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VIA Rhine II ethernet and Ralink RT2500 wireless working


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Just wanted to let you folks know that I was able to get my ethernet and wireless connections running on my older Sharp Actius Al27 laptop.

 

Ralink makes official OS X drivers. I have a RT2500 based built-in wireless and used the driver straight from their website.

http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Macintosh.html

There will be a separate utility that will be installed to manage the wireless. Airport Utility cannot be used.

 

Regarding the VIA Rhine II driver, I was having issues with permissions before. Instead of using the loadvia script that is zipped together with the ViaRhine.kext file (which is hosted in this forum,) I used Kext Helper and loaded the ViaRhine.kext file straight up.

 

Hope this helps anyone wanting to install figure out wireless/ethernet with VIA and Ralink based connections.

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Did you get this working under 10.5 or 10.4 only? I've had no problems with 10.4 but when I upgrade to 10.5 the Wirless utility won't load. Not sure if there is a 3rd party wireless utility for that problem or not but any help would be appreceated

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