I go to Network it says 'No information found.'

When I run kextstat I can see the following lines:

74   1 0x32537000 0x24000   0x23000	 com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family  (300.20)  <73 7 5 4 3 1>
75   0 0x327c8000 0x1a8000  0x1a7000	com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx  (410.91.20)  <74 73 13 7 5 4 3 1>

Any suggestions?

[nick93]

I've also tried to install PCIFix.kext, the Chun-nan's IOPCCardFamily.kext and IOPCIFamily.kext. I did try to use the Leopard 10.5.6 IO80211Family.kext, but that didn't work either, it didn't make the system unusable though. I really can't stand it, because of what I've read, it doesn't seem to be a too difficult card to get to work! And I really don't understand why it does work on Leopard and not on Snow Leopard.

[nick93]

Ubuntu shows it as a Broadcom 4312, with a Foxconn subsystem vendor id(0x105b). I wanted to try to rebrand it, but ubuntu wouldn't allow me to do so, I got stuck at the following line:

cd && cat $SSB_SPROM > ssb_sprom_copy

 

Is there maybe another way to rebrand the card?