aRnonymous Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Believe me i have searched alot before posting this, so: I have an acer 5920g Laptop it comes with the intel 3945abg which doesn't work. on some advice here i bought the following: BroadCom BCM94321MC 802.11n 300M Fit Dell Apple NJ449. afaik this has the BCM4321 chipset which should work natively, it doesn't work natively using iDeneb 1.5. So is it right that i have the 4321 chipset? should it work natively? in windows it recognizes as Dell 1500 could anyone send me in the right direction? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRnonymous Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Anyone, any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1395580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swoper Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Anyone, any ideas? try this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1396096 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1397894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silversoul Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 try this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1396096 i have the 4312 and i ran the script and tried all the troubleshooting and still no luck. i have the mini 10v. i installed snow leopard with atheros 9285 card inside. os woulpkdnt let me use it so i swapped out the card to broadcom 4312 (stock card that comes with mini). wifi was enabled in bios no hardware switch but there is a button on keyboard that u opush along with the fn button. i tried that and no luck. os and airport utility see the card. sys info shows it as third party. but i cant get the card to turn on (airport on). someone please help cuz my time is running out before i have to exchange it for a different model if needed (hopefully not). please help. thank you sincerely pk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1398613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swoper Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 i have the 4312 and i ran the script and tried all the troubleshooting and still no luck. i have the mini 10v. i installed snow leopard with atheros 9285 card inside. os woulpkdnt let me use it so i swapped out the card to broadcom 4312 (stock card that comes with mini). wifi was enabled in bios no hardware switch but there is a button on keyboard that u opush along with the fn button. i tried that and no luck. os and airport utility see the card. sys info shows it as third party. but i cant get the card to turn on (airport on). someone please help cuz my time is running out before i have to exchange it for a different model if needed (hopefully not). please help. thank you sincerely pk are you try the method with DSDT, which posted at the end of topic? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1396096 this must help you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1398725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silversoul Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 i dont quite understand what to do or how to do it. im still a bit of a noob when it comes to osx. please excuse me and im hoping to get some further help. i dont know where dsdt is located. i dont know what im supposed to edit it with (ie text edit, kext edit... etc) i dont know what to do once i do find it and if i should find the code u posted or add it. please help me out. Thanks Alot!!!! PK Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1398853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swoper Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 i dont quite understand what to do or how to do it. im still a bit of a noob when it comes to osx. please excuse me and im hoping to get some further help. i dont know where dsdt is located. i dont know what im supposed to edit it with (ie text edit, kext edit... etc) i dont know what to do once i do find it and if i should find the code u posted or add it. please help me out. Thanks Alot!!!! PK Archive.zip unzip archive open IORegistryExplorer.app then .. File->Save As ... save your ioreg info to Desktop open folder GetACPI ... double click dumpacpitbls go to User->"your account folder" and copy to Desktop acpitbls folder compres ioreg and acpitbls folder and send me stop-me2005@yandex.ru are you using Chameleon2 for boot system? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1401065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazumotokun Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Hi! I just bought a BCM94321 off ebay. OOB it showed up as third party wireless and I got on wireless b speed out of it. btw it's a mini PCIe card with a dev id of 4328. so i tried the broadcom enabler sript and managed to get g speed out of it. then I tried rebranding the card in linux. it now shows up as AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x87). network utility reports it as an ABGN card with 130Mb/s connection, BUT in practice it's back down to roughly 8Mb/s. Argh! I should be getting N class speeds! ideas anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1403330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRnonymous Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 try this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1396096 Had no luck with this one... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1407897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanomite Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Hi, I bought a Broadcom card off Ebay as well, plugged it in expecting it to work. No luck; however if you tape up pin 20 (the radio on/off pin I believe) you can then use airport to turn it on/off. Pin 20 is the second pin on the large connector on the back. Hope this helps someone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1412459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefoxsilver9 Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 i'm having issues too. i assumed this card would work without any drivers but guess not. i should have research a little better Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208033-cant-get-bcm94321mc-to-work/#findComment-1524196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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