Thanks for all the hard work on this one ceph.

Successful install with a BCM5755M on a Dell Precision M4300.

I've got one more thing to test for those, who have problem with loading the kext. I've been recently helping with os x installation on lenovo y530 (or sth like that) and installing the kext was not enough to make BCM5906M ethernet card work. Adding Device (LAN) in DSDT solved the problem (there was no ethernet device at all) and ethernet works fine.

Hi

tried it on Lion with a BCM57781 (14e4:16b1).
Changed the info.plist - driver loads - ifconfig shows en0, link speed is fine, but no packets are sent or received.
Any idea?

Thanks,
Christian

Onboard Broadcom® 5754 Gigabit Ethernet LAN solution 10/100/1000 Ethernet (Dell Optiplex 745 desktop PC) works fine (as of now) on H@ckint0sh OS X Lion 10.7 with your BCM5722D.kext.zip

ethernet:

Type: Ethernet Controller
Bus: PCI
Vendor ID: 0x14e4
Device ID: 0x167a
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1028
Subsystem ID: 0x01da
Revision ID: 0x0002
Link Width: x1
BSD name: en1
Kext name: BCM5722D.kext
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/BCM5722D.kext
Version: 1


Indeed the problem with your earlier revision lied in the upper case alphabetical characters in device ID string. They needed to be lower case.

Thanks a million times for your time and effort.

Hey, we used Xcode to compile the kext again using your latest sources. The best we can get now is 100BaseTX Full-Duplex. Using the kext from May it loaded up as half duplex 100BaseTX. It does seem to drop out the connection after a few hours and requires the kext to be unloaded and reloaded. This is on a Dell poweredge T110.

Any ideas on getting 1000BaseT Full duplex working?
I tried forcing the setting but it will either show cable unplugged or it does a self assigned IP and manually setting it does nothing. Now on a side note it doesn't need the MAC address manually set anymore, it is able to pick it up from the hardware.

Another side note... Do you know of any working pci-e GigE LAN cards that will work in osx? As work will buy the card that will work for the machine.

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Thank you , working great on my Dell Optiplex 330

Hi adlan, all,

after having no solution for my onboard nic i decided to give it a try and changed/added my device id to info.plist, like some other here as well .

The result is as follow:
Do you think there is any chance to get this working somehow?

Any help is much appreciated. Many thanks
M

after some more testing I now get following:
of course...it still doesn't work. but why is it different now?

M

Thank you!!! Works on my Dell Gx745 SFF with a BCOM 5754

Vendor Id: 0x14e4
Device Id: 0x167a
Subsystem Vendor Id: 0x1028
Revision Id: 0x0002
Link Width: x1

Hi Adlan,

I inserted the 1677 to the kext plist. The driver loads, assigns the correct MAC address, but does not transmit and recieve.

Is there anything else I should do?

Thanks.