thebordella Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 My hackintosh works mostly well (P4/3ghz, 1gig ram, sata hd, fx5200 vid) except for a strange problem with my network. My mainboard features dual BCM5721 (broadcom gigabit extreme) ports. On some bootups, OS X detects the network adapter just fine and my LAN works fine. Other times, OS X boots up and does not enable the LAN ports. The LED's on the jacks literally go out during the boot sequence and don't come back on. I can reboot repeatedly until OS X enables the LAN -- sometimes this takes 2, 3, or 4 reboots. What is going on? Nothing else about the system is changing between boots. Simply, OS X sometimes enables the LAN, sometimes does not. I am using OS X 10.4.7 upgraded with the Jas and Symzar patches, but this behavior was the same when I originally installed 10.4.5 from myzar iso. I've tried to replace the ionetworkingfamily kexts from 10.4.5 and 10.4.7 (official apple) but these didn't fix behavior. All I want is my network to be enabled on every boot! Any ideas? thanks! beagle Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26257-why-does-my-network-bcm5721-only-sometimes-work-after-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I don't know any specifics, but a search of the board reveals this: ErBiC says: "Also had to extensively edit a couple kext files to get my Broadcom 5721 (I think that's what it is...) working." Two threads on getting Broadcom ethernet working: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=9601 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=4987 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26257-why-does-my-network-bcm5721-only-sometimes-work-after-boot/#findComment-177881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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