fmillion Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I am installing OSX on an HP mini 110. I have everything working - sound, Ethernet, video, etc. - except the Wifi. I am running 10.6.6 and using the hacked kernel found on these forums for the Atom processor. Everything works beautifully except Wifi. I've done a lot of reading on the HP mini's stock Wifi card, which appears to be a Broadcom BCM4312 based device (14E4:4315 PCI). On another forum I found a lengthy post that seems to indicate that the Wifi card had two or more revisions that share the same PCI vendor/product ID, and this may be the problem we're facing. I have tried the Broadcom info.plist patcher, and an IOPCIFamily.kext I found on here. Neither enabled the card. The card does now appear under PCI Devices under System Profiler, however I am still unable to get it to actually work as an Airport device. Under the Driver Installed column, it reads "No" for the wifi card. The following is also appearing in the console: 1/16/11 12:14:34 PM kernel netkas presents fakesmc, a kext which emulates smc device 1/16/11 12:14:34 PM kernel Kext com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family - library kext com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily not found. 1/16/11 12:14:34 PM kernel Can't load kext com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx - failed to resolve library dependencies. 1/16/11 12:14:34 PM kernel Kext com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx failed to load (0xdc00800e). 1/16/11 12:14:34 PM kernel Failed to load kext com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx (error 0xdc00800e). 1/16/11 12:14:34 PM kernel Couldn't alloc class "AirPort_Brcm43xx" 1/16/11 12:14:34 PM kernel From path: "uuid", 1/16/11 12:14:34 PM kernel Waiting for boot volume with UUID 41A7DDBA-E7DC-3B17-AB93-BC4CA714EA28 The laptop does have a "hardware" Wifi power switch, it's a momentary switch like the power switch, and under Windows it turns the radio on and off. Pushing this switch under OSX or during the BIOS POST seems to have no effect. Under Windows, the switch lights blue to indicate Wifi is on, and orange to indicate it is off. When I boot OSX, the Wifi light is on and is blue. OSX acts as if no wifi card at all is installed. Nothing in Network Prefs at all, no wifi icon on the menubar. This makes sense since it appears the Apple broadcom extension won't load Is there any way i can get this to work? Thanks! -FM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 pin 20 tape trick might help or the dsdt vendor id (sub-vendor) _DSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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