imitation Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I've been combing the forums for a few days now looking for some help to get one of my two PCI wireless cards up and running. I've tried all kinds of different things and while I've succeeded in getting a USB dongle to work, ideally I'd be able to have a clean box on the outside and just close it up with a PCI card in it. Hopefully this isn't a double post of some sort. I've run PCI Utils since nothing is showing up under the system profiler and I think I have atleast 1 supported chipset based on what I've read, but I'm not absolutely sure. My Mobo is a Gigabyte MA780G-UD3H with an Athalon Dual Core 64 5200+ and an HIS Distributed PCI-E ATI Radeon X1950 Series working with 3d acceleration. The HDD is actually an older Western Digital drive with a IDE to SATA converter on it (instead of partitioning my real drive I just harvested an older comp). PCI Utils Output, with PCI Wireless (WLAN) Cards bolded: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:9600] 00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:9603] 00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:9609] 00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4391] 00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4397] 00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4398] 00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4396] 00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4397] 00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4398] 00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4396] 00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 SMBus [1002:4385] (rev 3a) 00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:439c] 00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia [1002:4383] 00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:439d] 00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] 00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4399] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1950 Pro (Primary) (PCIE) [1002:7280] 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1950 Pro (Secondary) (PCIE) [1002:72a0] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02) 03:06.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI [1814:0201] (rev 01) 03:07.0 Network controller [0280]: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface [104c:9066] 03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8024] I tried installing the software from the RALink website that supposedly would support the 2500 chipset, but it doesn't appear that OSX is even truly recognizing the cards. I'm running 10.5.2 Kalyway install. If there is another version that offers better PCI support I would definitely be willing to switch over and give it a shot. I'm not super advanced with adding .kext's, but I've sort of figured it out. Anyways, any help in getting either of these cards up and running so I can put the USB dongle away would be fantastic. Thanks ahead of time. Imit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imitation Posted March 14, 2009 Author Share Posted March 14, 2009 I've been combing the forums for a few days now looking for some help to get one of my two PCI wireless cards up and running. I've tried all kinds of different things and while I've succeeded in getting a USB dongle to work, ideally I'd be able to have a clean box on the outside and just close it up with a PCI card in it. Hopefully this isn't a double post of some sort. I've run PCI Utils since nothing is showing up under the system profiler and I think I have atleast 1 supported chipset based on what I've read, but I'm not absolutely sure. My Mobo is a Gigabyte MA780G-UD3H with an Athalon Dual Core 64 5200+ and an HIS Distributed PCI-E ATI Radeon X1950 Series working with 3d acceleration. The HDD is actually an older Western Digital drive with a IDE to SATA converter on it (instead of partitioning my real drive I just harvested an older comp). PCI Utils Output, with PCI Wireless (WLAN) Cards bolded: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:9600] 00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:9603] 00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:9609] 00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4391] 00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4397] 00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4398] 00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4396] 00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4397] 00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4398] 00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4396] 00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 SMBus [1002:4385] (rev 3a) 00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:439c] 00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia [1002:4383] 00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:439d] 00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] 00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:4399] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1950 Pro (Primary) (PCIE) [1002:7280] 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1950 Pro (Secondary) (PCIE) [1002:72a0] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02) 03:06.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI [1814:0201] (rev 01) 03:07.0 Network controller [0280]: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface [104c:9066] 03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8024] I tried installing the software from the RALink website that supposedly would support the 2500 chipset, but it doesn't appear that OSX is even truly recognizing the cards. I'm running 10.5.2 Kalyway install. If there is another version that offers better PCI support I would definitely be willing to switch over and give it a shot. I'm not super advanced with adding .kext's, but I've sort of figured it out. Anyways, any help in getting either of these cards up and running so I can put the USB dongle away would be fantastic. Thanks ahead of time. Imit bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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