keypox Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I have searched fruitlessly for a working solution. One sticky promises such but it doesnt seem to work for 5007. I really want this to work. Anyone have this working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukaZeroCool Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I'm searching for a solution too. I hope some "genius" to find it... maybe talking with Madwifi's staff, that let this card work on Linux... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldisweety Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I have an Acer Aspire 5315 using Leopard 10.5.4.(iATKOS 4i.iso) and Vista Ultimate .In Vista under Device Manager it gives me an Atheros 5007EG but on another hard Disk runing XP it displays Atheros 5006 so i did the following 1.Without installing Airport Update 2008-004 l use kext helper to install io80211family.kext (v.2.1.2) 2. After an restart l noticed that Airport turned on but yellow (No Network) I have tried at least 5 or 6 different versions of io80211family.kext but only version 2.1.2 loads properly and gives me under System Profiler/Airport Card/ Airport Extreme (0x168c,0x428) and System Profiler/ Extensions -AirPortAtheros v.3.1.5 -IO80211Family v.2.1.2 I noticed that the networkinterface.plist under /library/preferences/systemconfiguration is en1 If l delete all the mkext files and repair io80211family.kext permissions (chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions/io80211family.kext chown -R root:wheel /system/extensions/io80211family.kext), after the next restart the AirPortAtheros /IO80211Family are vanished!!! 3. So I tried the >-f< trick editing f to com.apple.boot.plist from /Library /Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ as bellow <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key> Kernel Flags </key> <string>-f</string> 4. Although it gave me kernel panic l rebooted as -v so l reboot again as root user 5.Then without Repair disk permission or repairing io80211family.kext permissions again or anything else 6.l started kismac went to preferences --> driver and add airport extreme passive mode --> Start scan and after l see network detected, l close it .l went to the airport icon on the top right on my desktop and my network was listed. I clicked on it From System preferences/Network the Airport icon is green!!!!Surfing with safari the the wireless Lan LED is always inactive like if it doesn't work?The only thing thats annoying is that l have to always start IO80211Family_kext_v.2.1.2.zip Atheros_5007EG_proof.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campanile Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Hi, I'm new to the osx86 things and have an Atheros 5700EG like you people, and I would like to try your solution, but I have another issue (related to network) : welcome/keyboard selection loop, so I can't use kexthelper to install IO80211.... Can it be installed via some terminal (I'm pretty comfortable with linux) ? Thanks a lot ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macin Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 work with NC10 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zro Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I have an Acer Aspire 5315 using Leopard 10.5.4.(iATKOS 4i.iso) and Vista Ultimate .In Vista under Device Manager it gives me an Atheros 5007EG but on another hard Disk runing XP it displays Atheros 5006 so i did the following 1.Without installing Airport Update 2008-004 l use kext helper to install io80211family.kext (v.2.1.2) 2. After an restart l noticed that Airport turned on but yellow (No Network) I have tried at least 5 or 6 different versions of io80211family.kext but only version 2.1.2 loads properly and gives me under System Profiler/Airport Card/ Airport Extreme (0x168c,0x428) and System Profiler/ Extensions -AirPortAtheros v.3.1.5 -IO80211Family v.2.1.2 I noticed that the networkinterface.plist under /library/preferences/systemconfiguration is en1 If l delete all the mkext files and repair io80211family.kext permissions (chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions/io80211family.kext chown -R root:wheel /system/extensions/io80211family.kext), after the next restart the AirPortAtheros /IO80211Family are vanished!!! 3. So I tried the >-f< trick editing f to com.apple.boot.plist from /Library /Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ as bellow <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key> Kernel Flags </key> <string>-f</string> 4. Although it gave me kernel panic l rebooted as -v so l reboot again as root user 5.Then without Repair disk permission or repairing io80211family.kext permissions again or anything else 6.l started kismac went to preferences --> driver and add airport extreme passive mode --> Start scan and after l see network detected, l close it .l went to the airport icon on the top right on my desktop and my network was listed. I clicked on it From System preferences/Network the Airport icon is green!!!!Surfing with safari the the wireless Lan LED is always inactive like if it doesn't work?The only thing thats annoying is that l have to always start Hello waldisweety, I have a LG R400 with Atheros 5007eg. I did the whole procedure, the card is working. IS ACTIVE! THANK YOU. However it is not my wireless network. Please help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vsa.mac Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 This kext, gave me kernel panic, I had to boot in safemode and delete it. Instaled using kexthelper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aly369 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I have an Acer Aspire 5315 using Leopard 10.5.4.(iATKOS 4i.iso) and Vista Ultimate .In Vista under Device Manager it gives me an Atheros 5007EG but on another hard Disk runing XP it displays Atheros 5006 so i did the following 1.Without installing Airport Update 2008-004 l use kext helper to install io80211family.kext (v.2.1.2) 2. After an restart l noticed that Airport turned on but yellow (No Network) I have tried at least 5 or 6 different versions of io80211family.kext but only version 2.1.2 loads properly and gives me under System Profiler/Airport Card/ Airport Extreme (0x168c,0x428) and System Profiler/ Extensions -AirPortAtheros v.3.1.5 -IO80211Family v.2.1.2 I noticed that the networkinterface.plist under /library/preferences/systemconfiguration is en1 If l delete all the mkext files and repair io80211family.kext permissions (chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions/io80211family.kext chown -R root:wheel /system/extensions/io80211family.kext), after the next restart the AirPortAtheros /IO80211Family are vanished!!! 3. So I tried the >-f< trick editing f to com.apple.boot.plist from /Library /Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ as bellow <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key> Kernel Flags </key> <string>-f</string> 4. Although it gave me kernel panic l rebooted as -v so l reboot again as root user 5.Then without Repair disk permission or repairing io80211family.kext permissions again or anything else 6.l started kismac went to preferences --> driver and add airport extreme passive mode --> Start scan and after l see network detected, l close it .l went to the airport icon on the top right on my desktop and my network was listed. I clicked on it From System preferences/Network the Airport icon is green!!!!Surfing with safari the the wireless Lan LED is always inactive like if it doesn't work?The only thing thats annoying is that l have to always start OMG Thank you worked perfectly Apart from you have to start kismac everytime im not botherd By the way i deleted the -f trick because it was causing kernel panics no side effects though im writing this as we speak from my fujitsu siemens v5535 next....the lan LOL Thank you soooooooo much alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo18 Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 i got many panics with the different kext files only one would work on my toshiba nb100 try this one just to get the wifi to display as airport being on but not able to scan. then use kismac to set a air port extreme card passive mode in the preferance pane of kismac then scan. it may or may not work . you then go to the normal network preferance and set up wifi as normal it workis sometimes for me and just playing around with this method got it working fairly consistantly. if you need any help then message me IO80211Family.kext.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassy Sweeeeet Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Can someone please help me with my post? im trying to get my Atheros wireless to work with 10.5.6 but it just isn't working. Go to this link http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161634 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidSnake Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Hey ppl, im new to the forum and to osx86 actually im GNU/linux freak and used it since 2000, time ago i tested those "modified" version of OSX tiger 10.4 for intel and amd, but that is near 3 years ago. now i bought a spanish version of the MSI wind, AHTEC LUG, but in my case, ive changed the integrated wireless card from realtek to atheros 5007EG, my question is the follow: Is there any manual or tutorial for compiling Kext's or howto to make it workin from the *nix sources? im not sure but i think that this wireless device is still workin on FreeBSD. The way by using the kismac isnt not a clean way to make a wireless device workin, there must be other way... so if someone with ideas of kext's and c++ gimme a touch to start workin on this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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