Arminius Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Note: The reason this is such an elaborate process is because Buffalo has a neat feature in this card that will auto-install WINDOWS DRIVERS if you insert it into a windows computer that has no drivers on the card. This is a magical trevor kickass feature, and I love it to pieces. Now, there are some people saying that this may cause some strangeness with the Mac trying to mount the install partition on the drive after full driver installation - but I haven't felt it yet. All features work 100% - WEP, all of it. The card works beautifully, will be testing Kismac later this evening (for kicks). Okay, so here are the instructions to get the BuffaloTech WLI-U2-KG54-AI Wireless USB Adaptor working. First, Install this driver (Link to the RAlink driver download). This is the standard RAlink driver & utility. When Prompted To Enter Password - Change User To Root and enter Root Password Second, open a terminal and become root (THIS IS CRITICAL). su <enter> Password: ENTER YOUR PASSWORD You will then need to change your directory to the Contents of RT2500USBWirelessDriver.kext cd /System/Library/Extensions/RT2500USBWirelessDriver.kext/Contents/ You have to change "Info.plist". The best way to do this is to simply copy the file to your desktop, open it with Textedit, and then move it back once we have changed it. To do that: cp Info.plist /Users/USERNAME/Desktop [/quote And then simply open with Text Edit. In text edit, add the following lines after the SMC adapter (the bottem driver entry before the IOUSB doodle) [CODE]<key>Buffalo</key> <dict> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.Ralink.driver.RT2500</string> <key>IOClass</key> <string>RT2500USBWirelessDriver</string> <key>IOProviderClass</key> <string>IOUSBDevice</string> <key>bcdDevice</key> <integer>1</integer> <key>idProduct</key> <integer>103</integer> <key>idVendor</key> <integer>1041</integer> </dict> Save, and now back to your terminal to move the modified Info.plist over. mv /Users/USERNAME/Desktop/Info.plist /System/Library/Extensions/RT2500USBWirelessDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist Reboot. After reboot, login normally. After everything has loaded - insert the USB Device. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tob Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Hmm, dosn't work for me, followed your steps and nothing happend....can you give me a hint. Steps i have done: 1. I installed the Driver 2. I boought the buffalo USB Dongle 3. I patched the file like you wrote 4. I rebooted 5. Nothing happens :-( Any Ideas? Did you know if there are differences of the Buffalo Dongle from US or Europe?!? Thanks Torsten Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/#findComment-12670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbrumm Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Error Found, wrong typo. Works all well now! Great! #### AdvancePageController - OnApply - nWirelessMode = 0, enumWirelessMode = 0, G_enumWirelessMode = 0 #### #### 222222222222 #### #### 222222-22222 #### Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/#findComment-12782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbageek75 Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 I followed your instructions, and have not been successful in getting the Buffalo wireless adapter working. I installed the driver and made the modification to the Info.plist, rebooted, and no luck. Any suggestions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/#findComment-13690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlwiz79 Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 check the ownership & permissions or use Disk Utility and repair them Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/#findComment-15257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
notanakin Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Anyone else got this working? Would just like a bit more comfort before buying the adapter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/#findComment-16386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessehcl Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 1. Download RT2500 Mac OS X driver released in 11/2005! Buffalo wireless dongle already listed in info.plist the idPRODUCT should be "102" instead of "103" 2. Download USB plug and unplug kext from http://mitglied.lycos.de/thomsmac/RT2500Replug.html 3. Rebot and the wireless USB utility comes out as soon as you login ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/#findComment-112123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
necon_hk Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 1. Download RT2500 Mac OS X driver released in 11/2005! Buffalo wireless dongle already listed in info.plistthe idPRODUCT should be "102" instead of "103" 2. Download USB plug and unplug kext from http://mitglied.lycos.de/thomsmac/RT2500Replug.html 3. Rebot and the wireless USB utility comes out as soon as you login ! Please make sure you do all these step with root user not sudo but log in with "root" account Since I FINALLY finished the setting with the Buffalo dongle. Cheers~ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/#findComment-183640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightwalker Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 would the nintendo usb dongle also work with this method? i apparently is based on the same buffalo WLI-U2-KG54-AI and uses the RT2570 chipset Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1680-how-to-install-buffalo-80211g-usb/#findComment-453639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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