JaS 10.4.6. Eww wifi.

[Stadsport]

Okay, so I installed JaS' 10.4.6 DVD. It worked great. On startup, the initial OS X setup walkthrough thingy detected my wireless network, connected, and worked flawlessly with no problem. I played around, and eventually went to restart. That was fine, but when it started back up, there was no wireless network detected, no internet connection present, etc.

It seems as if it's connecting through wifi but acting like an ethernet card. The problem with this is that I can't use the Airport setup to connect to my wireless network, and obviously the ethernet control panels won't get me very far either. I'm really at a loss as to how to make it connect to my network. As I said, it worked the first time, so I know it's supported.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Blackice]

what card is it?

[Stadsport]

Oh, sorry. Here's my laptop's specs.

AMD Athlon 64 3000+

512mb RAM

80gb HDD

ATI Radeon 9700 (AGP 8x, 128mb. System profiler says PCI, I assume this is normal)

wifi is Broadcom BCM4306

 

Thanks again.

[Stadsport]

Bumping this because I think it'll be helpful to others.

 

After doing some research, I realized that my wifi driver had already been set correctly (IO80211Family.kext already had 4603 in it), and I had the AirPort logo at the topbar. Here's what I did to make it work properly:

Open Terminal

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

Then change the lines

<string>en0</string>

and

<integer>0</integer>

 

To

<string>en1</string>

and

<integer>1</integer>

 

Save (Ctrl+O and Enter), then restart. When started back up, click the blank AirPort icon on the TopBar and click Network Properties. It'll say it's detected a new AirPort, click Okay and Apply Now. Then click Show> AirPort, and you're set.

 

Posting this from Firefox under OS X. Once I fiddle with power management and sound I'll update the wiki for my laptop.