williedigital Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 This is a weird one. I did a fresh install of 10.4.7 jas on a dell d600 with a mini-pci 1450 wireless card. When I get to the initial post install screen where it asks you to pick a wireless network, it lists all the local ones, including the one i was just connected to and using an hour earlier under 10.4.3 jas. It says there is an error connecting, and when i actually get to the osx desktop, the airport icon in the menubar is in the "off" mode, and clicking it brings up no option to enable it. System profiler reports an airport extreme, but system preferences doesn't see it. I figure I must have borked something when i selected it during the install process, so i do a partition and fresh install (same options), but when I get to the pick a network scren in the installation, none are detected. When I make it to the desktop, the same situation exists with the airport. Shown as disabled in menubar, reported in system profiler, but missing in system preferences. I did select the wireless cards option from the jas optional install menu both times. Anybody got a clue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30950-jas-1047-and-dell-1450-mini-pci-wireless-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddicus Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 there are all kinds of topics that I looked at to get a 1450 working. I can't remember all of the things and which actually fixed it, but I'll try. I also had the networks show up after install and then it stopped working. What I would try first is what I actually did last, and got it to work. I went into the network preference pane and selected show: network port configurations, from the drop down menu. I then selected and deleted my "AirPort" connection, then clicked "new" and made a new network port using the AirPort card and it worked. The things I did first had to do with downloading a different IO80211Family.kext from the forums and making sure my device ID was in the kext. ID 4324 for my dell 1450. I also had to change en0 to en1 (actually used en2 but I think en1 works for most) inside of NetworkInterfaces.plis in /library/preferences/systemconfiguration/ One thing that tripped me up forever was to change the value a few lines below en0, 'integer' with a value of 0 to a value of 1. Sorry if that's confusing, search the forum for d600 or 1450 that's how I found it. good luck -Toddicus Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30950-jas-1047-and-dell-1450-mini-pci-wireless-problem/#findComment-215374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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