Azurael Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 (edited) 14e4:1713 - anybody got one of these working in OS X? Seems to be a fairly uncommon Broadcom chip used for 100mbit PCIe implementations in a couple of notebooks, including my Lenovo N200. It appears to be based on the single-chip BCM57xx series chips, but with a 100mbit PHY rather than a gigbit one built in. It doesn't work with OS X's AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext, so I might be that I'm SOL, but all those devices use the Broadcom Tigon3 kernel module in Linux, so it makes me wonder if recompiling the driver with some tweaks my coax it into working. I haven't tried AppleBCM5751.kext yet... Off to do that now Solution is here: New driver thread Edited May 30, 2011 by Hagar Solution found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightballbill Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 I've got this chip on my laptop too. I thing it should work substituting the dev id and the ven id with the ones in the info.plist file . There is an explanation on how to do this in this forum, but i haven't tried yet. Let us know, good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted November 15, 2007 Author Share Posted November 15, 2007 Well, like I said in my original post, I did try AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext with the device ID and I get 'getAdapterInfo - Device is unknown' during boot. I haven't tried AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext yet, but I have got hold of a copy now, so I'll try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzl722 Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 brother,can you make BCM 5787m(14E4 1693 ) work?,could you help me ?thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halfabit Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 14e4:1713 - anybody got one of these working in OS X? Seems to be a fairly uncommon Broadcom chip used for 100mbit PCIe implementations in a couple of notebooks, including my Lenovo N200. It appears to be based on the single-chip BCM57xx series chips, but with a 100mbit PHY rather than a gigbit one built in. It doesn't work with OS X's AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext, so I might be that I'm SOL, but all those devices use the Broadcom Tigon3 kernel module in Linux, so it makes me wonder if recompiling the driver with some tweaks my coax it into working. I haven't tried AppleBCM5751.kext yet... Off to do that now Hi! Have you any success? A also have Lenovo 3000 N200. After fixing DEVID in AppleBCM5751.kext i can see Ethernet in SysPrefs with 00:00:00:00:00:00 MAC-address. Fixing MAC manually also like setting IP manually doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanx Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hi! Same problem.... (Lenovo 3000 N200) Can everybody upload a for 14e4:1713 a kext (10.5.1 Leopard - iATKOS)..... Thanks for all help..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Any update on this? I have the same chip on my lenovo n200 0769AVU. I would be glad to test a driver. THX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 BUMP... Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changturkey Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Would really like this to work, any news Azurael? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changturkey Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Bump... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I modified the kext for 5751 several times without success, I even can make the kext activate the card, and put his MAC address but no connection at all. This card is very similar to the 5788, I know this because I analized the windows installer (.inf), it applies most of the things that the 5788 uses and add some more settings (mobile btw). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changturkey Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Thanks for the great info MacGirl, but it would be great if someone could get this working, the only thing that is major that is not working for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Yeah it is the only the only thing not working for me also. I would really like to see a kext even one thats close to working so I could tinker with it some. Its so strange being so close to the BCM57XX series that this somehow cant be made to work. That is Bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changturkey Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Should I make a request for X-Labs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkcn Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I asked google,and I got the follow message.Does it help us? they discussed BCM5906 on dell's Ubuntu.Maybe anybody would try it on leopard? I have gotten my ethernet connection to work after compiling the latest tg3 driver. I found out I needed to do this after scanning the Dell-linux forum which mentioned the ethernet problem could be fixed by re-compiling the kernel module using dkms. I could not find any Mandriva dkms package for tg3, but eventually I found an rpm (tg3-3.77e-1.src.rpm) of the tg3 source code on an HP website: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/se...load/27404.html Strangely, the Broadcom website does not seem to mention the BCM5906 ethernet card, or offer new versions of the tg3 driver. To compile it I installed the kernal source and the tg3 source code which gets installed in /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/ with the rpm spec file in /usr/src/rpm/SPECS/tg3.spec. I followed this sequence cd /usr/src/rpm rpmbuild -bb SPECS/tg3.spec This created /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/i586/tg3-3.77e-1.i586.rpm which contains the driver tg3.ko. I installed this rpm which puts the driver in /lib/modules/2.6.17-14mdv/kernel/drivers/net. I noticed that all the other drivers in that directory were gzip'ed, i.e had ".gz" file names, so I gziped the tg3.ko driver also. Also, there had been an old tg3 driver there which I over-wrote. I rebooted and then ethernet worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Worked in linux. But how in OSX? At least this means were closer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changturkey Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 FreeBSD has the tg3 driver too, so maybe someone could test it out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Oddly enough with a EFI install I get my ethernet to show up in networking and it looks like it will work. However when I actually try to use it no luck. Azurael are you going to return to this topic.. I would love to test a driver for this chip. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changturkey Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Ugh, this is the only thing holding me back from using Leopard V_V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 use a usb to ehernet adpapter, even the apple one is cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XoDeus Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 ^^ this is not the most optimal thing to do. I would like not to have other external devices for my computer. I know that mine is working and the BCM5906 is the last thing I'm missing. So I hope that anyone can make a driver for this one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 ^^this is not the most optimal thing to do. I would like not to have other external devices for my computer. I know that mine is working and the BCM5906 is the last thing I'm missing. So I hope that anyone can make a driver for this one too. I'm with you XoDeus.. I have this chip to. Works in Linux, works in windows. If we can just bridge the gap and get it working in OSX.. THAT WOULD BE SWEET. I'll be glad to test a driver for this one and I'm sure others would to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 we can make a donation pot for who came with a good driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crougeau Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I am not against this suggestion but who would write the drivers and how many $$ do they need to write? I have a BCM5752. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestlake Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Who write a BCM5906 driver is a good man!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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