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

[9898jjj]

Thank you for your advise, I will find it out and reply to you later.

it because i was try already more than twenty of 3945dmgs it is

hard to find out please wait....................

Hello Pere,

Attached please find link of iwi3945_wip download, if you still have any query kindly
feel free to contact me.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...976&st=3920

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[citizen_kane]

Hello.

Just want to say good work to all the developers, there are plenty of people following your work with great interest.

I have some questions.

I have the Intel Wireless 4965AGN, and have downloaded what seems to be the latest developed driver from this page:

http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/

I didn't experience any kind of kernel panic, or any other horrible problems for that matter. However, instead of activating the "airport" in the network prefs, the "ethernet" popped up.

Why is that?

Under ethernet, it says "ethernet cable unplugged", even though I have plugged it in, hence: it's not working.

I just wondered; have I done anything wrong during the installation, seeing as how the "ethernet" configurations appeared instead of the airport?? The possibility of me misunderstanding completely is largely at present, due to the fact that I am quite the n00b on mac.

Greetings from Norway, thanking you all for wonderful contributions.


My specs are as following:

HP Compaq 8510w Mobile Workstation
Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, 2,4GHz
4gb RAM

OS: Windows XP Professional dual Kalway Leopard 10.5.1 -- WORKING
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M -- WORKING
Audio: Intel AD1981HD -- WORKING
Wireless: Intel Wireless 4965AGN -- NOT WORKING
Ethernet: Intel 82566MM Gigabit -- NOT WORKING

[mehdymehdy]

Hello.

Just want to say good work to all the developers, there are plenty of people following your work with great interest.

I have some questions.

I have the Intel Wireless 4965AGN, and have downloaded what seems to be the latest developed driver from this page:

http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/

I didn't experience any kind of kernel panic, or any other horrible problems for that matter. However, instead of activating the "airport" in the network prefs, the "ethernet" popped up.

Why is that?

Under ethernet, it says "ethernet cable unplugged", even though I have plugged it in, hence: it's not working.

I just wondered; have I done anything wrong during the installation, seeing as how the "ethernet" configurations appeared instead of the airport?? The possibility of me misunderstanding completely is largely at present, due to the fact that I am quite the n00b on mac.

Greetings from Norway, thanking you all for wonderful contributions.
My specs are as following:

HP Compaq 8510w Mobile Workstation
Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, 2,4GHz
4gb RAM

OS: Windows XP Professional dual Kalway Leopard 10.5.1 -- WORKING
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M -- WORKING
Audio: Intel AD1981HD -- WORKING
Wireless: Intel Wireless 4965AGN -- NOT WORKING
Ethernet: Intel 82566MM Gigabit -- NOT WORKING

lol no you haven't done anything wrong . and it's not ur fault . it's the driver , it's not ready yet or will not be ready anytime soon. and that happens to ur driver and the intel 3945 . it's not recognized as airport so that's why it's asking u to plug in the cable. so it's all wrong . anyways keep on checking maybe next year it'll be done.

[pere]

Hello Pere,

Attached please find link of iwi3945_wip download, if you still have any query kindly
feel free to contact me.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...976&st=3920

Now i know why it sound so familiar to me....
Ok, i explain you, SYMUC, started the 3945 ABG thread, and posted this "driver", but really is not a driver, just makes the system "think" it has a wifi connection, but the most important part, the really driver that make the card works, is not present on his driver, then, Javalui begin to help making the card driver work, but he found a lot of mistakes on the driver programming, and SYMUC dissapeared.... after trying several times, Javalui thinked was a better approach to use a network connection that an Airport connection to make it work, and had to rewrite the hardware driver for the card as SYMUC driver was useless....
Thats why the driver you have shows as airport but will not work... we have first to help Javalui to develope it as network connection and then try to make it airport compatible.
SO, whats the point? Just wait for Javalui news, as all of us here. (unless a real developer appears and help finishing the job helping Javalui).

[greenglow2004]

ive just b rought a new lap top. spent alot of money. spent 2 days getting it setup with dual boot of Vist and Leopard. fixed everything. everything works. except now i find out the wireless wont work because of this.
i wish i had knowen this at the time of buying the laptop.
please get a fix out for this soon !! i will donate lots of moneys. : \

[9898jjj]

Now i know why it sound so familiar to me....
Ok, i explain you, SYMUC, started the 3945 ABG thread, and posted this "driver", but really is not a driver, just makes the system "think" it has a wifi connection, but the most important part, the really driver that make the card works, is not present on his driver, then, Javalui begin to help making the card driver work, but he found a lot of mistakes on the driver programming, and SYMUC dissapeared.... after trying several times, Javalui thinked was a better approach to use a network connection that an Airport connection to make it work, and had to rewrite the hardware driver for the card as SYMUC driver was useless....
Thats why the driver you have shows as airport but will not work... we have first to help Javalui to develope it as network connection and then try to make it airport compatible.
SO, whats the point? Just wait for Javalui news, as all of us here. (unless a real developer appears and help finishing the job helping Javalui).

Thanks for your team hard work and very clear information, OK we will wai....t ^..^ @@ <##>

By the way if you need test for new driver , i can help for testing.... Thank You.

[herr stirlitz]

hey guys i've read the topic about paralles for mac which says that:

"Parallels Server.(is the) Application that enables the user to create virtual machines and run them. Parallels Server acts between the physical computer and the primary OS and allows the virtual machines to use the physical computer hardware resources."


maybe my question sounds stupid but .... did someone tried to use the working driver from windows to get acces to the net trough this virtual server? i've would have tried it out but i dont have the osx since i was pissed of 3945 .

chears to all the fellow sufferers!

[kmikase]

I'm going to have a look to this software. The problem would be the consumption of ressources when running it.

[herr stirlitz]

I'm going to have a look to this software. The problem would be the consumption of ressources when running it.

yeah it will be indeed, but there is driver for win2000. so if it works i would try to instal some sawed off verson of win where the services and other bullsh are turned off, so it wont eat more than 100mb of ram, i gues. or there is maybe a possibility of using smaller unix distributions.

however, say what hapened!

[pere]

I'm going to have a look to this software. The problem would be the consumption of ressources when running it.

Nice! Are you a driver programmer? How do you know it´s cause the resources?

[kmikase]

WAOUUU Calm down Pere, i'm not programmer or something like this. I'm just saying that Parallels Server will consume ressources in Mac OS X (you know, because you're running a virtual server on your computer)

[pere]

Ahhh... you were talking about parallels... (Please, specify more next time).

The Virtualization software can´t recognize the wireless card cause it depends on the HOST for the hardware recognition, if the host cant recognize it, the guest, cant. I did try it before, and parallels didnt recognize anything... unless someone get more luck with other versions/VM programs...

[kmikase]

Well yeah i had a doubt about the fact that we are talking of the same thing after posting my answer. It seems logicial that if the host doesn't recognize the hardware, the virtual server neither. Anyway i'm trying this software to feel smarter when i'll go to sleep

[herr stirlitz]

like pere said vmware fusion may do this.


but there (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html#c25453) is standing following:

"Choose a wide range of network options
VMware Fusion allows virtual machines to safely share a single network connection, effortlessly switching between wired and wireless AirPort/Wi-Fi connections."

if this could work, it would be better then nothig.

[Donk]

like pere said vmware fusion may do this.


but there (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html#c25453) is standing following:

"Choose a wide range of network options
VMware Fusion allows virtual machines to safely share a single network connection, effortlessly switching between wired and wireless AirPort/Wi-Fi connections."

if this could work, it would be better then nothig.

You could use Workstation on Windows or Linux to make the network work, but not Fusion as it runs on Mac OS X and the host network adapters need to be running. I have a Dell D620 where both the wired and wireless NICs don't work, but run Leopard in a VMware session and networking does work as it sees a virtualized Intel E1000 adapter. Check out the topic http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=118663 and others in this forum.

[herr stirlitz]

You could use Workstation on Windows or Linux to make the network work, but not Fusion as it runs on Mac OS X and the host network adapters need to be running. I have a Dell D620 where both the wired and wireless NICs don't work, but run Leopard in a VMware session and networking does work as it sees a virtualized Intel E1000 adapter. Check out the topic http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=118663 and others in this forum.

thanks, i've allready read it. i'm the guy who runs photoshop and a lot of 3d stuff at the same time. so the starting from vista is not the coolest option since vista eats 600mb for doing nothing .

however i'm going buy myself this http://www.sonnettech.com/product/ariaextremen.html litle baby ,

so have luck with the iwis. 

[macprodan]

thanks, i've allready read it. i'm the guy who runs photoshop and a lot of 3d stuff at the same time. so the starting from vista is not the coolest option since vista eats 600mb for doing nothing .

however i'm going buy myself this http://www.sonnettech.com/product/ariaextremen.html litle baby ,

so have luck with the iwis. 

Looks like a nice card, might get one for a Viao that has the 4965, that will never work. (heck might even buy one to improve the wirless reception on my macbook pro ) I just dont see the point of this half assed Driver you guys are workking on all this time and effort for a job done by a cowboy.. would be quicker to code one from scratch.

[rojotemate]

Looks like a nice card, might get one for a Viao that has the 4965, that will never work. (heck might even buy one to improve the wirless reception on my macbook pro ) I just dont see the point of this half assed Driver you guys are workking on all this time and effort for a job done by a cowboy.. would be quicker to code one from scratch.

Honey, we don't have Mac's. we run os x in pc's.

anyway, we like mac users.



Dener

[applehacker]

well seeing that this is not being solved any time soon, can I switch wireless cards with my other laptop (it has a 2 wire b/g broadcom, but mine has a 3 wire agn, but I have a g router so........)

[Dark Peace]

well seeing that this is not being solved any time soon, can I switch wireless cards with my other laptop (it has a 2 wire b/g broadcom, but mine has a 3 wire agn, but I have a g router so........)

You should be able to. I know for the dell it worked fine. Took out my 3 wired(black, white and gray) intel card and swapped it out with a dell (Broadcom) card, just pulged in the black and white leaving out gray (which is for N i guess).

Mac OSX and windows run with it just fine. I don't know maybe you can buy a dell wireless chip and install it in a sony or toshiba if they all use the same type of hardware? You can probably just use the dell drivers? Don't quote me on that last part.