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Anyone else getting this at boot:

 

Nov 28 01:37:10 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 InitNVRam - found non-5701 with serial eeprom or unbuffered flash

Nov 28 01:37:10 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 getAdapterInfo - init/sanity check of nvram failed

Nov 28 01:37:10 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up

 

 

AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext is loading, but something about the actual hardware is not jiving. Any ideas?

 

 

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Anyone else getting this at boot:

 

Nov 28 01:37:10 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 InitNVRam - found non-5701 with serial eeprom or unbuffered flash

Nov 28 01:37:10 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 getAdapterInfo - init/sanity check of nvram failed

Nov 28 01:37:10 localhost kernel[0]: AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up

AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext is loading, but something about the actual hardware is not jiving. Any ideas?

op

 

The only instance of getAdapterInfo I can find is in Apple's 3C90x.cpp for 3Com NICs

 

static const AdapterInfo *

getAdapterInfo( UInt16 pciDeviceID )

 

 

If the structure is the same in BCM5701, then it looks like the kext is querying the card for its pci ID and then failing...maybe it was expecting a different pci ID..

 

Regardless, BCM5701 isn't available to recompile, so we're stuck..

 

Also, 8f1111's BCM5701 does the same thing..

 

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  • 5 weeks later...
If anyone can confirm that this will work with the BCM5750, I will make the happy dance for 1hour and then sacrifice some bread and cattle in tinheads name, or at least be somewhat glad =)

 

 

THIS DRIVER WORKS!

 

Tinhead, you are sooooooooo may favourite person right now! I would name my son after you if I wasn't sure that he'd hate me for naming him "Tinhead" :censored2:

 

 

Thanks for the work!

 

 

ps. this also solved my airport problem (http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=4641)

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thats nice ... thx

 

The OS confiusion about the nic is result of the patching.

I have removed the NVRAM check , this is needed to recognize the PCI ID. I dont know why,

but 10.4.3 cant read the nvram. Most of the roadcom chips are 'compatible' to itself. So without the right

check most of them should work.

 

The 10.4.1 driver was very simple, since 10.4.3 the driver is checking many things.

This patched driver is temp solution, if the mac 0sx x86 is going gold, i will try to make a final working version, of course if still needed.

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Hi

I have a Acer Aspire 1690 with a broadcom 5788 and it doesn't work.

My system log after the installation of AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext is:

AppleBCM440XEthernet: PHY not detected

AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 169c getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown

AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 0 start - getAdapterInfo failed, giving up

IOCommandGate::disable() called when not gated

Backtrace 0x3898ec 0x1e88064a 0x3abb40 0x3abc11 0x37e609 0x37de15 0x37f56a

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):

com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet(2.1.0d21)@0x1e87f000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.0)@0x1b27c000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x1b2a4000

IOCommandGate::disable() called when not gated

Backtrace 0x3898ec 0x1e88064a 0x3abb40 0x3abc11 0x37e609 0x37de15 0x37f56a

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):

com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet(2.1.0d21)@0x1e87f000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.0)@0x1b27c000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x1b2a4000

 

AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext is loading, but something about the actual hardware is not giving. I made changes of tinman in 2E508 HEX, (http://www.win2osx.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2380&page=2) but doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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I have a Acer Aspire 1690 with a broadcom 5788 and it doesn't work.

My system log after the installation of AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext is:

AppleBCM5701Ethernet: 0 169c getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown

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Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

as i already say i the other forum, this driver cant work with 5751-> nic's.

If you patch some things you will get another error ( magic constant ). Of course you can

look for the right one initialization for you nic in the linux kernel driver source ( e.g. http://www.linbox.com/pipermail/lrs-cmslog...uly/000037.html ) and try to patch the osx driver, but this is not easy to do and i cant do this for you without hardware.

 

Maybe you or someone else have enought asm knowledge to patch it.

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blah ...

 

copy my modyfied extension into the /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins

 

Change/Add device into the Info.plist ( still needed, if this not help you must patch with hexeditor my kext )

 

then run

 

sudo -s

cd /

cd /System/Library/Extensions/

ln -s IONetworkingFamily.kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily.kext

 

rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions

kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions

 

and reboot.

 

Patching with Hexeditor :

 

-Expample, device id 169c ( bcm 5788 )

-patch on hex 37336 from "66 81 FA 59 16" to "66 81 FA 9C 16".

 

Thats all. I will patch the 10.4.4 drivers too, but currently try to run the 10.4.3

AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext.zip

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