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I have an AirLink AWLH6070 Wireless N PCI Adapter, and I have recently upgraded to Snow Leopard... The 3rd link of the Ralink website, the RT2860 chipset, works for this adapter under 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5...but not under 10.6. I have a fully working Snow Leopard machine on a UD3P motherboard, except for internet, so please let me know if you can help me. Thanks guys. :P

 

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Yeah I'm in need of an x64 rt2860 driver/kext for snow leopard as well. I simply cannot boot 32bit for some {censored} reason. been trying for over a week now and no luck...just hangs at "waiting for dsmos".

 

If I knew where to even start I'd certainly give writing one a bash :)

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It took me a lot too to make it boot on 32 bit mode.

In order:

 

--check your bios settings, disable speedstep. I only could make speedstep work in 64bit mode.

--update fakesmc if you haven't done so

--update disabler in latest chameleon rc3

--use only video kext if needed, I used aty_init

--re-check kext permission and update caches (I used kext utility for it)

--Patch dsdt with needed hacks (I did only hpet and speedstep)

--At this point. You should be able to start in both 64 and 32 bit modes. (with arch=i386 since I'm using chameleon)

--Add kext by kext of the other ones you think you need, until you know wich one is causing panic/hang. In my case it was a jmicron related problem wich I haven't completely understood yet. So far, I'm ata-less until I upgrade my network to wired or ralink relase a new driver. I'm thinking go wired since ralink can decide to not work anymore in those drivers since snow is only for new intel macs without a pci inteface. Also, I lose speedstep, wich is a big deal for me because it costs $$$ to have a computer plugged all day.

 

All my kexts are in extra folder.

 

Yeah I'm in need of an x64 rt2860 driver/kext for snow leopard as well. I simply cannot boot 32bit for some {censored} reason. been trying for over a week now and no luck...just hangs at "waiting for dsmos".

 

If I knew where to even start I'd certainly give writing one a bash :)

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Thanx for the response ronalith,

 

I'm not having much luck even with your suggestions for booting 32bit.

 

  • At the moment I have chameleon 2 RC3 installed on a backed up snow leopard disk on a usb hardrive.
  • I grabbed the latest fakesmc.kext i could find for snow leopard and put that in my extra folder in the base directory of the usb drive
  • I had a look around and disabler is part of chameleon2 rc3, is that correct?
  • Turned off speed stepping in my bios (have a modded for osx 2102bios for a p5q)
  • I tried runnning kext utility in snow leopard in 64 bit mode
  • I created a dsdt with a windows dsdt creator that includes the hpet patch, couldn't find much to do with speed step hack for the dsdt?

I still can't boot into 32bit mode at this stage (using the correct arch=i386 command etc) still gets stuck just after waiting for dsmos, there is also a complaint about acpi push cpu cst data fail but i get this in 64bit mode as well and it boots up fine.

 

Any ideas? Booting 32 bit mode would make my life soooo much easier.

 

Regards

 

Hobsie

 

It took me a lot too to make it boot on 32 bit mode.

In order:

 

--check your bios settings, disable speedstep. I only could make speedstep work in 64bit mode.

--update fakesmc if you haven't done so

--update disabler in latest chameleon rc3

--use only video kext if needed, I used aty_init

--re-check kext permission and update caches (I used kext utility for it)

--Patch dsdt with needed hacks (I did only hpet and speedstep)

--At this point. You should be able to start in both 64 and 32 bit modes. (with arch=i386 since I'm using chameleon)

--Add kext by kext of the other ones you think you need, until you know wich one is causing panic/hang. In my case it was a jmicron related problem wich I haven't completely understood yet. So far, I'm ata-less until I upgrade my network to wired or ralink relase a new driver. I'm thinking go wired since ralink can decide to not work anymore in those drivers since snow is only for new intel macs without a pci inteface. Also, I lose speedstep, wich is a big deal for me because it costs $$ to have a computer plugged all day.

 

All my kexts are in extra folder.

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try to delete caches, only repair permissions of kexts and start with -f . I'm not familiar with this mobo but most asus are quite similar to mine (an MSI). I had trouble with that disabler. I'm using this one, found in one of the guides for installing snow in the forum. Look at the attach.

 

Thanx for the response ronalith,

 

I'm not having much luck even with your suggestions for booting 32bit.

 

  • At the moment I have chameleon 2 RC3 installed on a backed up snow leopard disk on a usb hardrive.
  • I grabbed the latest fakesmc.kext i could find for snow leopard and put that in my extra folder in the base directory of the usb drive
  • I had a look around and disabler is part of chameleon2 rc3, is that correct?
  • Turned off speed stepping in my bios (have a modded for osx 2102bios for a p5q)
  • I tried runnning kext utility in snow leopard in 64 bit mode
  • I created a dsdt with a windows dsdt creator that includes the hpet patch, couldn't find much to do with speed step hack for the dsdt?

I still can't boot into 32bit mode at this stage (using the correct arch=i386 command etc) still gets stuck just after waiting for dsmos, there is also a complaint about acpi push cpu cst data fail but i get this in 64bit mode as well and it boots up fine.

 

Any ideas? Booting 32 bit mode would make my life soooo much easier.

 

Regards

 

Hobsie

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext.zip

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Hi Ronalith,

 

Thanks for trying to help me out. Still getting no where with 32bit boot after your suggestions O_o seems like i'm destined to boot into 64bit (and to think people where complaining that their macs booted 32bit kernal and oh how apple had misled them...)

 

Quite literally the only error I get in verbose is "ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::pushCPU_CSTData - _CST evaluation failed". This happens in 64 bit mode as well but the DSMOS arrives in 64 bit and not in 32 bit O_o.

 

This ones really busting my balls :D

 

try to delete caches, only repair permissions of kexts and start with -f . I'm not familiar with this mobo but most asus are quite similar to mine (an MSI). I had trouble with that disabler. I'm using this one, found in one of the guides for installing snow in the forum. Look at the attach.
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Hi guys,

 

Can anyone who has it working, please try to elaborate on exactly what they did to have a functioning RT2860 PCI Wifi card under 10.6.1?

 

I have tried running the Kext Utility (2.3.2) after installation for the Ralink package, but after reboot (with the -v flag), I still cannot see the card listed and it still doesnt detect a new NIC when loaded (I've also tried with the arch=i386 flag = no joy!)

 

MOBO is a GA-P35-DS4, and the card still works 100% perfectly under 10.5...

 

Help please... :hysterical:

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Ralink RT2860 installer (x32) says that the user should add the network connection under Netowrking in Preferences pane.

 

I tried to add a new location but I am not sure on how to locate the wifi card.

 

Would a very polite person who managed to get this up and running give us a quick step-by-step guide on how to set up the network info under preferences?

 

(I remember back in 10.5.6 the Ralink program would pop up every time I logged in osx. Now under SL it is not doing this any longer)

 

Many thanks in advance

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Sorry guys, I don't have Snow Leopard installed currently...but if the utility doesn't work immediately after installing and rebooting...I think the only thing to do is to make sure that you're in 32 bit mode. If not...then I'm as clueless as you...Ralink needs to update this utility to work natively with 10.6...let alone 64 bit :D

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I am able to get the utility to see my wireless card in 32 bit and I am able to see my networks. However when I connect, under Statistics my frames received is 0 and my frames received with CRC error is in the thousands. I am unable to connect to the internet. Is anyone else having this problem.

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Burpethead
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This card is working fine for me in 32-bit Snow Leopard on my Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L.

 

I am worried about 64-bit support as I don't think there are any real Macs that have PCI and can run Snow Leopard. I think the last Macs to have regular PCI were PowerPC Macs so I'm worried that the drivers will never be updated for the PCI version of this card.

 

:)

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