BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)

@chinaskyLaptop lenovo n500, with a bcm5906M. Working fine, no kp at the moment.

glad to hear that!

@pat98usbCan you make it work for also for broadcom bmc57780 ,, pci14e4,1692

sorry, i'm afraid that is not possible for me now. I'll release the source code, so anybody interested can try to work on it if possible.

@quinielascomThanks seem work fine, tested with BCM5787M. Is possible set your driver to display nothing in system log ? In my system log I have: BCM5722D (Build date/time: Feb 11 2011 16:21:32) BCM5722D (setupDriver:920): MSI index on 1 BCM5722D (resetAdapter:144): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 2687 iterations my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Model: BCM5787M…

no , i'll upload a non-chatty version later.
thank you for testing!

@webwolfI have a Dell XPS m1330, Hardware Info reports a 5906M network card, but I tried to install your driver without success: I can't see any new interface in System Preferences / Network. In /var/log the only mention I found is in system.log: com.apple.kextd[10]: BCM5722D.kext has no Info.plist file. com.apple.kextcache[591]:…

from the log, I see the the kext failed to load because there is no Info.plist file, can you verify that the installed kext does indeed not contain Info.plist? if it is, try removing and reinstalling the kext? verify the downloaded kext too.

Terminal,
ls /System/Library/Extensions/BCM5722D.kext/Contents

@adminioThanks! I have a Acer5315 w/BCM5906M works!

glad to hear that

@DabluestYou got my 5906M card working (even in Lion)! I'm almost speechless. I never thought that would happen! You rock! Thank you.

oooh, on Lion too? great! hey, where did you get that? :-$

@abiogenesisOMG i've found this thread and I'm ruined. Because I was writing my own driver for bcm5906m too I started reading 5722-PG101-R.pdf and if_bge.c in January and just today got working rx and tx without checksum offloading support, multicast and power state switching. And now I don't know what to do, either to delete my…

ugh, sorry to hear that,
initially, i developed this driver for my card(5787m), since bcm5906 is also documented in the manual, i decided to support the model.

since you have started, don't stop! just finish it, take this as an exercise for you, it gives you experience and it can be beneficial to you and the community in the future. surely it seems like a waste of time, but it's your choice. if it were for me, i would go for that route

@rals2007adlan Superb! Better to have a log with only, my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Model: BCM5787M NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Ethernet address 00:11:22:33:44:55 This way, much cleaner.

i've uploaded the non-chatty version.

@abiogenesisThanks to your code I've fixed a couple of my bugs and I think I've found one in your setMulticastList function. Here, according to 5722-PG101-R.pdf, crc should be calculated for every address in the array, so it would be "addrs + i" or "&addrs".

my bad, how could I missed that
thanks for pointing that out

@Medienmenschis it possible to make a Driver for BCM4357 rev1 ? I have a Lenovo G560 with this Wlan Card. That would be so great! And if not, what Wlan Card would you recomend me to buy for use in osx?

right now, all i can say as is it's not possible. no public api documentation is available and also i don't know if any datasheet/programmer manual/open source driver is available for that model.

I recommend buying external wireless usb adapter and I personally use dlink dwa-110. you can find more supported models in the Hardware Compatibility List at OSx86 project wiki ↗

@tmacyunnHi adlan, I have a problem in the 10.6.7, when I put the laptop to sleep for a hour or a little longer the driver can't work, network disconnect. After using Kextload command to unload and reload it work come back. Is it a problem of system ? maybe we should compile it in the 10.6.7, I have try repair permissions and rebuild kernel…

I'll investigate this further. Can you provide the log message after waking up from sleep?

For the warning message, you can just ignore it as there are some conversion which requires a 64bit value to be broken into 2 32bit value to fit it into the hardware registers.

@AstaraelI have just tested your kext - it makes my BCM5787M work. Moreover in "System Profiler" I can see correct information about the card (while using 10.6.3 modified BCM5701 plugin i got pci14e4,1693 instead of real name despite of DSDT patches I added). But there's one problem - after loading the kext my system slowed down a lot. I…

hi,
can you try this kext,

cl .ly/3e3l2N2t1n242a3O0T0I

and send me the log? take the line starting with BCM5722D

PS no problem, me too

@Domenic211I've got an Acer Aspire 2920 with broadcom BCM5787M. I tried to add the file in attachment of this post "BCM5722D.kext" in system\library\extesion but after reboot my lan still don't work... . PC: Acer Aspire 2920 ( Intel Core 2 Duo chipset: intel 965) Mac Os X: 10.6.6i By hazard p.s.: I have also tried to install max os x 10.6.2 but…

hi,

usually that error message pops up when kext doesn't have the proper permission. To fix this, you need to change the kext permission

either run disk utility then repair permission

or in terminal,

cd /System/Library/Extensions
sudo chmod -R 755 BCM5722D.kext
sudo chown -R 0:0 BCM5722D.kext

a simpler solution is to install using Kext Helper (k exts.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=250) (as of this reply, the main site is currently down. the link points to kexts.com download)

sorry for the delay, sometimes i didn't notice new post on this thread.

@AstaraelHi, sorry it took me so long, I've been very busy recently. Anyway, I placed the kext you gave me in /S/L/E, then chmod and chown it and loaded it with kextload. This is what I got in system Console: 11-04-18 18:13:12 sudo[255] astarael : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/astarael ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/kextload…

did the problem still persist?
is that the only message logged for the kext? and after that your system starts slowing down?

PS, yeah, kexthelper freeze on exit that it requires force quitting, though i didn't bother looking for another since the app still does what it should do . Anyway thank you for the advice, I'll try the app you mentioned and update the first post.

@scritchyI have device 14e4:167b Broadcomm 5755 onboard nic on an hp xw6600 machine. The kext appears to fail to do anything at all. There is no mention of it in any of the logs in var/log i've tried deleting and reinstalling the kext with both kext helper b7 and kext wizard, and rebuilding kext cache. I've tried using the zip file attachee to…

try as what Astarael said, try loading the kext manually, and look for any fail message logged. if the kext is loading, it should at least log a build date/time message.

actually there has been a report on the same behavior as this. i'm still investigating what causes this problem and most likely come to a dead end.

btw, do you have a vanilla or distro install?

@AstaraelI didn't wan to say it to early, but now it seems to be fine... Somehow The kext is loaded since about 24 hours and slow-down event didn't occur. At least so far While searching BCM in Console I got more results now. These is all I got since I have loaded the kext. 11-04-18 18:13:12 sudo[255] astarael : TTY=ttys000 ;…

that's what i want to hear!

..
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 1 to 0
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 0 to 1
..
11-04-19 14:52:49	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 1 to 0
11-04-19 14:53:03	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 0 to 1

regarding the log message, i'm quite curious of what is happening.. seeing a lot of sudden power state changes and didn't see any link state announcement.

anyway, thank you for testing

@AstaraelI think these power state changes are here because I used sleep a few times. So no need to worry, also your kext doesn't break sleep

the small time difference between on and off state is what made me curious.
since you didn't have any problems with it, i'll just ignore the curiosity

@ronin510I've been using your kext for my Lenovo S10 (with a BCM5906). So far, it's been working great! On your "not implemented" list you have: BCM5906/M - Isochronous Send Ring I was wondering what that actually means for us BCM56906 users? Do we lose any common feature/functionality? Also, I get 6MB/sec when transferring data from the…

hey, glad to hear that!

the isochronous send ring is just a performance enhancement on the transmit side, it's great for data streaming. I don't remember stumbling upon that feature implementation while reading tg3(linux) and if_bge(*bsd) source code though (maybe I missed it, but I'm quite sure about it).

I don't know how much other people got since nobody put it up and I didn't ask for it either. Although I did do some benchmarking using tools like netperf (net perf.org/netperf/) and iperf (iperf.sourc eforge.net/). Generally I can say its performance is on par with the available driver with only slight difference. If you want the result, I can post it later as I need to dive deep into the disk looking for it .

@michalskiei have a lenovo g530 i installed the kext and got a kernel panic .

hi, sorry for the delay

can you provide me your
- card model
- method of os installation (vanilla/distro(hazard,iatkos,etc)

@derekj0571Your kext works flawlessly (So Far) I just add the HID for the BCM 57778 (1691) and off to the races. Throughput so far seems good. If I were you, just add the same to your distro and will include this card. Oh yes, this is a DVD Retail install of OSX Server 10.6 with Combo Update 10.6.7

hi, sorry for the delay, been away on holiday

great!, I didn't expect that, if it works flawlessly, I'll add it to the supported models list.

thank you for testing!

@ludacrisvpDoes not work on the Dell PowerEdge T110 (brand new Intel Xeon server) 14e4:165A kext appears to be able to be manually loaded but will not auto load and will not 'see' the device. LSPCI can see the card it is the BCM5722. So since the kext will not attach to the card there is no network support

I assume you've tried adding 14E4,165A to the IONameMatch array in Info.plist.

Despite the project name, I actually left BCM5722 out of the supported model list and didn't considered it while developing. I'll check the programmer manual and send you the kext to test if there is any modification to the code to support this model as soon as possible (probably this weekend).

@ronin510Sorry if this has been mentioned in the forum already, but I only pay attention to this thread. It seems some posts/updates were deleted since the last time I visited. The site perhaps reloaded from a backup? The first post/kext is out of date again. Maybe this is why you thought you uploaded a newer version, but the site was reverted…

yeah, just noticed that. some of the post is missing and the front page has the old content although I've updated it recently.

@ludacrisvpI did actually get it to almost work. I had to manually set the MAC address for my work network to allow DHCP on my corporate network to assign an IP for me. It starts to load a webpage and KP! With complaints about IONetworking.kext. If I don't try to load a page I get about 5 mins of uptime prior to KP with same error. If I don't…

actually I have no idea about your problem, sorry. Did you try the latest kext I sent?

anyway, I just noticed the spec on your sig, are you installing it on leopard? I don't know if it will work on that without a recompilation and modification of Info.plist.

@rals2007adlan Source is synced with your latest binary release ?

yes, i just updated the kext in the first post with the new build based on the latest commit

@fyoooI can't see anything about BCM in my system.log and even my /var/log directory

If the kext is loaded, it should at least shows a build date/time. So that means the kext isn't loaded. Actually I didn't have the chance to see the image of error message you posted before, can you post it again?

@fyoooI just tried to load this kext manually in terminal: bash-3.2# kextload BCM5722D.kext/ /Users/oo/Downloads/BCM5722D.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) authentication failure (file ownership/permissions); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8). bash-3.2#

you need to change the kext ownership/permissions , else kextd will not load the kext.

sudo chown -R root:wheel BCM5722D.kext
sudo chmod -R 755 BCM5722D.kext

@fyoooI'd tried to use KextHelper to install this kext, but it can not work. I can't see any information about BCM in system.log

try loading it using kextutil with high verbosity level and put its output here

sudo kextutil -v 4 BCM5722D.kext

@fyoooThanks, that's what it shows: ... After that, I checked the system.log file: oos-iMac:Downloads oo$ grep BCM /var/log/system.log May 19 19:56:04 oos-iMac sudo[152]: oo : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/oo/Downloads ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/kextutil -v 4 BCM5722D.kext oos-iMac:Downloads oo$ It seems to be success, but I still can't…

you searched in the wrong file, the log entry will be in kernel.log
can you also post here the output of ifconfig after the kext is loaded?

@FredWstHi i was having the same trouble with BCM 5754 on dell optiplex 745. 10.6.7 retail install lspci -nn result: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:167a] (rev 02) I fixe this changing in info.plist of kext this line: pci14e4,167A -> pci14e4,167a Deep sleep working…

hey, thanks!

I really have no idea what's causing that problem and now you found the culprit.
my bad, I totally missed that and to be honest, at first look I wouldn't have thought that would cause a problem..

thanks a million again FredWst!

@VIVXIXI always need to use IPv6 proxy for connecting to internet. However,I find the driver may has some problem of IPv6 proxy, which is that the connection of IPv6 proxy becomes disconnected sooner or later. I can figure out it is not cause by the proxy. But I found a temper solution that ifconfig the en0 down and up.

it works on 5706 too? great! problem is expected, though.

I'll look at it when I have time. However, I do hope others to contribute to add support for other model if possible. But, since project documentation is currently sparse, I'm not expecting any

anyway, thank you for testing!

@FredWstI've installed Lion on my optiplex 745. BCM5722 is also working for my BCM 5754. Fred Ps: ATI 4350 is also working without green apple and qe/ci enable.

great!

@VIVXIXI am sorry， I make a mistake.It 's bcm5906.,not BCM5706. :'(:'(:'(:'(:'(

^_^, no problem mate

@fyoooadlan&FredWst It works!

@VIVXIXThanks .I think the IPv6 proxy problem posted before just disappear. The ifconfig en0 down and ifconfig en0 up commons dos't need anymore.

glad to hear that!

@cephalopodHi Adlan... thanks for your work on this, I've been suffering with hex-editing the original 5701 kext trying to get my card working (device ID 1681). I thought on the off-chance I'd try your kext and with an Info.plist addition it picked it up straight away - really impressed! I just have to sort out the blank MAC address and give it…

@cephalopodOddly, on reboot with a link the MAC address is identified but the speed isn't negotiated properly... on first attempt to do anything with the interface/driver it drops the connection permanently, preventing reconfiguration; only resuming use after another reboot. Any ideas Adlan please?

sorry for the lateness, been quite busy for the last few days.

anyway I checked the linux and *bsd driver, it seems that, there are some fixes/additional initialization steps/different register value for that model. maybe it has something to do with that, I'll try to include those changes and send you the kext to test this weekend.

thank you for testing!

Laptop lenovo n500, with a bcm5906M. Working fine, no kp at the moment.

Can you make it work for also for broadcom bmc57780 ,, pci14e4,1692

Thanks seem work fine, tested with BCM5787M.

Is possible set your driver to display nothing in system log ?

In my system log I have:

BCM5722D (Build date/time: Feb 11 2011 16:21:32)
BCM5722D (setupDriver:920): MSI index on 1
BCM5722D (resetAdapter:144): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 2687 iterations
my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Model: BCM5787M NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Loaded successfully
BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 1 to 0
my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Ethernet address 00:11:22:33:44:55
BCM5722D (resetAdapter:144): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 2638 iterations
BCM5722D (setMedium:471): Change medium: kIOMediumEthernetAuto
BCM5722D (setMedium:496): Change medium: kLinkDuplexNegotiate
BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:364): advertiseFe: 5E1
BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:365): advertiseGe: 300
BCM5722D (startAutoNegotiation:522): Adv reg: 5E1

You got my 5906M card working (even in Lion)! I'm almost speechless. I never thought that would happen! You rock! Thank you.

Dell XPS m1330

I have a Dell XPS m1330, Hardware Info reports a 5906M network card, but I tried to install your driver without success: I can't see any new interface in System Preferences / Network.
In /var/log the only mention I found is in system.log:
com.apple.kextd[10]: BCM5722D.kext has no Info.plist file.
com.apple.kextcache[591]: BCM5722D.kext has no Info.plist file.

Any idea?
Marco

@adlanglad to hear that oooh, on Lion too? great! hey, where did you get that? :-$

A certain green devil

OMG i've found this thread and I'm ruined.
Because I was writing my own driver for bcm5906m too
I started reading 5722-PG101-R.pdf and if_bge.c in January and just today got working rx and tx without checksum offloading support, multicast and power state switching.

And now I don't know what to do, either to delete my http://code.google.com/p/osx-bcm5906m/ ↗ project which is still under construction, or finish the driver and upload it there, but now it doesn't make any sense
:

adlan

Superb!

Better to have a log with only,

my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Model: BCM5787M NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Ethernet address 00:11:22:33:44:55

This way, much cleaner.

Thanks to your code I've fixed a couple of my bugs and I think I've found one in your setMulticastList function.

for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { crc = computeCRC32((const UInt8 *) addrs, 6); ... }

Here, according to 5722-PG101-R.pdf, crc should be calculated for every address in the array, so it would be "addrs + i" or "&addrs".

is it possible to make a Driver for BCM4357 rev1

I have a Lenovo G560 with this Wlan Card.

That would be so great!

And if not, what Wlan Card would you recomend me to buy for use in osx?

Works in the Lenovo S12

Excellent! Works for (LAN) BCM 5906M on the Lenovo S12
Thank's!

Thanks, thanks, thanks! It is really unbelievable that someone have done this at last!
keep up the good work!
Work's great on my lenovo s10e 4086RLG :

@pat98usbCan you make it work for also for broadcom bmc57780 ,, pci14e4,1692

I think that's the airport driver as it says below that device ID airport.kext or something. Ethernet isn't shown at all until u install this kext, and after that u will have 2 ethernet cards: airport pci14e4 and ethernet.

@adlani've uploaded the non-chatty version.

Another thing, Please, do you can compile your driver for Leopard 10.5.x too?

Hi adlan, I have a problem in the 10.6.7, when I put the laptop to sleep for a hour or a little longer the driver can't work, network disconnect. After using Kextload command to unload and reload it work come back.
Is it a problem of system ? maybe we should compile it in the 10.6.7, I have try repair permissions and rebuild kernel caches

Edit:
I try to compile the sources code under 32bit 10.6.7 with xcode 3.2.5 and get some warnings like :

BCM5722D-18e3e93/BCM5722D.cpp:536: warning: implicit conversion shortens 64-bit value into a 32-bit value

Here is:

 Friday, March 25, 2011 4:49:52 PM Asia/Shanghai 
Mar 25 16:49:57 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: System Sleep
Mar 25 16:50:17 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: Wake reason = 
Mar 25 16:50:17 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: System Wake
Mar 25 16:50:17 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: ApplePS2ALPSGlidePoint: ABMod Waking up Touchpad setting setTapEnable to 1
Mar 25 16:50:17 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USB (EHCI):Port 3 on bus 0xfa connected or disTconnectedhe USB d:ev porticSC(e 0x301US8B Op03ti)
Mar 25 16:50:17 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: cal Mouse (Port 1 of Hub at 0x5d000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)
Mar 25 16:50:18 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 20060413092100000 0xbda 0x158 0x5195

And i notice when wakeup from sleep, the system preference shows network is connected, but actually it doesn't.

This is the kext logs you release before:

Mar 19 22:51:18 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: System Sleep
Mar 19 22:51:27 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: Wake reason = 
Mar 19 22:51:27 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: System Wake
Mar 19 22:51:27 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: ApplePS2ALPSGlidePoint: ABMod Waking up Touchpad setting setTapEnable to 1
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USB (EHCI):Port 3 on bus 0xfa connected or disconnected: portSC(0x301803)
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: The USB device USB Optical Mouse (Port 1 of Hub at 0x5d000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 0 to 1
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (resetAdapter:144): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (setMedium:471): Change medium: kIOMediumEthernetAuto
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (setMedium:496): Change medium: kLinkDuplexNegotiate
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:364): advertiseFe: 1E1
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:365): advertiseGe: 0
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (startAutoNegotiation:522): Adv reg: 1E1
Mar 19 22:51:28 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 20060413092100000 0xbda 0x158 0x5195
Mar 19 22:51:29 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (setupPHY:100): Auxillary status: F53F
Mar 19 22:51:29 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: BCM5722D (setupFlowControl:621): flowControl: 0
Mar 19 22:51:29 yuns-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Link up: 100 MBps, full duplex. Flow control: disabled

I have just tested your kext - it makes my BCM5787M work. Moreover in "System Profiler" I can see correct information about the card (while using 10.6.3 modified BCM5701 plugin i got pci14e4,1693 instead of real name despite of DSDT patches I added).

But there's one problem - after loading the kext my system slowed down a lot. I barely managed to type sudo kextunload BCM5722D.kext in terminal. I didn't got such effects after loading hexedited plugin.
About 5 minutes later I used kextload command and got slow down again - but the negative effect was much lighter, I'd say about one tenth of first one.
Maybe it might have something to do with code optimizations? I really dunno.

I keep my fingers crossed for this project - who knows, how long 10.6.3 kext is going to work? It may get broken in Lion or even next update.

Regards,
Astarael

PS Sorry for my English, still learning

I've got an Acer Aspire 2920 with broadcom BCM5787M.
I tried to add the file in attachment of this post "BCM5722D.kext" in system\library\extesion but after reboot my lan still don't work... .

PC: Acer Aspire 2920 ( Intel Core 2 Duo chipset: intel 965)
Mac Os X: 10.6.6i By hazard

p.s.: I have also tried to install max os x 10.6.2 but the result is the same with this kext my lan don't working… in mac manager as Ethernet Cards don't result anything.

p.p.s. after added the kext file in library directory displays a message :
System extesion cannot be used
The system extension " /System/library …" was installed improperly and cannot be used.
Please try reinstalling it…

what's my problem?
thank u guys
greetings from Italy

@adlancan you try this kext, cl .ly/3e3l2N2t1n242a3O0T0I and send me the log? take the line starting with BCM5722D PS no problem, me too

Hi, sorry it took me so long, I've been very busy recently.
Anyway, I placed the kext you gave me in /S/L/E, then chmod and chown it and loaded it with kextload. This is what I got in system Console:

11-04-18 18:13:12	sudo[255]	astarael : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/astarael ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/kextload /System/Library/Extensions/BCM5722D.kext/
11-04-18 18:13:13	kernel	BCM5722D (Build date/time: Mar 25 2011 23:28:49)
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Model: BCM5787M NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Loaded successfully
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Ethernet address 00:1e:37:24:13:81
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:367): Change medium: kIOMediumEthernetAuto
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:392): Change medium: kLinkDuplexNegotiate
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:567): advertiseFe: 5E1
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:568): advertiseGe: 300
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (startAutoNegotiation:590): Adv reg: 5E1

I'm not sure if it is what you wanted :-|

PS I wouldn't advise using KextHelper in Snow Leopard - it doesn't work well. You might want to test KextWizard instead (I won't post a link 'cos I'm not sure if it is permitted )

I have device 14e4:167b Broadcomm 5755 onboard nic on an hp xw6600 machine. The kext appears to fail to do anything at all. There is no mention of it in any of the logs in var/log

i've tried deleting and reinstalling the kext with both kext helper b7 and kext wizard, and rebuilding kext cache. I've tried using the zip file attachee to this thread, and rebuilding the kext from the source. No difference. I verified the device id w/ dpci manager.

Not sure what else to try?

it "works" with the hacked 5701 kext floating around, in that it gets an ip and can connect, but the hacked 5701 has horrible upload problems that make it incredibly slow or times out, which is why I arrived here.

After you start your system, try to type in the terminal kextstat | grep BCM and see if there are any results. If not - kext in fact is not being loaded at all...
Did you trierd to force it with kextload command?

I didn't wan to say it to early, but now it seems to be fine... Somehow
The kext is loaded since about 24 hours and slow-down event didn't occur. At least so far
While searching BCM in Console I got more results now. These is all I got since I have loaded the kext.

11-04-18 18:13:12	sudo[255]	astarael : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/astarael ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/kextload /System/Library/Extensions/BCM5722D.kext/
11-04-18 18:13:13	kernel	BCM5722D (Build date/time: Mar 25 2011 23:28:49)
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Model: BCM5787M NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Loaded successfully
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	my_name_adlan_BCM5722D: Ethernet address 00:1e:37:24:13:81
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:367): Change medium: kIOMediumEthernetAuto
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:392): Change medium: kLinkDuplexNegotiate
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:567): advertiseFe: 5E1
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:568): advertiseGe: 300
11-04-18 18:13:14	kernel	BCM5722D (startAutoNegotiation:590): Adv reg: 5E1
11-04-18 22:04:02	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-18 22:04:02	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 1 to 0
11-04-19 06:01:56	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 0 to 1
11-04-19 06:01:57	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-19 06:01:57	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:367): Change medium: kIOMediumEthernetAuto
11-04-19 06:01:57	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:392): Change medium: kLinkDuplexNegotiate
11-04-19 06:01:57	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:567): advertiseFe: 5E1
11-04-19 06:01:57	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:568): advertiseGe: 300
11-04-19 06:01:57	kernel	BCM5722D (startAutoNegotiation:590): Adv reg: 5E1
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 1 to 0
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 0 to 1
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:367): Change medium: kIOMediumEthernetAuto
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:392): Change medium: kLinkDuplexNegotiate
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:567): advertiseFe: 5E1
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:568): advertiseGe: 300
11-04-19 14:39:59	kernel	BCM5722D (startAutoNegotiation:590): Adv reg: 5E1
11-04-19 14:52:49	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-19 14:52:49	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 1 to 0
11-04-19 14:53:03	kernel	BCM5722D (setPowerState:84): Changing power state from 0 to 1
11-04-19 14:53:03	kernel	BCM5722D (resetAdapter:145): 4B657654 to B49A89AB in 0 iterations
11-04-19 14:53:03	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:367): Change medium: kIOMediumEthernetAuto
11-04-19 14:53:03	kernel	BCM5722D (setMedium:392): Change medium: kLinkDuplexNegotiate
11-04-19 14:53:03	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:567): advertiseFe: 5E1
11-04-19 14:53:03	kernel	BCM5722D (configureLinkAdvertisement:568): advertiseGe: 300
11-04-19 14:53:03	kernel	BCM5722D (startAutoNegotiation:590): Adv reg: 5E1

PS I hardly ever connect via ethernet, but I tested the drive before and connection was fine. Now I see controller in ifconfig output and system profile so I think it shall work too. Anyway, I will do some tests once I get back home for Easter.

I think these power state changes are here because I used sleep a few times. So no need to worry, also your kext doesn't break sleep

I've been using your kext for my Lenovo S10 (with a BCM5906). So far, it's been working great!

On your "not implemented" list you have:
BCM5906/M - Isochronous Send Ring

I was wondering what that actually means for us BCM56906 users? Do we lose any common feature/functionality?

Also, I get 6MB/sec when transferring data from the ethernet connection. What do other people get?

i have a lenovo g530

i installed the kext and got a kernel panic .

BCM 57778 support

Your kext works flawlessly (So Far)
I just add the HID for the BCM 57778 (1691) and off to the races.
Throughput so far seems good.

If I were you, just add the same to your distro and will include this card.

Oh yes, this is a DVD Retail install of OSX Server 10.6 with Combo Update 10.6.7

Does not work on the Dell PowerEdge T110 (brand new Intel Xeon server)
14e4:165A kext appears to be able to be manually loaded but will not auto load and will not 'see' the device. LSPCI can see the card it is the BCM5722.
So since the kext will not attach to the card there is no network support

dell precision t7400

Hi mate, I tried the kext on this box but the kext is not even loaded (s/l/e)
I also put the kext in ionetworkingfamily,kext/contents/plugins but no luck either (ionetworkingfamily does get loaded).
10.6.7 x64

lspci -nn turns: 14e4_167a rev 02

for any help.

I did actually get it to almost work. I had to manually set the MAC address for my work network to allow DHCP on my corporate network to assign an IP for me. It starts to load a webpage and KP! With complaints about IONetworking.kext. If I don't try to load a page I get about 5 mins of uptime prior to KP with same error. If I don't assign a MAC it still does the same thing with the KP. This was done last week sometime. I got fed up with it and bought the apple USB to Ethernet adapter for the air. However I might do some testing of more kexts on the built in adapter when I get back to work on Monday.

Sorry if this has been mentioned in the forum already, but I only pay attention to this thread.

It seems some posts/updates were deleted since the last time I visited. The site perhaps reloaded from a backup? The first post/kext is out of date again. Maybe this is why you thought you uploaded a newer version, but the site was reverted back to a previous state.

I can't see anything about BCM in my system.log and even my /var/log directory

bash-3.2# pwd /var/log bash-3.2# grep BCM * bash-3.2# ls /System/Library/Extensions/BCM5722D.kext/Contents/ Info.plist MacOS Resources bash-3.2#