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88e8056 marvell driver

All installed, sound, video, everything is running fine except for the Gigabit network card which is a marvell 88e8056. I intalled Yukon2 from the ideneb driver list but it seems not working. Anyone knows how to go about fixing this issue?…

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@galee Published 2009-10-13
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Leopard 10.5
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All installed, sound, video, everything is running fine except for the Gigabit network card which is a marvell 88e8056. I intalled Yukon2 from the ideneb driver list but it seems not working.

Anyone knows how to go about fixing this issue?

I googled around and found this.

/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon2.kext/Contents/Info.plist

Edit the content to this.

<key>Yukon-88E8056</key>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
            <string>com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2</string>
            <key>EnableLowPwr</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
            <key>IOClass</key>
            <string>yukon2osx</string>
            <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
            <string>0x436411ab</string>
            <key>IOProviderClass</key>
            <string>IOPCIDevice</string>
            <key>MACNumber</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
            <key>Model</key>
            <string>Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8056 Singleport Copper SA</string>
            <key>NetworkNumber</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
            <key>Vendor</key>
            <string>Marvell</string>
        </dict>

(press Control-O)
(press Y and Enter)
(press Control-X)

sudo chown -R root:wheel IONetworkingFamily.kext    
 cd /System/Library                                  
 sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache

not sure if this will do the trick, but hoping someone here can show the correct way.

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @galee

Author Update #1 @galee 2009-10-14

The procedure works for me... thought it might benefits these who has got this issue, try to download gigabyte_ds3-4pack.1.2.dmg and edit the kext as suggested. (this is due to gigabyte_ds3-4pack.1.2.dmg is for Yukon2 88e8053 kext). Hope it works for all off you...

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