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hello,

 

can this wifi dongle work on mac ? I have mac os X 10.4.7.

 

it's the only thing that i don't use on mac...

 

Can you help me ?

 

thanks

 

P.S. Sorry if my english is bad, i'm french

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i don't know... i have a wg511t in my laptop and i heard from somewhere that's it's supposed to be compatible as pcmcia only... i can't install osx on my laptop because of no sse2 but i'm gonna buy a new laptop very soon. i'll look into the pcmcia/usb thing.

 

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No guarantees, but here is something to try.

 

Your USB device has an Atheros chipset. OSX has some Atheros drivers and we are going to modify them to see if it will work with your device.

 

I'm going to reference a procedure for modifying Broadcom drivers. Don't let that throw you - the procedure is the same and I'm going to give you the changes you need to make.

 

Follow this:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23684

 

Edit this file:

 

sudo nano System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros5424.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

Look for:

 

<string>pci106b,0086</string>

<string>pci168c,1c</string>

 

Add these:

 

<string>pci1385,4250</string>

<string>pci1385,4251</string>

 

Make sure you indent these lines to match the ones above it.

 

Except for these changes, follow all the other steps.

 

Good luck!

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There is info about my Wlan card :

 

Name [00000010] Atheros AR5005G Wireless Network Adapter

 

Product Type Atheros AR5005G Wireless Network AdapterService Name AR5211

 

PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_001A&SUBSYS_04181468&REV_01\4&AD1B67F&0&28F0

Memory Address 0xB0100000-0xB010FFFF

 

RAMMJET : Where can I start ?

 

VID is 168C ? and PID 001A ?

 

Should I add

 

<string>pci168c,001a</string>

 

after

 

<array>

<string>pci106b,0086</string>

<string>pci168c,1c</string>

</array>

 

?

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I have a 5211 based wl-card, the vendor id is also 168c, dev. id is 0013, that's the info I got with regedit (windows) so I added this string in info.plist but the card is not being recognised.

I added the new entry directly under the 2 existing entries.

Are the existing entries for 2 cards or for 1 card ?

I'm running 10.4.6 from the goatsec dsitri.

The subsystem id is 730216ab, should I do something with this ?

 

 

I also tried a SMC 2802W card with gtdriver 0.93 and the gtdriver from totosoft, but in both cases NO SHOW.

At the moment I'm out of options, so if here's somebody who can assist me, I would be grateful, did a search on all the topics, but no succes :)

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cocodile, did you have any luck?

 

I have a netgear and its a 168c, dev id of 13. I have tried the 10.4.5 drivers, 10.4.6 and 7 drivers, to no avail. I was doing 168c,13 in the kext and it wasn't finding it.

 

Mine is the pcmia version of this card btw, lemme know if you figure anything out

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cocodile, did you have any luck?

 

I have a netgear and its a 168c, dev id of 13. I have tried the 10.4.5 drivers, 10.4.6 and 7 drivers, to no avail. I was doing 168c,13 in the kext and it wasn't finding it.

 

Mine is the pcmia version of this card btw, lemme know if you figure anything out

 

Ok, wow a reply, well it is working now, but I sort of forgot what I was doing, was busy with so much installations, anyway it didn't work on 10.4.4 and 10.4.6 didn't boot on my system, but then I installed 10.4.6 on another system and that one booted, and the built in drivers works (Atheros) I have some oem-card from E-tech but with the same id's.

So I think you'll first have to check if your pcm-cia is being detected, I suppose you know where to look for the id's in the kext ?

 

Sorry for the late reaction, but haven't visited the board since I got it working.

 

Well, good luck with it and keep me updated.

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yeah, turns out my PCCardBus isn't even working cause I don't have drivers for the chipset. So maybe if that worked, the pcmcia card would work! I don't think there is any support for my laptops cardbus at the moment, but hopefully there will be soon.

 

I have a USB wifi but its not looking likely for working under OSX

 

Thanks buddy,

eL

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No guarantees, but here is something to try.

 

Your USB device has an Atheros chipset. OSX has some Atheros drivers and we are going to modify them to see if it will work with your device.

 

I'm going to reference a procedure for modifying Broadcom drivers. Don't let that throw you - the procedure is the same and I'm going to give you the changes you need to make.

 

Follow this:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23684

 

Edit this file:

 

sudo nano System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros5424.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

Look for:

 

<string>pci106b,0086</string>

<string>pci168c,1c</string>

 

Add these:

 

<string>pci1385,4250</string>

<string>pci1385,4251</string>

 

Make sure you indent these lines to match the ones above it.

 

Except for these changes, follow all the other steps.

 

Good luck!

 

Hi,

 

I'm new here (and I think this may be the wrong place to post this since I have a PowerPC Mac but I'm desperate) so please bear with me. I own a ibook G3 500 without any wireless. I recently bought the Netgear WG111T USB not knowing that it didn't work with a Mac. Now I'm stuck since my ibook won't read it.

 

My System Profiler says this:

 

WG111T:

 

Version: 0.01

Bus Power (mA): 500

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Atheros Communications Inc

Product ID: 0x4251

Serial Number: 1.0

Vendor ID: 0x1385

 

So the specs are the same as per your earlier post but I can't seem to find the kext file that you mention. When I run

 

sudo nano System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros5424.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

I get an empty file for editing.

 

Please help.

Thanks,

Andy.

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Hi guys,

 

I have a Netgear WG111T usb too that is also recognised in profiler.

 

I still can't manage to get Airport working.

 

I also have WG511 v2 PCMcia plugged in, but i can't see anywhere if it's detected or not.

 

Anyone got it working?

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