eloloZone Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 hello , I installed the osx86-fully-patched-sse2-rosetta-ati.iso version of the 10.4.3 osx. And I met problem to recognize my USB WIFI NetGear WG111v2. Could you help me ? thanks! Laurent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyuiop Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 uh metoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I'm pretty sure that card isnt supported. Check the Wiki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyuiop Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 is it possible to write driver for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Sure. It's absolutely possible. Though I think it might be a little "non-trivial" to do so, since you'll need the technical specifications of the wifi chip, down to it's instruction set, and a relatively high level of knowledge when it comes to IOkit. So, while it's POSSIBLE, Netgear's probably going to have to do it. And they probably wont. EDIT: The reason why they probably wont is simple. What use is it to write a driver for a wireless card for an Intel Mac, when all Intel Macs come with Airport WIFI built in? There's no use. It's a total waste of time (except to service Hackintosh owners) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyuiop Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 what about older ppc macs without airport, and can u run a driver ala' roseta?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquanutz Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 qwertyuiop, Give it up, they are not going to make a driver. There are plenty of other solutions on this forum. And you can't run a driver for another architecture under Rosetta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyuiop Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Yeah... they make PPC binary drivers... Cause there are PPC macs that could run their cards. There's NO reason to make an Intel binary driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmat Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 actually for the wg111v2 theres the earlier model based on the prism chipset, and some people got it working with the prism drivers floating around. The newer ones use realtek rtl8187L chipset, and theres a mac osx driver for this on the realtek website. the only problem is, it doesnt work (lol), not for me anyway. Either its not universal (ppc only) or realtek just didnt create it properly. I even checked the info.plist of the rtl8187L kext supplied, and it has an entry for wg111v2. Possibly the device id they have in that info.plist is wrong. Anyway i bought a dlink dwl-g122 and it works fine...so im not gonna bother chasing it up. Although qwerty maybe you can bug (email) realtek about it (assuming your usb wireless adapter is actually teh realtek chipset one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 theres a PrismGT driver floating around, use it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyuiop Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 thanks zmat ill try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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