I got a cheap ($14.95 US) Airlink 101 PCI b/g card and used the kext and it worked like a charm (A logo on the box said Atheros Super G) No kext editing needed. The card is a AWLH4030 Super G™ Wireless PCI Adapter

where did you get it so cheap? would post a link?

Thanks Cyrana for the info... I downloaded the update package from the link and extracted the package. I used Pacifist also and replaced BOTH IO80211Family.kext AND IONetworkFamily.kext, but that totally screwed my network connection. I then replaced IONetworkFamily.kext back to the original one on my 10.4.3 DVD and kept IO80211Family.kext from the 10.4.5 upgrate .... and guess what ... IT WORKED!!!
I'm typing this right now through my wireless connection!!!!
By the way, I'm running on 10.4.3 with the Jas patch 4.2 and my wireless card is a generic (internal) miniPCI Atheros based a/b/g card I believe similar to the Gigabyte brand.
Now remember: If you're running 10.4.3 download the 10.4.5 update and only add the IO80211Family.kext to your extensions folder.
Good luck to all

Syldaril.

Thanks for info Syldaril, it didn't work for me with my HP NC6000/W500 combo.
I also tried my DLink DWL-G630 which is Atheros based.
The AP icons shows up in the menubar, but the only option is to power off card. It is displayed as AR5001-0000-0000.
It shows up in profiler as VEN 5772, DEV 26.
I tried adding these to the info.plist in the driver in the IO80211Family.kext, but no change.
I don't have a problem buying a different card, but I would really like to know what I can do to get my W500 integrated card to work.

Thanks in advance.
hm

All I did was replace IONetworking and the IO80211 kext, nothing else and the W500 works.



Thanks, Syldaril. I meant to reply earlier, but what you did is the same thing I did, but I have a 10.4.4 base system.

If it helps anyone, make sure you have the latest NC6000 BIOS from HP's site. I have whatever the latest was as of a month or so ago (not been updated in a bit anyway). Then make sure you do a repair permissions to be safe, and perhaps check dmesg after bootup if it isn't working, etc.

Edit: Pacifist will let you extract kexts. Just look around in the install packages a bit, there are a few of them, but one of them has IO80211 and quite a few others. If anyone puts the kexts up online and links...well, just don't do that.

I downloaded the 10.4.5 update, but I can't find a newer version of IO80211Family.kext ??

Can someone send me this file?

thanx!

Mikebees:

1 - are you sure you have the Intel version of 10.4.5 update?
2 - Mount the dmg file and copy the .pkg file somewhere.
3 - Open the pkg file with Pacifist.
4 - The kext is in /System/Library/Extensions. Extract it somewhere.

Sorry if this is too simplified for what your asking. :-)

hm

Yes you're right I had the wrong update, thanx for the fast solution!

Has anyone got the Atheros AR2511 a/b chipset working device ID 163c-0011

i'll just post how i got my ar5212 working (163c0013, i think) for 10.4.3. x86.

download the 10.4.5 update and get the kext (io80211family.kext) from archive.pax.gz (if i remember correctly). it will only work (for me anyway) if you use the original ionetworkfamily.kext that installed with 10.4.3. put this kext into \system\library\extensions\ . Then in terminal type:

sudo -s

chmod -R 755 io80211family.kext
chown -R root:wheel io80211family.kext

then restart and it should just work, set up from system preferences.

Thanks MR.P

That was the magic trick for me, needed the IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.4.3 NOT 10.4.4

WOW

Thanks Again

hm

wicked!
Finally got my nc6000 to work.
Only WEP is supported, WPA is not working.
But WEP is ok for now.

I kept the the IONetworkingFamily from my 10.4.3 install and only installed the IO80211Family.kext, repaired it a few times with the instructions on the 2nd page here and rebooted a few times.
Airport now shows up!

Hmmm Panja I'm using WPA encryption at University and it works without any problems...

could someone PM with the 10.4.5 IO80211Family.kext or at least tell how to get it?

Just go to Apple and download the 10.4.5 Intel update then use Pacifist to extract it

right. sorry.

i have a d-link dwl-G510. it has an atheros chipset. i have the 10.4.3 ionetworking kext and the 10.4.5 IO80211Family kext installed. i corrected the permissions with terminal. i rebooted and went into network prefs but still nothing.

the ven id = 11AB and the dev id = 1FA6

i tried editing the info.plist of atheros kext located inside the IO80211Family kext. under IOMatch i put in the ven id,dev id to match the others in the list.

after this i corrected the permissions again. and rebooted. but still i found nothing in network prefs.

is there something i am missing?

will this work with the IBM Atheros cards?

Hey TribesMan,

Are you also on a HP nc6000 with a w400 wifi card build in?
If so I would need to check it out again...

I was wondering the same thing, was going to upgrade my T43 to this:

http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/s...1&dualCurrId=73

Anyone have that particular card to know if it will work? I've read that it is an Atheros card.

Panja no i don't have any HP laptop with Atheros card, only IBMs.

Thanks for the reply m8.
Probably because I have a different card WPA is not working?
But I will double check tonight.

Oops, didn't see your post before

Since no one is responding, I went ahead and extracted the kext file and looked in the info.plist.

pci168c,1014

I just ordered one from IBM/Lenovo... so I hope it works

Im posting this from my nc6000 wpa enabled went from 10.4.3 to 10.4.4 using dvd install then updated to 10.4.5 airport was there but not turned on then i did the following


edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist and change "en0" to "en1" and "0" to "1" as below:

<key>BSD Name</key>
<string>en1</string>


<key>IOInterfaceUnit</key>
<integer>1</integer>

After the change, reboot.


worked for me with w500 on nc6000

Thanks for checking and sharing this with us.
Unfortunatly it's not working for me.
nc6000 with a w400 card.
Changed everything above and than rebooted.
Checked and not working, than repair disk priv. and reboot.
Still not working.

Btw when everything was changed as above my wired LAN was not working either...

i bought one of these and it worked without modding the plist. doesnt seem to work with WPA though. any suggestions?

I have a T43 Thinkpad with the IBM A/B/G II Atheros card.

It appears under in System Profiler - PCI cards as 168c 1014

I'm working from the 10.4.5 DVD - clean install.

At first the airport icon showed up next to the clock, but I couldnt set anything up or make it recognize that a wireless card exists.

I re-downloaded the 10.4.5 update and replaced the io8(something) kext. No work. Airport icon disapeared.

I tried replacing the IOnetwork kext from the 10.4.3 update and then the adapter disapeared from System Profiler. Replaced from the 10.4.5 update and nothing changed.

So whats the deal? Does anyone have this same card working?

Any suggestions?

Okay, I gave up and reinstalled. Everything worked okay on the first boot (but the airport icon still said Not Configured) and didnt after that.

I found something in a Broadcom thread that did work, at least temporarily:

in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources
there is a command line app called airport that I can use to connect. It wont survive a reboot and no GUIs show status or configuration. This means the driver is there and does work. Something just isnt talking.

Also, in the System Profiler, under AirPortAtheros5424, I get two messages:

com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family: No valid version of this dependency can be found
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily: (same as ^^)

There are also dependency issues showing in the IO80211Family extension.

Again, this is using a fresh install on the new 10.4.5 patched install DVD. IBM T43 with IBM A/B/G II card.

Hope this helps make some progress. If anyone wants me to try something, let me know!

anyone have their orinoco cards working?

WPA more into - I checke while trying to connect to my HP AP, with WPA - TTLS/PAP
The AP shows my MAC Address as using Static WEP when trying to connect.
Not sure what this is actually telling me, but it appears as if the driver doesn't support the TYPE of WPA that my AP needs (AES)

I haven't tried switching my AP to TKIP as there are other users on, and switching them would be a real pain.

Anyhow, I will try to do some diags and post back later.

Sorry if this wastes someones time reading, but thought it might be useful to someone.

hm

Thanks for the info, I'm getting this exact card on Monday, I'll test it out.

Yo people,

I got an USB Stick with an Atheros chipset in it, but it doesn't get detected in 10.4.5 . Anybody had success with USB Wireless Sticks with an Atheros chipset?

can anyone send me or tell me where i can get only the ionetworkingfamily.kext of 10.4.3??

thanks

Just an update -- I did end up ordering the IBM 11a/b/g Wireless Lan Mini PCI Adapter II (PCI 168c:1014), and it works great. I had to do the en0->en1 adjustment mentioned in this post:

So was it the 73P4301 you ordered? And it works fine from the GUI?

Well, I receieved it as an FRU part (93P4262) because I had my card replaced before with a substitute Intel part. I just asked them to send me the correct one. It's the same card, AFAIK.

And yes, from the GUI. I had to make the en0-en1 change, then open 'Network' in System Preferences and it let me know that it found a new Airport card.

Netgear WG311T working here. Just had to change en0 to en1.

I have the same card on a T43 Thinkpad and this change just made the airport icon up by the clock go away. When set to en0, the icon appears, but says "not configured." I have to use the command line utility to connect to a network.

Any other ideas?

Did you go into network preferences? When I went there, it told me it had found a new card, and I had to accept the settings to begin using it. It also let me turn the airport icon back on.

Worked great on my T43, thanks!

I have problems getting my t40p atheros wireless to work...
it has a built in atheros 5211 mini pci a/b/g wlan card

I am also working on the new 10.4.5 patched install DVD

I did try the

sudo -s
chmod -R 755 io80211family.kext
chown -R root:wheel io80211family.kext

and I did edit the
edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist and change "en0" to "en1" and "0" to "1"

I even
-deleted the extensions.mkext and extensions.kextcache from /system/library/
-opened Disk Utility and repair permissions on my osx86 hard disk and rebooted my machine

however, I did it with the drivers that came with the patched install DVD and I didn't download the new ones from the updates manually...

Did anyone with a t40p manage to get their atheros cards running or has anyone a suggestion what I could do else to get my wireless running?

thank you

It's the drivers that come with the 10.4.5 update that include support for the Atheros chipset. If you're not using that kext, it's not going to work.

I will try it with the new drivers... is it hard to extract them from the update?

I am using ibm x40 with Atheros AR5215 mini-pci card.

I just copied the IO80211Family.kext to /System/Library/Extension. The network card can be actived after reboot.

But after I changed the WLAN network preference settings at first time. The network preference cannot run again after reboot... always shown in "not responed.."

I have tried to remove the the IO80211Family.kext file from single user mode. The network settings backed to normal... but install the file again, the problem will happen again.

Anyone can help me?!

I have Toshiba laptop (see signature)... the wifi chipset is an Atheros. I need help:
- how can i get the exact chipset name?
- how can i get its vendor and product id?

I took the 10.4.5 IO80211 driver and copied it into my 10.4.3 8F1099 install. Then i made a few other attempts. One time, i did get another network adapter in System Profiler, but i couldn't get it in the System Preferences. I also tried to merge the old kext with the new ones... No way!

any idea?? thanx in advance,
joep

I gave up on Mac for my laptop for a while, but I'm ready to wrestle with it again. I upgraded it to 10.4.5, which is supposed to have the new drivers for Atheros. Well, it still won't work. I have the same vendor and device IDs as several other people, and mine does not work. Any clues why?
LAN-Express AS IEEE 802.11g miniPCI adapter
Vendor ID: 168c
Device ID: 0013


If I need to provide more info just tell me.

Has the Atheros 5523 chipset worked for any of you? It's a shame I read this post 2 days after I gave my USB card to a friend, I won't be able to try it until monday.

Dax

You need the 80211 kext from 10.4.3 in order to get the atheros wireless drivers to work.

At least that was what I had to have with my HP nc6000 Laptop. HP W500 card.

OK, I think I get this.

10.4.3 IONetworkingFamily.kext
10.4.5 IO80211Family.kext

I have a fresh install of 10.4.5 on a box with the same generic AirLink 101 card that a previous poster mentioned. Ergo, I need the 10.4.3 IONetworkingFamily.kext. Where the heck can I find that?

I have my nc6000 with an install of 10.4.1 (which I know needs updating) but that won't help me. Any ideas? Someone feel free to forward the 10.4.3 IONetworkingFamily.kext to my e-mail, jonathan DOT katz AT gmail DOT com. I will repay them with... I dunno, something?