Am I doing something wrong? The kext will load, and in profiler it shows 4 built in ethernets(i have 4 possible ones: ethernet, wireless, firewire, 56k) however i can't really configure anything...

I have a bit of a problem getting my wireless to work with Mac OSX x86

I have a Dlink DWL-G520 Atheros Based wireless card.
When installing Mac OSX x86 Prepatched with intel 10.4.5 patch and the first boot up It works almost flawlessly.
During the registration I am asked wich wireless network I want to acces and WPA works and so on.
Though, If I restart the computer or it doesn't connect.

The wierd thing is on the first bootup from the installation the computer says in the system profiler under airport card that there's a communication error and there's no difference when I do the reboot.

I've tried to Copy the IO80211Family.kext and IO80211NetworkingFamily.kext from the 10.4.5 and have it under the 10.4.4 but I don't get through all the permission things. (New to mac os and unix.)
I think I've installed almost everything right exept for the AirPortAtheros5424.kext but I just can't get it to install.

During Chown -R root:wheel IO80211Family.kext I get no permission right or some fault like that.

The only way I could get chmod or chown to work in the terminal were to copy the IO80211Family.kext into my own user directory.

Please help. I just don't want to turn back to Windows

I had a similar card, but it was branded the AWLH3500 (or 3505; I'm at the office and not at home.) That one does not work. It is also an "Airlink 101" card. I double-checked the device ID and vendor ID, added them to Info.plist and got debug messages that the driver loaded but was unable to attach; so it looks like that card has a different chipset.

These cards are pretty cheap; available from Fry's and the like. I'm going to go back to Fry's and get another card; either one with a supported chipset or a second Belkin USB wireless (I'm successfully using one on my HP nc6000.)

Thank you all for your help, especially to the person that gave me the hookup with the 10.4.3 drivers.

PLEASE
how can i get my adapter's vendor and product id?
you all seem to know, please tell me!

-joep

If you don't know your hardware, try everesthome220.exe, freeware. http://www.google.com/search?q=everesthome220.exe Use the Report-Report Wizard-System Summary only to generate a summary that you can post as an attachment
Alternatively, use Mac terminal 'ioreg -l' to see a list of devices.

How to ask questions in this forum
http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=11517


sample report from Everest:
PCI Devices

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


[ Atheros AR5005G Wireless Network Adapter ]

Device Properties:
Device Description Atheros AR5005G Wireless Network Adapter
Bus Type PCI
Bus / Device / Function 3 / 0 / 0
Device ID 168C-001A
Subsystem ID 1186-3B08
Device Class 0200 (Ethernet Controller)
Revision 01
Fast Back-to-Back Transactions Supported, Enabled

Device Features:
66 MHz Operation Not Supported
Bus Mastering Enabled

Thanks very much, that's what i was looking for.



pci168c,13 is already in the plist file, but it does not work... :-(

Hello, Just new to this Forum... great infos.

I've been following this thread in order to get my Netgear WG511T to work on my laptop but so far with no luck.

HW configuration:
. Toshiba Tecra M3
. Pentium M 2.13Ghz
. 1Gb RAM
. Ethernet Marvell Yukon (Working and seen as en0)
. Internal Wifi Intel Pro BG/2000 (Not working/disabled)
. Graphics Nvidia (working with no 2D/3D acceleration in 1280x1024)
. Sound AC97 (Working)
. Netgear WG511T (The one I'm trying to get recognized as an Airport)

SW Configuration:
. Install DVD = 10.4.4 Myzar patched + 10.4.5 update
. Installed all patches (except AMD) + Upgrade to 10.4.5

I have the 2 kext drivers (AirPortAtheros5424.kext and AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext) in my IO80211Family.kext which let me think that my upgrade to 10.4.5 was OK.

The symtom:
At boot time I have the following messages "WirelessAirPortDeviceNameCopy(): no AirPort driver found"
Nothing is showing up in the System profiler, neither in Network Utility
No Leds on the WG511T are on
doing ioreg -l doesn't show any PCI info with my vendor/device ID
I've installed the card under XP and it works flawlessly device/ID are 168c:0013
checked my Info.plist and those Ids are in by defautl
I obviously checked permissions and ownership of the IO80211family.kext as well as repairing disk permissions with disk utility
I've disabled my internal Intel Centrino Wifi but not change
I've also tried to install 10.4.3 IOnetworking on my 10.4.5 with no luck


Any chance that someone here has had the same issues, I believe that the first big step that would help me to move forward is to get the device/ID showing up in ioreg

thanks for suggestions,

Rykkard

PS: Not sure about the 10.4.3 IOnetworking, where some say it's needed in order to get IO80211family drivers to work. I've compared both from 10.4.5 and 10.4.3, it seems to me that they are only for Ethernet not 802.11. Also IOnetworking from 10.4.3 doesn't include the Yukon kext that I need for my internal on-board ethernet.

Just realized why my Netgear WG511T can't work with 10.4.5 on my Tecra M3.

Both the IOPPCard and IOPCCardBridge kext are failing to load Boot time,

The boot error messages are explicit:
IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: not found.
IOPCCardBridge::start failed

The PCMCIA Chipset of the Toshiba Tecra M3 is a Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller

It seems that it is not currently supported uncer 10.4.5

I've also tried booting from older versions (10.4.1, and 10.4.3) errors messages slightly differ but IOPCCard wouldn't load either.

R.

Thanks to all people on this thread I have my T41 up and running with wireless. I have a triband Atheros card, I used IONetworkingFamily.kext & IO80211Family.kext from the 10.4.5 bundle. Of course, in itially I was making the mistake of installing these files through Pacifist, but then instead of installing the files, I just did a drag and drop (copy). Additionally, I also modified the NetworkPreferense.plist file to change the en0 to en1 and voila! wireless was up and running.

Now the next thing would be to try and get OpenGl working, but I am readin that the MR 7500 card isnt supported. Has nayone made nay progress with that?

Worked like a charm. I did the en0 -> en1 trick and now wireless works great. However, how do we also get Ethernet enabled and working at the same time? After making this change, "built-in ethernet" shows up but is greyed out and cannot be enabled or used. Please let me know.

thanks!

I'm using 10.4.3 Wesley's patched on my IBM T43 laptop and just bought the Netgear WG511T (Atheros chipset) cardbus.

i replaced the i080211 kext of my 10.4.3 with that of the 10.4.5.
after reboot, the wireless icon appeared on the top right hand corner and says that the airport is not configured.
However, I get an error whenever i try to configure it.
anyone has any idea why ?

I've got an ORiNOCO Gold hooked up in PC card adapter dealie and it doesn't even get power, because during boot it says IOPCCARDBridge::start failed

What should I be editing to get that to work?

any chance somebody could hook me up with 10.4.3 IONetworkingFamily.kext for my airlink 101??

thanks for the help! funkybooty at gmail.com

I have made the atheros ar5001x wifi card work on my lifebook t4010d. I got the kext from apple 10.4.5 update and used it to replaced the original one with 10.4.6. Then I did the en0-en1 trick. Now it works very well for me with wpa2 manual ip mode, as I prefer.

I have an Atheros AR5212A card and i have been trying to get this to work. I pulled the IO811.kext off the Macbook Pro DVD and tried using that but it did not seem to work right, nothing ever came up. So im looking to get a working kext from some one and a suggestion as to how to config things to get this working.



email to infinitevalence at gmail.com

thanks for any help.

NM! Got it working DLed the kext from apple and got the IO80211 installed added my string line and everything worked no need for changing eth0-eht1

My Atheros Card is the same model but it just says Airport:Not Configured under the top bar pulldown? Any suggestions?

Thanks
Steve

I have some problems! I've got this card (CMS ez connect g):



http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewPro...cid=31&pid=1448

It has an Atheros SuperG Chip, but I can´t get it to work. I am on 10.4.6: first I installed IO80211Family.kext from 10.4.5, and nothing happened. Then I installed IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.4.5, and something happened: ethernet built-in stoped working. Then I installed IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.4.3, but still nothing happens: ethernet is still down, and no signs of wifi of any kind. I don´t know what to do, I thought most Atheros chips worked fine but... Anyway, OSX doesnt recognize the card in any way, neither on profiler, nothing. Should I return this to the store? The card has some kind of LEDs but they are not on, I don't know if I have to "switch the card on" somehow..?

Thanks!

By the way I have an HP Laptop Pavilion dv4000, Pentium D 2.0 GHZ, 1 GB RAM.

i got the WG311T, and stuck it in one of my pci slots. Doesnt even show up in system pci info...can ne one help?

Could somebody upload the IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.4.3 that´s currently working? Thank you...

By the way do you know any problems related with 10.4.6? (Should this method work?)

I've got same "problem" with the same pci card (WG311T). Cannot see PCI info. And after each reboot the airport icon in toolbar disapear. Any idea ?

Airport is working at all !

Does anyone know how to get the d-link dwl-g630 working in 10.4.1 or 10.4.3?
Also, could someone send me a pm containing a link to the wireless files? Thanks.

ok i had my atheros ar5005g working in 10.4.3 84f1111a (something like that) and i used the kexts from the 10.4.5 intel update and my wireless worked...now that i have gone to 10.4.6 JaS version....it didn't work from the start so i copied the kexts from the 10.4.5 intel update again but this time...no go! what happend? can someone plz help me?

do i need to try the en0 to en1 thing?

I have an Atheros 802.11b ethernet card that I can't get my hackintosh to recognize. The ioreg output reads it as a pci168,12 which I have been unable to find any information on. Can anyone assist me with this problem?

Thanks

GET 10.4.5 <<<<--------------------
All people with atheros chips, keep 10.4.5 and it will work

people with intel 815/845/865 graphic keep 10.4.1

if superclass and other things change for block driver we can do almost nothing without sources

10.4.6 works with the 10.4.5 IO80211Family.Kext and changing the "en0" to "en1" and "0" to "1" in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist.

I'm running on a ThinkPad T41 with the Atheros a/b/g mini-PCI card, 168C,1014.

BTW, why does everyone say to change the permissions from terminal using arcane commands? You can do it from Finder. Right-click the file, Get Info, at the bottom Ownership and Permissions. Double click the lock icon and change whatever you want. You can also change all the items in a folder this way by clicking "Apply to Enclosed Items".

I'm sorry guys, but I also desperately need help with my Atheros wireless card. I've done everything, but it is listed in the System Profiler.

Things I've Done:
- Copied the two kext files from the 10.4.5 intel update into the Extensions folder.
- Chmodded and chrowned the IO80211Family.kext file.
- Edited the NetworkInterface file (en0 to en1) (actually, the file didn't exist and I created it)
- Repaired permissions on the Mac disk.

My computer specs:
- Toshiba Satellite A55-S106
- 1.4 GHz Intel Celeron M
- 512 MB SDRAM

And here is the info for my wireless card from the terminal:



Thank you so much to anyone who helps me with this.

Could someone please send me the 10.4.3 IONetworkingFamily.kext?
mickles at gmail dot com.

Incidentally, on 10.4.6 using 10.4.5's IO80211Family, the Atheros kext recognizes the card (168c,0013) and loads, but the card isn't recognized by the system profiler etc. I presume the 10.4.3 IONetworkingFamily might fix this. If anyone else has any other experience or ideas, let me know.

I got my card working. It wasnt reconized at first when i first bought it and put it in. Then i reinstalled OS X and it worked fine. Has been ever since, with WEP too.

The Planex GW-DS54SGX PCI card (about $35) uses the Atheros 5212 chip and has the device ID 0x168c and Vendor ID 0x0013. It works fine as a standard Airport card (click Network in System Preferences first) under 10.4.5 but not under 10.4.7. To remedy, just open the plist in the AirportAtheros5424.kext of the IO80211Family.kext and add the line:

<string>pci168c,13</string>

to the bottom of the following

<key>IONameMatch</key>
<array>
<string>pci106b,0086</string>
<string>pci168c,1c</string>

to give

<key>IONameMatch</key>
<array>
<string>pci106b,0086</string>
<string>pci168c,1c</string>
<string>pci168c,13</string>


Save and reboot.

pci168 is derived from the Device ID and 13 is derived from the Vendor ID. If yours are different, edit accordingly.

Ok, I tried this with my belkin F5D7000 with atheros chipset.. the number I got from ioreg was pci168c,1a. I added it to the plist, fixed permissions, and tried to kextload.. but I got a superclass error! Loading the unmodified kext still gives the same error. Any ideas? I have a feeling ti has to do with me running 10.4.7... Any tips would be much appreciated!

Got it working!!

Needed the 10.4.3 IONetworkingFamily.kext and the IO80211Family.kext from the install DVD (10.4.5 I think?) Edited the plist, cleared the kextcache and all was well after rebooting! Wireless!!!! woohoo!

where do i get these files? do i have to download all the dvd´s only to extract those files?

You may be able to get it working without the old IONetworkingFamily; I'm not sure if that's what did the trick or not. I extracted the IO80211Family.kext from the install dvd using pacifist.

If you try that and it still doesn't work, shoot me a pm

Sorry if this is a really stupid question. But I downloaded the 10.5 Intel update and am using Pacifist...but where on earth do I search for the two files that I need? IONetworkingFamily and IO80211Family.kext? I don't see them? Are they within some other compressed folder? Any tips please? Or can someone email me them? I'm trying to get a D-Link DWL-G650 card to work. TIA

Can someone send me a working 10.4.3 IONetworkingFamily.kext for my Airlink 101 AWLH4030? alexl55.85 at gmail.com PLZ

the file is under system/library/extentions
I'm very new to mac i think a newbie forum should be made.

got it working on a tp-link tl-wn651g!

the problem was that i installed "additional drivers" by the goatsecx-image. THESE DO NOT WORK WITH THE ATHEROS CARDS! Stay at the standard-ones, change the en0 to en1 and IT WORKS!

IO80211Family.kext and IONetworkingFamily.kext from the 10.4.5 Intel download worked like a charm for Atheros 5005g internal wireless on my Toshiba Satellite A85.

Used Pacifist to install both files, removed Extensions.mkext & Extensions.kextcache and rebooted.

Well I gave that a shot, thebob. Using the .6 HOTiSO release with the JaS .7 update, all software updated, including iLife '06... Pacifist replaces the kexts, that's fine, and I deleted the Extensions stuff as instructed, but upon rebooting it seems if OSX just doesn't even notice the card I have - the D-Link DWL-630 which is Atheros 5005 based.

Way back with the 10.4.3 release from JaS, it worked like a charm from the first boot. Funny thing is so did the internal modem on this Dell Inspiron 4150. The modem worked! But just for that first reboot after the installation, for some reason. After I rebooted *again*, the modem never worked again nor was seen again.

I tried flushing all the kexts, etc... no go. Still no hardware noticed by OSX. Kinda weird. Maybe I should try the kexts from that 10.4.3 release that worked for me in the past.

Now on to the QE stuff... hopefully I can manage that or at least some OpenGL functionality: I want to see what iWeb can do but I can't even get it to run so far.

Wow, thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread, I now have my Atheros ar5005g working after installing OS X using the new JaS 10.4.7 disc.

I'm not actually sure what it was that made it work it was either replacing the IO80211Family.kext with the 10.4.5 one or changing the en0 entry to en1 NetworkInterfaces.plist. Or maybe it was both, I now have pci lan nic as en1 and atheros wireless as en2?

Anyway thanks again, that means everything is now working on my Acer Travelmate 2410 Laptop!

hi,
i have a atheros AR5212A-00 chip.
i've installed JaS 10.4.6 an copied these two kext from the 10.4.5 intel update over. but it doesn't work.
i haven't got this file where i could change en0 to en1.
i don't know where i can see the device id, its not listed in the system profiler.

leo

Hey, I had exactly the same problem!!!

No file to change en0 in en1. So, for me, the only manner to have thing working was to work on the recognition of my network card!!!

When these one was recognize, it was assigned to en0, anf the Atheros WI-FI card was so in en1.

Sorry if I don't help you a lot, but for me it was the solution.

I tried the things mentioned here
for SMCWPCIT-G card which is AR5212 based card

including changing the info.plist file
and the EN0 to EN1 thing

No joy - no working

Now though when I boot up I am told that the info.plist file was not installed right

but I did delete the kextchache file and I did do the disk repair thing

Arrrggghhh

OMFG I want to thank you soooo much for this one! Jesus! I"ve been doign this for DAYS!

Hi!

Ive got a Atheros based DWL-520 (RevA/1) PCI card runnin on 10.4.6 (that's what im using right now ).
This cards shows up in the 10.4.5_HCL but in 10.4.6_HCL it reads all RevA not working. Thats not true. This cards runs nearly perfect under 10.4.6.

Here is how:

If u follow the guide here to use IONetworkingfamily.kext and IO80211.kext from 10.4.5, u wont succeed with this card. Instead KEEP your IONetworkingfamily.kext and only use IO80211.kext from 4.5.
THATS IT! Your card will be detected as aiport! Although i wasn't able to get WEP runnin, but it works!

So, you can add this card to the HCL_10.4.6. too , as it is already listed in den HCL_10.4.5.

I have a Toshiba P25-S507 Laptop. I successfully created a dual boot Windows/OSX 10.4.6 system and was able to get the video & sound working great. Even the built in ethernet works perfectly. Wireless networking has got me stumped...

The laptop has integrated Atheros AR5001X MiniPCI Wireless which works perfectly in Windows mode. I've tried following some of the postings on this board, but am mixed up now. I've tried moving the kext files, changing the en0/1 thing...but still cant get it to work!!!

What's the fix? If you have another recommended kext file, please let me know or upload/email (gpintus at yahoo.com). I'm still learning the ropes when it comes to the OSX world.

Thanks!

i know your problem,

atheros wifi not working under osx 10.4.6 took some time to get it fixed!
i can't remember where i finally got this kext from, but with this kext my atheros was finally recognized as airport (even though when i click on airport in system profiler i get a text saying no information availible)
i'm gonna send you the 80211.kext. remember to fix permissions using the chmod command mentioned earlier!

good luck,
chris

Ok, after hours of testing I got the module working, it is now listed in kextstat, but what should I do now?! No Symbol or Airport foudn anythere? I can't even ifconfig.
Btw. I also got the Problem with the en0 file wich is not existant on my install.

hi I just bought an ATHEROS AR5002 mini-pci wireless card, I was wondering if it is compatable with these drivers?

thanks

hmm... another question for you guys.

I have a D-Link DWL-G132 which has an Atheros based chip in it, but it's not being detected. I'm running 10.4.8 right now, so shouldnt the drivers that were in 10.4.5 be in this version? or do I still need to install the ones from 10.4.5?