Mac and Cheese Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Has anyone figured a way to get airport to work on Leopard w/ 24" iMac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28854-24-imac-airport-extreme/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 What is wrong? Does it not recognize it or what? What is wrong? Does it not recognize it or what? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28854-24-imac-airport-extreme/#findComment-198094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac and Cheese Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 It doest even show up in profiler... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28854-24-imac-airport-extreme/#findComment-198155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 It is because the airport extreme in the 24" iMac is not really an airport extreme as is in all other macs. It is a Broadcom 802.11n (Pre-N actually as IEEE has not ratified 802.11n yet). That being the case, the driver that came on the Leopard disc will not work with it. You need to copy AppleAirPort2 from /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext from the original Tiger installation and replace the Leopard version. Then, your Airport Extreme-ish will work just fine. NOTE: Currently the 802.11n card in the 24" iMac has the 802.11n functionality disabled and will only function at 54Mb/ps under OS X. You can replace the driver under Windows with a Broadcom Pre-N card's drivers and get the full 580 Mb/ps but I have yet to find a way to make it work under OS X in any of its encarnations. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28854-24-imac-airport-extreme/#findComment-198212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bproulx12 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Add the 20 inch Imac Core 2 Duo and newer imacs to the list with Broadcom 802.11n's, no worky on Leopard but works fine with Vista.. damn got to use the cat 5 for leopard Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28854-24-imac-airport-extreme/#findComment-202332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostgame Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 The problem is Apple needs to make more updates to Leopard for us developers who want to use it for primary purposes-the headphone jack in MB/MBP's and the AirPort in the iMac 24" are perfect examples of this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28854-24-imac-airport-extreme/#findComment-202389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bproulx12 Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 It is because the airport extreme in the 24" iMac is not really an airport extreme as is in all other macs. It is a Broadcom 802.11n (Pre-N actually as IEEE has not ratified 802.11n yet). That being the case, the driver that came on the Leopard disc will not work with it. You need to copy AppleAirPort2 from /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext from the original Tiger installation and replace the Leopard version. Then, your Airport Extreme-ish will work just fine. tried it with leopard and it did not work....oh well I hope they get it fixed by the time it is officially released. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28854-24-imac-airport-extreme/#findComment-202409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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