Feitlinger Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Hi everybody, i finally succeeded in installing ideneb 10.5.8 on following hardware: AMD Phenom II x4 965 Gigabyte Ma790xt-ud4p 4gb ddr3 1600mhz GeForce 9400gt everything works quite good exept my Tl-wn851n WLAN card. Many users here and the osx86 wiki said that this card will Run natively without any kexts. Mine doesn't ;-) OSX86 Tools says following: 03:07.0 Network controller [0208]: Atheros Communications Inc. Unknown Device [168c:0029] (rev 01) Does anyone have a working Driver for me or maybe a step by step guide to get this card working. I would really really appreciate it. Greetings Feitlinger P.S.: in the ideneb 1.6 installation i took only these patches: ATI/AMD chipset driver qoopz 9.8 kernel nvdarwin 512mb realtek 8111 Network driver no fixes and other patches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plesuvescu Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I have the same wirless pci card Tl-wn851n the same dev id i try with leopard IPC 10.5.6, Iatkos v7, Snow Leopard with the same problem. The problem i think is dev id 168c,0029 is posible to have a pci card with another revision with this different id because in IO80211Family.kext, atheros kext it's only this string<string>pci168c,1c</string> <string>pci168c,23</string><string>pci168c,24</string> native is no way to work so i put my dev id 168c,0029 but airport do not apears! in HCL http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL#Wireless i see this user have id 0x168C, 0x3079 his reporting woking card. Maybe is diferent chipset?! my card have AR922X. I reach to end of my knowledge! In system preference/kext load i dont see any atheros kext load, and section pci card its nothing there Sombody light me what to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie_Roo Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I concur. I have just bought a TL-WN851N PCI Wireless 'N' card (Ver 2.1) and it is not recognised by my D975XBX2 (Bad Axe 2) Motherboard with iAtkos v7. I too checked the Wiki before purchasing and got this model specifically because it was listed as running without kexts. If anyone has got this working please post. Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roswellgreens Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 My House is Full of Hackintoshes... Acer A150L on 105.8 HP 550 on 10.5.8 Toshiba nb-100 on 10.5.7 Gigabyte GA-EP45-UDR3 on 10.5.8 & 10.6.2 Intel DG965SS on 10.5.8 (Media Center w PLEX and XBMC) All perfectly running... picked as MacBook, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, Mac Pro respectively... 4 & 5 on WIFI TKIP getting 150 /AES 300MB using the TP-LINK TL-WN 851 N 300 M Wireless PCI Adapter which I purchased from Amazon UK, HD Video Stream, Gaming, Data OS X Screenshare, etc.. AL WORKING!!!. This card works OUT OF THE BOX!!!! picked up as a real AIRPORT without ANYTHING no kext or weird complicated edits... the link is this one though if you happen not to be able to click on it above. - http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-WN-851-...r/dp/B0019EMF2M I tested these cards on 10.5.X all the way to 10.6.2 and also on my old REAL Powermac G4... so I dont know what the hell is that they are really talking about - this is nonsense... I even emailed TP-LINK on the compatibility so incredible with OS X and they said they are aware of it but cant claim compatibility for legal issues... BUY THIS CARD BECAUSE IT WORKS!!!! - those who said it doesn't work, are maybe working for APPLE or simply not installing their motherboard properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plesuvescu Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 My House is Full of Hackintoshes... Acer A150L on 105.8 HP 550 on 10.5.8 Toshiba nb-100 on 10.5.7 Gigabyte GA-EP45-UDR3 on 10.5.8 & 10.6.2 Intel DG965SS on 10.5.8 (Media Center w PLEX and XBMC) All perfectly running... picked as MacBook, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, Mac Pro respectively... 4 & 5 on WIFI TKIP getting 150 /AES 300MB using the TP-LINK TL-WN 851 N 300 M Wireless PCI Adapter which I purchased from Amazon UK, HD Video Stream, Gaming, Data OS X Screenshare, etc.. AL WORKING!!!. This card works OUT OF THE BOX!!!! picked up as a real AIRPORT without ANYTHING no kext or weird complicated edits... the link is this one though if you happen not to be able to click on it above. - http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-WN-851-...r/dp/B0019EMF2M I tested these cards on 10.5.X all the way to 10.6.2 and also on my old REAL Powermac G4... so I dont know what the hell is that they are really talking about - this is nonsense... I even emailed TP-LINK on the compatibility so incredible with OS X and they said they are aware of it but cant claim compatibility for legal issues... BUY THIS CARD BECAUSE IT WORKS!!!! - those who said it doesn't work, are maybe working for APPLE or simply not installing their motherboard properly. What dev id you have ? On new revision on this pci card is change the chipset with new one Atheros ar922x dev id 168c,0029. My pci card have this dev id and have rev.2.1and i try everything, not working! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakasaki Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 I'm in exactly the same boat have tried everything, bought this card because supposed to work with no messing about, my device ID is also168c:0029, really annoying me now think Ill try another one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etoile Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I am also having the same problem. Here is the device details what I have Device ID is 168C:0029 Chipset is Atheros AR922X Ver is 2.0 I've also tried everything. Nothing is working. Please Hackintosh Guru help us!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihatelife Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 i managed to get this card (tp-link tl-wn851n ver:2.1) working as airport extreme edited the id in the kext this is for the cards with ver:2.1 and dev id pci168c,0029 and 10.6.2 works flawless io80211family.kext download link http://uploading.com/files/m7eb9654/IO80211Family.kext.zip/ glad to help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interested Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 That doesnt work for me. i have version 2.0 and 10.5.8. Doesnt show in system profiler either. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakasaki Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 how do you know what version you have? That doesnt work for me. i have version 2.0 and 10.5.8. Doesnt show in system profiler either. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Str4nger Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 v2.1 here running 10.6.3 (runs reaaaaaally smooth, must fix KP at logout yet) with dev 168c:0029 airport doesn't show up anything, neither PCI cards menu under System Profiler I've modified dev ID on Atheros.kext and Atheros21.kext things I'll try next: - kext uploaded by ihatelife - boot with -x32 flag - Atherosfix.kext from netkas will update when finished Now it's working! Only had to modify Atherosfix.kext from netkas, and install it. Working flawlessly on -x64 System profiler Airport (never showed up inside "PCI cards") -x64 Airport working (only had to type security password) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dastanley Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Well I guess one possible choice would be to upgrade to SL. Currently running 10.5.8. According to the box I have version 2 and osx86tools says rev 01. I've tried editing the IO80211 kext and adding strings but that didn't work... (Do I need to compile the kext package after editing the files inside or is just editing files and saving then adding the edited package with kext helper okay?) Tried the uploaded kext but that isn't working on my leopard install. I even tried AtherosFix.kext but I'm fairly sure that's only does anything for 10.6.x. I don't want to upgrade to SL (don't own it and don't want to repatch everything), so I'm willing to try pretty much anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakasaki Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 v2.1 here running 10.6.3 (runs reaaaaaally smooth, must fix KP at logout yet) with dev 168c:0029 airport doesn't show up anything, neither PCI cards menu under System Profiler I've modified dev ID on Atheros.kext and Atheros21.kext things I'll try next: - kext uploaded by ihatelife - boot with -x32 flag - Atherosfix.kext from netkas will update when finished Now it's working! Only had to modify Atherosfix.kext from netkas, and install it. Working flawlessly on -x64 System profiler Airport (never showed up inside "PCI cards") -x64 Airport working (only had to type security password) any chance i could have a step by step guide on how you got it to work? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakasaki Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Ok so here is the modified IO80211Family.kext, replace this to get the card with dev id 168c:0029 working under 10.6.0, haven't tested under later versions but I would expect it to work, thought I'd throw this out there for people still struggling with this issue http://www.mediafire.com/?ylmnmlumu4y#1 Big thanks to Str4nger for sending me the kext! cheers dude this was driving me crazzzzy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myr7 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 works on 10.6.3 x64 also .....thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roswellgreens Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 10.6.3 - working... dropping connection now and then though... recog as airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangwa Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Anybody make it work under 10.6.4? I always get a kernel panic while it's getting an ip.... 10.6.3 - working... dropping connection now and then though... recog as airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looper Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Anybody make it work under 10.6.4? I always get a kernel panic while it's getting an ip.... are you on an i5 or i7 based CPU? Apparently this card is incompatible with those CPU's. I just got this card up and running on 10.6.2, will report any issues. Used wakasaki's provided kext, thanks wakasaki! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader128 Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 are you on an i5 or i7 based CPU? Apparently this card is incompatible with those CPU's. I just got this card up and running on 10.6.2, will report any issues. Used wakasaki's provided kext, thanks wakasaki! It works fine with my core i7 in Windows 7, but I get kernel panics and freezing like crazy if I try to use it in 10.6.4 with the kext that wakasaki provided. Has anyone got this card working in 10.6.4 with an i7? (I have version 2.0 of the card) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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