I want to go wireless on my desktop unit, which Wireless PCI / or USB adaptor wworks out of the box or what drivers do I ned to optain / patch?
Thanks

rtfm

Linksys WMP54GS using darwin's drivers for mac's wireless nics using broadcom chipset.

Do a search in the forums and you will find how to make it to work.

Asus Spacelink WL-167g USB2 adapter
Belkin 54g CardBus Adapter (BCM4306-based)
Belkin 54g PCI card F5D7000 V2000 (BCM4306KFB - based) - needs patched driver - [1] (http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1655)
Belkin F5D7050 54Mbps Wireless USB2.0 Adapter [2] (http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1117&st=92)
D-Link DWL-G122 Wireless USB Adapter - Hardware Revision B1 only. [3] (http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1546) As of 31/08/05, WEP is stable, WPA is unstable. Drivers: http://www.ralink.com.tw/supp-1.htm
ASUS WL 167g (USB) - WEP works.
Dell MiniPCI WLAN 1350/1450 Working Perfectly according to Above Post
Generic Mini-PCI BCM4306
Linksys WMP54G Wireless-G PCI Adapter (using patched Airport2 kext)
Linksys WPC54G Wireless-G PCMCIA Adapter Version 1
PLANEX GW-NS54G CardBus Adapter (BCM4306-based)
RT2500 802.11b/g Wireless Chipset USB ONLY (with WEP!) - http://www.ralink.com.tw/supp-1.htm
Sparklan WT-660GS PCI 802.11g (BCM4306-based - needs patched driver - http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...pic=1263&st=140 )
Most Adapters with Broadcom BCM4306 chipset (Recognised as AirPort) [4] (http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1263&st=0)

I think basically two chipsets, the Ralink RT2500 and the Broadcom BCM4306 with patch.

The Ralink is probably easier, new driver today 9/13/05 is supposed to fix the WPA problem:
http://www.ralink.com.tw/supp-1.htm

http://ralink.rapla.net/ has a comprehensive list of RT2500 based devices.

The RT2500 PCI does -not- work currently. The USB one does, though.
http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=2142

The Dell MiniPCI WLAN 1350 does NOT work.

im running linksys Wmp54 gV 4 w no prob
Ratlink beta drivers

Not sure if there are different versions of the 1350 MiniPCI WLAN, but I'm running my Dell Inspiron 6000 with it just fine. Airport works flawlessly after appending the following entry to the AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext:

<string>pci14e4,4320</string>

This is found in the IO80211Family.kext's Info.plist located at /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents/Info.plist

You'll have to chmod, chown and kextcache the /System/Library/Extensions folder and then repair permissions after reboot -- as always -- for it to get recognized.

Hope this helps...

Dell Inspiron 6000 Specs: Pentium M 1.73Ghz, 1GB RAM, Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family running at 1680x1050 with QE, Dell MiniPCI WLAN 1350 with Airport Support (Wireless LED working), Audio works, External Display Dongle, Hitachi 100GB 7200rpm... Runs sweet!

Forgot to mention: Running 10.4.5

Linksys WMP11v4 Wireless B PCI Adaper is not supported?

I have three I have been trying to use with no success yet. The Belkin has the most promise as it identifies as a Realtek 8180. Realtek has beta drivers on their website, but the installer does not work. I am going to try manually installing, maybe that will do the trick. Anyone have any of these working?

Belkin F5d6020 ver 3.0 -identifies as Realtek 8180
orinoco Gold
Linksys WPC11 ver 3.0

i use a wireless pci netgear wg311t for my desktop. works great! all i had to do was the en0>1 trick. [;
it's recognized as airport.

Let me ask just a question.. if i install ralink 2500 compatible drivers for mac my v4 wmp54gs will work ootb?

Mine ASUS works with Leopard without any extra Drivers.You can buy from NewEgg for cheapBest IS ASUS PCI 138 G card ,See my SignWorks without any patch and trick.

karaakeha1 - I don't see a GFX card in that spec. Are you running headless?

I have one of those Asus USB things.
It's terrible!

It's Ralink 2500, but needs the replug patch and even then seems to disconnect 1/2 the time. Not to mention that USB software utility it uses, without a doubt the ugliest mac software/hardware combination to date.
Feels like I'm using pre XP Windows.

Yeah... i'm having a lot of problems with the asus dongle.. but it's only think i can use now.. until i fix my wmp54gs pci v4 (or v4.1 damn! arg#)


oug#

This card works without any patching if you are using Leopard and will give you wireless n speeds! I have been using it since the day Leo came out. D-Link DWA 547. No drivers to install, it works as airport.

Nice card. Kinda expensive though. Do you know which chipset it's based on? I'm trying to search for this info, but damn google and it's paid for hoisting... all im getting is no brains shopping results...

Hi, it's an Atheros with a device id of 0023. You will find that device id (168c23) in the IO80211Family.kext/Contents/Plugins/ atheros Airport kext, but I am not sure which chip it is without taking the top cover off the card. If I get a min, I will have a look.

Thanks for that. I did a bit of digging and found that its the AR5008 chipset. For the price it seems that you get a solid 802.11n card, but I think for less than half the price I may go for the Asus WL-138G (802.11g only) which is on the Broadcom chipset. I'll have to see what my budget can stretch to.

here is another that just work out of the Box
WireLess N

Card Info Linksys WMP300N
Buy info Linksys WMP300N

Can any USB WIFI Adaptors work in Acceess Point mode ?

Hi, i'm just adding my recent good experience,
i also have a natively working wireless card under leopard! i used a tp-link pci wireless card wich is atheros based and only worked (as aiport) with the 802.11 kext from 10.4.8. I just crashed with the leopard driver and correct ids. I bought a mini-pci to pci adapter and used the mini-pci card i used with my first hack, a braodcom one (see my sig) and i tried a fresh install. And i just worked out of the box! you can buy it for 20$ or even less, and the adaptor is also very cheap. So maybe this broadcom chipset is a good option for a laptop or a desktop.

Talkin to myself... Well I did it on the cheap and bought the WL-138G V2. I'm not quite done with my Leopard install yet (gonna re-install another, better, closer to vanilla way than Kalyway 10.5.1), but this card works natively, and after changing my network settings and adding the MAC address to the ACL on my router everything was fine. Good card for < $20.

My WMP300N did *not* work out of the box. It would detect networks but couldn't connect to any of them. I think I just needed to find the right device id, but didn't have Windows installed so ditched it and replaced with my Netgear WG311T which works flawlessly (G only of course).

I've got TP-Link (TL-WN650G) and its working fine, Check my sig

Kext:Click to view attachment

Hi Aqua-mac,

I just bought this card and plugged it in and .... "nothing" :-(

I have Kalyway 10.5.1 installed.

Any tips?


Thanks

@nano07,

this might sound silly, but try plugging in your onboard lan, to the network, whilst osx is running... it might kick-start your wireless card...

Hi,
Got my LevelOne WNC-0300 (Atheros 5005GS, pci 168c,0013) up and running with Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 but in a strange way... It detects my AP but can't connect (saying "Connection failed").
But if I'll go to Network Properties And run "Assist me" wizard and go through all steps - it starts working ok. Just wondering if it possible to make a script to bounce the card at startup automatically ...

An update on the card I'm using: I have a problem with it, sometimes (maybe 50%) of the time, after leopard boots it can't find any of my preferred networks, and shows a dialog box (which usually lists my home AP anyway). If I click on my home AP and click connect it may time-out 2 or 3 times before it accepts it. This isn't all the time, just occasionally, but maybe it's a bug in 10.5.1 or it's cos im running no WEP/WPA on my router (just using ACL via MAC addresses).

Thanks osxgus, I installed Kalyway 10.5.1 again from scratch, this time enabling Vanilla and it the wireless card started working right away :-)

THANKS!!!!

I'm doing something similar with my setup. I ordered an a/b/g/n atheros card and a mini-pci adapter to pci for my N-wireless setup. My hope is that I can use this setup to connect wirelessly at the 5ghz band; my immediate area is crowded with multiple 2.4ghz g networks.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PCI-CARD-802-11g-WIR...1QQcmdZViewItem

If you are in the UK this is a beauty, was recognised as Airport right away in Kalyway 10.5.1. It's a Broadcom based card. Had to use the "Assist me" trick mentioned above to get it to connect to the Wireless Network but only had to do this once and it works every time now. What a bargain!!

BTW, 10.5.2 comes with wifi drivers update. I don't need this "Assist me" trick anymore!

Does it work without drivers in 10.5.2-3 also?

basically any AR5006X Pci wireless Chipset will do.

Stilll working perfectly for me.

I am using the PCI-E version of this card, the DWA 556, which has the same Atheros chipset. It has been working flawlessly on 10.5.2 since I installed it. (Hardware version A1, or 1.0A, IIRC)

Anyone have access to kext files for the Intel 2100 or 2200 mini PCI cards?

See signature, Wireless N, now work 100% reliable with 10.5.3

EDIT: Works "Out of the box" , plug and play baby....

Don't resurrect ancient threads like this please, you replied to a 2005 post.

I appreciate the info, but I think I'd find a more modern thread to make or make my own if no one had posted about your card.

could you let me know how you did it i have same card can't get it to work

I gave up waiting for my Intel 4965 wifi to come alive so one weekend I got bored ... dropped about $250 in wireless cards, USB's etc and came home and dumped them all on the coffee table and began googling them looking for the chipsets and one that might have drivers for those sets. I found one! and returned all the others.

D-Link DWA-642

First I had to get OSx to recognize/fix the PCI and once it was recognizing that it picked up the 642 no problem using the AirPortAtheros.kext.

And...it shows as an Airport Card



I owe this all to XxX_x86_os_X86_10.5.5 public beta! Once I played around with a few installs, everything started to come together. TOuch screen, touchpad, HD sound, WiFi, Ethernet, USB etc - A one stop DVD! Even the PCCard fix was on it which helped the DWA-642 come to life.


Good luck!


Joe