how do i get pci devices working in os x?

[macuser9311]

hi,

to anyone who can answer my questions would be grateful ,

pci devices like ,,,creative audigy,,or a pci wireless card,or other devices which isnt supported on mac os surely there must be a way of somehow getting this hardware running from editing kexts? device id or vendor id etc ,can someone make a guide for this or show us how to do such things as so much hardware cannot be used and all can be done by a kext in system/Library/Extensions/ ...

if anyone can shed some light on this subject would be grateful

[lanceomni]

Any particular hardware?

[macuser9311]

atheros wireless pci card would be great to run on mac is there a way?

[nfoav8or]

I think you need to head over to the apple developer site and read up on hardware. Apple created their OS's to work on THEIR hardware... not just any company. Sorry bud, but not every piece of hardware out there will get support through a kernel extension.

DevID's help out but thats not where the real trick lies... its in making the OS realize that if they handle certain bits certain ways along certain connections they can get certain results... thats a lot of certainty needed in an uncertain piece of hardware...

BTW, have you checked out the WIKI for hardware compatibility?
http://wiki.osx86project.org/ and scroll to HCL.

[lanceomni]

The HCL is a wonderful tool

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.p...1&#entry472341

[macuser9311]

@lanceomni
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thanks for the replys but i dont fully agree on what your saying ,,according to you getting a pci bus running on certain motherboards is impossible because apple didnt add it in there support? i fully understand apple uses there own boards etc and specific chipset but it is all controlled by software ! ,so many modifications hav been done over time ,,and what i am asking for is not the impossible its just not in my power to do so i dont even no what kext controls the communication between the pci bus and the os!,
this is the readout i got from lspci on the motherboard i,m trying to get the pci slots runnings

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 80)
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

the wireless card works flawlessly in ubuntu etc ,,,