tianlye Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I noticed something- the drivers do not work with all routers - it does not work with my N router but it work with my G router. For those whom it does not work, maybe you like to try out in other places as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kronno Fatal1ty Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Yes it does... i've tried connectiong to a lot of routers here at my home, cofee shops, airports stations, pub's... and these driver for AR9285 never let me down... maybe your doing something wrong i guess... best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I noticed something- the drivers do not work with all routers - it does not work with my N router but it work with my G router. For those whom it does not work, maybe you like to try out in other places as well? AR9285 doesn't support 5Ghz only 2,4Ghz, but its possible to hack the ROM, Tool for Windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tianlye Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Yes it does... i've tried connectiong to a lot of routers here at my home, cofee shops, airports stations, pub's... and these driver for AR9285 never let me down... maybe your doing something wrong i guess...best regards That is good for you. Unfornately, there are others who cannot connect their AR9285 to their network and I am offering a suggestion that might help to verify if it is their router or the card AR9285 doesn't support 5Ghz only 2,4Ghz, but its possible to hack the ROM, Tool for Windows Er, sorry I am a noob, maybe can you tell me what is this about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kronno Fatal1ty Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 This meens that the router sends a 5 GHz strengh signal and the wireless card AR9285 only supports 2,4GHz signal... this is if your router have been configured to send a signal like that, you can always enter your router and slow down the strengh signal... hope this could help best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cairo_sc Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 Well, maybe i can help u guys. See, i bought a PCI-e TPlink WN781N with an Atheros AR9285 Chipset. So, i did the following steps: 1st - I've got a brand new SL installation and 2nd - updated it to 10.6.4. 3rd - then, i got a IO80211Family.Kext from 10.6.5 beta (click to download =]) 4th - installed it with Kext Utility 2.3.2 5th - after the kext installation, i went to system profile, clicked on Airport and, guess what, it's working. Well, this is all, maybe it'll help you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anarchy7269 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Dude do you have this running on your i7 setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwiger Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 cairo_sc: Would also like to know if you have this working on an i7. Also, did you have to alter the i080211Family.kext at all. It seems many cards require including the device id to the plist, but I wanted to know if you really got this working out of box. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cairo_sc Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Dude do you have this running on your i7 setup. Yeap, and until now i just have some problems with my mouse, sometimes it disappears, but then from nothing, it comes back. Gonna by a Magic Mouse to fix it =D cairo_sc: Would also like to know if you have this working on an i7. Also, did you have to alter the i080211Family.kext at all. It seems many cards require including the device id to the plist, but I wanted to know if you really got this working out of box. thanks. And, yeap, i got it working out of box, no i080211Family.kext editing, all the work i did was, drag atheros kext into Kext Utility, and that's it =) and still working until now. here's a little screenshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwiger Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Cairo_sc: Couldn't wait for a response. Ordered the exact same card as you, followed your instructions, and got it working this morning. One of the easiest modifications yet on my Core i7 SL. Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Red Haski Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Yeap, and until now i just have some problems with my mouse, sometimes it disappears, but then from nothing, it comes back. Gonna by a Magic Mouse to fix it =D And, yeap, i got it working out of box, no i080211Family.kext editing, all the work i did was, drag atheros kext into Kext Utility, and that's it =) and still working until now. here's a little screenshot Using your method, I'm able to connect to B/G networks fine. But I can't get an IP address from N networks. Are you connecting to N networks no problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semipro Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 thank you very much for your information regarding this wlan pci card, this has worked fine. i have the same PCI-e TPlink WN781N card which was pretty cheap and airport works nice with this kext. also I would like to know, whether it is possible to use this with the proposed N speed at 150 MBit/s instead of the current G speed at 54 MBit/s ?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cairo_sc Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 Using your method, I'm able to connect to B/G networks fine. But I can't get an IP address from N networks. Are you connecting to N networks no problem? I'm using a G network, haven't tried the N yet. Sorry about that =/. Cairo_sc: Couldn't wait for a response. Ordered the exact same card as you, followed your instructions, and got it working this morning. One of the easiest modifications yet on my Core i7 SL. Thanks!! You're welcome bro. Helping is our duty =D I'm glad it worked for you. thank you very much for your information regarding this wlan pci card, this has worked fine. i have the same PCI-e TPlink WN781N card which was pretty cheap and airport works nice with this kext. also I would like to know, whether it is possible to use this with the proposed N speed at 150 MBit/s instead of the current G speed at 54 MBit/s ?! Sorry dude, haven't tried the N network yet, I'm looking forward to buy a N router, then I'll be able to give you some help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirandeore Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 I was able to surf using a g-router but was just able to connect (not surf) on n-router Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestawasright Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 Yeap, and until now i just have some problems with my mouse, sometimes it disappears, but then from nothing, it comes back. Gonna by a Magic Mouse to fix it =D And, yeap, i got it working out of box, no i080211Family.kext editing, all the work i did was, drag atheros kext into Kext Utility, and that's it =) and still working until now. here's a little screenshot Would you mind uploading the atheros kext you used, as you kindly did the i080211Family.kext? Please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daewero Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 does n work now, and if so can someone please up the kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 does n work now, and if so can someone please up the kext device id 2b ? or 2a ? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=234570 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daewero Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 i just updated to 10.6.7 and n is working now, but it is slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeNgoaiDao Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Well, maybe i can help u guys.See, i bought a PCI-e TPlink WN781N with an Atheros AR9285 Chipset. So, i did the following steps: 1st - I've got a brand new SL installation and 2nd - updated it to 10.6.4. 3rd - then, i got a IO80211Family.Kext from 10.6.5 beta (click to download =]) 4th - installed it with Kext Utility 2.3.2 5th - after the kext installation, i went to system profile, clicked on Airport and, guess what, it's working. Well, this is all, maybe it'll help you guys. Hi mate, does it work in Snow Leopard 64bit mode? And does it work with Lion? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorenzo Campioni Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Hi, I've installed Snow Leopard 10.5.5 on my EeePc 1008ha, but I can't make AR9285 work. I've installed the patched kext in S/L/E and the card is correctly recognized in system profiler; I can see my wireless network, but I'm not able to connect using DHCP, and if I go for a static IP it says connected, but there is no real connection, what's missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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