Yeah, I got the same Hal Status 13 message...
Has somebody tried to contact the people behind Madwifi? Perhaps they wouldn´t mind helping us out a bit?

Chun-Nan's kext should be the solution for many people .. (they were for me)

does this work for built on chips such as on acer 5570 with 5007eg?

anyone finaly got it working on the EEE?

thats a good idea do you have their contact info? Iwould email them

https://lists.ath5k.org/pipermail/ath5k-dev...ril/000850.html

Here are the emails to many of the members:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/TeamMembers

I'm sure someone there wouldn't mind helping us out...

I disagree. Why would a Linux project care about OSX? madWifi is a complex and advanced driver that has been in development for years. Porting it to OSX would not be easy. It would take weeks of effort.

You can ask but I will be very surprised if they are interested.

The 5007 is not the same as the other Atheros chips. 5004-5006 and possibly 5008 work.

too bad AR5007 doesnt work it's embedded on recent ASUS notebook

Change this title, it pisses me off everytime i come on this forum and see this title. NOONE HAS GOTTEN THE 5007 TO WORK. Does this forum have no sort of quality control/moderation?

I have a Toshiba A200 with AR5007EG. it has a physical on/off button. any possebility to make it work?

i have the same one as the dude above me. anyone?

any progress on this driver??

Same thing here. When i use Tiger 10.4.8, Airport works great. No problem. Recently, i have formateded my Laptop (Acer 5040) and install Leopard. I have a Atheros AR5BMB5, and use it the 10.4.8 - Tiger IO811Family.kext. The Airport appears, detected, but no way to make it works (green light). Well, after reading your post, i disconect the RJ45 cable and try the Diagnostic Tool in Safari. BINGO! Works great, but the icon appears disconnected. Well, if someone can make this works, please post here. Here is my msn: pericles@compumaq.com.br for someone who wants to trade some info about this. Thanks a lot!

5007 not working after 4 weeks of trying. So i found another solution:

Sold my Acer Aspire 5720ZG and get myself brand new Macbook Pro. No more wireless problems.

Hah-hah! I have been encouraging people who visit the Acer thread I set up to not buy hackintosh but buy a real Mac but... this isn't quite what I had in mind! Also, not everyone at this stage in their school or work life has the money for the real thing, yet. Would be happy to see a solution to this one but google draws a blank for me. With the take up of the Asus EEE range being so huge, perhaps it is only a matter of time.

I have the same Atheros as author of this thread, also same device ID. I tried many kexts and no one of them works.
I'm running 10.5.3 on Gigabyte laptop. any ideas?

Currently I "survive" with a USB Zydas Wifi Stick but I would like to use integrated Wifi card o my laptop.
Here, there is another one waiting for a solution

Solder a usb wifi card into the laptop?

No news
Had to buy a USB wireless adapter for my ACER laptop....

Okey ..
I have Amilo 1718 with 5007EG wlan .. I've tried Timster files, but still doesn't work ... fyi ...

$ rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

it seems Extensions.kextcahe doesn't exists.

I'm using Kalaway 10.5.2

HELP?

I got the same errors, and ignored them. Rebooted, and the 5007EG in my Acer detected fine.
Using iAtkos 2.0i here, but have had it working on Kalaway 10.5.2 as well.

Am I missing something? So the Eee Wifi now works with iAtkos 2.0i ???

5007EG working in Leopard
Sure ???

I have that card,is it really working??? Should I delete Kalyway and install Iatkos?

Sorry, I could have sworn it was a 5007EG! I went and double-checked under XP, and it's an Atheros AR5006EG (Dev 001c). Didn't mean to get everyone excited.

God dammit!

Can anyone confirm that this does/doesn't work with the Atheros AR5006x. I followed the instructions and it wasn't recognized, but I may be doing something wrong. BTW I'm running Kalyway 10.5.4 if that makes any difference.

Guys, mail Apple!!!
Say you have a 'wracked airport card, and have ordered a AR5007EG card', and ask how you can get it work.
Apple's service is 100%, so try it!!

I really doubt your suggestion has any value since to receive support you will have to provide a model/serial number for the laptop registered to you that has the faulty card and the first order of business would be to establish warranty of the product and then set up warranty replacement if it is within the period or sell you a replacement if it is not.

Did you already do this?

If you have already done this then why not just post the steps they gave you?

Being ex-apple I find it hard to believe and I highly doubt apple will explain how to make the AR5007EG work when it isn't one of their cards but if they did this for you why make everyone go through the same aggravation?

Has anyone got the atheros 5007EG working yet?

I realy need my WLAN working soon

Hello I have problems with atheros wifi.

TEST on kalyway 10.5.2

1st. of one I got this error at start [/SourceCache/AirportDriverAtheros5424/AirportDriverAtheros5424-312.34/src/driver/AtherosControler.cpp:481] loaded unsucces

2nd. I dont see the wifi adapter or airport adapter.

3er. I see the kext AtherosAirport loaded ....

4. In vista the adapter has auto power or by soft.

EDIT1 :

iATKOS 10.5.4 installed on other partition


1st. of one I got this error at start [/SourceCache/AirportDriverAtheros5424/AirportDriverAtheros5424-314.43.1/src/driver/AtherosControler.cpp:481] loaded unsucces

2nd. I see the wifi adapter network.

3er. I got a soft poweron button

4. I cant see the kext AtherosAirport loaded, but i can load manually AirportDriverAtheros, got error with AirportDriverAtheros5424

Any help?

Forget about 5007, its not supported yet.

For all of you who get the "loaded unsuccessfully" message on 5006 there is a chance
of getting you card working by changing the PCI IDs in the EEPROM space.

How can we achieve this?

Maybe it's just me but I have not yet found an Atheros card I was not able to make work including the AR5007 series because I have spent so much time on this subject.

Baring any BIOS whitelist (cause I don't have a laptop but do have a miniPCI and miniPCIe slot in my badaxe2 so I can use laptop adapters) I am able to recognize the card in OSX and reflash with modified firmware which includes rebranding with apple ID's.

For the most part you can perform the rebrand using the Atheros linux tools (don't ask me for instructions, tutorials or guides - use google) which was how I was doing it when I first started rebranding cards before I moved to a totally Mac OS X solution.

The key is in knowing exactly what options are available in your card based on the chipset and to rebrand accordingly and I have made several references to this so time to educate yourself by reading.

You will not get any AR5007xx working properly without rebranding the card, those that support 802.11a/b/g are much more compatible and are worth the effort to rebrand while the 802.11b/g cards can benefit from the rebrand, the effort is not worth the time in my opinion.

What I do see as a bigger problem is that no one seems to know exactly what hardware they actually have, they don't look for similar posts which might contain a solution, they wont take advice to make required changes and want a solution that requires nothing more than editing an Info.plist file to add their cards ID's and they demand a solution rather than ask in a respectful manner.

I have made many replies regarding the AR5007xx issues and one person took my advice made the changes and now enjoys the good life while everyone else finds it too difficult and want a step by step tutorial and this isn't going to happen.

These are your only options!!!
• you buy another card that works out of the box (AR5BXB6 are cheap on fleabay)
• you write a driver that works with your existing card as is (I did this for the AR5001 but good luck to you)
• you pay someone for their time to write you a driver(not economical for you and I'm not interested in writing it)
• you buy a cheap Mac OS X compatible USB adapter that comes with driver for Mac OS X(so you don't waste more time playing with an incompatible device)
• you give up on wireless all-together and stick with wired ethernet

Hi kizman!

Are you in same situation now? Did you try with iATKOS v4 10.5.4?

I got the same error on kalyway 10.5.2. Also installed iATKOS and now I see the airport card, i have a power on soft button, but still not working.

Any help?

Hi siachori,
I have installed Kalyway 10.5.2, iATKOS v2i, iATKOS v4i & JaS 10.5.4. All of them can't get our beloved AR5007EG wireless card recognized. Actually, AR5007EG will not going to work in any release unless we hack the hardware. However, hacking or rebranding a hardware is not an easy job. I can't find any tools that can do the job.

I'm right now using Linksys wireless cardbus (WPC54G ver. 3) which is working wonderfully in any OSX release so far.

I think you have read BuildSmart's post which is not really helpful. He even did not mention the name of the tools that he use to rebrand his card. So, it is totally useless.

kizwan

Hi Kizwan,

What drivers/kexts did you use to get the WPC45G working? I have a WPC45G Ver. 1.2 but I don't know what kexts to use (in lieu of the atheros card in my aspire 5315).

Thanks for all!

Hi diogan,
You have different version which is ver. 1.2 & I don't know if it has same chipset (broadcom) or not. From this website, it show that your cardbus use broadcom chipset.

You need to replace two kexts file, IOPCIFamily.kext & IOPCCardFamily.kext. You can get this kexts file over here:-
CardBus/PCMCIA PC Cards for Leopard
Download PCCard.10.5.2.beta3.mpkg.zip file for easy installation.

Always backup your current kexts before replacing them. I have to remind you that, for some machine, this kext file can cause kernel panic. That is why you need to backup your current kexts file so we can revert/restore to working condition. You also need to know your WPC54G hardware's ID. This is the list of hardware's ID that already exist in AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext file:-
(/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents/Info.plist)

You can get your hardware's ID in windows xp or vista. Open "Device Manager", double click your device to see the "Properties". If I'm not mistaken, click on "Details" tab & choose "Hardware ID". There you can see information like this "VEN_14e4\DEV_4306". That mean your hardware's ID, for example, is "pci14e4,4306".

Boot with "-f" once to update your kext cache file.

Good luck.

kizwan

kizwan, is it my fault it is too difficult for you to figure out that only one well-known tool exists to perform the task in linux for Atheros cards?

The only tool to do Atheros cards in linux is ath_info and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out so saying I don't provide enough information is you whining about your lack of ability to understand what I have written.

The rebranding task is not for most users because they require specific and detailed instructions and the issue with that is that there are so many of those cards by so many different vendors that someone would have to write literally hundreds of the same guide with minor changes because the person performing the task doesn't know what specific hardware they actually have or the common sense to figure out what ID's they should be rebranding too because not all AR5007EG are equal and want someone to hold their hand while they do it or do it for them.

This requires knowledge of your actual card and the chipset contained within, one user already figured out that for his particular card he needed to use 0x1014 because he did some research so for the last few days I've had a barrage of PM's from users who can't read my signature that have either broken their card or rebranded with incorrect information and it doesn't work and no longer works in windows.

Bottom line, my post is informational in that it explains the approach to resolving the issue for a wide number of cards and this alone should be enough for you to start figuring out what you need for ID's and the tools to perform the task for Atheros based cards is ath_pci/ath_info which are part of the madwifi tools.

If you can't find the tools then you shouldn't be performing the task.

If you have some intelligence and are able to figure out what you need to do then in all likely hood you can probably achieve the goal with success but if you are new to linux and Mac OS X then STOP before you break something because once broken you cannot recover easily.

If you decide to rebrand and you do something wrong, don't blame me for your mistakes and don't ask me to help you fix your broken card, the card is broken because you did not properly prepare to achieve your goal and fixing it is a very time consuming task that cannot be explained to the point where you can fix it because you have already proven that you couldn't even perform the simple task of rebranding your card properly.

BuildSmart,
If I'm going to figure out by my self, I will not joining this forum. How the hell I'm going to know how you do it or what tools did you use if you always use word like "google", "rebrand", "rocket scientist" or "don't ask me"? If you want to help people, just help. If not, just shut-up.

Why it is so wrong to provide people the right direction? All of your post is not very helpful & arrogant. People come here to get help or provide help. With that attitude, you should not be here.

The use of google will help you figure out what ID's you are going to need for your card.

Rebranding is what the process is called where you change the subsystem ID's from one vendor to another.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist but you do have to think for yourself cause I'm not going to think for you.

I help who and when I feel like helping and I answer questions when I feel like answering them, I don't owe you any help, you have not asked any intelligent question that I feel warrant an answer and you call me unhelpful.

Generally I help those who are struggling to achieve the goal because they are making some kind of effort, you are making no effort, you want a solution handed to you which requires no intelligence on your part to execute and I can now understand why you need it to be this way.

When arrogant people like you screw up rebranding your card because you can't figure anything out on your own you come and bitch to me or blame me because you don't possess the skills to help yourself and you don't even make the effort to do so.

I state to use the linux tools, I state to read up on it and the information I provided has helped many people but a handful bitch because I do not provide specific details for them to accomplish it, people like you want a GUIDE that has specific instructions for the exact card you have so you can follow them verbatim and have a working solution.

What I do not provide is specific details to rebrand one particular card because it would be considered biased to those who have a different card so I explain the process required and leave it up to the user to do some research and figure out what they need to do for their particular card.

If you have a specific question then ask your question and if I am inclined to provide you with an answer I will do so but stop your bitching, I don't owe you anything or any information despite what you believe you are entitled too obtain from me.

All your bitching has done is made it so that I don't feel like offering any further information or assistance to anyone with this chipset and this is my choice so, if anyone wants to bitch now, they can bitch to you for screwing up any chance that I might provide more specific details or information by responding to questions to aid them in resolving their wifi issue with this chipset.

Obviously you are not intelligent after all. You just like to bitching to any one that you don't like. I don't owe you anything too. So, you can go away. You are not deserve to be here. I know now that you are too stupid that your stupidity blind you to see the bigger picture.

You can go away now.

I installed it successfully, and my device ID was already in the list. Nothing happens though; in fact there is no information in network preferences at all (LAN is also not working). Hmm... The card doesn't seem like it's getting power or anything... the neither of the LEDs on the top are lit.

Oh, I should mention that this is an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop, if that matters.

Hi,
Can you post your dmesg under single user mode. Boot with -s. Ooh yes....can you post at this thread: CardBus/PCMCIA PC Cards for Leopard because it is not related in this thread. Please post your laptop full specification & which OSX release did you installed. Thank you.

kizwan

My Laptop:

Acer Aspire 5315
LAN: Broadcom Netlink Fast Ethernet
WLAN: Atheros AR5007EG
OSX: Leo4All v2, upgraded with JaS 10.5.3 updater.

I'll ran dmesg but it didn't find any relevant hardware that I could see. Something about the kernel dependency, a change made to the PCI configuration, and then a little bit about the hard disks I believe.

You are the one that is bitching, you are the one that can't figure it out and you are the one who has not asked any intelligent questions.

I can go away?
I don't deserve to be here?
I am too stupid?
I don't see the bigger picture?

Oh please enlighten me on this bigger picture you speak of

This is the first time I've tried installing OSx86 on a machine that I didn't build from the ground up for compatibility, so I haven't had to deal with complex hardware issues yet.

Have you heard of anyone successfully rebranding an AR5007EG (14E4:1713)? I haven't found anything with that particular card via google, and I am loathe to potentially kill my wireless card by accident (especially since it's the computer my daughter uses for school).