Atheros AR5006 wirless on PXE3

[LucanUK]

Hey all,

 

Right, the situation is like this, I have:

 

Fujitsu Siemens s7110 Notebook

Intel Core Solo (T1300)

Intel 945GM Chipset with:

Intergrated 945 Graphics (DEV:27A2 VEND:8086)

PCI Express Bus

Atheros AR5006EG Wireless on PXE3 (DEV:001C VEND:168C)

Yukon 88E8055 Ethernet (DEV:4363 VEND:11AB)

Toshiba Bluetooth (Apparently?)

Realtek HD Audio (DEV:0262 VEND:10EC)

 

Please bear in mind i am a 1st time Mac user, but I have extensive Linux and Windows experiance so I understand what things do.. just not how to implement it on OS X.

 

My first question is, are the HCL's for each version on the wiki valid for itself and higher i.e. is what is compatable in 10.4.4 still compatable in 10.4.5, etc?

 

I have succesfully installed 10.4.6 from the Goatsecx DVD Image (with and without patches as I made a n00b error the fist time installed it by not selecting any extra patches).

 

Patches Installed (From Memory):

Intel GM915? Patch

Wireless Patch

 

So far I have got Ethernet working using the AppleYukon.kext, Video started working when I installed with the GM915? patch the second time using IOFrameBuffer. The bluetooth worked straight out of the box.

 

Booting is done with Grub (Windows XP sp2, openSuSE 10.1 and Mac OS X)

 

My two problems are:

 

Audio

 

The audio doesnt seem to conform to any of the guides I have seen on the forums, but I tried them anyways (it seems to be a ALC262 chip on it). I really think that it may never work, but if anyone has any ideas then Im game for giving it a try.

 

Wireless

 

Now this is the clincher. (Unfortunatly as of time of writing im having to use windows as I aint at home and theres only wireless access so I will write this from memory to give you something to go on)

 

Standard checks of booting windows first then soft rebooting into Mac OS, freshening the cache (with rm kextcache and/or with -f on boot), reseting ownership to root:wheel and i even set perms to 755 as I read it was supposed to be done somwhere are done when testing.

 

Im using the IO8211.kext and have modified AirPortAtheros5424.kext. The AirPortAtheros5424.kext already contains a reference to my DEV and VEND ID's which is pci168c,1c (I personally think this should be pci168c,001c to conform to the rest and I have tried it with and with out).

 

The current version I am running is 1.0.2 of AirPortAtheros5424.kext and here is part of the file that was modified

<dict>
			<key>Atheros Wireless LAN PCI</key>
			<dict>
					<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
					<string>com.apple.driver.AirPortAtheros5424</string>
					<key>IOClass</key>
					<string>AirPort_Athr5424</string>
					<key>IOMatchCategory</key>
					<string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string>
					<key>IONameMatch</key>
					<array>
							<string>pci106b,0086</string>
							<string>pci168c,1c</string>
					</array>
					<key>IOProviderClass</key>
					<string>IOPCIDevice</string>
			</dict>
	</dict>

I havent modified /System/Libary/systemconfig/preferences/networking (I think) to add any reference to en1. And I dont know if I should or not??

 

When booting I recieve this error

PXS3: family specific matching fails
unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3
start [/SourceCache/AirPortDriverAtheros5424/AirPortDriverAtheros5424-102.4/src/driver/AtherosController.cpp:412] loaded unsuccessfully

but when I load AppleAtheros5424.kext manually it loads perfectly fine with (VEND as 1c and 001c) no errors.

smudge:~ root# kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros5424.kext 
kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros5424.kext loaded successfully
smudge:~ root#

do a kextstat you see IO8211 and AppleAtheros5424 are sitting there happily...

smudge:~ root# kextstat | grep Air 
  89	0 0x1f8a7000 0x6d000	0x6c000	com.apple.driver.AirPortAtheros5424 (102.4) <88 72 16 11 6 5 4 3 2>
smudge:~ root# kextstat | grep IO8
  88	1 0x1e932000 0x19000	0x18000	com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family (112.1) <72 16 11 6 5 4 3 2>

but there is no en1 interface, the bash airport command (hidden away down a long path, but symlinked) cannot find a card, the airport setup utility cant find anything either.

 

I have tried all these combinations with the kext's also found in Extensions_Disabled_10.4.6 ( I guess from the DVD) using files from another version is a possibility if it may fix the problem.

 

To be honest any useful comments are welcome on any aspect of my system but the wireless is the main key! I have been meaning to speak to Dax on the IRC channel but I thought Id post here first.

 

I will update this as soon as I can get on a wired network.

 

Thanks in Advance,

 

Lucan

[LucanUK]

Seriously.. does no one have any experiance with atheros wireless?

 

 

(I should really have just type'd bump)

[ThePhased]

Hey! Thanks for your post (hope your still here). I am 100% in the same boat as you right now. I've modded the kexts, applied updates, but the AirPortAtheros5424.kext only loads manually in osx.

 

Did you try modding the NetworkInterfaces.plist from en0 to en1? Some have had success with that, but I cant even get a plist to generate in 10.4.8. Somehow I got it in 10.4.9 and im installing a fresh copy again.

 

Specs:

Acer 3680-2633

wifi minipci-e: came with Atheros AR5007EG / Installed (AR5006X)

 

Here's what I get at boot with 10.4.8 w/ Airport extreme 2007-002 and 003 updates installed:

 

start [/sourceCache/AirPortDriverAtheros5424/AirPortDriverAtheros5424-223.47.4/m35b/src/driver/AtherosController.cpp:464] loaded unsuccessfully

[maytagman]

Bump!

I have the exact same problem as Lucan.

 

Can anyone help me please?

 

Kalyway 10.4.10 w/ glitchman kexts for TIxxxx12, (THANKS BUGS!) and the 10.4.6??? IO80211...kext

 

I have everything working except the Atheros. Mine is AR5002? 5212? in WG511Tv1 pcmcia form.

 

I've never seen Kalyway mentioned on here either, only ToH, etc.

[The Raton]

It seems that in some configurations, atheros chipset just doesn't work! I tried everything, no luck. Too bad, now I'm thinking seriously to give up. I allready bought a macbook, but I was hoping to make this one work too....

[XoDeus]

So I don't even want to try cause i've the 5007eg atheros wireless which isn't supported by madwifi.

[grendude2]

I get the same error as thephased.. on a fujitsu a6025 with ar5006exs

 

I've tried several different installs from jas 10.4.8 uphuck (several) kalway xxx and even toh.

No luck, always the same error. .. tried modifying ... no luck .. tried updates.. no luck ..

I've moved on as much as i can trying to get other things to work hoping a solution presents itself.

So, you're not alone.

Let me know if you come up with anything.

[farcaller]

same here with ar5006eg it works ok with madwifi-ng though (doesn't work with openhal)

[SDoniger]

I had issues just reformatting my machine for XP the drivers I had to use were from Europes site but since I can't get the exact URL for you I did another search for the drivers and this is what came up

http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/...load-32560.html

 

Only thing I can say that might give you a direction.