[Fixed]iPC on laptop, last part of networking

[justsome]

I'll just start right away

 

Setup/environment:

- Installed iPC 10.5.6 on acer 3693 laptop

- it has a Broadcom 440x 10/100 ethernet card

- and a Atheros 5005g wireless card

 

The problems:

- both nics show up in the network utility, none work

 

What I did:

for normal nic

- Installed broadcom 440x kext from out of the IONetworkingFamily.kext in this thread. Fixed permissions by hand (chown/chmod) and did an disk utility fix permission.

Result: kextload gives a succes message. Nic is recognized in Network Utility (see attachment), but not working (more on this later)

 

for wifi nic

- Installed IO80211Family.kext from here. Fixed the Info.plist of the AirPortAetheros5424.kext using this post.

Result: Nic is recognized in Network utility (see attachment), but also not working.

- I also tried fixing the interface from en0 to en1 as suggested in this post.

Result: improvements

 

 

Problems:

- [normal nic] The network diagnostic tool does not recognize my computer being connected to a network (I checked the cable on my desktop and there are no problems there).

- [wifi nic] it is not recognized as an AirPort card. As a mac newcomer I assume this is required to get it working, right?

 

 

After spending so much time on getting the dual booting fixed and fixing the keyboard I don't want to give up on the network. I feel I'm so close, but after reading so many threads and trying so many different solutions I'm kind of out of clues for the next step.

 

Any suggestions pointers?

 

Cheers

 

-edit- actually attached the attachments now

 

--update--

Got both nic's working by installing the package mentioned in this thread

[justsome]

More clues

I've managed to get internet using a usb->ethernet adapter and a driver from here

 

Just like the other interfaces in my first post this one shows up as well in the Network Utility. The difference though is that this one does show up as an interface in the System Preferences>Network tool while the other hardware nic (not wifi) isn't.

 

Any clues how that's possible?

 

An airport interface does show up but I'm unable to turn it on...meh this gets annoying by now