Complete Install On Dell D610....Need a Little Help

[Lowcash]

Ok, 1st off special thanks to RammJet and Xeijin................ If not for them i could not have completed my install on this dell D610.

Now to my issues at hand. It seems that after the install most everything works USB, Video (i think), etc..

However The Ethernet and Wireless see not to work, and after reading several posts I am still confused (OSX n00b).

I have tried these methods and have come up blank. Lots of these posts say to copy these files and moves them here and there.

then they tell you to go to a terminal window and do some more stuff. I can get the files copied over and stuff moves around now,

but when it comes to the terminal window stuff I get conflicts, error, or agruments........ i would really like to get this going and

will take any kind of help in this area.

as for the video, who can tell me how i know that its working correctly? I used a OSX 10.4.6 install and everything seems to be working,

but now sure.

[Rammjet]

What are the brand names and models of the ethernet and wireless? - Like Broadcom 5708 or Intel 3945.

 

Or get the vendor and device ids of the devices. Follow the Vendor/Device link in my signature for ways to get them.

[Lowcash]

What are the brand names and models of the ethernet and wireless? - Like Broadcom 5708 or Intel 3945.

 

Or get the vendor and device ids of the devices. Follow the Vendor/Device link in my signature for ways to get them.

They are Broadcom Netxtreme 57xx PCI/VEN_14E4&1677

and Dell Wireless 1470 PCI/VEN_14E4&4319

[Rammjet]

Wireless should work. Follow the Wireless link in my signature and read the Broadcom entry. Be sure to edit the Broadcom file and then perform the en0 -> en1 and integer 0 to integer 1 trick specified at the end of the guide.

 

Ethernet can probably work also if you follow the Ethernet link in my signature and read the Broadcom 57xx thread.

[Lowcash]

sweet, now can you answer this issue. i read your sig on the ethernet and Nisa-it. However everytime i go to do this, I get the same damn error. Either the directory does not there or Usage: chown

What am i doing that is wrong?

 

@Gellius31: try the following instructions

1. unpack AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip

2. move AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext to /System/Library/Extensions/

3. open Terminal

4. sudo -s

5. chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/

6. cd /System/Library/Extensions/

7. chmod -R 755 AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext

8. reboot

[mifki]

try this,

1) Drag the kext into the extensions folder.

2) open terminal and type this

sudo -s
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

3) then reboot

 

P.S: The chown command is all on one line (it just splits onto two for some reason, same thing with the chmod command

[Lowcash]

Sweet, I will try that. right now i am stuck on this wireless piece from Rammjet sig. it states

 

Make a backup of IO80211Family.kext

Edit the .plist file

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions

 

sudo nano /IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents/Info.plist

Once editing the plist navigate to the area where you see

 

<string>pci14e4,4311</string>

<string>pci14e4,4318</string>

<string>pci14e4,4320</string>

 

Add a line with dev id (in place of XXXX)

 

<string>pci14e4,XXXX</string>

 

However i do not see that in the terminal that i opened. Why can I not see what I am lookng for? is this the correct piece?

 

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

<string>English</string>

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

<string>AppleAirPortBrcm4311</string>

<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>

<string>1.0, Copyright © 2006 Apple Computer, Inc., All Rights Reserved</string>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.driver.AppleAirPortBrcm4311</string>

<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

<string>6.0</string>

<key>CFBundleName</key>

<string>AppleAirPortBrcm4311</string>

<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

<string>KEXT</string>

<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>

<string>1.0</string>

<key>CFBundleSignature</key>

<string>????</string>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>100.9</string>

<key>IOKitPersonalities</key>

<dict>

[Lowcash]

try this,

1) Drag the kext into the extensions folder.

2) open terminal and type this

sudo -s
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

3) then reboot

 

P.S: The chown command is all on one line (it just splits onto two for some reason, same thing with the chmod command

Kiko

i did as you typed and damn if it did not work. Only prob i now have is that I have no mac address. Any suggestions? getting ready to search for a solution

[SkyZ]

Kiko

i did as you typed and damn if it did not work. Only prob i now have is that I have no mac address. Any suggestions? getting ready to search for a solution

 

AppleBCM5751Ethernet only works on pre-10.4.8 OSX installation. all 0 mac address is normal and you should able to receive IP address from DHCP.... Anyway, as you already have wireless working, strongly recommend you to turn off 5751, I find that it actually slow down the machine and generate weird problems....

[psmith]

SkyZ, How do you turn off the on-board Ethernet? are you talking about in the bios? I have a Dell Latitude D610 and 99% is working good.....thanks to Jas and semthex and all the rest that have given good advise on these boards.....keep up the good work...sorry to hear Jas is retiring though.

[SkyZ]

SkyZ, How do you turn off the on-board Ethernet? are you talking about in the bios? I have a Dell Latitude D610 and 99% is working good.....thanks to Jas and semthex and all the rest that have given good advise on these boards.....keep up the good work...sorry to hear Jas is retiring though.

 

Yes, I turn it off in the BIOS, or you can simply put back the original 10.4.8 IONEtworkFamily.kext to /System/Library/Extensions/

I'm using a D610 too, everything works except PCMCIA slot.