Jon Hayden Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I've found a couple tutorials on installing Snow Leopard on the Inspiron 1545. They all say to install the latest io80211family.kext. It doesn't work. Funny thing is that wireless was working great right after the initial install. But then I installed a bunch of recommended ktexts and now wireless doesn't work. I need to somehow revert to what it was using for wireless previously. I have no clue how to do this. Is there a different ktext I need? Right now, when I try to turn the airport on, nothing happens. It stays off. Info: MacOS 10.6.3 on Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop Not really sure what kind of wireless card I have. Just the standard one that comes with the laptop. Any help would be great. I'm sooooo close now. Thanks, Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Hayden Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 Another thing I just noticed. When I woke up this morning, the laptop was locked up. The display looks okay and all my icons are there, but it's completely un-responsive. I had to power cycle it. This is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened too. I must be missing some sort of kext. I'm assuming that once I'm off the laptop for a while, it trys to sleep and that locks it up. So I installed the SleepEnable kext so I thought that was going to fix it, but apparently not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHIT Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Another thing I just noticed. When I woke up this morning, the laptop was locked up. The display looks okay and all my icons are there, but it's completely un-responsive. I had to power cycle it. This is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened too. I must be missing some sort of kext. I'm assuming that once I'm off the laptop for a while, it trys to sleep and that locks it up. So I installed the SleepEnable kext so I thought that was going to fix it, but apparently not. Hi I've got the same problem with the sleep. Just go into System Preferences>Energy Saving and then tell the computer that it should not automatically go to sleep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Hayden Posted January 29, 2011 Author Share Posted January 29, 2011 Hi I've got the same problem with the sleep. Just go into System Preferences>Energy Saving and then tell the computer that it should not automatically go to sleep Yep, I tried this last night before I went to bed. I put everything to never sleep and it was still going good this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no3tic888 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 If you read my post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...870&hl=1545 my wireless worked then didn't when I installed the kexts. When I upgraded to 10.6.5, the wireless came back. Of course I downloaded the 10.6.5 Combo first. I just reinstalled to 10.6.6 Combo and that works as well. Doing software update as I write this. Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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