[Development]-Broadcom 4311 Fix

[P i c k l e s.]

Hey,

 

I'm relatively new here but other than that I'd like to ask for some help here. I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to OSX86 so please be patient.

 

I have a Compaq Presario C544TU Laptop with Broadcom 4311 Mini PCI-E Wlan. I've ran DPCIManager and it's in their so I know the cards working. I have Mac OSX 10.4.7 JaS Installed. Everything works besides the wireless and it'd be great to have it working.

 

I currently have IO8211Family.kext loading and AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext loading (found in System Profile->Extensions)

But still no Airport dome comes up and nothing is listed in the Airport Card section in System Profiler. My Networkinterfaces.plist only has my ethernet card in it so I can't do the en0/en1 trick.

 

I got the IO8211Family.kext to load by using the one out of my Mum's MacBook. The other ones i've downloaded here won't start.

 

I have the IOPCIFamily.kext installed too. Any ideas?

 

When I select the IO8211Family.kext it tells me its dependencies are incomplete, along with the AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext.

 

They say their not correct for:

 

com.apple.iokit.iopcifamily

com.apple.iokit.ionetworkfamily

 

and theirs one other their not correct for, but i'm at school at the moment and will edit this when I get home.

 

I've tried repairing disk permissions, removing my kextcache and using a terminal command script to set the kext permissions.

 

Please help! If anyone could get this going for me it'd be awesome, I might even give you some cash $$$

 

Pickles.

[applehacker]

so. is there any news?

[Stanford-Binet]

no news is good news? ... well, there are a lot of us that still visit this particular thread hoping for news.

[hiimcliff]

no news is good news? ... well, there are a lot of us that still visit this particular thread hoping for news.

you can say that again. it doesn't make sense to me that the windows os and the linux kernels can make use of the mini pci but osx cant. maybe if we track down the same person that made the driver for linux we can get him/her to help us build one for osx.

[jubjubrsx]

^^one more looking for a solution and bumpity bump bump bump

[iAl]

same, this would be amazing if it was fixed, chun-nan, u fixed it for the normal pci-e slots, now fix the stupid compaq/hp ones!!!!!

 

[booger_sniffer5000]

@iAl

They are fixed, right now it is just a card problem, the laptops work fine with a hot plugged Dell 1390 or 1490, which by the way I am working on an SPROM for the Dell 1390 and 1490, I have been running into some problems with writing the SPROMs to test them so once I get that fixed it should only take me a day or two to make an SPROM so it can be loaded onto a Dell card and used in OS X.

[applehacker]

bump. waiting for some news......

[spacklewoof]

Please view this thread:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...rt=#entry744460

[booger_sniffer5000]

I need somebody to help me out here. I am having problems with the iwpriv command in Linux. Everytime I try to use it it gives me an error saying that the interface doesn't accept private ioctls.I have tried many different distributions and still it keeps giving me the same error. I have gotten it to work before but I just can't seem to rememeber how. Can somebody help me out here? I would really like to get this problem fixed so I can get an SPROM written and wireless working.

[applehacker]

sorry, cant help u. I am DOS and Terminal only guy.

[booger_sniffer5000]

I got it to work now. I installed Ubuntu 6.10 and it worked. When you mod your SPROM you have to use the Sub PCI ID of 103c,1364 and not 103c,1363. I am going to test out whether wireless will work with this SPROM i just made.

[jubjubrsx]

so sounds like i can just get me a dell 1390 wifi card from fleabay hot plug it reflash it and should work!?

[applehacker]

wow, I MIGHT just have to buy one. can I buy it off u? I REALLY dont like linux..............

[booger_sniffer5000]

@applehacker

Sorry but I am kinda using it.

 

I have that SPROM finished keep in mind its for a Dell 1490 and not 1390 you could probably use it on a 1390 but I am not sure. Also, this is kinda off topic but, I heard somewhere that the iAtkos 2.0i DVD image is corrupt. Is this true?

Final_Dell_1490_SPROM.zip

[jubjubrsx]

i dont know if this is any help....for our C500's the broadcomm actually causes a kernel panic and wont even let you get to the installer in the kalyway 10.5.2 so it sounds like the solution is only a dell 1390 card or any others

 

 

just pulled my wifi card out to test it..and yes the stock bcm4311 card that comes with the C500 will cause a kernel panic during load up in kalyway 10.5.2

[booger_sniffer5000]

@jubjubrsx, just to let you know, I don't have any problems with Kalyway 10.5.2. So you are probably right about the wireless card causing the panic.

 

I have been trying to get wireless to work in OS X but I can't get it to work for some reason. Even after installing the modified IOPCIFamily.kext. I don't understand what the problem is. However, I am not giving up because I want this working and I have a few more ideas.

[jubjubrsx]

@booger

 

its definitely because of the wificard the panic is showing some IO802BCM43xx.kext or something similar to that nature...i cant wait for my 1390 to get here...

[booger_sniffer5000]

Well, I found out that you have to hot plug the card in order for it to be recognized. I am not sure why but it obviously has something to do with the BIOS recognizing the wireless card and it does something to the PCI port. I noticed that both the stock card and the Dell card are recognized when hot plugged. However, I could not get either to completely work. But I will tell you one thing, it would be a pain to hot plug the wireless card at every boot just to be able to surf the web. :censored2:

[djxcrx88]

hey peeps ive been trying to get my 4311 broadcom pcie card to work on my damn hp dv6700 for weeks now, been following all the posts and reading up everywhere...

 

ive reached a point where everything is all settled and i am very comfortable changing id's and reflashing the firmware on the card.... but i still keep getting the damn error 104 halt!!!!!

 

the thing is none of the sub id's i put in do anything... so i thought id check out what id's are available in my laptop's bios, opened it up with a hex editor and here is the string i found:

 

E4 14 11 43 3C 10 74 13, E4 14 11 43 3C 10 75 13, E4 14 11 43 3C 10 76 13

 

so in a nutshell the bios already has the broadcom id's, all i had to do was use 1374, 75 or 76, instead of the original 1363 in the guide.

 

but even after doing so, still doesnt work. this is driving me nuts!

[jubjubrsx]

djxcrx --- you followed the directions on this page when trying to do the spram thing http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=75242 ???

[djxcrx88]

Yup I did everything, I double checked it too. I'm able to change the ids on the firmware and copy it to the broadcom adapter, no problem there.

 

Its just after I'm done with modifying the firmware. I reboot the notebook and I still get that damn error... if anyone knows how I can get it to work let me know thanks!

[booger_sniffer5000]

I know what you did wrong djxcrx88. You were supposed to use the ids 103c, 1364 instead of the original 103c, 1363.

[djxcrx88]

well to tell you the truth i already tried 1363, 1364, 1365 and a whole lot of other ids, i even took the exact id's from the intel 4965 card and still no go...

I really dont understand, its a dv6757 notebook, others have had it working on this series... this is really weird

[booger_sniffer5000]

Isn't there a BIOS hack for your notebook? Cause that would be easier in my opinion. I am pretty sure there is a BIOS hack for the dv6000 series, just search the forums. The BIOS hack allows any wireless card to be used without an SPROM hack.