kurt Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Hey guys, So I've been running OS X on my rig since the first release of 10.5. I am running a GA-P35-DS4 mobo, with Q6600 cpu and have a US Robotics broadcom-based PCI wifi card. If I remember correctly, Leopard recognized my wifi card out of the box and I didn't have to do any modifications to get it work. However, by the time I installed Snow Leopard on the rig, I had wired myself into my router for a better connection. Further, since I hadn't been using the WiFi at all, I remove the PCI card from my tower and packed it away. Fast forward about a year or so, I am now in a new apartment with WiFi and want to use my broadcom card again. So I installed it into my tower and when I boot into Snow Leopard, I get nothing. No Airport icon in toolbar, nothing relating to Airport in Network preferences pane. The Wifi card does indeed work because I've been using it daily in Windows 7, which I've had to use while I experience this issue in OS X. Case in point, I need to resolve this. I have taken the following steps: Modyfied kexts and even installed the broadcom driver to no avail. I've even edited the en1 to en0 (or vice versa). I really don't want to have to do a fresh install to resolve this. The problem must have resulted from my not having the Wifi card physically installed while I was installing Snow Leopard. Has anyone encountered this issue and resolved it? Or does anyone have any insight into this for me. Thanks alot! Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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