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First of all, hello everybody. I'm new here but I'm not a newbie.
I installed a BCM970012 in my Mac Pro 2006, installed the kernel extension, libs and firmware (I'm a software and hardware developer so all of this is no big deal for me). But I have a few question :
Even though the card is installed on the mini PCIe slot in the Mac Pro (where the airport card goes), I don't see it in the system profiler in the PCI cards, nor do I see it in the output of ioreg. The kext loads fine but about 70% of the time when I start XBMC it crashes the box and at the next reboot in the crash report I see that there was a kernel exception in the kext (I'm can provide the log if needed).
This machine is running 10.6.2 so this might be the issue (it's in 32 bit mode and the kernel extension is listed as 32 bits).
So.. is the card dead ? Why is it not showing in the system profiler (or the PCIe conf tool).
Any help is welcome.
Thanks.
R.
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theuni
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The xbmc.org builds are official, untouched, automated builds from the buildbot, so obviously these are the ones we recommend.
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