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I am happy to report after some soldering work (a little trickier than I thought), Atheros 9285 card is finally fully functional. Hopefully this will be the last time I open this baby up. :-)

nhart12, on 15 January 2013 - 02:04 PM, said:

Not exactly. USB wifi and ethernet are not recognized as built-in eth0 device, whereas an intercard with proper kext is recognized as such and then App Store works. Since the antenna connectors are not compatible, you can swap a new internal card inside (giving the eth0 device) and then use the USB wifi dongle (as your true connection), and it'll most definitely work.

cyf, on 15 January 2013 - 04:12 AM, said:

Haha, I fixed the antenna inside and between the battery and bottom cover. Reception is tolerable, but if I have a bigger apartment then I will have to go ghetto too.

cyf, on 15 January 2013 - 04:12 AM, said:

Btw, the best installation would be inside the LED panel, something like this
http://www.mercenary...r30_antenna.php

Also, I am not going to try to figure out how to get WIFI working. Instead, I ordered an adapter from Newegg, which looks great on a MacBook Pro. I will post and let everyone know how it works.

http://www.newegg.co...=9SIA18009Z0813

[UPDATE] - Got my wifi dongle in the mail today and it woks great! Now I need to figure out how to get App Store going.

[UPDATE] - Finally I swapped out the WLAN card with Atheros AR5B195 and now the App Store works because it's recognized as an Airport Extreme card. But the reception is all but 5 yards or so because the wifi antenna connectors are not compatible. In fact, I haven't been able to find a perfectly matched mini PCI-E card. So I continue to use the dongle and be able to access App Store, iCloud, etc. I ordered these antenna (http://cgi.ebay.com/...E:X:AAQ:US:1123) that should have the compatible connectors and plan to install them on the bottom and hopefully that will be THE wifi solution.

I use Proxi to script FN keys on my Asus N53S. There was no way to get it working via dsdt, but I found this solution very satisfactory. Let me know if you need any sample scripts.

[UPDATE] - Turns out Proxi is unsupported and doesn't work on ML. Searching for new software now.

[UPDATE] - Using Keyboard Maestro now. It's even better than Proxi!