Peter Schmidt Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 I'm currently running the latest updates of 10.6.8 on an AMD Opteron 180. I have a BCM4306 PCI wifi card that I have proven to work flawlessly in Linux. Anyways, when I first installed mac, I didn't have a wifi card and did not intend to add one, so I uninstalled Airport. I'm now working on something (mac compatible, but multi-platform) that depends on a wifi adapter. So, I reinstalled Airport, I used the BCM43xx enabler, I installed the IO80211family.kext, and another network related kext, yet Airport and the Network utility still don't detect my wifi card. It is detectable by lspci | grep Network, and I also tried the "Simple Broadcom Wireless Tutorial" which didn't help (and BTW, is outdated and uses incorrect commands. I knew what it meant when it was wrong). Is there something I'm missing? Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/278862-cant-detect-any-wifi-adapters/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Schmidt Posted May 12, 2012 Author Share Posted May 12, 2012 nobody can point me in any helpful direction? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/278862-cant-detect-any-wifi-adapters/#findComment-1819921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Schmidt Posted May 26, 2012 Author Share Posted May 26, 2012 So I realized that I'm missing this configd thing for airport, but I'm not sure how to get it or if it has anything to do with my wifi not working. Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/278862-cant-detect-any-wifi-adapters/#findComment-1822879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Edit device id of the your card here: /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortBrcm4331.kext/Contents/Info.plist <string>AirPort_Brcm4331</string> <key>IOMatchCategory</key> <string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string> <key>IONameMatch</key> <array> <string>pci14e4,4331</string> change this <string>pci14e4,4353</string> <string>pci14e4,432b</string> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/278862-cant-detect-any-wifi-adapters/#findComment-1822898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Schmidt Posted May 27, 2012 Author Share Posted May 27, 2012 When you say "change this", change it to what? It was already set to that. I was, however, missing the next couple lines. I added them and rebooted and got a notification there was a network change but nothing happened. Are you sure that null configd thing doesn't have anything to do with this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/278862-cant-detect-any-wifi-adapters/#findComment-1823043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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