helios Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Hi! I have just built a almost fully compatible box with a D 805, Asus P5LD2-VM DH, GMA950. My trouble is with my wireless network card. It's a D-Link G520 rev B4 with atheros chipset. Installed Jas 10.4.7 together with the wireless extra package. That was a no go. Changed en0 to en1. No go. Used 10.4.5 IO80211Family.kext. No go. Used 10.4.5. IO80211Family.kext and 10.4.5 IONetworkingFamily.kext. No go. Removed 10.4.5 kexts and edited the original IO80211Family.kext with <string>pci168c,0013</string>. No go. Changed back en1 to en0. No go. I have repaired disk permissons after each edit. Tried installing 10.4.3 but it gave me a GreySOD. I could install 10.4.4 and I tried the 10.4.5 kext without success. The 10.4.5 installation just hangs with the grey apple and the spinning circle. I bought the network card as it was supposed to be supported as an airport interface... now i'm beginning to think that the Wiki might be wrong. Please could somebody help me and guide me to a working wifi?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zam Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Hmm. But have you deleted Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache after each mod on the extensions? I have the rev. B3 working by installing the wireless package on Jas 10.4.6 install DVD and then adding my device id to the plist file (and of course deleting Extensions.* before reboot). But then again, I have not seen anyone verifying that the B4 revision works at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 First you need the vendor id and device id of the card. Try going to System Profiler (Utilities folder). Click on PCI cards and see if the vendor id and device id are given. If they are not, then go to Windows -> Device manager. Find the wireless card. Get Properties on it. Click on the Details tab. The vendor id follows "VEN_" and the device id follows "DEV_" Lets say the Vendor ID = 168c and the Device ID = 2041. From this you build a string that looks like this: pci168c,2041 Follow this Broadcom guide: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23684 except edit this file: sudo nano /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros5424.kext/Contents/Info.plist And add a string like this: <string>pci168c,2041</string> but using your values Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helios Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Went back to the store and got a rev B3 as reported working. Rammjet> I have tried that but to no success. My string looks the same as for the rev B4 card: <string>pci168c,0013</string> What is happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helios Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 Tried everything now i think... even in the Jas 10.4.8 dvd installation... using ethernet now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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