driver for D-Link DWG520 (atheros)

[kuba]

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.....

[DiaboliK]

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.

 

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[kuba]

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.

[DiaboliK]

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/

[kuba]

Thanks again, Diabolik.

This sure works a lot better.

 

Solaris Bob.

[nestmonster]

Thanks a lot it works for TP-LINK WN650G Wireless card as well...

[Panda200x]

Does this work for 10.4.1?