Hutzpah Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Have you been able to get the express slot to workunder snow leopard? Thinking this through, I might need a 6 pin firewire connection. Thanks for your help. Hutzpah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 2, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 2, 2014 i don't think laptops have powered firewire ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutzpah Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 Hi Bronxteck, I was thinking about a firewire express card like these on ebay. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=firewire+express+card&_sop=15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 3, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 3, 2014 Afaik, PC Card/PCMCIA/Express slots of those D Series laptops are unsupported since SL 10.6.7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jruschme Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 That's odd... I just plugged a Marvel based LAN Express card into my m4400 (running Maverics) and it is seen. Same with my m6300 running 10.6.8 after I loaded the drivers. I'd kind of think that Express cards would have to be supported as they were a feature of pre-unibody MBPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 4, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 4, 2014 Really? Seems I was totally wrong on that front then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jruschme Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I may have spoken slightly too soon. As I said, I can see an ExpressCard on both my M4400 and my M6300. This is under SL, ML and Mavericks, so the support is definately there. Oddly, it doesn't work on my D820, absolutely no indication that the card is seen. All I can say is YMMV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 6, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 6, 2014 Seeing the hardware is one thing... having it fully working can be quite another... Seeing hardware does not equate to support, absolutely not; take the example of the SD card reader on the D4x0: we all see the card reader in all versions of OS X, yet it's not supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jruschme Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Well, in the case of my Marvell Ethernet adapter, on both the M4400 and M6400, the Ethernet port shows up as an interface (en2) with correct MAC Id, etc. I'd consider that as "working". On the D820, the adapter never shows up in the list of interfaces. Similarly, there is no dmesg output when a card is inserted. That I'd consider to be "not working". Now, the big question... what is going on with the D820? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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