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

[Kramark]

Will - It's been a while since you posted this, so I don't know if you resolved your issue. I have an Intel 2915abg card and used iwi2200 for my iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5 install. I had the same issues you listed -- I couldn't get the command line version to work for some reason, and when I used NSGUI to connect, it would sit with a loading circle with no success after entering my WEP password. I got the idea that perhaps it wasn't resolving an IP, and so opened a Terminal. While the nsgui attempted to connect, I typed at the command line: sudo ipconfig set en1 DHCP

Almost instantaneously, NSGUI connected with an IP address. I have had this working for a day or so -- so I haven't messed with it much. I am planning on starting with a Automation script, and going from there... I have to manually open nsgui, select my network, paste in my wep key, and drop to command prompt each time I boot my laptop.

Hope that helps you or anyone else with similar issues!

Regards,
Paul

Well mate i'm using this driver with wep 64-bit without a problem. Downloading files 24 hours without even getting disconnect from the wireless.. add nsgui on your startup item so it will load automatically.

[kein_yo]

So, as I see after a year of research, there is no solution for the wireless 3945 abg??

:S

In that case I will have to come back to windows :S

[millie]

Hello there!!!

i also am looking for drivers for the 3945. The problem is i have a acer aspire 5920, i have already purchased a DELL DW1390 becuase this was confirmed as working with hackintosh, however my laptop wont boot when i swap round the cards the screen will not come on at all and the hard drive wont spin. After some research i found out that the bios must be whitelisting meaning that it wont boot with the other card for some reason.

My question is does anyone know of any cards working in hackintosh that are supported with the acer aspire 5920?

How close are we to having a 3945 driver?

And finally what is the best usb card to get? i want it to be working with airport without having to use a 3rd party app such as realtek

[the_painless]

For {censored}s sake, could some admin please close this thread until jalavoui has some news!?
I'm sick and tired ready at getting mails only 'cause some beginners are too lazy to read the last few pages!

I'm watching this thread since post #1 and it got pretty annoying!

So P L E A S E close it for now!

[MagicWTF]

TNW wanted me to share with everyone some rather big news. He has been hard at work, delving into the innards of the Darwin kernel, finding strange and obscure misfeatures involving, among other things, non-aligned IOMallocContiguous() calls.

In addition to fixing the initialization problems, the card now properly starts up, initializes, receives data, and enters ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(). Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first packet received by this driver:

CODE

A80000001B026B87000006000000000001002300000
  A830080000000FFFFFFFFFFFF001E4C427849001E4C
  427849C04F8691AC642700000064001104000C4C69
  7665626F782D44454430010882848B962430486C030
  1010504010300002A01002F010032040C121860DD16
  0050F20101000050F20201000050F20201000050F20
  2DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E
  0062322F00

Which looks an awful lot like an ESSID broadcast. Specifically, of the AP named "Livebox", which I'm told belongs to TNW himself.

There is much more work to do, but now the hardware is at least starting to behave.

-Symuc

Just thought I'd dig this up to remind people how far we've come in the past few months, and just how close we are, Jal is getting pretty close to his money goal on the website. With a little luck we could easily have this by christmas, remember, Rome wasn't built in a day, be patient and good things will come. Like many of you complaining I've been waiting a long while too, but as far as I see it, life is short, why worry.
Here's to hoping we get a driver soon, only one hundred € to go. = D
P.s. I forgot how to link the quote back to symuc's original post >.< sorry

[macgirl]

For {censored}s sake, could some admin please close this thread until jalavoui has some news!?
I'm sick and tired ready at getting mails only 'cause some beginners are too lazy to read the last few pages!

I'm watching this thread since post #1 and it got pretty annoying!

So P L E A S E close it for now!

Then don't read it.

I am sure if Jalavoui or other have an importan progress it will be announced in the front page news.

[TB2]

the_painless: Here's another useless post for you:



Thanks to all those who contribute to these drivers. Looking forward to use my 3945abg chip with osx86, it's the only thing not working on my machine!

[CrArC]

the_painless: unsubscribe, mate! I'm about to myself, we'll hear about the drivers when they're done, I guarantee it.

And TB2, seconded I still have a 3945-based laptop waiting for love.

[uncopan]

Can you put the work on a public svn / cvs or something like this ?
This way others may be able to add to your code and the whole process will be faster i think.
And in the process we might even be able to write a howto . Maybe this way on the next piece of hardware without drivers the whole process will be easyer.

driver status
iwi2100 - work with no wep for osx 10.4. os x 10.5 is untested
iwi2200 - wep support for os x 10.4/5
iwi3945/4965 - i'll finish the drivers as soon as i have a laptop to work. the drivers scan for networks - need to test packed code and make it associate (this was what i've done in iwi2100 in 2 days)

and...
i do not intend to abandon the iwidarwin project

[booger_sniffer5000]

Can you put the work on a public svn / cvs or something like this ?
This way others may be able to add to your code and the whole process will be faster i think.
And in the process we might even be able to write a howto . Maybe this way on the next piece of hardware without drivers the whole process will be easyer.

svn checkout http://iwidarwin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ iwidarwin-read-only

Taken directly from http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/source/checkout

[jalavoui]

anyone who like to join the project please post new versions here for testing
mail me with a gmail account to have access to iwidarwin svn tree for commiting new code

thanks for helping on the laptopt
i hope i soon get back and write new code

[Aieie Brazorf]

We all thank you, your effort will not be forgotten

[Exiled]

might be a stupid question, but i know you can't connect to a network using the iwi3945, but what about creating a network? Like an ad-hoc network because i might be able to use my iphone 3g to connect from there.

Any response would be greatly appreciated!

[booger_sniffer5000]

might be a stupid question, but i know you can't connect to a network using the iwi3945, but what about creating a network? Like an ad-hoc network because i might be able to use my iphone 3g to connect from there.

Any response would be greatly appreciated!

Nope. Drivers don't work at all.

[Exiled]

ok thanks!

[sektor]

At least I can see my wireless network and its start I'm not a coder but anything I can do to help like testing logs or something.

[MagicWTF]

At least I can see my wireless network and its start I'm not a coder but anything I can do to help like testing logs or something.

same although I have a mediocre knowledge of coding, I dropped out of computer science and went into health sciences (human biology, A&P =DDD)

[masterpiece]

Hey guys,

how about 4965agn for now?

masterpiece

[aspcartman]

Guys, i can't make it work(

CODE

89-178-189-246:~ aspcartman$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# sudo kextload -t /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kextextension /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext has potential problems:Warnings
{
    "Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style" = true
}

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext appears to be loadable
kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext loaded successfully
bash-3.2# sudo kextload -t /System/Library/Extensions/iwi3945.kextkernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/iwi3945.kext has problems:Missing dependencies:
{
    "com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family" =
        "A valid compatible version of this dependency cannot be found"
}

Also i'm not able to find any other IO80211Family in google !
Any help?

PS
I was running linux about last two years and for god sake - i can't get watha hell are "com.apple" files and where are they?? It's very confusing - not knowing what's is going on in system (makes me to remember windows ).

[M@dMac]

ok folks, I've got a compaq c797el bought in italy a few weeks ago, its 3945 adapter is able to see the ssid of the wifi router... but I haven't yet made it associate with it, does it means that the driver works? or it means it doesn't? go figure, any help would be really appreciated.