Comments on Adding a USB 3.0 Expresscard/34 to your MacBook Pro

By: KELVIN

2018-08-11T17:52:21Z

@srhardy..http://www.spaceman.ca/blog/?p=288#comment-74409…solved the problem on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 like wonder. It work perfectly well for me at ultra high speed MBP UNIBODY LATE 2008
PCI :
ExpressCard:
Name: pci1912,15
Type: USB eXtensible Host Controller
Driver Installed: Yes
MSI: Yes
Bus: PCI
Slot: ExpressCard
Vendor ID: 0x1912
Device ID: 0x0015
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0xffff
Subsystem ID: 0xffff
Revision ID: 0x0002
Link Width: x1
Link Speed: 2.5 GT/s
USB Device Tree
USB Hi-Speed Bus
USB SuperSpeed Bus
USB 3.0 Hi-Speed Bus:
Host Controller Location: Built-in USB
Host Controller Driver: GenericUSBXHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x0015
PCI Revision ID: 0x0002
PCI Vendor ID: 0x1912
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Bus:
Host Controller Location: Built-in USB
Host Controller Driver: GenericUSBXHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x0015
PCI Revision ID: 0x0002
PCI Vendor ID: 0x1912
Bus Number: 0x0bBus Number: 0x0b

THANKS A MILLION

By: OutBackMac

2017-09-14T04:38:32Z

Hi Guys
Wow… I’m so impressed. I found this blog out of sheer luck (& some desperation) and it solved my driver problem.
Many Thanks Guys…
So… Paying it Forward… to help others…
By using your link to
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7k1XCw3-hTceHJCcDB4cDREb1E/view
I was able to install USB3 Drivers on My MacBookPro 17″ (June 2007)

For the ExpressCard I bought for $7 on Ebay

The Card would Not work & using other suggested software MultiBeast – Yosemite Edition just slightly screwed up my boot up. Had to remove it’s drivers (Kext’s) by hand & got system booting correctly again.

Once I installed the NEC Driver above as per instructions, it all went well. So I tested the USB2 Port vs USB3 Port with a large video file and USB3 copied more than double the speed.
New life into the old MacBookPro

Thanks Again Guys!
Trevor in West Australia
(Retired – MacDoctor at iinet.net.au)

My Hardware Overview:
Running OSX 10.10.5 Yosemite
(Tried El Cap but found it slow & didn’t like the bloatware)
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz

Driver Installed:
ExpressCard:
Name: pci1912,15
Type: USB eXtensible Host Controller
Driver Installed: Yes
MSI: Yes
Bus: PCI
Slot: PCI Slot 3
Vendor ID: 0x1912
Device ID: 0x0015

By: M

2016-10-18T03:32:14Z

I can confirm srhardy’s package works on El Capitan 10.11.4, thanks a lot!

By: max

2016-08-08T08:59:42Z

Hi there
could you please give me an hint if this procedure is likely to work in my old MacBook Pro (2006, model A1150)?
I am not that into bug fixing so I’d like to avoid the mess of buying an express card/34 USB3 that will eventually freeze the mac or, in the best case, it will not work at all.
Thnks a lot in advance for any advice
Best
M.

By: urgno

2016-07-07T14:42:49Z

@tropie
no, I tested the ECUSB3S11 port on my mbp 17 (Early 2011)
with a samsung ssd evo 850 and the transfer rates were around 200MB/sec

By: tropie

2016-06-14T06:50:45Z

Hello,
I’ve installed on my Macbook pro late 2011 (El Capitain 10.11.5) usb3 works! not at full sped but about 80MB/s (toshiba canvio 500GB HD and CLS ssk express card with NEC ÂµPD720200 chipset)
thanks to HobbyMan and srhardy
http://www.spaceman.ca/blog/?p=288#comment-74409
Is it this the maximum that this port can reach?
thanks to all

By: urgno

2016-04-06T11:29:25Z

Used the srhardy driver
http://www.spaceman.ca/blog/?p=288#comment-74409

on Yosemite 10.10.5 with StarTech ECUSB3S11
worked perfectly !

Toshiba Canvio 1TB in usb worked around 30mb
now works at over 100mb !! yuppy !!

http://s23.postimg.org/hl8nznsm3/usb2.png
http://s23.postimg.org/4id1ge2e3/usb3.png

Big Kudos to srhardy

By: wellington

2016-02-10T01:15:22Z

Dump if anyone’s interested. Not sure what’s up with the interrupts but haven’t noticed ill effects from it, and this MBP is from 2007 so you def notice if it slows down hehe.

nyakontot@YE-OLDE-PRO~> Downloads/xhcdump running | ccat 01:45:27
Found a device of class GenericUSBXHCI: IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/RP03@1C,2/IOPP/pci1912,15@0/GenericUSBXHCI
Darwin 15.3.0
Kext Version 1.2.11
Vendor 0x1912, Device 0x15, Revision 0x2
USBCmd RS Y HCRST N INTE Y HSEE N LHCRST N CSS N CRS N EWE Y EU3S N
USBSts HCH N HSE N EINT Y PCD N SSS N RSS N SRE N CNR N HCE N
DNCtrl 0xffff
CRCr CRR Y
Config 32
MFIndex 2744
Last Time Sync xHC 101971968 milliseconds CPU 102349348684981 nanoseconds
Using MSI
Legacy Owner[Bios,OS] NN, SMIEn[Event,HSE,OSOwn,PCI,BAR] NNNNN, Chg[OWOwn,PCI,BAR] NYN
# Configured Endpoints 0
# Interrupts: Total 16683670, Serviced 16683670, Inactive 0, Offline 0
# Spurious Transfer Events 6
Port 1 PortSC CCS N PED N OCA N PR N
PLS RxDetect PP Y Speed Unknown PIC Off LWS N
CSC N PEC N WRC N OCC N PRC N PLC N CEC N CAS N
WCE N WDE N WOE N DR N WPR N
PortPmsc U1 0 U2 0 FLA N PortLi LEC 1124
Port 2 PortSC CCS N PED N OCA N PR N
PLS RxDetect PP Y Speed Unknown PIC Off LWS N
CSC N PEC N WRC N OCC N PRC N PLC N CEC N CAS N
WCE N WDE N WOE N DR N WPR N
PortPmsc U1 0 U2 0 FLA N PortLi LEC 0
Port 3 PortSC CCS N PED N OCA N PR N
PLS RxDetect PP Y Speed Unknown PIC Off LWS N
CSC N PEC N WRC N OCC N PRC N PLC N CEC N CAS N
WCE N WDE N WOE N DR N WPR N
PortPmsc L1S Invalid RWE N HIRD 50 us L1Slot 0 HLE N TestMode Disabled
Port 4 PortSC CCS N PED N OCA N PR N
PLS RxDetect PP Y Speed Unknown PIC Off LWS N
CSC N PEC N WRC N OCC N PRC N PLC N CEC N CAS N
WCE N WDE N WOE N DR N WPR N
PortPmsc L1S Invalid RWE N HIRD 50 us L1Slot 0 HLE N TestMode Disabled
Interrupter 0 iman IP N imod I 40000 ns C 0 ns erstsz 1 erdp DESI 0 EHB N

By: wellington

2016-02-10T00:34:30Z

Not sure about other versions but can confirm everything works fine on elcap, including hotplugging the card etc, with latest version from rehabman’s branch.
RehabMan-Generic-USB3-2015-1215.zip aka GenericUSBXHCI.kext 1.2.11

download at
https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-generic-usb3/downloads

Should be obvious but don’t forget to disable SIP before installing or it won’t work, being an unsigned kext… Google csrutil for instructions.

By: CASCA

2016-02-08T23:49:38Z

See the forum:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/macbook-pro/178845-gmyle-expresscard-usb-3-0-osx-10-11-el-captain.html

worked fine for me Gmyle USB 3.0