Cindori Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Using this card and Retail 10.6.0 on Gigabyte EX58 UD5 50% of my boots results in kernel panics when it comes to atheros and PCI stuff in the verbose... But sometimes get to OSX. Wireless works fine there. any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotkiv Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I just don't get the point of running 10.6.1 with 10.6.2 network kext, why not just run 10.6.2 and not mess with the networking kexts. I just can't seem to get 10.6.2 running on my GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L rev.1 it always trashes everything and my install gets hosed. I'll back up this image and try 10.6.2 again, but for now this is an awesome mac and everything finally works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tronic Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 pci card get recognized, but i get a kernel panic everytime i want to enable airport or choose a network... any advice? OK I got this to work in 64 bit with 10.6.1 In addition to the AtherosFix.kext I also needed to use a new IO80211Family.kext which was posted by himac59 over in the "Snow Leopard + DWA 552/556" thread. With the (Netkas) Atheros21, 32/64bits, see www.netkas.com its from beta 10.6.2 IO80211Family.kext Once these two were installed my card was recognized and I was able to configure it in the network preferences. I apologize if I didn't post and credit properly but this actually works and I can get rid of my Edimax USB adapter that kept on disconnecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinnggoff Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 pci card get recognized, but i get a kernel panic everytime i want to enable airport or choose a network... any advice? that seems like tplink wifi card is not supported for 802.11a spec..where all the airport card supports for 802.11a (correct me if Im wrong) here is info from tplink website about wn951n spec http://www.tp-link.com/products/productDet...del=TL%2DWN951N Edit : sorry I bought it yesyerday....works great in Loepard and Snow Leopard...Thanks Jursis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhiyuck Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 I can't get this to work. I have a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 at 10.6.2 and it doesn't recognize the card by default. I installed the the atheros fix - nothing. I also installed the IO80211Family.kext and then it sees the card. It seems fine but when I connect to our network I get a kernel panic. Any suggestions? The router is a linksys WRT54G. I would think it would be OK, but connecting gives the panics, so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jursis Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 I can't get this to work. I have a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 at 10.6.2 and it doesn't recognize the card by default. I installed the the atheros fix - nothing. I also installed the IO80211Family.kext and then it sees the card. It seems fine but when I connect to our network I get a kernel panic. Any suggestions? The router is a linksys WRT54G. I would think it would be OK, but connecting gives the panics, so... errmm.. can you say what error you getting with KP boot with debug=0x100 and take photo of your kernel panic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhiyuck Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Sorry for the delay... tried fixing it and needed work to find the card again. Here is the picture of the panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jursis Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 Sorry for the delay... tried fixing it and needed work to find the card again. Here is the picture of the panic. ok .. looks like some problem with pci, but not sure. try to put your card in different pci slot if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhiyuck Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 So very frustrating... I tried to switch PCI slots, with no result. I've tried a reinstall with nothing but the two kexts listed above, and that is no help as well. The moment I try to connect to the network it panics. I used myHack installer... would that matter? Other then that, I can think of no hindrance to the airport card other then the motherboard. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lflashl Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 can anyone please tell me if this is a 100% working in snow leopard? wishing to get wireless, with little no issues. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soFresh57 Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hi guys, i've got some trouble with this card too... The card is not recognized as Airport, is not listed in the 'PCI Cards' sections in 'my computer', but we can found it in "Ethernet cards", showed as 'PCI' (so why not in PCI Cards??). I tried add/remove IOFamily kexts and Atheros, without any changes. Im running SL in 32bits, and i can't switch PCI slot because of a big graphic card. BUT it's running pretty well on Win 7. Some ideas there? :censored2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jursis Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hi guys, i've got some trouble with this card too... The card is not recognized as Airport, is not listed in the 'PCI Cards' sections in 'my computer', but we can found it in "Ethernet cards", showed as 'PCI' (so why not in PCI Cards??). I tried add/remove IOFamily kexts and Atheros, without any changes. Im running SL in 32bits, and i can't switch PCI slot because of a big graphic card. BUT it's running pretty well on Win 7. Some ideas there? try using small video card, to fit wifi in other pci run kext utility and then reboot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FransNetwork Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Wow nice You can get this pretty cheap of £10 in are town and dos anyone think this would work under 10.5.2 kalyway ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Sheffer Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 This is frustrating. I have tried 64 and 32 with all varieties of kexts listed here as well as both of my PCI slots. All result with seeing the card, getting a great wifi signal, and then having the computer freeze once I launch safari. I usually get to the second page before it freezes. Also - this is a complete freeze, I do not get the kernel panic info. Any thoughts? I may just be sending this back to Amazon. Build: MSI p55-gd65, core i7 860, 8 GB Ram, Snow Leopard, GTS 250 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jursis Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 This is frustrating. I have tried 64 and 32 with all varieties of kexts listed here as well as both of my PCI slots. All result with seeing the card, getting a great wifi signal, and then having the computer freeze once I launch safari. I usually get to the second page before it freezes. Also - this is a complete freeze, I do not get the kernel panic info. Any thoughts? I may just be sending this back to Amazon. Build: MSI p55-gd65, core i7 860, 8 GB Ram, Snow Leopard, GTS 250 hmmm.. if it's not kernel panic, then maybe it's your bios settings, try to play around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichBUK Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 it seems any i5/i7 hackintosh gets kernel panics with PCI based atheros ethernet devices. I have a dlink DWA547 and it does the exact same thing. The same hardware and system disk did not KP when it was running with a P45 chipset and E8400 processor. Upgraded to an i7 and now it crashes. Setting Hyperthreading off and CPUS=1 stops it crashing but screws performance. Suspect we need 10.6.3 to fix it as the i7 iMacs have a different build of OSX than 10.6.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nurcan ABACI Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Thank you! Working like a charm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kunal2139 Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Works with my TP Link TL-WN851N after installing the AtherosFix and IO8211Family kexts (both in the first post). I used Kext Utility (new 64-bit version) to install them. Confirmed working in 10.6.2 64-bit on my Gigabyte EP45-UD3R build. The card was only $20 on Amazon! Thanks for this topic!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evildemon989 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 I'm just wondering if anyone has found a solution to the problem with i5's/i7's yet. I'm also getting kernel panics with the 64bit kext. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evildemon989 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Anything? I'd really like to get it working under OSX. Works great under windows 7 and ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anmnoor Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 yes it works with Asus P5QL-PRO after installing the AtherosFix and IO8211Family kexts in 64 bit SL 10.6.2. Thanks for this topic!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javimdq Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 it seems any i5/i7 hackintosh gets kernel panics with PCI based atheros ethernet devices. I have a dlink DWA547 and it does the exact same thing. The same hardware and system disk did not KP when it was running with a P45 chipset and E8400 processor. Upgraded to an i7 and now it crashes. Setting Hyperthreading off and CPUS=1 stops it crashing but screws performance. Suspect we need 10.6.3 to fix it as the i7 iMacs have a different build of OSX than 10.6.2 Same here. WMP300N v2 KP with i5. Maybe we need to wait to 10.6.3 as you said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evildemon989 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Did anyone with an i5/i7 try PC EFI 10.6 yet? It has P55 supported by default and has support for lynnfield cpu's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeman93 Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I have the same issue as everyone with my config (P55A-UD3 / Core i5-750 / TL-WN851N) : KP after a few seconds of connection. I am using PC-EFI 10.6 and it does not help. I hope 10.6.3 fixes the issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evildemon989 Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Well, I guess we'll just have to wait for 10.6.3. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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