Atheros AR5007 working but not perfect. Heres the guide. Options

[oldmaclover]

OK here is my attempt at a guide:

First, make sure the card is on in another OS and restart. Those of you hoping to not have to dual boot are out of luck right now.

1. Starting from 10.5.5 and a vanilla kernel.

2. Download and install the Airport Update 2008-004. Reboot.

3. Download and install the IO8211Family.kext at the beginning of this thread with Kexthelper unless you feel like doing all of the permission repairs and stuff.

4. Download and install Kismac trunk r319.

5. Reboot. You have a 40% chance of getting a boot without a kernel panic. Just retry, it will eventually reboot fine.

6. Open Kismac before you do anything. Go to prefererences and find the tab for drivers. Add the Airport Extreme Passive mode one. Active mode does not work. Exit that menu and then click start scan. You will start to see networks. Once you see networks quit Kismac.

7. Now go the airport icon in the top bar and click on Join Other Network. (if the icon is not there you need to go to network preferences and enable the icon.) Then click on show networks. Your network will come up. Click on it, click join and then it will ask you for your network password. Enter that and then it will connect to your network and be stable. You will have to set up a network in the networking preference panel for the airport card just like normal.

On my Presario C771 the WIFI lights are not on blue but the card still works.

When you restart you will sometimes get a kernel error. Just try again. When you restart you will only have to do steps 6 and 7 and will not have to reenter you network password if you put it in your keychain when prompted.

It works everytime I boot now as long as the hardware button on the notebook is not pressed. The network stays on all the time and is fast.

If you also get it to work please let us know.

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[shadyrulez]

Hey guys just wanted to know will this work on AA1.

[mackerintel]

I don't know why it doesn't work on some machines but not on others. It may be somehow related to the subvendor/subdevice or the way how kismet and normal wifi init works. Additionally it may be that some changes need to de done to ath_pci part of AirportAtheros (I modified only ath_hal part bu normally ath_pci should be the same). The best shot to find the difference is to use qemu with pciproxy to compare what OSX does and what linux or windows drivers do. But depending on amount of data collected by pciproxy it may take a lot of time (something I don't have right now) to process. Additionally I now have AR5008EG which is well recognised by vanilla IO80211family as airport extreme and I don't want to put my old card back since it's not made to be changed frequently and I don't want the connectors to be mechanically broken. But if someone points out where the problem is I'll fix it (but can't test it). Same goes for crash at boot. Additionally I'm offering my assistance to anyone willing to do the work of problem tracing (but remember it will probably be a difficult work) If you're interested PM me

Hey guys just wanted to know will this work on AA1.

AFAIR on AA1 AR5007EG is on pcie-hotplug which is not supported by OSX. But in 0sx86 you never know unless you try