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shd
QUOTE(bubuja @ Oct 15 2008, 02:28 PM) *
is there any news about driver for 3945abg


yes..

the new is 'none'


sorry =(
Beniboy
QUOTE(jeremym @ Oct 15 2008, 12:46 PM) *
Sounds to me like someone's trying to get free laptops and skip town. unsure.gif



NO
~ BlurKing
I have the 3945ABG.

er I installed the driver fine.... but the card cannot be turned on, and dmesg | grep PC does not give any thing. Any ideas? and network selector does not turn it on or scan any networks.

Network Utility detects the card, but Network preferences does not

no KP btw
cfactor07
QUOTE(jeremym @ Oct 15 2008, 08:46 AM) *
Sounds to me like someone's trying to get free laptops and skip town. unsure.gif

Instead of makings comments like that, maybe you need to try to be a solution to the problem. He had an unfortunate accident with his laptop and he needs another one. After all the work he has been doing from day one, you come out of your ass and say something like that? You are the kind of person that should not be helped.


I have the card to spare, because i replaced it with an airport card, but no laptop for you to test it on. If you need the card though, i can be of service........
Cris900
news from developer??????
Where is Javaloui???????

Mmmm....
usmarinedelta
Question maybe dumb or not but i don't feel like reading all 217 pages. I have an hp dv2617 with the intel 3945abg card. With my warranty about to expire i was wondering if my old ibook air port express G4 card will work in this laptop if i switch it. Thanks

Edit: The specs below is my other desktop.
mike59
hello the 3945 card is recognized but shows as a Ethernet how do you make it Airport
usmarinedelta
Nvm like i said dumb question card is too big. But what if i got one of the airport pcie express cards that does fit would it work?
booger_sniffer5000
Yes.
him7x
NO NEW KEXT to use for the 3945ABG?? I have My Dell Vostro 1500 full working in MAC,all the Hardware,but the wireless won't work sad.gif
CrArC
With all respect to those trying to get this working, I've literally grown bored of waiting! And bored of "is it done yet?" posts. People, rather than nagging for WHEN the driver is gonna be finished, surely it would be easier for those who can do it to buy a £15 dell 1490 and stuff that in their laptops NOW instead.

As for those who can't/won't... well, when this driver IS finished, there won't be anyone on this forum who DOESN'T know about it wink.gif this thread is a big deal!! Until that day, my card is in retirement whilst I enjoy full Airport goodness with my new one!!

In all fairness though, the first post in this thread really should be kept up to date with the in-thread affairs since reading all these pages would make your eyes bleed.
booger_sniffer5000
QUOTE(CrArC @ Oct 17 2008, 07:33 AM) *
With all respect to those trying to get this working, I've literally grown bored of waiting! And bored of "is it done yet?" posts. People, rather than nagging for WHEN the driver is gonna be finished, surely it would be easier for those who can do it to buy a £15 dell 1490 and stuff that in their laptops NOW instead.

As for those who can't/won't... well, when this driver IS finished, there won't be anyone on this forum who DOESN'T know about it wink.gif this thread is a big deal!! Until that day, my card is in retirement whilst I enjoy full Airport goodness with my new one!!

In all fairness though, the first post in this thread really should be kept up to date with the in-thread affairs since reading all these pages would make your eyes bleed.


Well said. However, some people can't replace their wireless cards. Like me, if I could just get to it, I would replace it in a heartbeat. But sadly, I would have to take apart my whole laptop to get to my wireless card.
shd
QUOTE(booger_sniffer5000 @ Oct 17 2008, 08:50 PM) *
Well said. However, some people can't replace their wireless cards. Like me, if I could just get to it, I would replace it in a heartbeat. But sadly, I would have to take apart my whole laptop to get to my wireless card.


yeap...

and i don't want to lose my warranty...
usmarinedelta
so then if i put that airport card in my laptop will i still be able to get wireless with windows XP
SpeedCat1995
I don´t know what connector the air port cards have but would it be possable to connect them to mini pci the driver would be no problem then! wink.gif blink.gif sad.gif unsure.gif wacko.gif smile.gif sleep.gif rolleyes.gif
nosushi4you
Surely there's external network adapters that we could use?

I'm seriously considering getting one. I don't have Osx86 on my laptop, yet, but I will as soon as I can figure out if my 8400M GS supports QE.
nobb1x
QUOTE(nosushi4you @ Oct 18 2008, 06:56 PM) *
Surely there's external network adapters that we could use?

I'm seriously considering getting one. I don't have Osx86 on my laptop, yet, but I will as soon as I can figure out if my 8400M GS supports QE.


offtopic, but the whole thread seem more off topic than in-topic. yes 8400m gs support QE/CI up to 10.5.4, if you install macos and get qe/ci on 10.5.5 let me know! thanks.

ah, yes, you can use a usb wifi adapter, in meantime a driver for intels come out, i know one from d-link

http://www.dlink.co.uk/?go=gNTyP9CgrdFOIC4...DrpzyRC944ABd3h
shotta90
QUOTE(him7x @ Oct 17 2008, 06:12 AM) *
NO NEW KEXT to use for the 3945ABG?? I have My Dell Vostro 1500 full working in MAC,all the Hardware,but the wireless won't work sad.gif



Maybe about a million others have the same issue, whats your point?
Gino L
This thread started in January of this year. It's now middle of October and it looks like the driver is still not working
for these intel wireless devices.

This makes me think that jalavoui probably didn't have the competence to develop this driver code in the first place.

I hope not too many people have sent money to this guy.

(laughing with dismay...)

Gino.
booger_sniffer5000
QUOTE(Gino L @ Oct 18 2008, 08:45 PM) *
This thread started in January of this year. It's now middle of October and it looks like the driver is still not working
for these intel wireless devices.

This makes me think that jalavoui probably didn't have the competence to develop this driver code in the first place.

I hope not too many people have sent money to this guy.

(laughing with dismay...)

Gino.


If you would ACTUALLY READ the forum, you would realize that jalavoui's laptop died. Stop being a dick head, and go find something better to do. Lay off people, he is doing this in his free time. Your lucky we even have somebody working on these drivers. Stop complaining that your wireless doesn't work, nobody on here gives a {censored}. Just stop, please.

/rant
peach-os
I did send him money - and I would do it an other time if needed angel.png
fernando.kreutz
people, stop asking to buy dell wireless cards. if u have an hp laptop, you can put it on and say: wow, i lose my money, cause you'll get error 104 - usuported network device, remove and reboot system. I got it and when i tryed to flash my bios with a moded one, what i got? a {censored}ed hp laptop bios, cause i'm not able to recover it, as nowadays laptops dont come with floppy drives and usb ones are not cheap and we need weeks of waiting to receive one in brazil. so, if you have a card with no driver, buy a usb capable one and get happy.

ps. i bouth an hp retail BCM94311MCG brodcom wireless card, and surprisely it is not in my hp laptop whitelist. (now bios is {censored}ed, so no bios, no whitelist =]).
apple's computers suck
I'm sort of new here. Running kalyway 10.5.1. I need the intel 4965 driver!

Specs:Dell Vostro 1700

Intel Core 2 Duo/Centrino chipset

Nvidia GeForce 8600M

2gb Ram

intel 10/100 lan (which i hav 2 use 4 internet!)

krrr
QUOTE(fernando.kreutz @ Oct 19 2008, 10:21 AM) *
cause you'll get error 104 - usuported network device, remove and reboot system.


You know, i got dell1490 and i did not get error when i placed it in my HP and booted. i was totally confused. smile.gif check link on how i upgraded without any error in my sig smile.gif
fernando.kreutz
krrr, you don't understood, pc don't boot with this device that is nor listed on whitelist, so you'll need to mod the bios.
krrr
believe me, my card is not the normal 1490, it totally booted up with no 104 error. i think it was already flash (firmware on card or something) by the seller or something cause i dont know why it straightaway worked in my HP biggrin.gif
maiden7
QUOTE(nosushi4you @ Oct 18 2008, 06:56 PM) *
Surely there's external network adapters that we could use?

I'm seriously considering getting one. I don't have Osx86 on my laptop, yet, but I will as soon as I can figure out if my 8400M GS supports QE.



You have a luck man - there is a fully working kext to 8400m gs smile.gif "NVInject 0.2.1" support all the Vram ,QE/CI and everything else ! I just can't set it to get an external display working (there was something lika NVCAP think ,but I don't know exactly )YET smile.gif Just trying with VGA
You can find this kext in almost all the releases of Leopard (Leo4Allv2 for example)

Good Luck !
Wayfarer247
Hey guys, I am patiently waiting for this driver just like many of you. I already have donated $20 to the effort. I was talking with someone who mentioned NDIS wrapper, a Linux utility that allows you to convert, or use, Windows' Wireless Drivers for Linux. Now, OS X is a different deal, but it has a lot in common with Unix (leopard does have a fully functional unix heart).

So I'm just curious if this process would work on getting the Intel Drivers working on Leopard? Don't go yelling, go about teaching, I'm curious if this process could work, and if not, I want to know why. Thanks!
shd
i have a question



and if we get an kext from any board that comes with osx, maybe if some with chipset intel, and we modify, like the sounds kext?


it is possible to make it functional ?
Potto
QUOTE(Will V @ Aug 30 2008, 08:02 AM) *
Hey there jalavoui!

I dont know if its something that i'm doing wrong but i've re-installed OS X about 4 times trying to get the drivers to work, I've used the iwi2200 and the iwi2200 svn version; however, i get the same results. I'm able to see the access points around my house (including mine). when i try to connect using NSGUI i get prompted for my wep key. After doing so i get a loading circle and then nothing happens. I've tried with the hex decimal option checked and uncheck. I've rebooted a few times and nothing.
I even noticed that after installing both versions of the driver, Network Preferences crashes (closes itself) within seconds of me trying to open it.

Any suggestions?


Will - It's been a while since you posted this, so I don't know if you resolved your issue. I have an Intel 2915abg card and used iwi2200 for my iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5 install. I had the same issues you listed -- I couldn't get the command line version to work for some reason, and when I used NSGUI to connect, it would sit with a loading circle with no success after entering my WEP password. I got the idea that perhaps it wasn't resolving an IP, and so opened a Terminal. While the nsgui attempted to connect, I typed at the command line: sudo ipconfig set en1 DHCP

Almost instantaneously, NSGUI connected with an IP address. I have had this working for a day or so -- so I haven't messed with it much. I am planning on starting with a Automation script, and going from there... I have to manually open nsgui, select my network, paste in my wep key, and drop to command prompt each time I boot my laptop.

Hope that helps you or anyone else with similar issues!

Regards,
Paul
Kramark
QUOTE(Potto @ Oct 21 2008, 11:22 AM) *
Will - It's been a while since you posted this, so I don't know if you resolved your issue. I have an Intel 2915abg card and used iwi2200 for my iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5 install. I had the same issues you listed -- I couldn't get the command line version to work for some reason, and when I used NSGUI to connect, it would sit with a loading circle with no success after entering my WEP password. I got the idea that perhaps it wasn't resolving an IP, and so opened a Terminal. While the nsgui attempted to connect, I typed at the command line: sudo ipconfig set en1 DHCP

Almost instantaneously, NSGUI connected with an IP address. I have had this working for a day or so -- so I haven't messed with it much. I am planning on starting with a Automation script, and going from there... I have to manually open nsgui, select my network, paste in my wep key, and drop to command prompt each time I boot my laptop.

Hope that helps you or anyone else with similar issues!

Regards,
Paul

Well mate i'm using this driver with wep 64-bit without a problem. Downloading files 24 hours without even getting disconnect from the wireless.. add nsgui on your startup item so it will load automatically.
kein_yo
So, as I see after a year of research, there is no solution for the wireless 3945 abg??

:S

In that case I will have to come back to windows :S
millie
Hello there!!!

i also am looking for drivers for the 3945. The problem is i have a acer aspire 5920, i have already purchased a DELL DW1390 becuase this was confirmed as working with hackintosh, however my laptop wont boot when i swap round the cards the screen will not come on at all and the hard drive wont spin. After some research i found out that the bios must be whitelisting meaning that it wont boot with the other card for some reason.

My question is does anyone know of any cards working in hackintosh that are supported with the acer aspire 5920?

How close are we to having a 3945 driver?

And finally what is the best usb card to get? i want it to be working with airport without having to use a 3rd party app such as realtek
the_painless
For {censored}s sake, could some admin please close this thread until jalavoui has some news!?
I'm sick and tired ready at getting mails only 'cause some beginners are too lazy to read the last few pages!

I'm watching this thread since post #1 and it got pretty annoying!

So P L E A S E close it for now! wacko.gif
MagicWTF
QUOTE
TNW wanted me to share with everyone some rather big news. He has been hard at work, delving into the innards of the Darwin kernel, finding strange and obscure misfeatures involving, among other things, non-aligned IOMallocContiguous() calls.

In addition to fixing the initialization problems, the card now properly starts up, initializes, receives data, and enters ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(). Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first packet received by this driver:

CODE
A80000001B026B87000006000000000001002300000
  A830080000000FFFFFFFFFFFF001E4C427849001E4C
  427849C04F8691AC642700000064001104000C4C69
  7665626F782D44454430010882848B962430486C030
  1010504010300002A01002F010032040C121860DD16
  0050F20101000050F20201000050F20201000050F20
  2DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E
  0062322F00





Which looks an awful lot like an ESSID broadcast. Specifically, of the AP named "Livebox", which I'm told belongs to TNW himself.

There is much more work to do, but now the hardware is at least starting to behave.

-Symuc




Just thought I'd dig this up to remind people how far we've come in the past few months, and just how close we are, Jal is getting pretty close to his money goal on the website. With a little luck we could easily have this by christmas, remember, Rome wasn't built in a day, be patient and good things will come. Like many of you complaining I've been waiting a long while too, but as far as I see it, life is short, why worry.
Here's to hoping we get a driver soon, only one hundred € to go. = D
P.s. I forgot how to link the quote back to symuc's original post >.< sorry
macgirl
QUOTE(the_painless @ Oct 22 2008, 07:01 AM) *
For {censored}s sake, could some admin please close this thread until jalavoui has some news!?
I'm sick and tired ready at getting mails only 'cause some beginners are too lazy to read the last few pages!

I'm watching this thread since post #1 and it got pretty annoying!

So P L E A S E close it for now! wacko.gif

Then don't read it.

I am sure if Jalavoui or other have an importan progress it will be announced in the front page news.
TB2
the_painless: Here's another useless post for you:



Thanks to all those who contribute to these drivers. Looking forward to use my 3945abg chip with osx86, it's the only thing not working on my machine!

CrArC
the_painless: unsubscribe, mate! I'm about to myself, we'll hear about the drivers when they're done, I guarantee it.

And TB2, seconded wink.gif I still have a 3945-based laptop waiting for love.
uncopan
Can you put the work on a public svn / cvs or something like this ?
This way others may be able to add to your code and the whole process will be faster i think.
And in the process we might even be able to write a howto . Maybe this way on the next piece of hardware without drivers the whole process will be easyer.


QUOTE(jalavoui @ Sep 23 2008, 02:51 AM) *
driver status
iwi2100 - work with no wep for osx 10.4. os x 10.5 is untested
iwi2200 - wep support for os x 10.4/5
iwi3945/4965 - i'll finish the drivers as soon as i have a laptop to work. the drivers scan for networks - need to test packed code and make it associate (this was what i've done in iwi2100 in 2 days)

and...
i do not intend to abandon the iwidarwin project

smile.gif
booger_sniffer5000
QUOTE(uncopan @ Oct 23 2008, 06:50 PM) *
Can you put the work on a public svn / cvs or something like this ?
This way others may be able to add to your code and the whole process will be faster i think.
And in the process we might even be able to write a howto . Maybe this way on the next piece of hardware without drivers the whole process will be easyer.


svn checkout http://iwidarwin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ iwidarwin-read-only

Taken directly from http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/source/checkout
jalavoui
anyone who like to join the project please post new versions here for testing
mail me with a gmail account to have access to iwidarwin svn tree for commiting new code

thanks for helping on the laptopt
i hope i soon get back and write new code
Aieie Brazorf
We all thank you, your effort will not be forgotten
Exiled
might be a stupid question, but i know you can't connect to a network using the iwi3945, but what about creating a network? Like an ad-hoc network because i might be able to use my iphone 3g to connect from there.

Any response would be greatly appreciated!
booger_sniffer5000
QUOTE(Exiled @ Oct 26 2008, 12:00 AM) *
might be a stupid question, but i know you can't connect to a network using the iwi3945, but what about creating a network? Like an ad-hoc network because i might be able to use my iphone 3g to connect from there.

Any response would be greatly appreciated!


Nope. Drivers don't work at all.
Exiled
ok thanks!
sektor
At least I can see my wireless network and its start I'm not a coder but anything I can do to help like testing logs or something.
MagicWTF
QUOTE(sektor @ Oct 26 2008, 10:36 PM) *
At least I can see my wireless network and its start I'm not a coder but anything I can do to help like testing logs or something.


same although I have a mediocre knowledge of coding, I dropped out of computer science and went into health sciences (human biology, A&P =DDD)
masterpiece
Hey guys,

how about 4965agn for now?

masterpiece
aspcartman
Guys, i can't make it work(

CODE
89-178-189-246:~ aspcartman$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# sudo kextload -t /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kextextension /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext has potential problems:Warnings
{
    "Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style" = true
}

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext appears to be loadable
kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext loaded successfully
bash-3.2# sudo kextload -t /System/Library/Extensions/iwi3945.kextkernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/iwi3945.kext has problems:Missing dependencies:
{
    "com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family" =
        "A valid compatible version of this dependency cannot be found"
}


Also i'm not able to find any other IO80211Family in google !
Any help?

PS
I was running linux about last two years and for god sake - i can't get watha hell are "com.apple" files and where are they?? It's very confusing - not knowing what's is going on in system (makes me to remember windows censored2.gif ).
M@dMac
ok folks, I've got a compaq c797el bought in italy a few weeks ago, its 3945 adapter is able to see the ssid of the wifi router... but I haven't yet made it associate with it, does it means that the driver works? or it means it doesn't? go figure, any help would be really appreciated.
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