kofchina Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 I'm using a Dell D620 laptop. I installed Jas OSX 10.4.8 on the laptop, now everything is OK but the NIC. I checked the NIC ID is 1600, so it should be a broadcom 5752 chip. I found a BCM5751 kext file, modified the file (replaced the NIC ID and disabled NVSRAM checksum) and loaded the drivers then reboot the system. After that, I found en0 in the term by using ifconfig, but the media status is "inactive". I set the MAC address manually, and set the IP addr to DHCP, but I could not ping the gateway. Then I tried to set a static IP, still could not ping GW. Need some help!! Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kofchina Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Somebody help me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmodai Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 After a *lot* of messing around I finally got my Broadcom 5789 working under JaS 10.4.8. After editing the plist to include my device ID (169d), and going through the HexEdit process, it started working. There are a few side effects; every time I reboot my network interface number increments by one. Right now I'm running on en3; next reboot it will be en4, etc. Additionally, there are quite a large number of new PCI interfaces showing in the System Prefs, and each reboot I have to select the newest one (it gets autodetected) and configure the TCP/IP details manually (blank MAC, no DHCP from my DHCP server). Check this thread out: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=4987 It's what got me through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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