My DWA 556 is working 10.6.3 64 bit !

[drinkcoke]

Hi everyone,

 

Many of you hackintosh users, or even genuine mac users have expressed frustration at the lack of working DLink 556 pcie cards in OSX 10.6.3 under 64 bit. I had the same problem and did not want to give up this awesome card for some generic railink or usb dongle. *EDIT FYI - my card already worked in 32 bit OOB (arch=i386)*. Here is how I got mine working in 64 bit along with my hardware:

 

cpu E8600 wolfdale

 

mb GA EP45-UDR3 REV 1.1 F12 BIOS - no special settings AHCI ON as I use all SATA drives anyhow (no overclock either)

 

8 gigs mushkin DDR2

 

Dlink DWA-556 PCIE wifi

 

XFX Radeon 4890 1 gb (stock and no OC)

 

Software used:

 

Leopard Retail DVD prepped with Kakewalk 2.2 on a USB stick (no dual layer DVD's laying around atm)

 

Kext Helper b7 (noob helper :-) )

 

IO80211Family.kext.32_64_DWA_522_WP300N.zip - mentioned on insanelymac somewhere

 

10.6.2 IOUSBFamilyInstaller (from Tonymacx86 blog)

 

AtherosFixed kext from Netkas's blog

Procedure:

 

1. Installed Kakewalk'ed SN 10.6.3 off usb boot into 64 bit (arch= x86_64 in extra folder )- NO Airport or DWA 556 in Profiler yet.

 

2. Manually copied kexts to the library/system/preferences folder only(no extra folder) and got some message about the kext(s) won't work because they are not installed properly...blah blah...

 

3. fired up Kext Kelper and just drug both zipped kextfiles into window and did the easy install option.

 

4. ran the tonymac 10.6.2 IousbFamilyInstaller.

 

Then I just rebooted and BAM - AIRPORT logo in 64 bit ! It's running and I have no kernal panic or lockups or anything. It's running in draft n at 300 too ! I could care less what the mac says for the ID string and I know it is a 552 fix, but working a 552 card ! I am posting from the my hackintosh on this card right now.

 

I hope this helps people that want to use 64 bit boot whether hackintosh or real Mac !

 

Now to tackle my 4890 !

[himac59]

the D-Link DWA-556 works for me2. from 10.6 - 10.6.4 and 10.6.5 as well

 

i used the AirportAtheros21.kext in

 

S/L/E/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PluginsAirPortAtheros21.kext/Contents/

 

opened the info.plist with Coda or texteditor and look for the

 

<string>pci168c,????</string>

<string>pci168c,????</string>

<string>pci168c,????</string>

 

lines, and edit the right one for the Dlink, D-link DWA-556 and i think also for the DWA 552 (not the DWA 547)

 

<string>pci168c,3a70</string>

 

this is the correct string for the D-Link DWA 556

 

i used the IO80211Family.kext from 10.6.4 also for 10.6.5, because i lost connection in 10.6.5 but after going back to the old IO80211Family.kext from 10.6.4 it worked again.

 

 

for the DWA 552 its string

 

<string>pci168c,23</string> or

<string>pci168c,29</string>

 

 

For the DWA 552 can't believe it. I've been messing with this for two days and I couldn't get it to work. I read some where that someone had success switching pci slots. I did that, and everything started working. I can't believe it.