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hi all

 

i now have yosemite 10.10.5 installed and have a usb wifi card made by liteon,

i beleive the card uses the ralink rt2500 chipset, the card shows up in system information

as 802.11g wlan and is recognised as ralink manufacturer.

 

i am guessing that this will need kexts to work properly and the connect utility,

my question is does anyone have the right kexts / utility for this to work and if not could

someone explain if it is possible to modify a kext to get it functioning properly and how ?

 

i will attach the system info screen shot here as well

 

tnx

 

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hi..

did you put it at /kext/10.10 folder..? if using clover don't need to use kext utility..

at my rigs I just put it at 10.10..10.11 and 10.12  kext folder

which is the  exact model of USB dongle? 

reboot...

c.frio

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ok thanks, i will give that a go and see what happens


ok, i have tried that but unfortuantly its still not working, i might give it a go by reinstalling yosemite and then installing clover, but i have had nothing but problems with clover

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Here:

 

http://www.rampagedev.com/?page_id=1020&page=6

 

I have a direct link to the drivers. Please take note that the last time the drivers for your USB Wifi was released for Mac OS X 10.6. So they may only be 32-bit drivers and not work past Mac OS X 10.7.5.

 

Also the USB Profiler showing the device has nothing to do with being recognized. That's the device firmware handing over pure letters to the OS.

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hey thanks man, that explains a bit more about the system profiler as well, i was always under the impression that if a profiler, windows, mac etc listed the device as what it is, like the usb wifi card, then it recognised it even though it wouldn't work.

 

i guess the only thing its usefull for is basic device info,  i wander why they didn't just call it device info then.

 

the link you gave me is not working though its a 404 at mediatek, but i think its prolly gonna be quicker and easier to by a new wifi card and fit it, good bookmark though tnx

 

@C.frio thanks for you help as well

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well i think i found a problem with my wifi card, in that the signal was really low, about 10% or 20% signal only,

luckily i found an old wifi card with an RTL8191S chipset, plugged it in and downloaded the 10.8 RTL8191SU drivers from

 

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=21&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true

 

and that was it, it worked straight away on yosemite 10.10

 

again, many thanks for your help

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