blombergkjell Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 The Broadcom 43xx (This is based on the DW 1395 card) wlan cards will be regognized as an Airportcard in OS X. Trouble is that people with IBM Thinkpad T60 can not replace the wlan card with a 3rd party one. Doing so will cause the bios to promt a 1802 unrecoginzed hardware installed ... error message. No worries There is a bios update that will take care of this for you. After hours of searching and reading about possible workarounds I finally found one that works. The Lenovo SLIC2 NOWHITELIST firmware upgrade. Download the attached firmware and run the winphlash.exe and follow the instructions (This has to be done in windows!). The computer will reboot and you should be good to install your new wlan card and boot without the 1802 error. (PS! I do not take any resposebility for your bios upgrades !! do it at your own risk!) Now that you have booted into OS X you need to edit the following file to make your Broadcom card beeing recognized as an Airport card. Edit this file to add device id for your DW 1395:- /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents/Info.plist This is what you need to add because it is not listed in original kext:- <string>pci14e4,4315</string> Example content of the file:- CODE <dict> <key>Broadcom 802.11 PCI</key> <dict> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx</string> <key>IOClass</key> <string>AirPort_Brcm43xx</string> <key>IOMatchCategory</key> <string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string> <key>IONameMatch</key> <array> <string>pci106b,4e</string> <string>pci14e4,4311</string> <string>pci14e4,4312</string> <string>pci14e4,4313</string> <string>pci14e4,4315</string> <string>pci14e4,4318</string> <string>pci14e4,4319</string> <string>pci14e4,431a</string> <string>pci14e4,4320</string> <string>pci14e4,4324</string> <string>pci14e4,4325</string> <string>pci14e4,4328</string> <string>pci14e4,432b</string> <string>pci14e4,432c</string> <string>pci14e4,432d</string> </array> Now use OSX86TOOLS to repair premissions. Reboot and you should have a working Airport card. Hope this will help you .. Lenovo_T60_79uj30us_TC_5M_SLIC21_NO_WHITELIST.part1.rar Lenovo_T60_79uj30us_TC_5M_SLIC21_NO_WHITELIST.part2.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Chadwick Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 I can confirm that this works on a IBM Thinkpad T60 (200749M) with an Atheros AR5BXB6, not the wireless card model should matter. Additionally there is no need to follow the additional steps after fixing the 1802 error, the AR5BXB6 will be recognised as an Airport Extreme. Thanks for the save. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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