Intel Network adapters on OS X: Small Tree drivers

[ydeng]

I have a motherboard with an Intel i211 (8086 1539). After I got my first boot-time panic with AppleIntelIGB.kext, I tried SmallTreeIntel82576.kext from the OP here. After adding my device ID to the kext and to FakePCIID_Intel_Gbx, it works! Maybe this will be more reliable - we'll see.

What's your FakePCIID_Intel_Gbx? I used the most recent version but it did not change provide the subsystem id.

 

[kylec]

What's your FakePCIID_Intel_Gbx? I used the most recent version but it did not change provide the subsystem id.

In my case, I had to add 0x15398086 to the IOPCIPrimaryMatch string value in the Info.plist. It says it's v. 2017-0509.

 

[ydeng]

In my case, I had to add 0x15398086 to the IOPCIPrimaryMatch string value in the Info.plist. It says it's v. 2017-0509.

Thanks, I got it working by adding FakePCIID.kext. Now the smalltree driver loads!

 

[axel9546]

Thanks, I got it working by adding FakePCIID.kext. Now the smalltree driver loads!

Have u GOT ethernet or wifi work?

 

[ydeng]

Have u GOT ethernet or wifi work?

I211 onboard gbe

 

[axel9546]

I211 onboard gbe

aokay. wifi seem to bè different kext imo

 

[axel9546]

Sorry If i go with this question but Can we use utility and kext for USB wifi adapters and try to use that for Intel wifi kext?

 

[Ronny1234]

Hi,
i have the following card which is one of the models that supports 10/40 gigabit:

Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ [8086:1572] (rev 01)


Is there any chance to get this card working?


Cheers

 

[data123]

Just wanted to say thanks for these instructions. I adapted them to a "INTEL EXPX9501AFXSR 10 Gigabit Ethernet XF SR Server Adapter" I got off eBay for just $10 (only has an SR fiber connection, not an SFP+ or RJ45) and it's now installed and working. I haven't done any stress testing yet, but at least I can pull a DHCP lease from my router on that interface.

For reference, this is what I was working with:

07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82598EB 10-Gigabit AF Network Connection [8086:10c7] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation 10-Gigabit XF SR Server Adapter [8086:a05f]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at f7140000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Region 1: Memory at f7100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Region 2: I/O ports at c000 [disabled]
Region 3: Memory at f7160000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ixgbe
Kernel modules: ixgbe[/size][/size][/size][size=128K][size=256K][size=16K]

My specific commands were:

sudo ethtool -E enp7s0 magic 0x10c78086 offset 0x716 value 0x0a
sudo ethtool -E enp7s0 magic 0x10c78086 offset 0x717 value 0x00

I don't know if eBay links are allowed, but if they are, the seller I bought from still has 10 available if anyone wants to try this themselves: http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-EXPX9501AFXSR-10-Gigabit-Ethernet-XF-SR-Server-Adapter-/172691441048?[/size][/size][/size]

This worked perfectly.. I bought (2) of these cards on E-bay for $40 total, one went into the Hackintosh and the other into my CentOS 7 machine. .. On the Hackintosh, I loaded up Ubuntu Live, ran the lspci and the card showed up as emp2s0.. I made the changes as shown above, rebooted into Sierra, loaded the SmallTree installer , rebooted once more and the interface showed up.. I'll post benchmarks later next week..

Thanks for the the post..

 

[lotech]

I used this a guide to mod my X540-T2 EEPROM in my MacPro5,1 (mid 2010)
shows up as:

Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID:    0x1528
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x8086
Subsystem ID: 0x000a

SmallTree-kext is loaded, card shows up fine in "System Info" and "SysPrefs/Network", 10GBaseT FD link...also on the switch I get 10G PHY... but only seem to get top-gigabit speeds.
Checked cables
My "Macintosh SSD" does 700MB/s write, 1200MB/s read (so that's not the bottleneck)
Moved MP next to 10G-Switch, with short Cat6a... all the same.
Any ideas what could have gone wrong? Any advice/guidelines in further troubleshooting?

Don't have any other 10G NICs to test with in the MP (only have X710-DA2's, Mellanox ConnectX-2's and Tehuti3040)

EDIT: UPDATE: those speeds seem only low when using "smb://", when I use "cifs://" I get double the speed...
When I use "afp://" though, I get the full potential of my storage (through 4 switches write:733MB/s; read: 1039,5MB/s)

I can also confirm I got an X540-T2 card flashed from Intel to Smalltree. Spent alot of time trying the FakePCIID route but gave up and went deep - worked first time. Just make sure you check your working as you flash and work out address locations.