sonotone Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Already discussed in the OS X on the MSI Wind... front page topic. But AFAIK, it's the first time that a big known compagny wrote drivers clearly destinated to the hackintosh community, and, to my sens, it's a significative step. As explained here: What is most interesting about this development is that Ralink is effectively supporting Hackintoshes. As every new Mac comes with Wi-Fi, there is no need for anyone to buy a third party card, especially not a Mini-PCI card. These drivers are probably only going to be used in Frankenmacs. We think this is great, although the rather paranoid Apple might think otherwise. Supported PCI chipsets: RT2860, RT256x, RT266x. After Psystar and friends, EFI-X, now established Hardware manufacturers are publishing drivers. It seem's the hackintosh fashion can't be ignored anymore, and is moving far away from the underground level. Installing OS X on a regular PC now can be considerated as real and growing market ? Others manufacturers (i.e gigabyte, realtek...) will be inspired by ralink's initiative? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Ralink were the first 3rd party to have os x intel wifi drivers, even before 10.4.4 & the first intel macs were released, so this is not news, even though some people are surprised to discover it. What *is* news, however is that these drivers have now been updated, which may help some people who had problems with the compatibility of older drivers, and as such it is most welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xakarix84 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 from the doc release history, i found this below about RT73 driver update, does the latest update with different name (RTUSB_D2870-1.2.4.0a UI-1.6.8.0_2008_12_04.dmg) include it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RTUSB_D2870-1.2.4.0_D71w-1.2.4.0_D2500-1.1.3.0 UI-1.6.6.0_2008_10_15.dmg Driver D2870 – V.1.2.4.0 1. Fixed crash when plug-in too fast after plug-out (when plug-in too fast, we should wait OS to send a termination event to our driver, but OS seems to forget or what. We send an event to driver by ourselves). Driver D2870 – V.1.2.3.0 1. Fixed crash when plug-in too fast after plug-out. Driver RT73 – V.1.2.4.0 1. Fixed WPA2-PSK/WPA-PSK connection problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottoman1384 Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 how do we go about updating to the new drivers? i can't any support information for updating it. will it go about updating it or do we have to do a uninstall before installing the new drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest grpace Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Its companies like realtek who know how to satisfy a customer. I cant wait to get my wind now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ameris_cyning Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 I like the new updates. My USB wireless used to give me kernel panics all the time, but I have yet to have one so far with the updated driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknow Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Those updated driver is awesome works like charm, old one gives KP. Thanks Ralink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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