Narayana Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 I nearly have a mac that is up and running with the exception of the wireless card. I put together an i7 system using DigitalDreamer's gigabyte mobo method but can't seem to get my wireless card to work. I have installed the ralink drivers for the encore PCI card (both versions), but I don't get a new port in the network pane. Under system profiler, there are no PCI cards detected. I have searched the forums and apparently everyone is able to install the drivers and be on their way...yet this doesn't seem to work for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179781-encore-enlwi-n-not-detectedeven-with-ralink-drivers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubunix Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I nearly have a mac that is up and running with the exception of the wireless card. I put together an i7 system using DigitalDreamer's gigabyte mobo method but can't seem to get my wireless card to work. I have installed the ralink drivers for the encore PCI card (both versions), but I don't get a new port in the network pane. Under system profiler, there are no PCI cards detected. I have searched the forums and apparently everyone is able to install the drivers and be on their way...yet this doesn't seem to work for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am wondering the same =[ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179781-encore-enlwi-n-not-detectedeven-with-ralink-drivers/#findComment-1227307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
el lissitzky Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I am wondering the same =[ my enlwi-n isn't working with 10.6. the port gets added but the application just says disconnected as its status. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179781-encore-enlwi-n-not-detectedeven-with-ralink-drivers/#findComment-1270634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
el lissitzky Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 my enlwi-n isn't working with 10.6.the port gets added but the application just says disconnected as its status. i noticed in my 10.5 install the computer info says there are no pci card but it still works. looks like we may have to buy a new wifi card for 10.6. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179781-encore-enlwi-n-not-detectedeven-with-ralink-drivers/#findComment-1270688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davejones Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I nearly have a mac that is up and running with the exception of the wireless card. I put together an i7 system using DigitalDreamer's gigabyte mobo method but can't seem to get my wireless card to work. I have installed the ralink drivers for the encore PCI card (both versions), but I don't get a new port in the network pane. Under system profiler, there are no PCI cards detected. I have searched the forums and apparently everyone is able to install the drivers and be on their way...yet this doesn't seem to work for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. @Narayana I see you now have you Encore Wifi card working (in your sig). Can you elaborate on exactly what needs to be done to have a functioning RT2860 PCI Wifi card under 10.6.1? I have tried running the Kext Utility (2.3.2) after installation for the Ralink package, but after reboot (with the -v flag), I still cannot see the card listed and it still doesnt detect a new NIC when loaded (I've also tried with the arch=i386 flag = no joy!) MOBO is a GA-P35-DS4, and the card still works 100% perfectly under 10.5... Can you help me out please mate... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179781-encore-enlwi-n-not-detectedeven-with-ralink-drivers/#findComment-1280440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narayana Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 I see you now have you Encore Wifi card working (in your sig). Can you elaborate on exactly what needs to be done to have a functioning RT2860 PCI Wifi card under 10.6.1? Can you help me out please mate... DJ, I actually don't have the card working and haven't tried to get it to work properly in 10.6. I was able to get it working in 10.5 by removing the network kext DigitalDreamer had in his script. Unfortunately, this killed Time Machine functionality. Obviously, this wasn't a worthwhile trade for me and I fed my mac using an Airport Express I had laying around. I should have added that to this thread in the interests of others and failed to do so. Sorry. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179781-encore-enlwi-n-not-detectedeven-with-ralink-drivers/#findComment-1280523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegod75 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 DJ, I actually don't have the card working and haven't tried to get it to work properly in 10.6. I was able to get it working in 10.5 by removing the network kext DigitalDreamer had in his script. Unfortunately, this killed Time Machine functionality. Obviously, this wasn't a worthwhile trade for me and I fed my mac using an Airport Express I had laying around. I should have added that to this thread in the interests of others and failed to do so. Sorry. anyone have this working yet? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179781-encore-enlwi-n-not-detectedeven-with-ralink-drivers/#findComment-1516371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitap Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 I got it working using Ralink driver. Since their driver only support up to 10.5, meaning a 32bit kernel, you would need to boot ur snow leopard in 32bit mode to get the driver working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179781-encore-enlwi-n-not-detectedeven-with-ralink-drivers/#findComment-1530721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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