jddphd Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Hi - Wondering if anyone can help. I have an Edimax EW-7128 PCI wireless card. I downloaded the dmg driver from Edimax (which is the same as RALink - RT2500/RT61) and installed it. The systems is showing no indication of the PCI card in my machine. Is this an installation problem? A driver problem? Any help would be appreciated. I installed Leo4AllV3. My machine specs are below: ASUS Pundit p1-ah2 barebones (Asus M2NPV board/GeForce 6150/nforce 430/410) SATA HDD and DVD/RW (used the Nforce test/experimental kext - worked just great) Installed kernel 9.2.2, nvidia kexts, and a bunch of the different network kexts in the install, but finally also the specific driver from RALink 2GB ram It has recognized all my peripherals and everything seems to be hunky dory otherwise. Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112384-edimax-ew-7128-pci-os-not-recognizing-card-after-driver-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 What do you mean by "no indication"? How are you determining that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112384-edimax-ew-7128-pci-os-not-recognizing-card-after-driver-install/#findComment-796036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 As it turns out, it doesn't matter. I downloaded the Edimax driver package and there are a few problems with them. First of all the RT25xx drivers are for USB adapters only. The PCI drivers are for the RT61. Second, they are old versions. The readme pdf mentions OSX 10.3 and 10.4 and the dates are from 2007. RaLink released updated drivers for 10.5 Leopard earlier this year. You can get them from RaLink's Taiwan website. Some of the OEM card manufacturers haven't kept up and it looks like Edimax is one of them. The worst news is RaLink screwed the pooch on their 10.5 update in March. They claim to support RT25xx chips on PCI cards but they, in fact, do not. They re-packaged the exact same driver from 10.4 with the updated "wireless configuration utility" for 10.5 and the two do do not get along together at all. Mainly because the old driver has a bug in it that prevents the RT25xs PCI cards from being recognized. If the card is your only link to the outside world you should look in the X-Scripts part of the X-Labs forum here. Some people claim they made it work using older kexts from 10.4 on Leopard. I haven't tried it myself because I have another working network connection and I don't want to backlevel my system that way. But if you're desperate it might be worth a shot. I would try it if I had no other choice. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112384-edimax-ew-7128-pci-os-not-recognizing-card-after-driver-install/#findComment-796059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jddphd Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Appreciate the help, Big P. No indication was that the Mac wasn't recognizing anything in either of my PCI card slots, but I think I've found the answer. Seems my best shot is probably an alternate mechanism of connecting. No big deal - I think the Edimax card cost me $20 at Newegg and it's had a long life already. Many thanks... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112384-edimax-ew-7128-pci-os-not-recognizing-card-after-driver-install/#findComment-797101 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mind_bomb Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Appreciate the help, Big P. No indication was that the Mac wasn't recognizing anything in either of my PCI card slots, but I think I've found the answer. Seems my best shot is probably an alternate mechanism of connecting. No big deal - I think the Edimax card cost me $20 at Newegg and it's had a long life already. Many thanks... can you let me know what you did to resolve this. I have the same problem no PCI recognized by Leo 10.5.2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112384-edimax-ew-7128-pci-os-not-recognizing-card-after-driver-install/#findComment-876024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 I have this problem. I have a Edimax EW7728In and it doesnt work. The drivers on the website do nothing to help... Any help would be much appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112384-edimax-ew-7128-pci-os-not-recognizing-card-after-driver-install/#findComment-981299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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