kuba Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Hello all, I did a succesful install of osx86 for the first time, and (almost) everything works cool. Except for my wireless card which I can't get to work: it's a D-Link DWL-AG520 (which has an Atheros chipset). The device shows up in "dmesg", saying this: AirPort_Athr5424: Ethernet address 00:0d:88:c8:d8:a2 In the system profiler, I found this message: systemprofiler => software => extensions AirPortAtheros5424: Version: 1.0 Last Modified: 2/2/06 8:30 AM Get Info String: 1.0, Copyright © 2006 Apple Computer, Inc., All Rights Reserved Location: /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros5424.kext kext Version: 100.21 Load Address: 0x27ed9000 Valid: Yes Authentic: Yes Dependencies: Incomplete Dependency Errors: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family: No valid version of this dependency can be found com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily: No valid version of this dependency can be found Integrity: Kext has no receipt Is it a known issue that AirPortAtheros5424.kext will not work, or is there a way to satisfy the dependency errors? Any workarounds at all? TIA, Kuba By the way: I prefer to be a Solaris Bob..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 try doing a permissions repair in terminal: sudo -s (press enter) enter your password (press enter) chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions (press enter) chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions (press enter) quit terminal. reboot. if that dosent work try this: goto /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist open in textedit and change : <key>BSD Name</key> <string>en0</string> <---change to <string>en1</string> and change : <key>IOInterfaceUnit</key> <integer>0</integer> <---change to <integer>1</integer> save info.plist to desktop. erase the one in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ then drag back into /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ now authenticate and reboot. *you can be solaris bob -> goto my controls (top of page above banner ad) edit profile information (middle left of page) Custom member title (heres where you change it to solaris bob or something else) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuba Posted July 9, 2006 Author Share Posted July 9, 2006 DiaboliK, Thank YOU very much, SIR! Your second suggestion works fine. To my suprise it is even a 11G connection: I didn't expect that in a FreeBSD environment. Now see if I can find some software to show the status of the connection; it's definately not in the driver itself. Have a nice day. Solaris Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 glad that helps. now to get the connections status. go into internet connect or network prefrences pane and click on airport and check the box show airport status in menu bar or get Menu meters -> http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuba Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share Posted July 11, 2006 Thanks again, Diabolik. This sure works a lot better. Solaris Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestmonster Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Thanks a lot it works for TP-LINK WN650G Wireless card as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda200x Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Does this work for 10.4.1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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