RT2860 wireless driver stops working on restart(Asus 1000HE)

[stevenmnance]

I have an Asus 1000HE eeepc and for some reason after installing the wireless drivers and rebooting it works until I restart again. After a second restart the ra-link drivers don't start when the os loads up and if I start them up manually it says "no device" in the status window.

 

To get it working the first time on a fresh install (following the guide on this site http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=190295 for the install):

 

I took the IOATAFamily.kext from the 10.5.7 ComboUpdate and installed it with Kext Helper, afterwards running UpdateExtra from extra directory and then rebooted.

 

I then took the drivers from the RALink site for the rt2860 chipset and installed them, afterwards running UpdateExtra again, and rebooted once more.

 

It started up just fine and everything was working I could connect to the Internet and do everything I should be able to.

However once I turned it off and turned it back on the driver could not see the card.

 

Has anyone run into this before or have any advice?

[will1384]

I took the IOATAFamily.kext from the 10.5.7 ComboUpdate and installed it with Kext Helper, afterwards running UpdateExtra from extra directory and then rebooted.

Why?

 

 

I then took the drivers from the RALink site for the rt2860 chipset and installed them, afterwards running UpdateExtra again, and rebooted once more.

The RALink drivers more than likely did not need you to run UpdateExtra,

but it did not hurt any to do so

 

 

It started up just fine and everything was working I could connect to the Internet and do everything I should be able to.

However once I turned it off and turned it back on the driver could not see the card.

 

Has anyone run into this before or have any advice?

 

 

I had a few problems, dropping connection, or not connecting at start-up were I had to

connect it my self, with the RaLink card

 

Here is something from my guide, what happened just after I replaced the card,

I dont think it will help, but it might

 

Wireless fails to auto-reconnect

After I replaced the "RaLink RT2860" with the Apple Mini PCI Express
wireless network card, I found that it would connect and work, but on
reboot it failed to auto-reconnect, I Goggled the problem, and found
that's a common problem even for real Macs, here is how to fix

(1) Run “System Preferences" go to "Network" and delete all your Networks.
(2) Run “Keychain Access” delete all your networking related keys (Wi-Fi)
(3) Shutdown and reboot.
(4) Set your networks back up

[speaker219]

I have an Asus 1000HE eeepc and for some reason after installing the wireless drivers and rebooting it works until I restart again. After a second restart the ra-link drivers don't start when the os loads up and if I start them up manually it says "no device" in the status window.

 

To get it working the first time on a fresh install (following the guide on this site http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=190295 for the install):

 

I took the IOATAFamily.kext from the 10.5.7 ComboUpdate and installed it with Kext Helper, afterwards running UpdateExtra from extra directory and then rebooted.

 

I then took the drivers from the RALink site for the rt2860 chipset and installed them, afterwards running UpdateExtra again, and rebooted once more.

 

It started up just fine and everything was working I could connect to the Internet and do everything I should be able to.

However once I turned it off and turned it back on the driver could not see the card.

 

Has anyone run into this before or have any advice?

I have this exact same issue and haven't been able to figure out a solution. Please let me know if you figure it out!

I'm also using a 1000HE with the RT2860 on 10.6. Shutting down, disabling and re-enabling WLAN in the BIOS and booting back up seems to do it, but only that boot, it has to be done every time, which isn't practical. Looking for a better solution :/