wireless PCMCIA card, need some tips from the experts

[danillll]

Hello,

I need help figuring out why my PCMIA wireless MN-720 is not being picked up by the OS.

I am running os x 10.5.6 on my HP 2510p, I used Chan-nan pci driver to enable the PCMIA slots.

 

I bought the MN-720 wireless PCMIA adapter, which has a broadcom chipset that supposed to be natively supported.

However, when I insert the card, I can see it on the finder bar with an option to turn it off, and two grayed out options "Broadcom and "802.11b cardbus" however the Airport icon is not being displayed.

 

Looking at dmesg, I see that the cardbus has been activated

 

IOPCCard info: cs: cb_free(bus 3)

IOPCCard: shutting down socket 0.

IOPCCard: calling terminate on socket 0 function 0 nub 0x3b39000.

IOCardBusDevice: releasing socket 0 function 0 from card services.

IOPCCard info: cs: cb_alloc(bus 3): vendor 0x14e4, device 0x4325

IOPCCard info: cs: cb_alloc(bus 3): found 1 functions

IOCardBusDevice: binding socket 0 function 0 to card services.

IOPCCard info: cs: cb_config(bus 3)

IOPCCard info: fn 0 bar 1: mem 0xa0002000-0xa0003fff

IOPCCard info: irq 18

 

 

I also double checked the info file for AppleAirPortBrcm4311 and made sure that my model ID is there

<string>pci14e4,4325</string>

 

and it seems that the "AppleAirPortBrcm4311" driver is not seeing the card or something.

 

ioreg does not show the driver being used

 

| | +-o C0B1@1E <class IOPCIDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 12>

| | | +-o IOPCI2PCIBridge <class IOPCI2PCIBridge, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 13>

| | | +-o C2A2@6 <class IOPCIDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8>

| | | | +-o IOPCCardBridge <class IOPCCardBridge, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 7>

| | | | +-o pci14e4,4325@0 <class IOCardBusDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 9>

| | | +-o pci1180,843@6,3 <class IOPCIDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 6>

| | | +-o pci1180,822@6,2 <class IOPCIDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 6>

| | | +-o pci1180,832@6,1 <class IOPCIDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 8>

| | | +-o AppleFWOHCI <class AppleFWOHCI, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0, retain 6>

 

 

although kexstat shows that the driver is being loaded

 

bash-3.2# kextstat | grep -i air

82 0 0x4091a000 0x141000 0x140000 com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx (361.24.1) <81 76 17 7 6 5 4 2>

 

 

Any idea what's going on and why the OS is not assigning .AirPortBrcm43xx to my card so I can use wireless.

 

Any suggestion is very appreciated

Thanks