Atheros Ar5007eg AS airport wont turn on 10.6.2 Help, ?

GenoOrlando · June 16, 2010

okay i was told to installed the IO8022Family.kext and restart and my atheros card will be reconized as airport but will not find any networks so i installed it then restarted and BOOM the Airport icon was there then i tryed to turn it on but i wouldn't turn on i try's turning it on from the icon and from System Preference's BUT IT would not turn on can any body help me on how to turn it on? BTW i got Snow Leopard 10.6.0 Updated to 10.6.2 Thanks For Any Help

LAUGC · July 19, 2010

How did you run the card AR5007EG on snow leopard 10.6.2?

I'm working on it one week, installing diferent kext files, and modify someone, writing my vend id and dev id, they are "168c,001c", I'm download kext files that has my dev ven Id but the results are beautiful white desktop with an apple on middle with a forbidden signal and coming back all process

thanks.

katat · August 3, 2010

How did you run the card AR5007EG on snow leopard 10.6.2?
I'm working on it one week, installing diferent kext files, and modify someone, writing my vend id and dev id, they are "168c,001c", I'm download kext files that has my dev ven Id but the results are beautiful white desktop with an apple on middle with a forbidden signal and coming back all process

thanks.

I have the same problem (Airport does not turn on).

I find out a method from the other website(forget).

But I do not know how to make it works as the wifi card does not AR5007EG.

#!/bin/bash

#(some rights reserved) 2008 mcsmart

#license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

#the author is not responsible for any damages caused by this script

#*** check if the user is logged in as root

USER=`whoami`

if [[ $USER != "root" ]]; then

echo "You need to have root-proviledges!"

echo "To run this script, simply type 'sudo $0' and enter your password"

exit

fi

#name of the kext

TYPE="AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext"

#default locations

DEFAULTKEXT="/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext"

DEFAULTBCKP="/backup"

#select the kextfile

function kextsel() {

KEXT=""

echo "Where is the $TYPE located?"

echo "Please enter the full path or simply press return if the default path is correct for your system!"

read -p "[$DEFAULTKEXT] " KEXT

if [[ $KEXT == "" ]]; then

KEXT=$DEFAULTKEXT;

fi

}

#select a location for the backup of the Info.plist file

function backupsel() {

BACKUP=""

echo "Please enter a place for the backup of the kext's Info.plist!"

echo "If you don't want a backup, type '/dev/null' "

read -p "[$DEFAULTBCKP] " BACKUP

if [[ $BACKUP == "" ]]; then

BACKUP=$DEFAULTBCKP;

#create the dir if it does not exist

if !([ -e $BACKUP ]); then

mkdir $BACKUP

fi

}

clear

echo "####################################"

echo "#mcsmart's bcm43xx wireless enabler#"

echo "# v. 0.5.2 #"

echo "####################################"

echo "This script will enable your Broadcom wireless card (aka AirPortOne)!"

echo "You may run this script after every AirPort Update released by Apple to re-enable your card."

echo "For more information visit: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=51725"

echo ""

echo "Use this script at your own risk!"

echo "The author is not responsible for any damages that may be caused by this script!"

echo ""

echo "Supported chipsets:"

echo "- Broadcom BCM4306 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN"

echo "- Broadcom BCM4309 802.11 b Wireless LAN"

echo "- Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN"

echo "- Broadcom BCM4320 b/g"

echo "- Broadcom BCM4321 a/g/n"

echo "- Broadcom BCM4324 802.11 a/b/g Wireless LAN"

echo "- Broadcom BCM4325 802.11 a/b/g Wireless LAN"

echo "- All Apple AirPortOne cards"

echo ""

echo "Press Enter to continue"

read none

#select the kext

clear

kextsel

#try again if the kext file is invalid

while !([ -e $KEXT/Contents/Info.plist ]); do

echo ""

echo "Invalid path, try it again!"

kextsel

done

#final location of the Info.plist

FILE="$KEXT/Contents/Info.plist"

#select a path to backup the Info.plist

clear

backupsel

#try again if the kext file is invalid

while !([ -e $BACKUP ]); do

echo ""

echo "Invalid path, try it again!"

backupsel

done

echo $BACKUP

cat $FILE > /tmp/patch

cp $FILE $BACKUP/Info.plist.$TYPE

cat /tmp/patch|grep -B 100 "<array>" > /tmp/new

echo " <string>pci106b,4e</string>

<string>pci14e4,432d</string>" >> /tmp/new

cat /tmp/patch|grep -A 100 "</array>" >> /tmp/new

cp /tmp/new $FILE

chown root:wheel $FILE

chmod 0644 $FILE

rm /tmp/patch

rm /tmp/new

#delete AirPort2 kext

if [ -e /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext ]; then

clear

echo "Do you want to delete the AppleAirPort2.kext (recommended)? [yes|no]"

echo "The kext will be moved to your backup location"

read -p "[yes] " AP2

if [[ $AP2 == "yes" ]]; then

mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext $BACKUP

elif [[ $AP2 == "" ]]; then

mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext $BACKUP

fi

#delete the kextcache

if [ -e /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache ]; then rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache; fi

if [ -e /System/Library/Extensions.mkext ];then rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.mkext;fi

#Leopard Stuff

if [ -e /System/Library/Extensions/Caches/com.apple.kext.info ]; then rm /System/Library/Extensions/Caches/com.apple.kext.info;fi

echo "$TYPE successfully patched!"

#repair permissions

echo -n "Reparing permissions:"

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions

echo " [OK]"

echo "Please reboot!

If anyone knows, please help.

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