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Ok, so with the Fine help from Rammjet, Xeijin, and Kiko i finally got my Ethernet working, or atleast showing up now. However I can not get the MAC to set. Everytime I do

 

sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 (those are not my MAC)

 

the laptop locks up and I have to hard boot it. does anyone have any solutions to this problem?

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Same problem here.. desktop w/ Broadcom 5751. Note that I *didn't* incur this problem prior to 10.4.8 w/ the same hardware.. did you add the 5751 kext or patch a 5701 kext manually?

 

Details:

Patched my plist (dev 14e4,1677) *but* I had to use an older pre-10.4.8 driver as the 10.4.8 one was smaller and the search-n-replaces failed (where you replace w/ your own dev ID). For now, using a patched 5701 driver in the existing 5701 kext, only thing that works is a static IP...

 

RE: 5751 kext

I'm not sure if these guys have ifconfig mac + dhcp working.. I think I'll try this kext tonight

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...amp;hl=ifconfig

Edited by josh256

Patched 5701 will not ifconfig/assign a mac without hanging (plugged in or not, makes no difference)

 

Confirmed: I cannot get the 5751 kext to load w/o crashing on boot so I'm going to stick w/ the manually patched 5701 driver

 

 

Semthex 10.4.8 SSE3

Shuttle SB95P v2 w/ PCI-e integrated BCM5751 --> 14e4,1677)

 

J.

Edited by josh256

Quoted from another post...this is how i got it to work with my 5751..

 

 

 

I figured out that if you move the AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext from /System/Library/Extensions to another folder and load it manually after you are in the Gui it works fine!

 

So what I did:

 

1. sudo -s

2. mkdir /System/Library/Extensions2

3. cd /System/Library/Extensions

4. mv AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext ../Extensions2/

5. cd ..

6. rm Extensions.*

 

That moved the kext to a different folder to prevent the autostart => halt of the system.

 

7. Than open your "/etc/rc" file with the editor of your choice and go to the end of the file. Before "exit 0" add the following line

 

kextload /System/Library/Extensions2/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext

 

Maybe

 

8. diskutil repairPermissions /

 

9. reboot

 

Using this method I got the card working on every startup and my Pentium M (SSE2 only) with the latest semthex kernel (beta9).

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