Dominik G Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 I have set up iPC 10.5.6 as per the instructions for my Latitude D620 on the x86 wiki. But when I go to search for a wireless network I never find any... and I know it is not the card as I am using it at the moment in Windows 7. I have perused my way through this site and the internet and all I can fathom is this card is supposed to work natively, which it appears to do (it even looks like its looking for a network and my "Wireless On" light appears next to my Status Lights) I have discovered I may need to install brcm4311.kext, but I cannot find this anywhere. Does anyone have any ideas? Many thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208701-dell-wireless-1490-broadcom-4311-no-networks-found/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominik G Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 I have since writing this found a couple of "solutions". Firstly I found the brcm4311.kext file Then I ran the "Broadcom Enabler" posted on - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=51725 I still cannot find my wireless network... Ideas?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208701-dell-wireless-1490-broadcom-4311-no-networks-found/#findComment-1394443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
howoarang Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I have since writing this found a couple of "solutions". Firstly I found the brcm4311.kext file Then I ran the "Broadcom Enabler" posted on - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=51725 I still cannot find my wireless network... Ideas?? OK, At first: run Terminal and type: lspci copy and paste here yout output. At second: run System Profiler - Network - Airport - make a screen and post here And one question: What channel has your wireless network? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208701-dell-wireless-1490-broadcom-4311-no-networks-found/#findComment-1394651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominik G Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Here are the screen dumps as requested... I have discovered from this that the card is a 4312 chipset, but this shouldn't make a difference as this is in the brcm4311.kext/info.plist device strings anyway - as shown. I do not know the chanel number, would the US locale of the card limit this range and if so can it be changed? Many thanks in advance Dom Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208701-dell-wireless-1490-broadcom-4311-no-networks-found/#findComment-1395156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
howoarang Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Here are the screen dumps as requested...I have discovered from this that the card is a 4312 chipset, but this shouldn't make a difference as this is in the brcm4311.kext/info.plist device strings anyway - as shown. I do not know the chanel number, would the US locale of the card limit this range and if so can it be changed? Many thanks in advance Dom OK. I have Dell D630 and I must have switched "ON" the button of Wireless card before Mac OSX starts and never turn it OFF, because wifi won't work and then I must restart... so my advice is: - at first: turn ON your WIFI with button on the left side of laptop - then press Power button of your laptop and boot to Mac OSX - wait for system starts completely and then, look into System preferences-network-AirPort and check "Show AirPort Status in menu bar" - look up on toolbar on AirPort icon and click on if you see some Wireless network. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208701-dell-wireless-1490-broadcom-4311-no-networks-found/#findComment-1397676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominik G Posted January 29, 2010 Author Share Posted January 29, 2010 OK.I have Dell D630 and I must have switched "ON" the button of Wireless card before Mac OSX starts and never turn it OFF, because wifi won't work and then I must restart... so my advice is: - at first: turn ON your WIFI with button on the left side of laptop - then press Power button of your laptop and boot to Mac OSX - wait for system starts completely and then, look into System preferences-network-AirPort and check "Show AirPort Status in menu bar" - look up on toolbar on AirPort icon and click on if you see some Wireless network. I never touch that button, even in windows... I assume it just is not going to work... OS X I give up, no sound or networking... cannot really get far without those... Thanks anyways mate Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208701-dell-wireless-1490-broadcom-4311-no-networks-found/#findComment-1398705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretsociety Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 This may help http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=44853 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208701-dell-wireless-1490-broadcom-4311-no-networks-found/#findComment-1418041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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