Gabecm Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 i had recently bought a new bcm4328 wi-fi card for my acer and it worked up to the point of turning on i have tried enabler scripts, package installers, fidlling with property lists & Kexts but no no avail help and walkthrough's would be greatly appreciated. Specs below acer aspire 5920 running leopard 10.5.8/10.5.7 4gb 667Mhz sd ram 500gb HDD 2.00Ghz Intel core 2 duo 15.4" screen 1280x800 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195954-broadcom-4328-abgn-wi-fi-card-wont-turn-on/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharredPC Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I'm not sure this will help you, but it sounds like you're willing to try anything, so... My BCM43xx card had an issue in my Acer where sometimes it would turn off, and refuse to go back on. I solved it by doing the fix I describe here. I've also noticed that the laptop's wifi on/off switch does kind of function, but only as a disabler; the card still needs to be turned on through OSX, but if your wifi switch has been pushed, it kills it completely. At that point, no amount of kext swapping or enabling will get the card on again until the switch is repushed. Hope this makes sense! Let me know how it goes, and good luck :censored2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195954-broadcom-4328-abgn-wi-fi-card-wont-turn-on/#findComment-1320537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharredPC Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Retail Leopard 10.5.8 here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195954-broadcom-4328-abgn-wi-fi-card-wont-turn-on/#findComment-1321040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharredPC Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 then the link to http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1316292 contains the 10.5.2 broadcom kext ? Yes, that post contains the instructions and links needed (the broadcom text is inside the linked IO80211 kext). Aren't these Acers fun and easy to upgrade? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195954-broadcom-4328-abgn-wi-fi-card-wont-turn-on/#findComment-1321265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabecm Posted November 9, 2009 Author Share Posted November 9, 2009 Yes, that post contains the instructions and links needed (the broadcom text is inside the linked IO80211 kext). Aren't these Acers fun and easy to upgrade? oh yeah i love my acer i put 4 gig ram in it and it works great my hackook is recoginised as a macbook pro 4,1 i wanna make it a 5,1 anyone know how by the way Almost same issue: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189778 CharredPC: In your laptop do you have Leopard 10.5.8 or Snow Leopard ? i have 10.5.8 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195954-broadcom-4328-abgn-wi-fi-card-wont-turn-on/#findComment-1324711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabecm Posted November 9, 2009 Author Share Posted November 9, 2009 I'm not sure this will help you, but it sounds like you're willing to try anything, so... My BCM43xx card had an issue in my Acer where sometimes it would turn off, and refuse to go back on. I solved it by doing the fix I describe here. I've also noticed that the laptop's wifi on/off switch does kind of function, but only as a disabler; the card still needs to be turned on through OSX, but if your wifi switch has been pushed, it kills it completely. At that point, no amount of kext swapping or enabling will get the card on again until the switch is repushed. Hope this makes sense! Let me know how it goes, and good luck and thanks mate thanks very much this got it working fully but there is no LED light on the button though ( i don't really care about that) 8D Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195954-broadcom-4328-abgn-wi-fi-card-wont-turn-on/#findComment-1324768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabecm Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 duh duuum access is denied after restarting the card will not turn on again which is epic fail does anyone have a fix to this Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195954-broadcom-4328-abgn-wi-fi-card-wont-turn-on/#findComment-1325387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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