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Okay, my main issue is that my network card is not working properly.

 

I have an onboard Broadcom 440X chipset, It's recognized in OS X but it says that the cable is not plugged in. In system.log, this is the only relevant thing I can find:

Nov 21 11:05:12 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM440XEthernet: Ethernet Address 00:0b:db:2a:05:da

The last part being the correct MAC address of the card.

 

It works perfectly in Windows and Knoppix. I remember some problems with certain distributions of linux, though.

 

Note: Mac OS X is now the only operating system installed. There is also nothing about the NIC in the BIOS settings (This is a modified Dell Dimension 2350 system).

 

Aside from that, neither of my sound cards are detected (SoundMAX Integrated Audio & Soundblaster Live! PCI) and my second display device is not detected (Intel 845G? integrated) and the All-In-Wonder VE PCI (Radeon 7500 chipset) card is only using a default VGA driver at 1024x768 & full color. I'd like to be able to use the S-Video output along with other modes, and as a lower priority the capture abilities.

 

Also, Rosetta doesn't seem to work as iTunes crashes immediately and I can't run any of the Intel apps using Rosetta. (Also, System Profiler does not list SSE3 for my processor but it definitely does support it. - It does not support SSE3.. wtf?)

 

Can anyone help me solve anything? I'm familiar with the Terminal, so don't be afraid to send me some commands to put in.

 

System config:

Pentium 4 2.20GHz (SSE2 & SSE3)

Marklar-Tiger.dmg file I believe?

768MB RAM

I/O Magic DVD-RW

Samsung CD-ROM

27GB WD HDD

Broadcom 440X onboard

Soundblaster Live! PCI

(doesn't need to work or can swap with other audio) - SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

All-In-Wonder VE PCI (Radeon 7500)

(secondary, would be nice if worked) - Intel 845G? integrated graphics

 

Among other stuff.

 

Thanks in advance.

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Okay, I got the network working correctly by unplugging the machine and booting back up.

 

So that is fixed.

 

I also have one more minor problem - I have no bootloader. :) Is there something I can install from within OS X or from a live linux distro?

 

The HDD layout is as follows (I know it is odd..)

disk0s1 - DellUtility (30MB partition with various utilities and such)

disk0s5 - Macintosh HD Hournaled HFS+

 

I'm using rd=disk0s5 off of the DVD right now.

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