borillion_star Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 I am having an issue with this same card but I am running Leo, has anyone tried to use this in fix with it. Its on a Presario c500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olinboy1 Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 ugh i sure hope this problem can get fixed...heck who knows maybe people should get a pot of like 5-10$ to the person who comes up with a good fix for it...... i just ended up getting a usb wifi which works but the internal one would be awesome if anyone could get it working properly If it would help draw more attention to the issue, I'd definitely chip in a 10 spot. What USB wifi solution did you end up going with by the way? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I think I might have an idea how to fix the problem. The card may not be working because it requires firmware. Some how the firmware needs to be obtained and then be used with the driver. Im trying to find out how this would be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikespug Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I think I might have an idea how to fix the problem. The card may not be working because it requires firmware. Some how the firmware needs to be obtained and then be used with the driver. Im trying to find out how this would be possible. You're probably onto something... You can compare this idea to any linux installion. I have Ubuntu 7.10 loaded on a HP NC2400 laptop on which restricted drivers must be used in order to "enable" the wireless cards firmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 The only thing is, where would I put the firmware? And what format would the firmware be in? Could I use a .o file or would I have to use something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Is there anyway i could edit the source for the iwdarwin project? How would I create the .fw.h files? I have the .fw files that I extracted from the windows drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laddie Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Is there anyway i could edit the source for the iwdarwin project? How would I create the .fw.h files? I have the .fw files that I extracted from the windows drivers. I do have this card working under Linux, Fedora Core 5. would that help? I believe it was an rpm I found somewhere, I'll have to research it again since I've slept since the. I do recall it was based off some references from Fiesty Fawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Is this a mistake? I found this on the HCL page for 10.4.8. I hope its not a mistake and I would like to know who put that there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 I just had a great idea. What if we created a topic with the name "Free {censored} and beer" and that could help us get more gurus maybe. Just an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Actually, we should create a topic called "10.5.3 features preview" to make it more appropriate and less gender specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilleus Posted December 27, 2007 Author Share Posted December 27, 2007 I hope we're not all out of ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I'm not out of ideas. I heard somewhere that replacing some kexts with ones with 10.4.3 made this card work. So, I'm going to get a 10.4.3 dvd and first do a 10.4.9 install replacing some kexts with ones from the dvd and if that doesn't work, then I'll install 10.4.3 and go from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funnypanks Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 guys i highly doubt this is an issue with the card, but actually the pci slot itself and i either acpi or apic. i have an acer laptop and 4312 card and it doesn't work. and everyone with the acer 3680 5570 5570z and 5580 has problems with any card working in mac. even in linux booting shows some pci error but somehow the card works. hope this helps. im sure there are certain laptops made by other comp manufacturers with the same issue. and the acer models i referenced above, only the ones with mini pci-e have this issue not the mini-pci ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Whatever the problem might be with, I am still going to try using 10.4.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olinboy1 Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I just dug up my copy of 10.4.3 (8f1099) and installed it onto my HP dv5220us with the mini pci-e 1390 installed... I got nothing. Maybe i'll try and find my dvd of 8f1111. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funnypanks Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 guys i installed iatkos and bcrm4311 extension and ionetworking and io80211 all load yet i still cannot see my wireless card. does everyone have bcrm4311 loading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olinboy1 Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 I got impatient and ordered a 1490 card to try for "sh*ts and giggles." If I have more success with this new card than my 1390, I will report on it. I wish that my 1390 worked, but at this point, I'm just tired of being tied to the wall with ethernet. I just searched "mini 1490" on ebay to find what I needed. I shall return with comments on my new 1490 when it arrives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 olinboy1, is there anyway you could zip up IONetworkingFamily.kext, IO80211Family.kext, IOPCIFamily.kext, IOACPIFamily.kext, IOI2CFamily.kext, IOPlatformPlugInFamily.kext, and IOPCI2PCIFamily.kext from the 10.4.3 dvd? I am unable to find anyplace to purchase a dvd and bittorrent is too slow. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nirvanaguy19 Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 guys the c500 laptop has the same issue, i believe the issue is the pci-express (either not being powered up correctly, or being recognized), i tried the 10.4.3 kext's, and it didnt help, i have since given up on it and use a usb adapter , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olinboy1 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 @booger: I can zip up those files for you if you still want to mess around with them, but I really think at this point it is indeed a problem with the mini pci express slot somehow. Would I be able to get these files directly off the install DVD, or would I have to install the OS first and then grab them out of the Extensions folder? I have successfully done the "pin 20" trick. My card works in WinXP, and the button no longer toggles the card from power to sleep. I wish I could say this makes the card work in OSX, but it still doesn't. Running DPCImanager http://v4.kazzuya.com/dpcimanager in OSX shows the card in the list of the attached devices correctly, but still I have no card listed in the system information or the network control panel wtf!?! I did recieve my 1490 in the mail that I ordered on ebay. The new card immediately gave me the famous whitelist 104 error in the BIOS bootup... ugh (strange that I never got this with the 1390, it must have come factory installed in some HP dvXXXX along the way). I took a sizable risk and hot plugged the card in after the BIOS posted, hoping at least I could prove that the new card worked in OSX... it did not. All this to say, I believe there is no other reason for these cards not to work unless there is a problem with the bus they are plugged into. What is very confusing to me though, is the fact that both of these cards are recognized correctly in DPCImanager. How can it communicate itself as present in the system, but then no amount of editing to kext files makes any difference?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Well, no I don't need the 10.4.3 extensions. But I have reason to believe that this problem has nothing to do with the mini pci express port. I believe that it has something to do with itn requiring firmware, which is usually retrieved from the driver but since the driver contains firmware for a different card, it will not work. Therefore, a new driver would have to be written. But, since the firmware source is unavaliable, I don't see how it could be done. Maybe if we request the source multiple times from Broadcom, they will give us the source (yeah right). But I guess its worth a shot. But, it would also help if we had somebody who really knew there stuff, I know a good amount, but I am no driver programmer. But I guess if we get desperate I could somehow attempt to learn C++. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funnypanks Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Well, no I don't need the 10.4.3 extensions. But I have reason to believe that this problem has nothing to do with the mini pci express port. I believe that it has something to do with itn requiring firmware, which is usually retrieved from the driver but since the driver contains firmware for a different card, it will not work. Therefore, a new driver would have to be written. But, since the firmware source is unavaliable, I don't see how it could be done. Maybe if we request the source multiple times from Broadcom, they will give us the source (yeah right). But I guess its worth a shot. But, it would also help if we had somebody who really knew there stuff, I know a good amount, but I am no driver programmer. But I guess if we get desperate I could somehow attempt to learn C++. i dont want to just blaintanly say your wrong with regards to the firmware shplick. so i will just say that the 4311 works in plenty of laptops that are not acer or compaq, so it does correctly get recognized and it does usually work. it is definitly the slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Well, let me throw it out there that maybe the firmware has some power managment info that the system needs. Or maybe the chipset is a bit different. I am not sure, I will have to do some research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikespug Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware In support of the firmware theory... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsidianX Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 My mini-PCIe 4311 Broadcom wifi chipset works perfectly with the stock apple drivers in leopard 10.5.1. It claims to not be configured in the tray icon but it works perfectly with all forms of encryption and whatnot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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