Devonavar Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Yes, I've searched and I know that the official word is that VIA's Velocity Ethernet is not (and probably never will be) supported. However, poking around on VIA Arena, I found that VIA has released a Velocity driver for OS X (really? that's weird) dated January 2006. So I downloaded it. Sure enough, I got the standard .exe file used for more conventional Windows installs. At this point I almost gave up, but I decided to try something that's worked for me in the path: Open the .exe as an archive in 7-Zip. Bingo. So now I have a working .dmg archive with .kext installer. Great. I open it, OS X does the installation and I restart. Alas, the reboot freezes, and I have to reboot a second time. Now I'm back in OS X, but I get a message saying that my .kext was improperly installed. So no dice. I believe the source of the problem can be found in the readme file shipped with the driver: The driver is written for OS X 10.2.x, and I have JaS 10.4.8. Which brings me to the point: Can anybody help me bring this driver up to date, or is this just a lost cause? How much has changed since 10.2.x? Do I just need to tweak a few addresses, or is this still an impossibility? Erm ... I think I may have posted this in the wrong forum. Would a mod mind moving it to the driver forum? Sorry for the Newbie mistake. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48965-hacking-vias-velocity-drivers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHJ Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 repair permissions and do a kextload -t to see where the matter is Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48965-hacking-vias-velocity-drivers/#findComment-350439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 not to cut the happyness but if it's a ppc driver it will not work, it must be intel compatible Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48965-hacking-vias-velocity-drivers/#findComment-350440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonavar Posted April 21, 2007 Author Share Posted April 21, 2007 I have no idea whether it's PPC or not. It's dated January '06, so I suspect that's a bit old. Thanks for pointing out why it wouldn't work though. Ok, here's what kextload -t said. I have no idea whether this means it's PPC code or not. can't add kernel extension /system/library/extensions/getmacx.kext (validation error) (run kextload on this kext with -t for diagnostic output) kernel extension /system/library/extensions/getmacx.kext has problems: Validation failures: { "Executable file doesn't contain kernel extension code" = true } Authentication failures: { "File owner/permissions are incorrect" = ( "/system/library/extensions/getmacx.kext" "/system/library/extensions/getmacx.kext/Contents/Info.plist" "/system/library/extensions/getmacx.kext/Contents" "/system/library/extensions/getmacx.kext/Contents/MacOS/getmacx" "/system/library/extensions/getmacx.kext/Contents/MacOS" ) } Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48965-hacking-vias-velocity-drivers/#findComment-351236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Methanoid Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 There are newer drivers on VIA site... Aug 08 and newer... I dont have a VIA Velocity chip to test them on (was gonna buy one)... Anyone care to try them? http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageI...D=130&Old=1 EDIT OSX.txt This file. getmacx_10_2.dmg The disk image of the driver for MAC OS 10.2.x. getmacx_10_3.dmg The disk image of the driver for MAC OS 10.3.x. getmacx_10_4.dmg The disk image of the driver for MAC OS 10.4.x. Thats NOT the newest ones... Someone should try the 10.4 with Leopard and Intel ??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48965-hacking-vias-velocity-drivers/#findComment-1081889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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