Wireless works, but airport doesn't detect "wireless device"

[Pankott]

Hi all, first time poster, and am very new to the hackintosh scene (but am addicted).

 

Have installed Snow Leopard (retail) on my wife's PC using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], and have updated to 10.6.8. So far most things work: can boot from HD; have sound (after some tweaking, but no microphone); usb works as well. Oh yeah, sleep crashes machine, so I just turned it off (don't really care about it). More importantly, wireless worked right off the bat (detected and selected my network during install), with stable connection to internet. The card is a D-Link DWA-552, and is connecting to an Netgear N600 wireless router.

 

So, I tried to set up Time Machine so that I can back things up before trying to tweak things further, but the Airport Utility doesn't detect any wireless devices, and I can't go any further. Checking the network settings shows Airport icon is green (connected), and like I said I'm wirelessly connected to internet fine , so I'm not sure what's not working. Tried to search the forums for a couple of hours, but keep finding topics of wireless not working at all, or Time Machine causing KP's, etc...

 

Anyone have any ideas on what I can try? I've never used OSx before, so maybe there's a setting that I'm not aware of. Wait a minute... just realized that I hadn't tried attaching the 2nd hd yet - I guess since there wasn't one, the OS was trying to find a wireless backup (Time Capsule)? I'll try it tomorrow to see if it works. Lol - if that's it what the problem was I feel shame. Anyway, I'll post this now anyway (before trying the extra hd) in case anyone else is searching for info on this older set up (I found it hard to find resources/forum posts for P5B attempts).

 

Thanks, everyone.

 

Specs:

 

Asus P5B mobo; E6600 Core 2 Duo; 4GB DDR2-800 Ram; EVGA GeForce 8800GTX 575Mhz/768MB; AD1988A (Soundmax) Codec; D-Link DWA 552 Wireless N Adapter; [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.1.1/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.8.0/Snow Leopard 10.6 with combo update to 10.6.8

[Gringo Vermelho]

Time machine (Maya, 3D Studio Max, Apple App Store, some Popcap games, virtual instrument plugins, lots of other pro apps) needs to see a "built-in" wired ethernet port as EN0 in order to work. It doesn't matter if you're actually using your wired connection or not.

 

Read this thread for more information:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=255764

(at first glance it might look like it's about something else, but the required steps to fix his issue are the same as yours)

[Pankott]

Time machine (Maya, 3D Studio Max, Apple App Store, some Popcap games, virtual instrument plugins, lots of other pro apps) needs to see a "built-in" wired ethernet port as EN0 in order to work. It doesn't matter if you're actually using your wired connection or not.

 

Read this thread for more information:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=255764

(at first glance it might look like it's about something else, but the required steps to fix his issue are the same as yours)

 

First off, thanks so much for your reply, Gringo! Especially after reading through the link you sent - I can only imagine the number of times you guys must answer the same things over and over (sometimes to the same person it seems!). Anyway, I think I fell victim to one of your comments in the link regarding the tools that are supposed to make things easier actually make it more complicated. The [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method is so easy now on the surface, but it masks everything going on behind it so that noobs like me have no idea what actually works or not because we didn't have to figure anything out. So, my eyes are now open that there's way more to this project than selecting things from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url].

 

I've checked com.apple.boot.plist in Extras and the ethernetbuiltin key is already = yes. However, (from network preferences) the wired ethernet port is set to EN1, not EN0. If I understand your response in the other thread correctly, one of the options to change this is to use PCIRoot=1 in the boot.plist, is that right?