errandwolfe Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Looking for a little help here. My internal LAN on my notebook does not work (Broadcom 5755), so I am looking for another LAN solution. As a last resort I could go USB, but do to sleep issues I would much prefer a PCMCIA CardBus solution. I am currently working with a D-Link DFE-690TXD card. My PCMCIA slot is recognized and the card does seem to initialize at boot. While it does show up in System Profiler under PC Cards, the system never seems to recognize it as a NIC. Note: Since this information pertains to the post below, I had gotten this up and running using the Chunnan Rev.8 Leopard kexts. The card does ship with a Mac driver; however it is PPC only. Why create an intel driver for it when no Intel Macs have PCMCIA I guess is D-Link's way of thinking about it. The card is a Realtek 8139 chipset, so what I did to try to get it to work was to modify the RTL8139 kext in IONetworking and added the device and vendor ID. This seems to have had no effect at all. The Vendor ID is 1186 and the Device ID is 1340. Anyone have any clues how I can get this (or any other PCMCIA LAN Card) working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 OK, figured out my own answer to the problem.... Even though it appeared the PCMCIA controller was operational it appears it really was not. After installing the kexts from this post (PCCard 10.5.2 Beta Package). After I installed this package and rebooted the D-Link card was detected and is now functioning perfectly. Keep in mind, I did edit the RTL8139 kext in IONetworking to add the device/vendor ID of that D-Link card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sdnei Avelar Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Hi, I have Leopard 10.5.4 and DFE-690TXD, but not works! My PCCard detected (Chun Nan rev 8 kext) with Vendor 1186 and ID 1340. What the procedure that you use? Sorry by terrible English, I speak Portuguese Sdnei Avelar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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