Does anyone know of any wireless-N wireless cards that work oob as airport extreme with snow leopard?
I've searched all over but haven't come across anything...

Preferably pci cards, but pci-e or USB adapter are ok too.

Thanks

My Dlink DWA-547 (less than 40 US$ or 40€) is working out of the box under SL but only in 32 bits mode (no 64 bits atheros drivers available yet). It's recognized as Airport and is a PCI card (Dlink is selling a PCI-E model too, same wireless chipset).

Linksys WMP300N rev.2 PCI with Atheros Chipset.

By the way, Linksys WMP300N rev.2 has exactly same Atheros chipset than Dlink DWA-547, whereas Linksys WMP300N rev.1 has a Broadcom chipset.

Does the Linksys WMP300N (either revision) work in 64bit mode?

(please reply ASAP as my dad is getting pissed at me 'trying' to run LAN cables round the house for my hackintosh )

from the info in the last few posts, you'd see that rev 2 will not run in 64bit mode

Based on this post i bought a DWA-547,

It is not detected in either 64 bit obviously or 32 bit. abit miffed really.

Is there anything anyone can do to help point me in the right direction, do i need to add device id's some where or what?

flash

Dlink DWA 552 or 556

552 is PCI
556 is PCIe

Works OOTB in snow leopard 32 bits... until apple releases a 64 bit driver..

Hello,

Is anybody has a result with a linksys WMP300n rev2 ??

The mine is causing kernel panic in Snow leopard when I try to connect to a network.

It's a problem I have too with Leopard.

In leopard I've to change the IO80211Familly.kext, but when I do it on Snow leopard I can activate the airport ...

Any idea?

My Linksys WMP300n-RM (refurbished revision ONE) works perfectly under snow, all I did was add the PCI string in the 80211 kext. Then I installed it back in /System/Library/Extensions (not in /Extra/Extensions/). Do a permissions repair, boot with -f, recreate your DSDT.aml with the card plugged in (note sure if this does anything but I did it anyway) and recreate Extensions.mkext

Good luck

PS: your PCI string thing could be different? perhaps check whether you can see "BCM43X" (IIRC) when you run lspci (OSx86 tools>View PCI

EDIT: changed revision 2 to correct info; revision ONE

Get one of these: http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/MP2W.html

Then get a Broadcom BCM94321MC.

Both can be found off eBay - and everything works on both 32/64-bit kernels.

Is there any way to load a kext in 32 bit mode, while loading the rest in 64 bit mode? I ask because my DLink 2320 (atheros 5212 chipset) works fine in Snow Leopard 32 bit, but not in 64 bit. Obviously I want to boot into 64 bit if possible, and plus, in 32 bit my firewire ports cease working.

HELP

Kamikaze
would like to know how you get Dlinkd DWA 552 work in Snow Leo?Mine is
detected as airport but every times I turned it on and connect to a network
I get KP right away as is the same thing happened report by other user.If you
got the solution how it fix please let us know.Thanks

Is it working OoB, you sure ?
Just received my BCM94321MC. Shove it in my eee 901. It is indeed recognized as Airport but for some reasons I can't connect to any network...
I can see the networks, I can try to connect but when I enter my WPA password I get a connection timeout.

Any idea of what I'm doing wrong ?

Quite sure - I'm posting from it right now.

Not really. Have you edited the default KEXTs in any way?

Dlink DWA542 work OOB on Snow Leopard. Detected during initial install, ok 32bit only, no 64bits.

The PCI Edimax nMax card is officially supported under Mac, and I have been using it since Tiger without a hitch: http://bit.ly/xB5tz ($50)

Only 32-bit right now with a Ralink 2860 chipset, but Ralink is hopefully working on 64-bit drivers as they have updated other chipsets with support. You can keep your eye out for the new drivers here: http://bit.ly/2fOnt5

My DWA-552 is recognized as AirPortExtreme natively but I get KP/freezing as soon as I connect to a network and no problems if I'm not connected. Can anyone help me with this as I want my wireless to work and people have been recommending that card to the OP.

Thanks

Same problem (freeze/KP) here with Linksys WMP300N PCI (Atheros) as soon as it connects to a network.

We should try re-creating DSDT.aml with the card plugged in, perhaps in a different PCI slot, as it has been reported to work some posts above.

I am so curious though how it works for the happy ones

EDIT: I've just noticed the post refers to Broadcom based wireless cards

it's working brilliantly here, I'm using the card to post right now. But yeah, its the broadcom one. I got lucky when I ordered a WMP300N-RM (which is refurbished). Seems logical the refurbished cards will be the older ones, and thus the revision 1 (broadcom)

sorry but I haven't got the slightest idea on how to get your Linksys chips to work

is anyone with the supported cards able to reconnect after a wake from sleep?

meeeeeeeeeee, Linksys WMP300N rev. 1 works fine after sleep

nice
yours is only 54mbit but the ability to continue wireless after a system sleep is worth it.
need to get me the same card then..

errrr, its actually not 54mbit. Running at 130mbit currently (I'm miles from the router) and is actually draft 802.11n

Any chance you have an nForce 4 motherboard? Some people have been telling me there is interference between the ethernet and wireless pci cards on nforce bords making them KP. I would really love to get this fixed and have tried almost everything. Any help?

GB EP35-DS3P, Retail SL.

The script I used assumes the on-board LAN ported to be enabled. Perhaps, altering the script to look for the wifi card, would do the trick.

well im thinking of getting a dwa 556 or the dwa 547. price doesnt matter to me just want the one that is more supported and working. i was originally going to get the 556 but cant find anyone that has had any success. also i heard that you cannot get very good speeds at all and that they are both slow. is this true and which one is more supported

With the (Netkas) Atheros21, 32/64bits, see www.netkas.com its from beta 10.6.2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9zpo4a

Added also the DWA 556 with 168,3a70 worked for me DWA-556
add id168c-23 and 168c-24 and 168c,1a 168c,3a69 168c,3a70

Put it in the IO80211Family.kext now fully working "Airport" in menu

i didnt use the installer(kext helper) i used drag and drop

in Systemprofiler:

Softwareversions:
Menu-extra: 6.0 (600.22)
configd-plugin: 6.0 (600.27)
Systemprofile: 6.0 (600.9)
Networkpref: 6.0 (600.22)
AirPort-config.: 5.4.2 (542.23)
IO80211-family: 3.0 (300.20)
Interfaces:
en1:
Type card: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x3A70)
Firmwareversion: Atheros 5416: 2.1.8.7
Language: Unknown
Landcode:
Supported PHY-modi:: 802.11 b/g/n
Supported channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Status: Connected
==========================================
DWA-547-Atheros 5416/AR5008
DWA-552-Atheros 5416/AR5008
DWA-556-Atheros 5418/AR5008E id168c-23 or 168c-24 for me its 168c,3a70

AR5418+AR5133
AR5416+AR5133
AR5416+AR2133
AR9160/AR9280/AR9281

DWA-547 and DWA-552 are identical

also see:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...20#entry1244185