raulerazo Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Hello everyone, I installed Snow leopard (10.6) on my s10e lenovo, and it was a success, only missing thing is the camera but I don't really care about it. after that I installed the same copy of snow leopard on my Acer 532h, but the wifi-card doesn't work, I know it is because of the Atheros ar9285 wi-fi card, at least I thought that was the problem. First thing I tried was to test the woking wi-fi card from my s10e Lenovo hackintosh on my acer, in theory, if the problem was the w-fi card I thought that would work , but it didn't. But then I decided to test the hard drive of my acer, in my Lenovo and and the wi-fi didn't work, I mean both installs were made with the same copy of S.L, why wouldn't it work if the problem is the hardware, I need to understand that in order to keep trying to solve the acer issue. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272232-help-me-understand-my-own-wi-fi-card-troubleshooting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Hello everyone, I installed Snow leopard (10.6) on my s10e lenovo, and it was a success, only missing thing is the camera but I don't really care about it. after that I installed the same copy of snow leopard on my Acer 532h, but the wifi-card doesn't work, I know it is because of the Atheros ar9285 wi-fi card, at least I thought that was the problem. First thing I tried was to test the woking wi-fi card from my s10e Lenovo hackintosh on my acer, in theory, if the problem was the w-fi card I thought that would work , but it didn't. But then I decided to test the hard drive of my acer, in my Lenovo and and the wi-fi didn't work, I mean both installs were made with the same copy of S.L, why wouldn't it work if the problem is the hardware, I need to understand that in order to keep trying to solve the acer issue. Any ideas? Interesting....try reinstalling. Even with the same OS disc, not every installation is created equal...weird, I know. It also might be the bus of you card, or chipset issues, but I also have an Broadcom/Atheros wireless enabler here. You can try that and see what happens. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272232-help-me-understand-my-own-wi-fi-card-troubleshooting/#findComment-1771060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
raulerazo Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 Interesting....try reinstalling. Even with the same OS disc, not every installation is created equal...weird, I know. It also might be the bus of you card, or chipset issues, but I also have an Broadcom/Atheros wireless enabler here. You can try that and see what happens. Thanks pal, I reinstalled on my acer but this time with the wi-fi card from my lenovo inside from the begining of the process and now it works. finally wi-fi on my acer 532h hackintosh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272232-help-me-understand-my-own-wi-fi-card-troubleshooting/#findComment-1771320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 replace card with a cheap AR5B91 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272232-help-me-understand-my-own-wi-fi-card-troubleshooting/#findComment-1771777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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