matulike Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 (edited) Hi, I've just freshly installed JAS 10.4.8 on a Dell D610. I have put a Broadcom 4320 wireless card in it. The install went fine, and I did the broadcom 57xx ethernet fix and installed a load of apps. I should've done the wireless fix first - I did the wireless fix and rebooted and it saw the wireless networks. I installed a couple more apps, then rebooted and it either freezes at the login prompt (if I wait a minute before logging in) or just after login. When I boot with '-v' I can see at the end the wireless card has a mac address but the wired one doesnt (all 0's). I dont think this is the problem, but then I dont know what is! But I definitely had more than one successful reboot after the network driver 'hacks'. I've now booted with '-s' and run fsck which didnt come up with any errors. When I try to load the single user mode gui it stops at a line about the Broadcom NIC's 'setPowerLevels'... These are what rthe last few lines look like: localhost:/ root# Mar 6 19:37:37 localhost DirectoryService[64]: Launched version 2.1 (v353.5) Airport_Brcm43xx: Ethernet address 00:90:96:b9:6b:96 BCM5701Enet: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00 Mar 6 19:37:38 localhost mDNSResponder: mDNSPlatformSendUDP send to failed to send packet on InterfaceID 01808A00 lo0/4 to 224.0.0.251:5353 skt 9 error -1 errno 65 (No route to host) 2078149728 Mar 6 19:37:41 mat-ts-computer mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local. AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 1 1659 setPowerLevels - returning early, have a 5721. onoff=, fPciDeviceId= AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 1 1659 setPowerLevels - returning early, have a 5721. onoff=, fPciDeviceId= I guess I should try to get in with the terminal or in single user unix command line style and delete the AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext ? Or disable it?Any help much appreciated. Thanks! Edited March 6, 2007 by matulike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44408-os-x-1048-freezes-after-bootlogin/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
matulike Posted March 6, 2007 Author Share Posted March 6, 2007 iv'e just worked out that if I disable the network card in the BIOS I can boot and login all OK. Wireless is OK too. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this it'd be appreciated. Do I need to replace that kext file and start over? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44408-os-x-1048-freezes-after-bootlogin/#findComment-318006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dre2kse Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I am having the same problem. Some ppl have this working as far as I know but how don't know . Mine freezes as soon as I issue the ifconfig http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...p;hl=BCM+freeze Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44408-os-x-1048-freezes-after-bootlogin/#findComment-318757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matulike Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 I know, I have had it working before. I've got 2 of these laptops, just got a Broadcom wireless card for one, it's seeing the wireless networks but just WONT connect! Even with NO security. The annoying thing is that I've had the NIC working before...I think that was 10.4.7 tho. I might just go back to that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44408-os-x-1048-freezes-after-bootlogin/#findComment-318839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matulike Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 Well, it's all finally come together for me ) Just put the 10.4.7 DVD in to reinstall, it didnt load correctly - just got blue screen for ages - so i did a reboot and loaded the 10.4.8 'one last time' - went into Airport config and my wireless works!! YES! My wired still completely screws the whole system when enabled tho...but hey, cant have it all and just wireless'll do me! It did just drop out very soon after. But then reconnected again. Am using WEP at the moment, will try WPA later. I'm just ahppy it's working! Now I can relax and get installing my apps and get SuSe 10.1 on this laptop too ;-) Hoooooooorrrraaaaayyyyyyyyy! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44408-os-x-1048-freezes-after-bootlogin/#findComment-318862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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