Intel Wireless 2100, 2200bg, 2915bg, 3945abg, 4965agn, IWIDarwin drivers for mac os x 10.4 and 10.5 *under development* Options

[gtcard]

At this point, I'm beginning to suspect it might be an issue with my hardware since others are having success with iwi2200 on 10.5, but not me. I'll try your command next time I'm able, but otherwise I might have to work on finding a different laptop (I've tried multiple different iwi2200 cards and none are working, so might be a wireless controller or mobo problem)... Thanks again for everyone's efforts on this, I've actually tried loading various other Linux flavors on a different machine again, and really nothing stacks up to everything I like about OSx86, so I am very happy to keep pursuing this project even if it is quite a bit more work!

airborne i have the same problem as you. i do verbose boot for my 10.5.2 kalyway install w/speedstep kernel on my thinkpad t42 and i can see an error message about iwi2200.kext everytime (cannot resolve dependencies for kernel extensions: S/L/E/iwi2200.kext). I get the error code 2 thing when I try to run networkselector, and kextstat | grep iwi returns nothing, so i am assuming the kext is not properly loaded.

i have no idea what im talking about, but i think this has something to do with the fact that the wifi card not being turned on when booting up OSX. i dont see the led indicator lighting up. the reason i believe this is because my bluetooth is turned off by default; on my thinkpad both wifi and bluetooth are turned on/off with the FN+F5 keys. i tried turning them on when i was in osx, but fn+f5 had no effect. then i tried sudo kextload s/l/e/iwi2200.kext in terminal, and suddenly my bluetooth led lit up and bluetooth was detected by the OS and installed. after i did the kextload command, i can turn my bluetooth on/off with fn+f5, but wifi is still undetected by os. i don't know where to go from here.

hope that helps someone in some way to troubleshoot this.

my laptop has a 1.7ghz pentium M cpu, and whatever mobo comes with a t42. i have 1gb of ram and a radeon 7500 video card.

[@BENNY@]

just received the 3945 and 4965 cards chico send me
they are either broken or don't work with my computer (hp g7000)
after plug the card the computer power on them off
if it power on them it locks (no bios access)

thanks

Hi Jalavoui,

same problem with my Packard Bell Easynote M67-P007. If I change Wireless Card from 3945 to Broadcom cheapset (tried with original MacPro Airport Card and Toshiba Card) it locks. If I power on my computer WITHOUT card it go fine and when i'm making "hot-plug" with the broadcom card, Leopard freeze... I'm thinking there's conflict between this card and other components in computer (maybe touchpad SYnaptics...)

By now, I've changing card for Atheros Chipset and everything work fine...

I'm safe but I hope you'll find solutions for other people... but thanks for your determination.

Benny

PS : Sorry for my poor english ;o)

[NicNac]

what are the odds for two broken cards?? thnik maybe is a bios lock or firmware thing

I think so too, I tried my 3945 card on an hp 530 (not that its the same pc) and it didnt work, it says card not supported and the BCM43XX(i think) from the hp works fine. All the best

[nobb1x]

just received the 3945 and 4965 cards chico send me
they are either broken or don't work with my computer (hp g7000)
after plug the card the computer power on them off
if it power on them it locks (no bios access)

thanks

hard to tell, the 4965 seem to be the default card for the hp model even if g7000 is a series and on the hp site there are more than 80 models. i know (readed on a site of a seller) that intel cards works only with intel chipsets while hp's using ati use the broadcom wireless (not 100% sure of course)
May be that your pci-e slot has gone? may be a bios lock? owners of hp models may know
Try ask chico where he got those cards, if he got it from a trash or from broken notebooks, i work with notebooks everyday and i've seen failures of any kind, but i don't remember of a broken wireless lan card
good luck!!

[rulli]

http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/22/the-hp-...-pci-cards-out/
I think I once saw a solution to that. I'll search for it

EDIT:
Think I've found the solution. You have to flash your BIOS with a custom made. http://www.rechner.org/b1800_bios.html I hope that this is the right manual.
This is another manual: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/thinkpad/bios.html The procedure is nearly the same.

[ptdesigner]

Jalavoui, last time you said you are from Portugal "chico will send me the card from portugal (my home)". Can you be more specific of whitch part of portugal you are? Im from portugal and i can land you my laptop if you want. Thanks

[jalavoui]

yep, the macbook as the same bios protection
if the cards are ok (i believe so)
i'll patch the hp g7000 bios with the vendor/id of iwi3945/4965
if i manage to do this i can make the drivers work
and i'll trash that bcm43xx card from the hp
i'm in portugal - funchal
i think chico got this cards from acer computers

from what i read all it takes is a bios image file and a search for the original vendor/id of the facory wireless
them replace with other vendor/id
maybe i can add something like 8086ffff to work for all intel cards
i think this will work for other laptops too
anyone as tried this? i'd like to share this howto

[rulli]

This is a thread I found which discusses to disable the whitelist completely:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=97480

[nvflash]

yep, the macbook as the same bios protection
if the cards are ok (i believe so)
i'll patch the hp g7000 bios with the vendor/id of iwi3945/4965
if i manage to do this i can make the drivers work
and i'll trash that bcm43xx card from the hp
i'm in portugal - funchal
i think chico got this cards from acer computers

from what i read all it takes is a bios image file and a search for the original vendor/id of the facory wireless
them replace with other vendor/id
maybe i can add something like 8086ffff to work for all intel cards
i think this will work for other laptops too
anyone as tried this? i'd like to share this howto

All sorts of info and howto's for removing the whitelist from the HP Bios(I've not done it myself, as you are still working on the 4965 I have), but I have modded my F.53 bios with Phenix Bios Editor(OverClocked my 8400m GS) You'll need XP or Vista, but it does work.

Thanks for continuing to work on this,(If I were not so lazzy I'd have a look at your Code and see if I could help)

[jalavoui]

i need help on this:

all hp g7000 laptop family use the same bios update
the f.33 bios version installer came with a compressed firmware device (.fd) file
this file is patched to bios using insydeflash.exe
i need to find a way to extract the .fd file or get a .rom bios file to hack the wireless list
the f.31 bios update works but it includes a .fd file also
maybe someone already as a .rom file for the g7000 that works

please help
i can't write the code for the drivers until i fix this

[Cris900]

Why do you not open new topic about your problem??

Jalavoui watch this: http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/topic9388.html

[rulli]

Hm I think there's a problem with those .fd files:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=30854
but this thread is 2 years old so...
There's a solution: http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums...threadId=905994
But I don't think that the card will be seen as an intel one anymore so that could influence with your driver

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.ph...&p=11412285


Don't know what this means: http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/topic8738.html

EDIT:
After really long investigations I didn't find a tool to mod an insyde bios :-( I don't think that they want to give it out ( http://www.insydesw.com/ ). The only possibility is to "hot plug" the card after the bios has loaded/ mac os x is loading :-(

[Xenn0X]

i need help on this:

all hp g7000 laptop family use the same bios update
the f.33 bios version installer came with a compressed firmware device (.fd) file
this file is patched to bios using insydeflash.exe
i need to find a way to extract the .fd file or get a .rom bios file to hack the wireless list
the f.31 bios update works but it includes a .fd file also
maybe someone already as a .rom file for the g7000 that works

please help
i can't write the code for the drivers until i fix this

dude i suggested to send you and hp iw3945 which will work without the hacking
the offer still stands so just say the words and it's in the mail.
Don't try to flash the bios cause it's high probability that you will fail.

[rulli]

http://biosgfx.narod.ru/insydeco/
http://www.rom.by/book/Исm...Insyde_Software

[jalavoui]

ok here's the file with the firmware device
maybe someone can decompress this (decompresss the tar.gz first)

thanks rulli for trying to help - i've got no luck so far

here's the output in linux of:
flashrom -rfc 82802AC bios.bin
this is hacked because i forced the chipset to be 82802AC

Attached File(s)

 30D9F33.fd.tar.gz ( 632.73K ) Number of downloads: 20
 bios.bin.tar.gz ( 634.19K ) Number of downloads: 10

 

[dcaman]

Eh guys,
a topic deal with this specific issue about patching the bios to allow 3rdpartie wifi card.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...1474&st=100

hope it can help
see you
Dcaman

[rulli]

Jalavoui can you tell your vendor id /system id and so on of the card that came shipped with the notebook?
Hm I don't think that there's a possibility :-( You could try to reflash the cards' firmware with HP's vendor ID (the instructions with the knoppix files). The BIOS files you have are already binary, I think so you would have to decompile them. It doesn't seem that anyone has already accomplished / tried to do so.

[jourdan]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the great job. I've installed iwi2200.dmg to my OS X 10.5.2(kalyway version), but there is an error occurred after run the network selector...or whenever I load the iwi2200.kext..a "com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family" = "A valid compatible version of this dependency cannot be found"


Below is the message in terminal.

what should I do now?

Thanks in advance.

**********************************************

Last login: Wed Jul 30 17:20:43 on console
jourdans-mac-pro:~ jourdan$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# kextload /system/library/extensions/iwi2200.kext
kextload: cannot resolve dependencies for kernel extension /system/library/extensions/iwi2200.kext
error loading extension /system/library/extensions/iwi2200.kext
bash-3.2# kextload -t /system/library/extensions/iwi2200.kext
kernel extension /system/library/extensions/iwi2200.kext has problems:
Missing dependencies:
{
"com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family" =
"A valid compatible version of this dependency cannot be found"
}

bash-3.2#

************************************************

[SOD]

To all using Kalyway 10.5.2 and having the problem like Could not get ID for kernel control. 2, Missing dependencies or "com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family" = "A valid compatible version of this dependency cannot be found" - these errors occures because of the modified version of IO80211Family.kext in the Kalyway 10.5.2. All you need is the original version of IO80211Family.kext. With one from Kalyway 10.5.1 this one little problem seems to be cleared.

I attached the O80211Family.kext I extracted from Kalyway 10.5.1. I hope it will help.

Attached File(s)

 IO80211Family.kext.zip ( 1.65MB ) Number of downloads: 148

 

[jalavoui]

i'm trying to find a way to hack the hp bios file...
another solution could be hack the macbook efi firmware
it also as a wireless whitelist
any suggestion?