mynameiszane Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 My atheros ar9280 card was working when i installed snow leopar but as soon as i installed chameleon rc2 it stoped being detected. What can i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adityaxavier Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Hi .. I had the same problem.. Had to figure out that it was due to the fact that Airport Extensions are primarily 32 bit only.. so just boot into 32 bit arch and it should be working fine... Chameleon's default boot is 64 bit so possibly it is not allowing the airport extension to be loaded.. Let me know if it solves.. Regards, A.Xavier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano_uk Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I have the same problem however no matter what I try my system always boots in 64Bit. I've tred editing Boot.plist and booting with -x32 but it always boots in 64 I have the same problem however no matter what I try my system always boots in 64Bit. I've tred editing Boot.plist and booting with -x32 but it always boots in 64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adityaxavier Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 You need to change in the boot.plist in /Extra to arch=i386... -x32 doesnt work for me either.. Just to be on the safe side first boot using " arch=i386 -v " and check. Regards, A.Xavier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano_uk Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 You need to change in the boot.plist in /Extra to arch=i386... -x32 doesnt work for me either.. Just to be on the safe side first boot using " arch=i386 -v " and check. Regards, A.Xavier. LOL I was just coming to to say that once I managed to boot in 32 the Airport card worked. In the end the reason for not being able to boot in x32 was because of a dodgy EFI string for my graphics card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obecny Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Is any option to get this card to work under 64bit sl leo? I mean, any option for some drivers soon ? Why apple doing this kind of s*** for own apple product Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynameiszane Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 You need to change in the boot.plist in /Extra to arch=i386... -x32 doesnt work for me either.. Just to be on the safe side first boot using " arch=i386 -v " and check. Regards, A.Xavier. hi thanks it worked but one problem. i cant find the boot.plist file in my /Extra on my snow leopoard but i found it on my leopard partition. what to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adityaxavier Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Its always a safe bet to have com.apple.boot.plist on both /E and /L/P/S ... if you could not find it in SnowLeopard partition's /Extra try copying the same from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ ... That should do it.. Anyway waiting for Apple to make Athereos kext for 64 bit.. How can they say its a 64 bit OS if so many extensions are 32 bit ? Weird.. Anyway Glad to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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