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Hi,

 

normally I use WiFi. Yesterday I learned that the notebooks ethernet adapter is not detected.

I notmaly did not load special drivers and last time ( some time ago) ethernet worked.

I have checked the systems prefs and there is none detected. I have tried diffrent intel ones out of the edp package but non worked.

 

Any suggesteions?

 

Please assist.

 

Madmax

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Centrino (in those days) meant Intel mobile CPU + Intel Chipset (Northbridge/Southbridge) + Intel Wireless card. That did not include wired Ethernet interface. Besides, that'll have nothing to do with Ethernet card being detected and/or operational or not. Only Intel wireless cards are unsupported in Mac OS X. Some Intel wired Ethernet interfaces are fully supported.

 

If you can do an lspci -nn command in Terminal and confirm the very model of your card, we can look into it.

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Hi Herve

 

here is the info:

pcilib: 0000:01:00.0 64-bit device address ignored.
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2a01] (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:2849] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2829] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] [10de:042d] (rev a1)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge [1217:7135] (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) [1217:00f7] (rev 02)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1673] (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4328] (rev 05)

So its a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1673] (rev 02). Is there a kext that I should use?

 

Thanks for your support.

 

Madmax

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It's the same LAN hardware as fitted to the D630 (and D830 I think), so you can just download the D630 bootpack and grab the kext from there. But I would have thought it was already provided in the M4300 bootpack.

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In that case, it's probably as I thought: a 32bit kext only...

 

I checked my D630 nVidia under ML and Mav, i.e. in 64bit mode. The kext is definitely 32/64bit and loads up Ok. I have the Ethernet board reported in Network Pref Pane.

SystemReport_BCM5722D.png

D630_Ethernet.png

 

Try the attached, but I'm pretty sure you'd get the same file out of the boot pack.

BCM5722D.kext.zip

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Hi,

 

Ethernet seems to work on Mavericks. So I will not invest more time on ML and wait for Mavericks to work.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Madmax

I'm running ML 10.8.5 on my M4300 and the ethernet is working; after a lot of traffic, however, it drops out and requires a shutdown/boot up to fix.  Note that I primarily use a D/Dock and its ethernet port (right now, in fact).  But the D/Dock just extends the lines, to the best of my knowledge; lspci isn't working for me at the moment (gives a cannot find any working access method error).

 

My /Extra shows that the EDP svn version I'm using is 701; that is actually from when I upgraded Lion to ML (with lots of issues of apps getting put in /Recovered Items, argh!) 10.8.3 and running EDP then.  I've not been able to successfully update EDP since then; reinstalling and then re-running just produces the same blank window I've seen reported as with Mavericks (by you, in the thread https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/5568-mavericks-on-m4300/ )

 

I've also had other issues, mainly frequent kernel panics on boot (it'll KP twice, then boot up ok for a while).  I've also seen booting from the USB installer stick bringing up a black screen, but the very next boot, without changing any boot parameters, it will work fine).  i've seen this with two separate M4300's, so I don't think it's my hardware, but I reserve the right to be wrong.  Since I dual-boot CentOS 6 (64-bit) and that works perfectly fine, I'm further convinced that the hardware is fine.  CentOS is actually my primary OS on the laptop, but I do some audio production that requires OS X tools, and so that gets me in OS X at least once a week.

 

My install started life as a 'leppy700m' boot disk install of 10.6.0 on an M65, upgraded to an EDP install (back early in the EDP 5.x cycle), changed to a D820 (motherboard/GPU failure), upgraded to Lion and through 10.7.5, then changed to the M4300 (by doing an EDP build for M4300 on the M65/D820 and swapping the HD to the M4300 and rebooting, which worked fine), then upgraded to ML 10.8.3, and finally a combo update to 10.8.5.  Whew.  Yes, I'm getting ready to do a scratch install on a new drive.  I said that to say that it's quite possible my install has' issues' from the upgrade chain, and a fresh install may be very different. 

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