chibi1 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Hi, I just wanna share my little experience about the AR5001-0000-0000 Atheros Chipset on 10.4.7. First of all, this is just for the PCMCIA cards. 1- Plug your card, then boot the computer 2- Next to the hour (up and right of your screen), you must have a new icon 3- Click on it: you can see the chipset reference of the card AR5001-0000-0000 4- Just copy the attachment that I put bellow to /System/Library/Extensions 5- repair permissions 6- reboot 7- go to Network on your System Preferences and enjoy the "New Airport Interface" Good Luck Chibi1 Atheros_AR5001.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WombatLullaby Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Greetings, I have a DLink DWL-G630, which reads itentically to your NetGear card on the PC card list, so I figured your drivers that would work with it, but when I installed your files, nothing happens. Am I missing something? Thanks a lot for any and all help you can provide. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-200706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mformurder Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 I did aas suggested. Now my powerbook does not boot any more... Obviously the drivers make the system crash, every time at startup I only get a your system needs to shut down dialog now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-307268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djj3w Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 worked perfectly on my ibm thinkpad T30! THANKS SO MUCH! only thing that doesn't show up is the airport status in the menubar, but that'll probably come up after reboot. I'm using the dwl-g630 btw. thanks! :EDIT I check the box for the Airport to be displayed in the manubar, and it didn't work, but after i closed System Prefs I opened it again and checkt he same box, works now! YAY! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-396872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romil Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 How could I do to make it work under Leopard? Thanx a lot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-563331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Zizza Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 same thing happened to me as mformurder, it boots to a black rectangle and my PowerBook won't start. Ugh! Can you suggest anything? I did the steps as outlined above... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-985921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinCushion Man Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 same thing happened to me as mformurder, it boots to a black rectangle and my PowerBook won't start. Ugh! Can you suggest anything? I did the steps as outlined above... I'm betting it won't work (I did the steps, too) until I figured out that the people replying that this worked all have one thing in common: MacBooks (or Hackintoshes). Those of us with PPC Macs are SOL. So far My Atheros card (a DLink AirPlusG DWL-G630) has only worked in Fedora 9 (but the screen was partially garbled) and SuSe (made the machine crawl, even with 512MB of RAM!) on my PowerBook G3. It had worked in Ubuntu perfectly, but a distro upgrade/X11 upgrade hosed me (so much for newer is better). I was hoping it would work in OS X, but the answer's not here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-1016554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
koodoo Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-1032406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordsoth Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Kickass!!! This trick works also for SMCWCB-G EZ Connect™ g Wireless Cardbus Adapter. (uses the same atheros chipset) Tried under 10.4.11, works as a charm. Thanks man!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-1235982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-tanner- Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 I did aas suggested. Now my powerbook does not boot any more... Obviously the drivers make the system crash, every time at startup I only get a your system needs to shut down dialog now A REAL Powerbook? Made by Apple? You should never use kexts for OX X 86 PC's on genuine Apple hardware. It can cause irreparable damage to your system like what you're describing. Try using Safe Boot (hold Command + X I think) and remove the kexts manually from the /System/Library/Extensions/ folder. Now if that doesn't work (you can't boot or whatever) try using Target Disk Mode. Connect your Powerbook to another Apple computer using a firewire. Start up the other computer while holding Command + T and it should show something along the lines of the Powerbooks hard drive (if not then try booting the Powerbook in Target Disk Mode too). Hope this helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28536-netgear-wag511-atheros-ar5001-0000-0000/#findComment-1471562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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