age_sabres18 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Trying to get my atheros wifi card working any1 have any ideas? AR928x is my model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BuildSmart Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Trying to get my atheros wifi card working any1 have any ideas? AR928x is my modelThis chipset line is currently unsupported in OS X and you don't state which actual one you have. I'm playing with a proprietary driver now for the AR9281A, it locks up using WPA2 and drops connections when using WEP or WPA but an open AP has no issues and I should have it all worked out in the next couple of days. What does this mean for you, unfortunately nothing the driver is being built for a company under contract and will not be released publicly but, if someone else makes a public driver I can assist with resolving issues and can even suggest you start with the linux source code as a base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neos Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 This chipset line is currently unsupported in OS X and you don't state which actual one you have. I'm playing with a proprietary driver now for the AR9281A, it locks up using WPA2 and drops connections when using WEP or WPA but an open AP has no issues and I should have it all worked out in the next couple of days. What does this mean for you, unfortunately nothing the driver is being built for a company under contract and will not be released publicly but, if someone else makes a public driver I can assist with resolving issues and can even suggest you start with the linux source code as a base. Would like to ask ? Theoratically will this hardware work under leopard as what u have stated? I'm quite interested at getting the Fujitsu U820/U2010 , it's a small tablet pc running on 1.6Ghz atom processor.... One thing i've noticed that is using the Atheros XSpan AR928X ,had a chance playing with it for a few minutes.... Found the dev id and ven id 168C 002A and i've found that AR5008 and AR928X uses the same vista drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BuildSmart Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Would like to ask ? Theoratically will this hardware work under leopard as what u have stated? I'm quite interested at getting the Fujitsu U820/U2010 , it's a small tablet pc running on 1.6Ghz atom processor.... One thing i've noticed that is using the Atheros XSpan AR928X ,had a chance playing with it for a few minutes.... Found the dev id and ven id 168C 002A and i've found that AR5008 and AR928X uses the same vista drivers. The U820 uses a hybrid AR5416ab/AR9284a chipset so it might well work if you rebrand to apple subsystem ID's since it is compatible with the closed HAL of the OSX driver but I wouldn't guarantee it works since it requires code to place it in ath5k compatibility mode and this doesn't exist in the OSX driver but the device might default to ath5k compatibility so it's worth a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neos Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Thanxs for the reply Buildsmart rebrand to apple subsystem ID's since it is compatible with the closed HAL of the OSX driver Sorry buildsmart but I dun understand this part, did u meant try putting a dev id and ven id at /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/Plugins/AirportAtheros.kext/Contents/Info.plist If yes , then i would like to take my chance purchasing the notebook.... If not can u show me the correct way if it's not to troublesome...... Thanx and cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BuildSmart Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Thanxs for the reply Buildsmart :censored2: rebrand to apple subsystem ID's since it is compatible with the closed HAL of the OSX driver Sorry buildsmart but I dun understand this part, did u meant try putting a dev id and ven id at /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/Plugins/AirportAtheros.kext/Contents/Info.plist If yes , then i would like to take my chance purchasing the notebook.... If not can u show me the correct way if it's not to troublesome...... Thanx and cheers No editing of plists is required in the rebrand process. From your response I conclude the skills required are above your level of experience so I would suggest you pick different hardware, I don't have time to educate anyone on the process of performing the rebrand and google will provide some generic tutorials about the process but even those will be beyond your abilities because you can't decide what you need to change for your particular card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giablă Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 BuildSmart, I'm a "lucky" AR928x user on asus x58l. Is any chance to make it work if I rebrand the card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynameiszane Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 hey im also a lucky user or ar9281... i would like to no if theres any possible way yet of gettin it to run in 10.5.5... even if the network has to be unlocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCM770 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 BUMP, also interested in this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BuildSmart Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Edit the Info.plist and make sure that your cards ID is in the file, if it is then I guess it wont work, if it's not it's worth a shot otherwise, buy an AR5008 card if you want supported wifi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCM770 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Ive edited the info.plist and no luck unfortunately. Will the AR5008 work with the kill switch buttons on Acer machines? I heard there was a problem with that but it was on a broadcom card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BuildSmart Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Ive edited the info.plist and no luck unfortunately. Will the AR5008 work with the kill switch buttons on Acer machines? I heard there was a problem with that but it was on a broadcom card.It's called tape and there are a few posts that outline the procedure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCM770 Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Yes, but the procedure was specifically for a Broadcom card, i dont know if it is needed on the AR5008E-3NX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmcnano Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Snow Leopard supports it natively... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaniv17 Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Snow Leopard supports it natively... I know its device id exist in snow, but have you tested it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puhleez Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Works for me perfectly on snow retail - out of the box. (It's just a shame I can't seem to get it going under iPC - or get touchpad working on snow so I can have both touchpad AND wireless - seems to be one or t'other.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygor.almeida Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 I'm Still looking for AR5009 support! Is it possible ?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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