brendankoch Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Does anyone know of any wireless-N wireless cards that work oob as airport extreme with snow leopard? I've searched all over but haven't come across anything... Preferably pci cards, but pci-e or USB adapter are ok too. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jib51 Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 My Dlink DWA-547 (less than 40 US$ or 40€) is working out of the box under SL but only in 32 bits mode (no 64 bits atheros drivers available yet). It's recognized as Airport and is a PCI card (Dlink is selling a PCI-E model too, same wireless chipset). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebit Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Linksys WMP300N rev.2 PCI with Atheros Chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jib51 Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 By the way, Linksys WMP300N rev.2 has exactly same Atheros chipset than Dlink DWA-547, whereas Linksys WMP300N rev.1 has a Broadcom chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mic.mac.hack Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Does the Linksys WMP300N (either revision) work in 64bit mode? (please reply ASAP as my dad is getting pissed at me 'trying' to run LAN cables round the house for my hackintosh ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheezmen Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Does the Linksys WMP300N (either revision) work in 64bit mode? (please reply ASAP as my dad is getting pissed at me 'trying' to run LAN cables round the house for my hackintosh ) from the info in the last few posts, you'd see that rev 2 will not run in 64bit mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trus0und Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Based on this post i bought a DWA-547, It is not detected in either 64 bit obviously or 32 bit. abit miffed really. Is there anything anyone can do to help point me in the right direction, do i need to add device id's some where or what? flash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamikaze Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Does anyone know of any wireless-N wireless cards that work oob as airport extreme with snow leopard?I've searched all over but haven't come across anything... Preferably pci cards, but pci-e or USB adapter are ok too. Thanks Dlink DWA 552 or 556 552 is PCI 556 is PCIe Works OOTB in snow leopard 32 bits... until apple releases a 64 bit driver.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dio Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Hello, Is anybody has a result with a linksys WMP300n rev2 ?? The mine is causing kernel panic in Snow leopard when I try to connect to a network. It's a problem I have too with Leopard. In leopard I've to change the IO80211Familly.kext, but when I do it on Snow leopard I can activate the airport ... Any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mic.mac.hack Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 My Linksys WMP300n-RM (refurbished revision ONE) works perfectly under snow, all I did was add the PCI string in the 80211 kext. Then I installed it back in /System/Library/Extensions (not in /Extra/Extensions/). Do a permissions repair, boot with -f, recreate your DSDT.aml with the card plugged in (note sure if this does anything but I did it anyway) and recreate Extensions.mkext Good luck PS: your PCI string thing could be different? perhaps check whether you can see "BCM43X" (IIRC) when you run lspci (OSx86 tools>View PCI EDIT: changed revision 2 to correct info; revision ONE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dismounted Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Get one of these: http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/MP2W.html Then get a Broadcom BCM94321MC. Both can be found off eBay - and everything works on both 32/64-bit kernels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmxcamel Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Is there any way to load a kext in 32 bit mode, while loading the rest in 64 bit mode? I ask because my DLink 2320 (atheros 5212 chipset) works fine in Snow Leopard 32 bit, but not in 64 bit. Obviously I want to boot into 64 bit if possible, and plus, in 32 bit my firewire ports cease working. HELP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZION333 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Dlink DWA 552 or 556 552 is PCI 556 is PCIe Works OOTB in snow leopard 32 bits... until apple releases a 64 bit driver.. Kamikaze would like to know how you get Dlinkd DWA 552 work in Snow Leo?Mine is detected as airport but every times I turned it on and connect to a network I get KP right away as is the same thing happened report by other user.If you got the solution how it fix please let us know.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richarda Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Get one of these: http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/MP2W.html Then get a Broadcom BCM94321MC. Both can be found off eBay - and everything works on both 32/64-bit kernels. Is it working OoB, you sure ? Just received my BCM94321MC. Shove it in my eee 901. It is indeed recognized as Airport but for some reasons I can't connect to any network... I can see the networks, I can try to connect but when I enter my WPA password I get a connection timeout. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dismounted Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Is it working OoB, you sure ? Quite sure - I'm posting from it right now. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong ? Not really. Have you edited the default KEXTs in any way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pax1234 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Dlink DWA542 work OOB on Snow Leopard. Detected during initial install, ok 32bit only, no 64bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burpethead Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 The PCI Edimax nMax card is officially supported under Mac, and I have been using it since Tiger without a hitch: http://bit.ly/xB5tz ($50) Only 32-bit right now with a Ralink 2860 chipset, but Ralink is hopefully working on 64-bit drivers as they have updated other chipsets with support. You can keep your eye out for the new drivers here: http://bit.ly/2fOnt5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiloa Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 My DWA-552 is recognized as AirPortExtreme natively but I get KP/freezing as soon as I connect to a network and no problems if I'm not connected. Can anyone help me with this as I want my wireless to work and people have been recommending that card to the OP. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebit Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Same problem (freeze/KP) here with Linksys WMP300N PCI (Atheros) as soon as it connects to a network. We should try re-creating DSDT.aml with the card plugged in, perhaps in a different PCI slot, as it has been reported to work some posts above. I am so curious though how it works for the happy ones EDIT: I've just noticed the post refers to Broadcom based wireless cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mic.mac.hack Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Same problem (freeze/KP) here with Linksys WMP300N PCI (Atheros) as soon as it connects to a network. We should try re-creating DSDT.aml with the card plugged in, perhaps in a different PCI slot, as it has been reported to work some posts above. I am so curious though how it works for the happy ones EDIT: I've just noticed the post refers to Broadcom based wireless cards it's working brilliantly here, I'm using the card to post right now. But yeah, its the broadcom one. I got lucky when I ordered a WMP300N-RM (which is refurbished). Seems logical the refurbished cards will be the older ones, and thus the revision 1 (broadcom) sorry but I haven't got the slightest idea on how to get your Linksys chips to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relikwie Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 is anyone with the supported cards able to reconnect after a wake from sleep? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mic.mac.hack Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 is anyone with the supported cards able to reconnect after a wake from sleep? meeeeeeeeeee, Linksys WMP300N rev. 1 works fine after sleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relikwie Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 meeeeeeeeeee, Linksys WMP300N rev. 1 works fine after sleep nice yours is only 54mbit but the ability to continue wireless after a system sleep is worth it. need to get me the same card then.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mic.mac.hack Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 nice yours is only 54mbit but the ability to continue wireless after a system sleep is worth it. need to get me the same card then.. errrr, its actually not 54mbit. Running at 130mbit currently (I'm miles from the router) and is actually draft 802.11n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiloa Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Same problem (freeze/KP) here with Linksys WMP300N PCI (Atheros) as soon as it connects to a network. We should try re-creating DSDT.aml with the card plugged in, perhaps in a different PCI slot, as it has been reported to work some posts above. I am so curious though how it works for the happy ones EDIT: I've just noticed the post refers to Broadcom based wireless cards Any chance you have an nForce 4 motherboard? Some people have been telling me there is interference between the ethernet and wireless pci cards on nforce bords making them KP. I would really love to get this fixed and have tried almost everything. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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