(SEE PREVIOUS POST) On Jun 06, 2008, at 00:26 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
Dale Walsh wrote:I'm new to the list and new to firmware modification so hi everyone.I have a broadcom PCI card and I need to modify the vendor and product ID's, in case it matters it's a LinkSYS WMP300N.Does Apple white- (or black-) list PCI devices the same as HP does?
Sorta, if the device does not contain their ID's then enhanced features and functionality are disabled or not enabled.
The card is recognized as a third-party Airport Extreme card supporting a/b/g/n but the driver due to the lack of apple ID's does not enable 11n functionality so the best connection speed is 54g.
Unfortunately the driver source for Mac OS X is not available otherwise I'd just change it to recognize my ID's.
I've looked around for tools and came across something that looked promising but it gave a URL of "git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/ b43-tools.git" and I have no clue what git is or how to use it and cursory searches imply some kind of linux tool.git is the version-control system developed by Linus Torvalds and used to handle the Linux source and other projects within Linux. It could probably be built for Unix (i.e. the base OS for Mac, but it likely wouldn't be worth the effort.).I have a semi linux environment available that allows me to "configure/make" software so gnu related software can be built but rpm and git and the likes don't apply to the OS so suggesting them wouldn't be helpful since I can't use them. Since my everday OS isn't widely supported, I was hoping there was a windows app that would read the sprom allow me to change the ID's and write it back out to the card but I couldn't find anything (my search skills suck).The sprom updating facility described above utilizes the /sys pseudo-file system of Linux and will never work on any other OS. Your only hope would be to find a user with Linux on his Apple hardware and build the ssb-sprom utility. If you were to place the resulting executable on a flash drive, you could boot the appropriate version of a live CD, then execute ssb-sprom from the flash device. The codes could also be changed by a Linux user with x86 (PC) hardware as long as the card will fit in their computer.
If I could find the ssb-sprom source I might be able to generate a version that works on a Mac, I do have a little skill.
I also have x86 computer hardware that can run linux I believe, unless linux doesn't support 500gb HDA's, ATI X1300 video cards, ICH7 or Core 2 Quad CPU's?
I have no problems using a CLI utility and navigation is not an issue. Hopefully someone can provide a link for a windows utility that fits my needs or a GNU source package that can be built on the majority of *nix based OSes that doesn't have many obscure external dependancies (I have been know to compile things that don't normally compile on my OS).As explained above, this cannot happen.
I'll refrain from responding to this comment because I am not entirely convinced this is factual at this time.
So, to get the laughing over with I'll mention my OS, Darwin, yes you heard it correctly, 5 different versions of it, Darwin7, Darwin8, Darwin9, Mac OS X 10.4.x and Mac OS X 10.5.x, Mac OS X is Darwin based so this explains why rpm's and git won't work for me.Larry
-- Dale
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