kthnx Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Hi guys, I'm running a DWA-547 network card on my (newly Snow Leopard'd) PC. Obviously it wasn't supported from scratch, so I had a quick google and found this post from a user with the same card who installed the IO80211family.kext and got it running. I found a copy of this kext and dropped it in the root directory of my HDD. Did the following in Terminal: sudo -s cp -R IO80211family.kext /System/Library/Extensions cd /System/Library/Extensions chmod -R 755 IO80211family.kext chown -R 0:0 IO80211family.kext I'm preparing to add the device ID etc my self when wham, Airport's appearing in my system settings. Happy days! I did a quick scan and it detected my home network but when I tried to enter the WEP key I got a timeout for the connection attempt. "Never mind," I think to myself, "let's just try a restart". I restart the machine and my "airport card" (wink wink) is now turned off (and cannot be turned on). I try removing the kext and adding it again, still can't enable. Formatted the drive and retried; same effect, worked but disappeared after a reboot. The card was obviously working to some degree (since it detected my network and its name / enc type) but the failure to connect and the mystery disappearance on reboot is obviously an issue. I've read the wiki, and searched for threads, and I can't find any ideas on where to go next so I come to you guys. Any thoughts on what's going on here or how I might address it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/217863-wifi-card-worked-once-but-hasnt-since-reboot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Are you running 32bit 64? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/217863-wifi-card-worked-once-but-hasnt-since-reboot/#findComment-1464832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthnx Posted May 9, 2010 Author Share Posted May 9, 2010 Are you running 32bit 64? Ummm I didn't select either or do anything special during the install, which was from the regular retail Snow Leopard disc. I'm going to assume 32, is there an easy way to tell? Since my wireless card is out I'm constantly booting back and forth between the OSX partition to check on things / post about them here I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 as my primary OS but I have a hunch (possibly incorrectly) that OSX will have installed as 32 by default? For the record my chip is a Q9550. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/217863-wifi-card-worked-once-but-hasnt-since-reboot/#findComment-1464855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Go to System Profiler/Software. Does it 64bit Extensions yes or no? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/217863-wifi-card-worked-once-but-hasnt-since-reboot/#findComment-1464857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kthnx Posted May 10, 2010 Author Share Posted May 10, 2010 Go to System Profiler/Software. Does it 64bit Extensions yes or no? 64 bit: no. Any thoughts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/217863-wifi-card-worked-once-but-hasnt-since-reboot/#findComment-1465321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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