larrybird Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Just curious if anyone's been able to achieve any measurable degree of success with this card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felosis Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 if i recall the dell wireless 1395 (which is in my inspirion 1520) is really a bcm43xx card try http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=51725 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrybird Posted May 31, 2008 Author Share Posted May 31, 2008 Cheers! I'm looking into it now. This could be a great bit of news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrybird Posted May 31, 2008 Author Share Posted May 31, 2008 Cheers mate! I followed the link and can report that Dell 1395 works with the pre2 shell script (only with pre2 though). Genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ass23 Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Just curious if anyone's been able to achieve any measurable degree of success with this card? Yes i did, just add the device id to AppleAirPortBrcm4311.text (it's inside IO80211Family.kext), hope these solves your issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackobyte Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Lots of these for sale here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E:IT&ih=016 Perfect fit for the MSI Wind (Advent 4211) no need to modify the standoff with this one at all!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulOSX Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 hi, Loads of people are asking questions about the Dell 1395 wireless (4311) aka Broadcom 4315, there is absolutly no problem with this card in leopard! i'm working on a Dell XPS M1530 and is working great, but yes it takes a challenge to compleet the instalation of this card. First as described above, modify the /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents/Info.plist Add: <string>pci14e4,4315</string> and then reboot, but finalize the important step: sudo -s Kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext Now the airpor will appear! for questions, your welcom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pityone Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 this solution worked for me, but every time i restart, i have to enter the kextload again. is there something i'm doing wrong, or is this something i'm going to have to live with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekel006 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Please forgive me, Im a complete Hackintosh n00b. I have an m1530 with the dell 1395 wifi. I've figured out how to edit /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents/Info.plist , but I cannot save any changes. I've edited the permissions of IO80211Family.kext to Read/Write for my account, but thats as far as I can go in Finder. How can I enable Write access to the info.plist file itself? Any help would be greatly appreciated, and again, forgive my ignorance. I've installed OSX for the first time and have been stuck on this for the last 2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekel006 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Ok, giving up for the night. I was able to edit all the permissions to get the edited file saved, but now when I Kextload (BTW Do i do this from within osx, or do i boot with a -s and do it from the cli?) it says IO80211Family.kext is not authentic, check ownership and permissions; run with -t for details. running with -t gives the same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacaman1 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 man copy the kext to your desktop make the modification ( make a safe copy in case you need to return back) use Kext helper B7 to install it and enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekel006 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Thanks sacaman, worked like a dream. I know it should be obvious, but I still struggle with tasks like "copy to desktop", and "use kext helper b7". I really had no idea what b7 was, much less how to actually use it. But suprise suprise, the n00b got it on the first try! Now my only issue is that I am unable to join networks. Airport is present and working, nearby networks are detected and listed, but whenever I enter a WPA key, it immediatly says connection failed in the lower left corner of the pword dialog box. I've spent some time on google, but no luck. Any ideas? Ugh, I couldnt figure out how to edit my post. Basically disregard everything other than the part about "Thanks, it works like a dream!" A little more digging around insanelymac got me working. I had to delete the network for AirPort, recreate it and reboot. Good to go now. Now on to getting the sound and battery meter running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacaman1 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 good to hear that everything working for you Sacaman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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