Atheros AR5006 and 5007 Working. Options

[TheTimster]

Okay, i was messing around wiht the drivers for wireless cards because i couldnt get mine (atheros 5006 series vendor 168C device 001c) to work. I tried everything. I couldnt download the airport update becasue my hardware didnt meet the requirements, according to apple. So heres what i did. I went onto the apple support site and donwload the Airport Extreme Update 2007-004. Once i downloaded it i mounted the dmg and right clicked the update installer and "show package contents". Then, i opened the archive and extracted the kext that was in there. I simply overwrote the one included with osx and did all the neccesary repairs (chmod, chown, rm) and restarted. I booted up and BAM it was detected!! So i set it up and connected, BAM i have wireless!! I attached the kext for you guys so you wont have to extract it yourselves. Just overwrite, chown, chmod and remove the caches. Restart and you should be set!! Enjoy guys!!

EDIT: If this is in the wrong forum, please move it, sorry i've never actually posted here as I've never found anything useful.

EDIT2: Please post if this works for you or not.

Attached File(s)

 IO80211Family.kext.zip ( 460.5K ) Number of downloads: 15191

 

[BugsB]

hey TheTimster glad it worked for you

Would you please post your hardware config (model name etc.), if possible in a sig like below?

Thanks & cheers,
Bugs

[TheTimster]

sig updated, thanks for reminding me, now that i post i'll need that

[Leathl]

i got an atheros 5007 series wlan card in my laptop but it doesn't work yet.
i'm not experienced in osx so would you please be so kind and explain what exactly i got to do?

where is the original file i have to replace?
what do i have to do with chmod, chown and rm?

thanks so far

//i did like this: replacing the whole content of the kext and then:

chown -R 0:0 /system/library/extensions
chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions
rm /system/library/extensions.mkext
rm /system/library/extensions.kextcache
kextcache -k -z /system/library/extensions

but now i'm gettin "debugger called: <panic>" whenever i try to boot...
please help, what did i do wrong, how can i fix the problem???

[kizwan]

Unfortunately, not working for me. I have Atheros AR5007EG (Atheros AR5BXB63) in my Acer Aspire 3680.
This is what I got from dmesg:-

CODE

Registering For 802.11 Events
[HCIController][setupHardware] AFH Is Supported
Jettisoning kernel linker.
Resetting IOCatalogue.
GFX0: family specific matching fails
display: family specific matching fails
Matching service count = 2
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 5
GFX0: family specific matching fails
display: family specific matching fails
GFX0: family specific matching fails
display: family specific matching fails
ApplePS2Trackpad: Synaptics TouchPad v6.2
start [/SourceCache/AirPortDriverAtheros5424/AirPortDriverAtheros5424-235.9.3/src/driver/AtherosController.cpp:480] loaded unsuccessfully
GFX0: family specific matching fails
display: family specific matching fails
GFX0: match category IOFramebuffer exists
IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled

[TheTimster]

hm do you know your device and vendor ids?

[kizwan]

hm do you know your device and vendor ids?

Vendor ID = 168c
Device ID = 001c

I got this from windows. It already in the Info.plist.

CODE

pci168c,1c

Do you have any idea?

Edit: How do you turn ON your wireless? Do you have "soft-switch"? Because I do.

[Leathl]

i got the driver installed but its doin nothin with my wlan card...
i got the same as kizwan, same ids, same msg... and no card found in system profiler..

any idea how to get it workin?

[kizwan]

could anyone please tell me how to install the driver correctly?
i did it the way i posted an got that panic...
i reinstalled mac osx, but i got to get it working, cus my ethernet card doesnt work either..

i got the same vendor & device id as kizwan

Step to install IO80211Family.kext.zip file posted by TheTimster:-
1) Unzip the file at Desktop (for example) and you should get IO80211Family.kext folder
2) Make backup for your existing IO80211Family.kext folder (/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext) to safe location.
-- Run this in terminal:
$ sudo -s
$ mkdir /BackupExt
$ cp -R /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext /BackupExt/

3) Now you have your original kext file in /BackupExt folder. This usefull if you have problem later.
4) Now you have to copy the IO80211Family.kext folder from Desktop to original location
$ cp -R /Users/<your login id>/Desktop/IO80211Family.kext /System/Library/Extensions/

5) Remove kextcache file, so OS X will rebuild it at reboot.
$ rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
$ rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

6) Fix permission
$ diskutil repairPermissions /

7) Reboot

If you got kernel panic after reboot, boot with your installation DVD and use Terminal program to restore the original KEXT file from backup. Your partition should mount in /Volumes folder, if I'm not mistaken.

Good luck.

[Leathl]

i did it like this:
sudo su

rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext //remove old file


cp -R /IO80211Family.kext /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext //copy new file


chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext //setting ownership


chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext //setting permissions


touch /System/Library/Extensions //touch

shutdown -r now //reboot

--

is there any problem with this way? cus it worked so far an system works... but anyway system doesn't find an airport card..
i did the same with the drivers for my realtek 8139 fast ethernet card from pcgen.. doesn't work, too...

if i'm in system preferences and go to network, then i get an error that "the application system preferences quit unexpectedly."

[kizwan]

You did it right. Almost same way as mine. Can you describe a little bit about your laptop/pc?

Edit: My laptop use soft-switch to turn on wireless. Do you have the same kind of switch?

[Leathl]

its a fsc amilo li 1718

intel core duo t2450 (2ghz)
ati chipset
2gb ram
ati radeon xpress 200m graphics
160gb s-ata hdd

audio working out of the box..
i installed katana graphics driver for x200m, but widescreen doesnt work (only 1024x768)
it would be nice if widescreen res. would work, but its ok as it is, though..

the only problem i got are the ethernet and wlan cards... as i said, i installed pcgen's 8139 driver and this wlan drivers the way i described, but both doesnt work..
i really need to get an internet connection with osx, but i dont wanna buy a usb wlan adapter only for osx

an sorry for my bad english, im german ^^

//yeh, i got a soft-switch, too... in windows, theres a program which detects wlan status and turns if off/on, if the button is pressed

[kizwan]

Did you try driver from realtek website for your Realtek 8139 ethernet card?

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...GetDown=false#5

They have driver for Mac OS X 10.4. There is a couple of discussion about the soft-switch. It seem that our wireless is in OFF/DISABLED state by default. I will try to make it on by default. I will post the result.

[Leathl]

the driver from realtek is for osx 10.0.4, so it wont work i think.
if i open the "network utility", it says "Model: Realtek 8139", so the system seems to detect the device...
but if i want to go to the system preferences and click on "network", then i got

the application system preferences quit unexpectedly.
mac os x and other applications are not affected.

.....

so i cant change any settings to get it work..

for the wireless, i got an option in the bios that controls, if the wlan adapter is on or off when booting. i turned it to on, but it doesnt take any effect on osx..

//anyhow, i got the realtek 8139 ethernet card workin, so i configured tcpip settings, but i cant get a connection to the router, eventhough it says status: active and connection: 100mbit

///thats very weird.. now, my audio doesnt work anymore, and i didnt do anything...

[TheTimster]

ati chipsets seem to be picky, you may not have pci support, do a search for your chipset and possible pci problems. as for kizwan, what chipset do you have under the hood. as i said im running the intel 945gm. also make sure you wireless hard swtich is on and in the bios wireless is enabled. also be sure that you dont have any other drivers refenceing to your card. look for another possible wireless driver in your extensions dir. this is stupid but try adding 00 in from of 1c in the info.plist file for the device id, it could work, not sure though. what version of osx are you running. im on 10.4.9, 10.4.10 is known to not work. i cant even get the kernel to run on my machine. im waiting for a semthex release. leathl, what is the dev and vendor id of your ethernet? make sure it mathes the info.plist. also, as per your audio not working, jsut reinstall the driver. usually that fizes conflicts. make sure your ethernet is on bsd port en2. let me know what happens guys!

[Leathl]

i'm running OSx86 10.4.9 Uphuck 1.4i rev2 (the small install, dunno if theres a big one of that, i found only this one..)

i'll reinstall the whole system cus there were some problems and too many drivers i tested, that didn't work..

i looked it up, and i don't even have the ati x200m chipset, but only the radeon xpress 200m graphics..
my chipset seems to be something like ATI RC415ME + SB460 and i found nothing about that in combination with osx...

so here are the problems i had yet (dunno if it'll be the same after the reinstall):

Audio (Realtek HD Audio) working out of the box, but it didn't work anymore when i installed quicktime 7.2 (need the decompressor for logic pro audio)
Graphics (ATI Radeon Xpress 200M) not working with widescreen res. (only 1024x768) . QE/CI not working as its not supported with this card.. the card is detected with 256mb VRAM (right), but i can't use widescreen res
Powermanagement working only in Battery Mode, it didn't recognize my power adapter
Realtek 8139 Ethernet Adapter was recognized with PcGen's driver, it recognizes if theres a lan cable connected, but i can't get a connection to the router
Atheros 5007EG Chipset WLAN Adapter didn't work with 5006-07 fix..

i'll reinstall osx and report again whats working then..
i use the callisto 003 graphics driver, as i read to use it with the x200 graphic card, but widescreen doesn't work at all.. do is also have to put in id's anywhere for that?
i'll check up my device and vendor ids for the ethernet and wlan adapter again and write them down.

//besides: if the wlan/ethernet connection is the only problem left (if i won't get it workin), is there a cheap usb-wlan stick workin with osx?

///just reinstalled the system...
Audio: In System Profiler it says "No Built-in Audio.", but anyway, Audio Output works. Input is not detected.
Graphics: Finally working in Widescreen res. with Katana, but now it's only detected with 48mb VRAM instead of 256mb.. but I don't care about that as long as I don't need it.
Powermanagement: Only working in Battery Mode. I don't really care about that as long as I get the other things working.
WLAN: As before, no AirPort Card detected.
Ethernet: Also not detected.

Is there a driver for the Realtek HD Audio (Device: 0862, Vendor: 10ec) to get it working?
omg... i finally got my ethernet card working!!!!!! now i'll only need to get the sound workin right and then maybe wlan... i would be very pleased if wlan would work.. but sound is more important atm.

[kizwan]

My Atheros AR5007EG have AR5BXB63 chipset. I describe my setup at my sig below. I have soft-switch to turn ON my wireless. My chipset also Intel 945GM.

I have play around with Fedora 7 to get my Atheros AR5007EG working since madwifi cannot get it to work.
Somebody has suggest me to use ndiswrapper but my system hang when I try to use it. Just yesterday I noticed one module in Fedora 7 kernel prevent ndiswrapper function properly. I just recompile my kernel, and my Atheros detected and functioning.

This maybe nothing todo with Mac OS X. But it prove the soft-switch thing has nothing todo with my atheros failed to recognized in Mac OS X.

[Leathl]

is your wlan working now?
i think the soft switch doesnt matter, cus the system should recognize the card anyway (like windows does), cus the switch just turns the wireless function on/off...

you gotta tell me, whats fedora 7, ndiswrapper,..? drivers or just programs?

btw, is there any problem with using things like Apple Update (e.g. apple detects hacked osx)??

[kizwan]

No, wlan stil not working. I think existing driver unable to bring atheros wlan to online. That is why we got message "loaded unsuccessfully". The driver try to load because it detected our atheros, however it failed to get atheros to online. So we need to fine another way so atheros will online right after we switch on our laptop. However I don't know how.

Fedora 7 is redhat base linux operating system. Ndiswrapper is a software that allowed linux to use windows driver for certain hardware. This software allow us to use hardware that not yet supported/recognized by linux OS. For example, normally for wireless driver for linux, we just need to install madwifi driver. However for some hardware like Atheros AR5007EG, that not yet supported by madwifi, we can use windows driver with ndiswrapper to get it working under linux.

Is there anybody know what this mean?
start [/SourceCache/AirPortDriverAtheros5424/AirPortDriverAtheros5424-235.9.3/src/driver/AtherosController.cpp:480] loaded unsuccessfully

It should mean something.

I think Apple update for Mac-Intel should be ok with hackintosh. But use it with caution.

[Leathl]

but is there any way to use ndiswrapper with mac osx?

start [/SourceCache/AirPortDriverAtheros5424/AirPortDriverAtheros5424-235.9.3/src/driver/AtherosController.cpp:480] loaded unsuccessfully
i'm just a bit confused bout the message cus it still talks about Atheros5424

it's just an idea, but maybe the wlan problems refer to pci problems? cus for me, theres no pci cards detected in system and the driver detects the wlan card over pci with
<string>pci168c,1c</string>
maybe we need to get a working pci driver.. just tell me if pci works right for you..

though, i need to get my audio workin before wlan matters... *searchin for a driver *
(i'm wondrin why my inet is soooo sooo slow with mac... speedtest worked with ~750kbps down and ~75kbps up, thats normal, but firefox is really slow loading sites)