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Hello

please help someone :)

i have bought MacBook Wifi Card, 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:0024])

and Installed to Amilo Pi1536, Windows XP & Vista Recognise as AR5008, and work perfect on Windows,

but on MacOSx 10.5.5 Retail, is not recognize :( Please Help where i can find the driver ?

thanks.

 

this is error messege AtherosController.cpp loaded unsuccessfully

  • 8 months later...
this is error messege AtherosController.cpp loaded unsuccessfully

 

That's really strange. I have the exact same Atheros mini-PCI card, the AR5BX72, and it works perfectly under 10.5.8. However I upgraded to 10.6.1 and the card not only doesn't work, it is not even visible to the system. I switched it out with an identical one (at great expense) and same problem. Repeated testing and rebooting seems to prove that this is a problem with 10.6, not the hardware. Card works perfect under Windows 7 Ultimate.

 

I think there may be different revisions of the card, or firmware, or both. I've been very frustrated and have ordered a Broadcom-based card to resolve the issue.

AFAIK is there no 64bit kext for any ATHEROS-based device... Realtek seams to be no better choice.

Having a DWA-547 and a P54G2, both working under Snow Kitty just in 32bit-mode :-(

 

Would be so kind to post if your Broadcom-WiFi will work, especially out-of-the-box? Thank and good luck!

  • 4 months later...

Hi everybody,

 

I just got an Atheros AR5BXB72 on eBay on order to have my Hackintosh fully functional.

My configuration is :

Dell E6400 14"

Core 2 Duo P9700 2,80Ghz 6Mo

4Go DDR2

nVidia Quadro 160M 256 Mo 1440x900

Intel 5100 a/b/g/n

 

I've got on port miniPCI and another one micro miniPCI (half of the normal size of a miniPCIe)

 

I removed my 5100 from the micro miniPCIe in order to put my new Airport card on the miniPCI port.

 

I put the black connector on the 1 and the white one on the 0.

 

On Seven it's working but nothing happens on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Vanilla Install.

 

Can you guys help me to make it works ?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Cheers.

Claymm.

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