I have the same error

please, help....

I'm on the same work, over d-link dwl-g520 rev. b... if I get something successful, I come here and tell you

Ok, I've formatted and reinstalled the system believing that a software I've installed from OrangeWare was making some difference.

Now I get a "bus error" while executing some commands on terminal (take a look at this other topic: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=43441).

After reinstalling mac os x 10.4.8, I've updated AirPort Extreme Update 2007 from apple.com (I've downloaded it, since I gotta come to Win XP to get connected to Internet).

Can anyone help me? I'm trying to set this thing up since dec 05

Thanks!

what puts me crazy now is the fact that the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist does not exist anymore after I reinstalled the mac os x.

or better

it exists since I tried to open it on nano and, as it didn't really exist on the folder, I created it.

the problem is that even if I FORCE the existence of this file, nothing goes nice as I expect when I kextload io80211blabla stuff (and happened to some). how it was created before I reinstalled everything?

ergosteur, gimme a help buddy, I've sent you a private message... you're under the same core 2 duo as me.

after doing it since early morning, all I need and deserve is a heavy plate of rice, bean and a fat beef.

Sorry, but how to switch between en0 and en1? Do I have to do it in Terminal?  Which commands?
Many thanks!!!!

Hi All,

Can anyone with a Thinkpad X60(T) who successfully configured Leopard with Atheros post their NetworkConfiguration.plist and their Atheros5424.kext/info.plist? I've been hacking and reading for hours, but I always seem to get "Airport: Not Configured"...

Thanks,
AD

Tried ergosteur's method on Kalyway 10.5.1. It doesn't work
The sudo command seems "blocked", I can't get the permission to use it. Anybody encountered that ?

i need driver for an usb wlan with atheros AR5523?!

Got anyone the 5005UG chipset for USB sticks running? The AR5523 would also be intereting for me.

I have an atheros AR5212 a/b/g mini-PCI card, and after trying the Atheros method at the beginning of this thread using the 10.4.5 IO80211 kext and everything, and now my network preferences show an AirPort option, but it is permanently turned off. Clicking the turn on button does nothing, and I havent found a solution yet.

I'm using the new AMD Leopard 10.5.1, ToH kernel

/wireless vendor id is 168c /device id is 0013

so where do i go from here?

Just bought my atheros AR5005 off ebay last night, should be here soon, will let yous know if i have any luck getting it to work, my intel pro wireless 2100 failed with the patch - it totally {censored}ed up my system. With the press any key to restart message. I have 10.4.8 on my system, will this work? Has anyone tried it on 10.4.8?
Thanks Paul

Hi,
I have tubegirl 10.4.10.
I have a atheros AR5007EG on my Acer Aspire 5102Awlmi.
I've tried the tutorial in the 1st post of this subject and its not working.

so, i've paste the new kext file and repair etc... but when i'm in the terminal. when i do the first chmod it says no permission. and when at the end when i try to load the kext it says you need to be in the root folder to load the kext file.

so my wireless is not working.

Can someone help me

thanks

Hey man, i was in the same boat today, just installed tn Atheros Card (but mine is ,1014) anyway i was getting the exact same thing, turn-on did nothing, then i tried this. When you reboot with -f, instead of turning it on, try 'apply' first. Then try to turn it on, for some reason this worked for me!

I had hard time to fix my Atheros problem too, I tried almost everything, but then found a solution herehttp://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...0317&st=180look the post of bc909 , and try his method. It worked for me really well.. byei forgot... I followed only the last part of the procedure since my card was recognised, but couldn't be turned on , as written here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry635945

Hello all, i resently upgraded from 10.4.8 to 10.5.2 via the kalaway 10.5.1 DVD, then used the kalaway 10.5.2, upgrade. Anyways, most everything works on my Toshiba M105-S3004 Laptop. I got the Atheros AR5BXB6 Wireless A/B/G card working on Leopard 10.5.2, if you have one of these cards please dont use the IO80211Family.kext file, Apple changed the AirportAtheros5424.kext to AirportAtheros.kext, also i noticed that there were a few device's listed in here, but mine was not, so i just went a head and added my device, in my case it is <string>pci168c,1014</string>. then i closed the terminal and went into disk utility repaired permissions and restarted, apon restart i noticed the airport icon on the top bar, then i clicked on it and went to the network configuration, my card was listed as a airport extreme card i was happy, but when i tryed to turn the card on it would not turn on, so i went to the advanced tab for the card, then i added my wireless network in, saved changes and closed the windows, then the card suddenly turned on and connected to my network, i can now see other networks too and i can connect to them too.

so you need to edit the IO80211Family.kext:

waht i did so i did not run into any permission issues is i copied the IO80211Family.kext to the desktop, then i showed package contents, whent into the contents folder, then the plugins folder, then showed contents on the AirportAtheros.kext, then went into the contents folder, then oped info.plist in the text editor and added my card string, then i saved the file, all i had to do was enter my password to save the file. then i just copied the kext file back to the extensions folder and bam, i did get 2 message windows poping up saying that the IO80211Family.kext was insatlled improperly and {censored}, but just ignore it. then repaird disk permissions and do what i stated in the above paragraph and it should work for you, im not sure about other cards.


I hope you dont get confused reading my post, im in the middle of my programming classes and now i need to go, i hope it works for you.

Hi Thanks !

But in short:
Which IO80211Family.kext have you used to edit ? (can you upload it, it its not in kalway 10.5.2 Combo)

dose this work for kalyway 10.5.1 ???? some dude closed my forum and sent me here.....some one explain it to me like if some one was talking to a 5 year old can some one post a kalyway 10.5.1 Atheros AR5005 step by step instruction ????

Ok, here are the steps to getting the AR5BXB6 Atheros wireless card working in OS X 10.5.2, kalyway DVD.

Step 1:
sudo pico /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirportAtheros.kext/Contents/Info.plist

Step 2:

add in your string mine was :<string>pci168c,1014</string>, i just added it to the top of the list
<array>
<string>pci168c,1014</string> <------- this is where i added the string above all the other ones.
<string>pci106b,0086</string>
<string>pci168c,1c</string>
<string>pci168c,23</string>
<string>pci168c,24</string>
</array>

Step: 3

After you add your string hit CNTL-O so save then CNTL-X to close.

Step 4:

Go to the disk utility and repair disk permissions, then reboot. After you reboot, go to the Control Panel and go into the Network, it will come up and say new network adapter or something like that found. but for my setup, the airport card was turned off, it would not let me turn it on by clicking the button.

Step 5:

Go to the preferences for the airport card and enter your wireless network manually, save and close that window, close out of the network window, when i closed out of that stuff the airport card turned on by itself and connected to my network, thus after i can see any network and connect to any network, the card even works in kisMAC.


Hope this helps.


I case you dont want to go to the hassel of editing it your self i will attach my IO802llFamily.kext to this post, but you still will have to edit the kext file anyways.

kg6uyz

I am assuming the kext was from the 10.5.1 install, if it was not found on the 10.5.2 update.

how do i find my string code ?

how do i know the one you added is the same as on my Acer aspire 5610z laptop ????

and is this for kalyway 10.5.1 or 10.5.2 ?? im so confused.

im intrested in the 10.5.1 one.

my card dose not show up in profiler ........


i loaded up ubuntu and it tells me i have a Atheros AR2413

ok i did it i changed evrything like you said my string code is PCI186,1a but nothing seemed to be popping up in the network thing im getting tired of this what else guys ? ive been going to evry forums and nothing...

wth my tiger says its 0x168c,0x418        that makes is 168c,418 on leopard ??????  

AR5006EG does work with latest airport update

what version do you have by anychance ?

will this work on the AR5BXB63 ? AR5007EG?

The 5007EG is a different chip design from the other 500X chips. Initially, it didn't even work under Linux, so I doubnt it will work with OSX, unless Apple starts using it.

The 5007EG in my Acer Aspire only worked with Windows, so I swapped it for an Airport Extreme (AR5006EXS) that works under Linux and Windows, but not OSX.

Hey guys i followed the tutorial above and also changed the Networkinterfaces.plist <integer>0<integer> to 1 and <string>en0<string> to en1 and when i went to Network Prefferences it shows as connected but when i go to network diagnostics and try to detect wireless networks it just keeps scanning and nothing shows up.By the i have a Toshiba Satellite A200-25V with a Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter,dual core.Ive been trying now for couple of days to get it going with no luck and im tired and hungry and i dont want to give up just yet.Thank you in advance! :)Anyone with a Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network adapter got it to work?I have a Toshiba Satellite A200-25V and have been trying to get this too work with no results.Any input would be apreciated,i tried the th method on the firs page and also change the integer 0 to 1 and en0 to en1 and after that the airport shows with a green dot next to itbut when i scan for networks it just keeps scanning with no results.

this is also abit airpace right or could use those drivers?

this howto works in leopard 10.5.1 ? my wifi is atheros 5005g

Same here. This used to work, it must have something to do with a recent update of apples. Seems we need to replace some new files with some old files again - at least that's what I think.

Any news on this?

Hi to all

I've got my wi-fi card working

OSX 10.5.2 wifi card atheros vendor 168c device 0013 (D-Link DWL-AG530)

1. I've downloaded official 10.4.5 update from apple site and extract IO80211Family.kext with Pacifist.
2. Move IO80211Family.ket to /System/Library/Extensions and repair permissions and a pop-up window appeared that a new airport card was found. wow! But all changes in network settings werent saved.
3. So I wrote in file IO80211Family.kext/Contents/Plugins/AirPortAtheros5424.kext/Info.plist <string>pci168c,0013</string> and of course repaired permissions to this file. Reboot - and i have wifi card working!

But i still can't turn on button "turn AirPort on" and wifi icon in menu bar is also inactive. Also after every reboot i have to restore network settings. But net is working and now i writeing this post using wifi connections. Thanx to all, sorry for my english-hooenglish =)

If you have problems with your cards being detected, try using the IOPCIFamily.kext found here.

This worked on my Aspire 5570Z with an Atheros 5006EGS.

.. which I can confirm 100%

Wellllllllll. I've got this button on my notebook that states 'wireless'... Once I pushed that button my wireless started working properly again. Wheeeeee. Shame on me.

Sorry to be a pain.

Everything is working great with 10.5.2 Leopard except for my atheros 5005g wireless card. It just refuses to be detected.

I've tried this and a few other solutions to no avail.

Is there anything I need to know?

Same here, I followed the steps as described on page 1, but when I go to network settings and I click on the ' Turn Airport On' button, nothing happens.
I'm using the 10.5.2 LeoForAll ISO, on an Fujitsu-Siemens PA1510.

I hope someone can help me out here, as I'm a noob in Mac OS X.
Many thanks in advance.

Regards, Shifty

Hi Frony,

have you tried this script?
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...0317&st=80#
If you put this to the StartupItems, your Atheros WLAN should work automatically.

F-Didi

Hello I am here to ask is there any difference in the chips 5007eg and 5007g
the atheros drivers site might help to shed some light
here the first ARxxx is the card number that we know the second is the chip reference or watever is it called it clearly states an unknown chip design in fron of 5007g and in front of 5007eg its ar2425
http://www.atheros.cz/

AR5001A AR5111/AR5211
AR5001X AR5111/AR5211/AR2111
AR5001X+ AR5111/AR5212/AR2111
AR5002G AR2112/AR5212
AR5002X AR5112/AR5212
AR5004G AR2112/AR5213
AR5004X AR5112/AR5213
AR5005G AR2413
AR5005GS AR2414
AR5005UG AR2112/AR5523
AR5005UX AR5112/AR5523
AR5006EG AR2424
AR5006EGS AR2424
AR5006EX AR5424
AR5006EXS AR5424
AR5006G AR2315
AR5006GS AR2316
AR5006X AR5413
AR5006XS AR5414
AR5007
AR5007EG AR2425
AR5007G
AR5007UG
AR5007UX
AR5008 AR5416
AR5008X AR5416/AR5133

As far as I can tell,
X = a/b/g (dual-band)
E = PCI Express/Expresscard
S = Super (A/)G
G = Regular 54Mbps 802.11G

So AR5006EXS is a PCI express Super A/G card, AR5006EGS is a PCI express Super G card, AR5006X is a PCI a/b/g card.

Note however that under Windows, AR5006X is used as the generic name for all cards with the PCI-ID 168c:001c (PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_001C) where the subsystem cannot be identified.

By this logic, the AR5007G is PCI/Cardbus and the AR5007EG is PCI express/Expresscard.

To answer your question, the AR5007G is based on the AR2417 chip.

Some of the information from that website is actually incorrect, for example, the AR5006EG is based on the AR2423 chip. The AR2424 has SuperG capabilities and is used in the AR5006EGS.
http://www.atheros.com/pt/bulletins/AR5006EGBulletin.pdf
http://www.atheros.com/pt/bulletins/AR5006EGSBulletin.pdf

Bonjour ergosteur, and thank you very much for your instructions.

I got mine working (Atheros AR5005GS) as a native AirPort device.

Hello,

I've got a 5570Z that has a AR5BMB5 wireless chip (I believe it's an AR5005G). I can't seem to get the AR5005 IO80211Family.kext to work as it always says it's unusable (even after repair).


I'm running 10.5.2 from Kalyway (set up to use GUID) - it was originally 10.5.1 but I updated it.

Any other ideas?

I managed to get atheros 5005g card working using the Atheros5004g.pkg file that somebody uploaded. I installed the package and rebooted. It worked! I was able to browse the internet. But when I reboot again either the wireless card doesn't work or it is not detected. I have tried deleting extensions.mkext and repairing permissions, but I have to reinstall the original IO80211Family.kext, then repair permissions, then reboot, then install the package, then reboot again just to get it working again. Is there any way to fix this? By the way I am using leopard kalyway 10.5.1

Can you upload this pkg file, please?

i have a USB WiFi dongle MSI. on-chip it says Atheros AR5523A. sbdy knows, is it working on Leopard ?..

Hey,
What about 10.5.1,Does the ar5005gs workes at 10.5.1 well?

After typing "sudo -s" in terminal, it asks for my password but for some reason i cant type my password, it wont let me type anything.. help anyone? please & thx!

Nothing will show up, just type anyways.

I've read some dumb things here but that takes the cake.

hehe, its just the way unix usually works in shells with keyboard interactive passwords - it doesn't show any characters when you are typing it but it does actually take the input. Just hit enter after you've done typing it.

YAY MY ar5005g is recognized ,
now to the next part. pressing the 'turn on airport' has no effect at all what so ever.
i do the diagnostics and stuff and everything is green cept the airport cause its turned off. but it detects networks. its just i cant seem to turn it on D:! any idea? oh btw i heard from an "official" mac forum that its a bug in leopard (unable to turn on) so leopard does have some bugs then =/ lol