fixarvesslan Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Hello, Been surfing the forum for 2 days now in an attempt to get the on-board-lan to work. The machine is a Dell Latitude X1. It has a Broadcom 5751 (dev. id. 1677) gigbit card. I have tried the Nisa-IT pached drivers, then the card gets recognized, but i get full system crash when running ifconfig en0 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx. I have tried ual808:s method with same results. Tried hacking original AppleBCM5701Ethernet-kext (Halter-method), same results. Basicly everything. Is there anything else you can do? Is there someone who has an X1 with functional lan? I don't want to give up when i see people with the same circuits as me succeeding. Please help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25539-latitude-x1-network-bcm5751-1677/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Hello,Been surfing the forum for 2 days now in an attempt to get the on-board-lan to work. The machine is a Dell Latitude X1. It has a Broadcom 5751 (dev. id. 1677) gigbit card. I have tried the Nisa-IT pached drivers, then the card gets recognized, but i get full system crash when running ifconfig en0 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx. I have tried ual808:s method with same results. Tried hacking original AppleBCM5701Ethernet-kext (Halter-method), same results. Basicly everything. Is there anything else you can do? Is there someone who has an X1 with functional lan? I don't want to give up when i see people with the same circuits as me succeeding. Please help! how did you manage to install osx on the dell x1 i also tryed to install it. but it refuses what osx version /install method do you use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25539-latitude-x1-network-bcm5751-1677/#findComment-172825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixarvesslan Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 I used MyZars 10.4.6 dvd, and then the JaS 10.4.7(intel) update. The trick to avoid the blue-screen-of-death is to use a metal paperclip and connect pin 6 to pin 12 on your vga connector, works like a charm. I take no responsebility for personal and or material damage! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25539-latitude-x1-network-bcm5751-1677/#findComment-172837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 I used MyZars 10.4.6 dvd, and then the JaS 10.4.7(intel) update. The trick to avoid the blue-screen-of-death is to use a metal paperclip and connect pin 6 to pin 12 on your vga connector, works like a charm. I take no responsebility for personal and or material damage! if i connect a external vga monitor it will also work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25539-latitude-x1-network-bcm5751-1677/#findComment-172866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixarvesslan Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 Johan: Yes, I have done it that way before with 10.4.3, don't know for sure if it will work with 10.4.6 but I can't see any reason why it shouldn't. How about my bcm5751, any ideas anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25539-latitude-x1-network-bcm5751-1677/#findComment-172871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixarvesslan Posted August 24, 2006 Author Share Posted August 24, 2006 I have now also tried Luccios method but my system still freezes when i try to change mac. Is there any other way to change your mac? Or has someone had this problem and then resolved it? and if so, how did you do it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25539-latitude-x1-network-bcm5751-1677/#findComment-173419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alohashirt Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I have now also tried Luccios method but my system still freezes when i try to change mac. Is there any other way to change your mac? Or has someone had this problem and then resolved it? and if so, how did you do it? I am in the same boat as you. I have loaded Nisa-it's driver and my NIC is loaded with mac address 00:00:... I am using a Latitude d610 with a Netgear FA120 USB ->ethernet for connectivity. Note that tcpdump shows me that the driver *is* seeing packets correctly. Some different thoughts: 1) maybe we need to patch the OS to allow mac spoofing? 2) what happens if i call ioctl() with whatever is needed to set the mac address - will it hang? 3) if we can get the source code of the bcm5701/5751 kext can we find the bit fi code that doesn't read the mac address from nvram and simply hard wire it to some value? Do you know whether patchers are just patching assembler code? 4) If I can't get sleep to work perfectly this is all moot and I should just buy a MacBook Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25539-latitude-x1-network-bcm5751-1677/#findComment-175234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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