Dell GX620 Broadcom Drivers MacOSX86
April 26, 2008
I came across this on a forum somewhere to get the network adapter working with MacOSX86 on a DELL GX620
You can download the patched "AppleBCM5701Ethernet". HERE
And the SETMAC utility HERE
For people who have DELL GX520/620/SC430 which uses BCM5751 as onboard NIC.
Here is patched "AppleBCM5701Ethernet". This works on 10.4.5/10.4.6. Should be fine on 10.4.7, too.
You can open Terminal. Then…
(inside brackets is explanations)
—Part1—
sudo -s
(type password)
cd /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/
cd AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext/Contents/MacOS
cp AppleBCM5701Ethernet AppleBCM5701Ethernet.org
(backup original file)
rm AppleBCM5701Ethernet
cp (patched AppleBCM5701Ethernet) ./
ls -l
(you can see owner/group/permission)
(set AppleBCM5701Ethernet as same as AppleBCM5701Ethernet.org)
—Part2—
cd ..
(go to upper directory)
vi Info.plist
(edit Info.plist)
go to
"<string>pci14e4,16a6</string>"
then change into
"<string>pci14e4,1677</string>"
:wq
(save and quit)
—Part3—
(clean cache)
cd ../..
kextload AppleBCM5701Ethernet
(…successfully… NIC is working now)
rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions
reboot
===done==
Patched AppleBCM5701Ethernet could not load proper MAC address.
So MAC address is now 00:00:00:00:00:00.
This not good reputation.
So you can now assign real MAC address from Terminal…
—
sudo -s
ifconfig en0 ether 00:13:72:xx:xx:xx
(replace xx as yours)
===done===
But you don’t like type same command all the time whenever you turn on DELL.
Download "SetMAC" and modify setmac as your MAC address.
Then change owner/group as SYSTEM/Wheel.
chmod 755 SetMAC folder and its contents.
copy SetMAC folder into /System/Library/StartupItems
===done===
reboot your DELL and type ifconfig after boot from Terminal and if you can see ether 00:13:72:xx:xx:xx instead of 00:00:00:00:00:00, you won.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
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