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 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 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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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