*****SOLVED Broadcom wireless 4318 PCI card, help please

[DMP]

After another install whereby i selected no additional wifi kexts, i finally got mi ASUS PCI wifi card up and running. Here's how i did it!

 

Clean install,

 

Used the broadcom 43xx enabler. sh script.

 

Removed my pic wifi card

 

Reseated it in a different PCI slot

 

 

And there you have it ! Hope it lasts

 

 

DMP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi again,

 

Love OSX , beginning to hate my network adaptor though... After many re installs and rooting about with my wireless pci card i am still having issues. My card is detected and i am able to connect to my wireless router, but the speed is painfully slow. I am using DHCP settings automatically allocated, by os x, cannot seem to get it right though.

 

BTW I am using the bcm43xx_enabler.sh to get the card to be recognized.

 

My asus notebook connects without any problems.... any ideas?

 

I have included some ping results below.

 

 

Help please

 

 

Dmp

 

Last login: Wed Jul 2 11:32:40 on ttys000

dave-mac-pro:~ Dave$ ping google.com

PING google.com (64.233.187.99): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=289.416 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=261.415 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=273.362 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=291.918 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=262.995 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=237 time=261.193 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=237 time=274.899 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=237 time=271.615 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=237 time=275.572 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=10 ttl=237 time=264.716 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---

75 packets transmitted, 59 packets received, 21% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 257.543/298.102/1001.919/116.090 ms

dave-mac-pro:~ Dave$

[Guest BuildSmart]

Hi again,

 

Love OSX , beginning to hate my network adaptor though... After many re installs and rooting about with my wireless pci card i am still having issues. My card is detected and i am able to connect to my wireless router, but the speed is painfully slow. I am using DHCP settings automatically allocated, by os x, cannot seem to get it right though.

 

BTW I am using the bcm43xx_enabler.sh to get the card to be recognized.

 

My asus notebook connects without any problems.... any ideas?

 

I have included some ping results below.

Help please

Dmp

 

Last login: Wed Jul 2 11:32:40 on ttys000

dave-mac-pro:~ Dave$ ping google.com

PING google.com (64.233.187.99): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=289.416 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=261.415 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=273.362 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=291.918 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=262.995 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=237 time=261.193 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=237 time=274.899 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=237 time=271.615 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=237 time=275.572 ms

64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=10 ttl=237 time=264.716 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---

75 packets transmitted, 59 packets received, 21% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 257.543/298.102/1001.919/116.090 ms

dave-mac-pro:~ Dave$

SEE my other posts related to these Broadcom adapters for the solution.

[lazd]

I'd like to say that I too was able to solve my 40+% packet loss problems by moving my ASUS WL-139 from my top most PCI slot to the middle slot (I did not try to bottom slot). I now have 0% packet loss and am a happy camper. For reference, I'm on a GA-EP35-DS3L under 10.5.4.

EDIT: It seems this only temporarily solved my problem. I was only able to duplicate this behavior twice. It seems to go back to tons of packet loss after a restart, and I'm not sure it had anything to do with the moving of the PCI card.