Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless no workeeee..

[c4mclovin]

Hi i have a hp G60 laptop. First off I have never had such a hard time getting this computer to find wireless. I am running a quad boot. Both my vista and my se7en were not too hard to get running but, my Ubuntu 8.10 I had to enable the backports modules

I found a solution using this:

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-intrepid

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

then I add this to the bottom of the list

# blacklist ath5k

blacklist ath_hal

blacklist ath_pci

 

this adds support for 5xxx series of Atheros 802.11 wireless lan cards.

 

Sorry for the long discription but I think there has to be something similar to this in mac.

I have currently done this

i started by Extract the IO80211Family.kext from the 10.4.5 update

then I drag the kext from 10.4.5 update into the /System/Library/Extensions folder and replace existing.

After that I run disk utilities

 

then in terminal "sudo -s"

enter

 

"cd /System/Library/Extensions

chmod -R 755 IO80211family.kext

chown -R root:wheel IO80211family.kext"

enter

 

"ls -l"

enter

 

"drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Feb 2 2006 IO80211Family.kext"

enter

 

"cd IO80211Family.kext/contents/plugins

ls -l"

enter

 

"kextload AirPortAtheros5424.kext"

enter

 

Now this will enable my ethernet jack but, my wifi does not pick up in airport utility.

 

Am I missing something? How can I get this to work?

 

Thank you for any help.