m.musashi Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 People should also learn to read the thread. They can be helpful if something hasn't been posted before, but if it has, then keep shtum. unfortunately that's too much to ask to a lot of ppl anyway to be back OT, if anyone "finds" some real developers info on Apple's 80211 stack please share it with the comunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rc_square24 Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 Has anyone tried the 802.11b driver for http://www.ioxperts.com/products/80211b_X.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince29 Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 Well, have you seen any "Intel 2200bg" in this driver HCL ? Besides, I can't see any reference for this driver being a "universal one". And finally, it seems to be a closed source one. But if you have some time to waste, you still can give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phusho Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Hm this thread is going like previous only posting stupid words and nothing more. Don't you ever got tired to mumble people !!! Stop the stupidity and just wait! There are 4 pages with stupid words and the testing is not have even begun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Álvaro Martins Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Baseline Ace, Many of us laptop-users have builtin ipw2200-cards. I currently use a Belkin adapter that works fine, but the internal card has a better antenna and does not require a 8cm stick attached to the computer (that is very easy to break while using the computer on the field). I am also willing to sponsor the development of this driver. / jajo Another 50$. Ill sponsor this driver too. Have the same issue 3945 abg internal.. on a samsung r65 Anyone whants to suport the developer? Best Reg, Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercommunist Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 I am still using UBUNTU 6 on my IBM T42p besause ipw 2200 driver works? Cannot we use the ubuntu driver for example?? Can this version be adapted for Mac OS X86??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jajo Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 I am still using UBUNTU 6 on my IBM T42p besause ipw 2200 driver works?Cannot we use the ubuntu driver for example?? Can this version be adapted for Mac OS X86??? PLEASE, Read the thread! Only tiny parts of the linux-driver could be used for reference while coding the OSX-driver. / jajo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 no news of this so waited driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksont123 Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 apparently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengar_cm Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Does that card's original driver work on 10.4.1 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacMaui Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Is it likely that the development of this ipw2200 driver will be usable as base for a ipw3945 driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxx Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Is it likely that the development of this ipw2200 driver will be usable as base for a ipw3945 driver? acctually the driver might be should be very compatible to 3945.. but i dont think we'll be seeing an ipw2200 driver any time soon.. too bad folks, tuxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james2mart Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 tuxx is right. Until apple gives out information on IO80211Family, we're trying to stab a ghost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpsolares Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 hope this help ... https://svn.binaervarianz.de/kismac/branche...irportExtreme.m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 hope this help ... https://svn.binaervarianz.de/kismac/branche...irportExtreme.m oops .. - enlighten us a bit, jpsolares - who could all these lines help ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Dog Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 i'm also interested int othis drivers for ipw2200bg for people with 2100 one, if one day driver is working for 2200 just buy a new mini pci ==> http://www.nextag.com/intel-pro-2200/search-html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zubi_won Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I will pay 50$ as well for a working 2200 driver! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thysm00 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I just bought a broadcom mini-pci card for 15$ on ebay... works pretty good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rb2k Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 hmmm... seems like a nice idea... is switching mini-pci cards not that big a problem? or may this result in bios errors and other strange behaviour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Dog Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 no, it should be really easy and you shouldn't have problem, mini pci is almost the same as PCI and is designed to allow the modification of the card. just take care your notebook antennas connectors and the same as the ones on the mini pci you'll buy. also take care of the length of the card that could be too big and can't fit your notebook due to CPU rad or such thing. to remove the antennas youjst unplug 2 connectors, you pull 2 "switch" to remove the mini, put the new clip the antenna and it's up and running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thysm00 Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 This is exactly what i did, and the intel pro 2200 is quite a big card, i mean thick. So i think broadcom ones are thin enought, but take care of the antenna connections, mine had two, and it seems that some mini-pci has only one... That is the one i bought: Broadcom 802.11 b/g Wireless Mini-PCI Card-BCM94306MPSG photo here: http://i3.ebayimg.com/05/i/07/e3/67/12_1.JPG it worked perfectly with jas 10.4.6 install (wireless package) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zubi_won Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Has anyone herd from aroman lately? his site has not been updated in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxx Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 hi guys, i just recieved an interresting link to a discussion on the IO80211Controler on the apple dev-mailing list from Jussi. http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dri...n/msg00056.html Its pretty much what I've tried to explain to aroman. Using IO80211Controller might look nice in the system preference pane.. but its really not a good idea considering that its completely UNDOCUMENTATED and really hard to reverse engenieer. Anyone seriously interrested in porting this shld checkout the method described in the following posts of that address.. It seems that "the Airport (Atheros and Broadcom variants) now use a variant of the FreeBSD net80211 code with 'plugins' to support the specific chipsets, and a custom layer on top to talk to the IO80211 parts." sounds like a very interresting method.. sadly i dont have such an interface anymore and cant help develop for it.. good luck guys tuxx (with a special thanks to Jussi for the link) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugmoon Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 It seems that "the Airport (Atheros and Broadcom variants) now use a variant of the FreeBSD net80211 code with 'plugins' to support the specific chipsets, and a custom layer on top to talk to the IO80211 parts." The problem with that method, though, is that we would need to figure out what 'plugins' we need to write. Also, wouldn't writing the required custom layer have the same problems that aroman had with the IO80211 parts being undocumented? I think it's more likely that we will see a driver based off of IOEthernetController (like the Prism GT driver). That's just what I think, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablasso Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 i changed my 2200 for a truemobile 1450 and it worked out of the box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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