00diabolic Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 This has no need to be on x-labs before someone starts programming this. And, no need to look for linux or bsd unless you want to program it, it is the IOKit part that is missing and what should be programmed. That means the physical part of the network stack. Superhai-- How hard is this to do? Can you get it started? How much work is it really? I cant see how hard this really would be as the 5906 is in the same family as the 57XX series and we already have a kext for that. Also the 57XX series driver will actually load on my system but just wont work with the 5906. I hope this can get going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Superhai-- How hard is this to do? Can you get it started? How much work is it really? I cant see how hard this really would be as the 5906 is in the same family as the 57XX series and we already have a kext for that. Also the 57XX series driver will actually load on my system but just wont work with the 5906. Without the source code the other kext is more or less useless for proper development. And I have not the time to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestlake Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 But you can take this as your hobby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 But you can take this as your hobby! I seriously dont see how that would give me anymore time. But I think you need a hobby, so start with learning c++ and IOkit, In no time you will be hackintosh hero! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I think it's a good environment for someone looking to get started with C++. You don't have to worry about those pesky exceptions or mind-bending templates. Mostly because they're not available in kernel and device driver programming! Consider it a feature. You can learn that other stuff later on. And the documentation is superb for the most part. Researching through the Apple mailing list archives is a challenge, though, because that server is almost as slow as this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestlake Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I will start the game Thank you for all of you !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I will learn C++ someday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestlake Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 In fact , I have already learned C++ ; I only have to learn IOKit , after all, it's different from FreeBSD…… And the logic unit of the BCM5906M , I found it's very hard to find something about it online , Broadcom haven't supply any pdfs!!! So I have to analysis it from XP drivers………… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Good luck to you. Not having exceptions in C++ kernel programming isn't really a plus because you wind up rebooting about 100 times a day after a kernel panic. I think I'm up to 300 already this week and it's only Tuesday. Broadcom is notorious for not releasing detailed technical information on any of their chips. That is a severe handicap for everyone, not only OSX programmers. I mean they're really, really bad about it. If you find any leaked specs please let me know I've looked everywhere including the torrent sites and the p2p networks. There isn't anything out there. They must have the death penalty or something for any of their employees who leaks a spec becuase there is literally nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulo-131 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Myabe you already know that topic : http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry574039 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Myabe you already know that topic : http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry574039 Well at least 57xx users have a almost working kext unlike us 5906 users who have NOTHING. Since there is a working base for the 57xx I think we can use that to our advantage. With my setup the 57xx kext actually detects my card but it just wont work. There has to be something to that if its can detect my 5906. There on the same Broadcom Tigon3 kernel. The problem I bet there having is that the 57xx is gigabyte and not 10/100 like the 5906. Seems like we should be able to get this thing going. I WISH Azurael would come back to this thread. It sounded like he had something that he was working on. Perhaps we can work on that and go from there. I AM FULLY WILLING TO TEST THIS.. AND IF I KNEW HOW TO CODE IT I WOULD... ANYONE WHOS WILLING TO GIVE THIS A GO, THERE ARE PLENTY OF TESTERS HERE READY TO HELP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestlake Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Not the same thing!!! p.s. How to get Xcode2.5 work with commandline??? When I ./configure && make some GNU software under leopard , there are always errors!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoLL Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Under Ubuntu 8.04, the BCM5906 is well managed by tg3 module version 3.86 provided by ubuntu 2.6.24-16-generic kernel... mii-tool and ethtool work also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkpy125 Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 How can I make it work?There is really no solutions?? Please help me!! Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Good point LoLL.. Man come on we gotta get this thing going here. So much potential for this to work if we can find someone who can do this thing. & kkpy125 I know I want it to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xixi2005 Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 good news ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 good news ! What Good news? Do you got something working? Please share if you do. I and others would love to see the 5906 ethernet card work in OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellmonkeys Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 What Good news? Do you got something working? Please share if you do. I and others would love to see the 5906 ethernet card work in OSX. Me too. I have this same card in my laptop. My wireless card is ALSO not supported by any OSX driver yet too, which really sucks. But I think this has promise. I mean, I don't see it being too much different than the other broadcom drivers. Is there anyone that knows anything about this? [P.S -- Where is the source to the 57xx drivers?] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changturkey Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Same here, I would really like this driver to work in OSX86. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XoDeus Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 good news ! I just think that he would like to post something as his first post... There are no good news here yet. All us noobs with no understandig in c++ and IOnetworking we just have to learn or wait, for someone, who's much more intelligent than us, who will provide a driver for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changturkey Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Bump... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 SOMEONE JOIN OUR CAUSE.. HELP THE 100's HERE GET ON THE NET WITH THE BCM5906 PLEASE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chagchag Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 amen to that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-K Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 amen to that! True. The only Things that didn't work now on my Hackintosh are the Broadcom BCM5906M and the Atheros 5007ER...annoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
222222 Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 how long we will wait???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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