trikki Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Hello, i should reply to the right thread but it's already 15 pages long at this moment and I try to give a quick solution for the ones who owns the same nb as mine Acer Aspire 1800 equipped with a broadcom nextreme giga 5788. First of all i would like to thank nisa-it, humanmx, hater, thinhead and all the other guys I forgot for theyr work. Than... let's go! Since the humanmx post is very clear i will copy and paste his notes here 1. I Found a patched Driver somewhere here in the Board (Sorry, I have read so many threads, that I have forgotten the Name of the real publisher) 2. This Driver ist attended to this Post. I hope the patcher will allow this 3. Copy this Driver File to the Mac Desktop 4. Open Finder and navigate to System/Library/Extensions 5. Find the IONetworkingFamily.kext and copy it also to your Desktop 6. Mark it with the right Mousebutton and select "Show Package Content" or so. -- Sorry I'm using a German Language OSX and so i don't know the real English Button Names. I think you will be able to find the correct ones ;-) -- 7. Move in the opend KEXT to Contents and then to PlugIns 8. Find AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext and copy it to Desktop -- The Copy to Desktop Actions are neccesary, otherwhile you could not edit the KEXT Files -- 9. Mark the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext with right Mouseclick and choose "Show Package Content" or so, like above 10. Navigate to Contents - MacOS 11. There You will find a File called AppleBCM5701Ethernet 12. Overwrite/ Replace this File with the patched one from your Desktop 13. During all these Steps it is possible that you have to Identify with your Root Passwort. Do so and you are able to replace the Files 14. At this time you have placed the modified Driver in the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext ON YOUR DESKTOP 15. Now its time to complete the IONetworkingFamily.kext on YOUR DESKTOP 16. Therefore mark the in Step 5 copied File on Desktop with right MB and select "Show Package Content" or so 17. In the opend Package navigate to Contents-PlugIns 18. Copy your modified AppleBCM5701Ethernet (Step 14) from Desktop to this package. Replace the old One 19. After closing you got a modified IONetworkingFamily.kext on the Desktop 20. Now you have to copy this File to your System/Library/Extension Folder. 21. Navigate there with Finder and replace the existing one with the modified one from Desktop 22. The KEXT is now replaced an you have to do some jobs in the Terminal 23. Open Terminal and execute the following Commands: sudo -s cd / cd /System/Library/Extensions/ ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions 24. Now you have to do a Reboot. 25. The Network should now work 26. At my System an other Error occured.After the second Reboot OSX showed that the patched File was not correct loaded. The Network was again greyed out :-((( 27. To handle this problem, open the DiskManagement Tool form MAC OSX. 38. Choosee your Systempartition and select the Opinion to repair the Acces Rights on this Volume. 39. After the next reboot the System worked fine and the Network Card was working only few things that can simplify your work about step 1: i uploaded the hacked ext for you, just look at the bottom of this post. If you log as root you shouldn't mess with file permissions (and you will have a big chance to damage your system to log as root, open netinfo-security and enable root user. finally, do not forget to cleare the extension cache ad to recreate it. for the ones that do not own my PC/Lan card i suggest to try to hack nisa ext with their model. here is what i've done. dl'ed hexedit, opened the IONetwork... package from /System/Library/Extension and putted it on my desktop. than opened package and putted also the executable on my desktop. with hexedit i replaced ALL the occurrencies of 1696 with 169c (I used 81fa169c hex mode to be sure not to take fake occurrencies). note that 169C is the hex conversion of 5788, my card model. saved the file, repackaged into the extension package. then followed the humanmx instructions as described. note that i do not suffer for the common null MAC address problem. My card is perfectly recognized, she has it's mac address, IP from DHCP and i have to do no damn'd ifconfig instruction from terminal or rc files. that's all, happy hacking and enjoy your Safari.... like I'm doing! I will enjoy more tomorrow seeing my brother face... a G4 powebook monkey! I love mac os! p.s. DO NOT UPGRADE TO 10.4.8 it fuxxed up my system and i had to reinstall it completely. p.p.s from what i just written, you can understand that this task has been tested two times AppleBCM5701Ethernet.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36128-bcm5788-a-final-solution/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcer Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 nice one! does anyone know how to trick this in 10.4.8? I have "Extension cannot be used" error, on my nc6320, I cannot also use wifi because of wired ethernet, does anyone have clue about this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36128-bcm5788-a-final-solution/#findComment-262768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfgangS Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Thank you trikki, you helped me to made my nic work on my Acer Extensa 4102. This is for you MFG WolfgangS Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36128-bcm5788-a-final-solution/#findComment-306531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enqubis Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I know this issue has grown and now has carried over again into a new topic, if anyone could answer this question I would appreciate it I have a dell d820 with the broadcomm netextreme 57XX gigabit nic, my device id is 1600 rather than 169c, am I to understand that I could replace all instances of 169c with 1600 and it may work? Because I did so, and my dmesg says that the AppleBCM5701.kext is not a valid mach-o help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36128-bcm5788-a-final-solution/#findComment-349712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyster Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 For non experts this is way to much. Is there not a Apple way of solving this problem like a setup (dmg file) or one script? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36128-bcm5788-a-final-solution/#findComment-837533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rashaditor Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I have an acer extensa 5620z with foll specs CPU - Intel Pentium Dual-Core (recognized as Core 2 Duo) T2310 1.6 GHz RAM - 1 GB Chipset - Intel 965M Conroe GPU - Intel GMA X3100 Audio - Realtek HD Audio ALC-268 HDD - Hitachi 120 GB SATA DVD - Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P PCMCIA - Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller Wi-Fi - Broadcom 802.11g CardReader - Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Integrated FlashMedia Controller I have installed Kalyway 10.5.2 successfully. It's didn't give me any prob during installation.I have Bluetooth,USB ports & display working properly. What is not working is my Ethernet,wi-fi & webcam. My ethernet Device id Broadcom Netlink ™ Gigabit Ethernet PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1693&SUBSYS_011C1025&REV_02\4&23F5EDAD&O&00E0 & wi-fi is ATHEROS AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter Please help me with my Ethernet issue Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36128-bcm5788-a-final-solution/#findComment-1017184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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