OPA and the ethernet issue.

[Guest BuildSmart]

Everyone keeps contacting me about the OPA/hardware registration issue and I am sorry I do not have a publicly available solution but I do offer the following information, semthex (on his site), claims that he was able to build from source the IONetwrkingFamily.kext after making a minor modification to the source file which he tested and it allowed the FlexLM licenses to work by forcing a match of the recognized ethernet to be the built-in ethernet.

 

Strangely enough myself and a small group of other people doubt his ability to compile this source for more than one reason and the obvious being that no one seems to have a copy of this magical kext and I wont delve into the issues why it fails to compile or how to resolve it.

 

While we are skeptical, this doesn't mean he hasn't obtained the missing headers and fixed the error and can in fact compile this driver but if he has and it does in deed work, why hasn't it been released for everyone to obtained it?

 

Semthex, did you actually do this or is the statment on your site false?

 

If you did then why haven't you provided the driver to those who want/need it?

[ritalin]

Sorry to bring out the dead, but I would like to build IONetworkingFamily.kext

 

I've tried this method-

Use Subversion and get darwinbuild from MacOSForge.org:

 

$ svn checkout http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/darwinbuild/trunk/

 

This will create the trunk directory within your working directory.

The file trunk/README contains installation instructions, which are

the standard:

 

$ make

$ sudo make install

 

== BUILDING DARWIN ==

 

The darwinbuild README file contains instructions for building Darwin:

 

$ hdiutil create -size 4g -type UDIF -fs HFSX -volname Builds -uid 0 -gid 0 -attach Builds.dmg

$ sudo vsdbutil -a /Volumes/Builds

$ sudo -s

$ Password:

# cd /Volumes/Builds

# mkdir Build8P2137

# cd Build8P2137

# darwinbuild -init 8P2137

 

You should now be able to issue a command like:

 

# darwinbuild IONetworkingFamily

 

and darwinbuild should compile the specified package.

All seems to go well until near the end when compilation fails. I get a warning of the following type-

 

"(7, architecture i386) does not match cputype (18) for specified -arch flag: ppc (file not loaded)"

 

Any one care to help me out?