Renard45 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Anyone knows if there's a driver yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renard45 Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 What about the Airport.kext extensions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matej Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 I've already played with this. Here's my post about it: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=170812 Perhaps you want to give it a go with those drivers. The link to the driver download page obviously changed - try this one: http://152.104.125.41/downloads/downloadsV...;Downloads=true The one at the bottom of the page should be the right one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renard45 Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 thanks a lot i will try it! It doesn't work and for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matej Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Is I said in the post I mentioned - it din't work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabcat Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 I have not tried getting it to work in macosx since I don't need it yet but I found a funny thing. Since it is on a usb bus, it can be enabled in parallels and made available to the operating system you have running in parallels. So it works for me in Windows on parallels but not in macosx. In parallels, go to the "Devices" menu, down to "USB" and select "RTL8187_Wireless" then you can install windows drivers for it and get wireless networking from your windows virtual machine. I wonder if you could then route your macosx network traffic via your windows vm so that your macosx can share the wireless? Note that if you get a macosx driver working for the wireless, then the above parallels thing might not work because macosx will be using the device. That is my guess anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabcat Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 That driver is worth a try. I had a look at it and it is compiled for ppc so maybe they need to recompile it for intel or universal: file ./rtl8187.kext/Contents/MacOS/USBNet ./rtl8187.kext/Contents/MacOS/USBNet: Mach-O object ppc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabcat Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 I emailed their wireless devision in Taiwan and asked them to recompile the driver to be universal. Not sure what the chances are of getting that to happen but it can't hurt asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renard45 Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 ok then wait and see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matej Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 I've maild them too and they expect to fininsh the RTL8187 driver for intel OS X at end of November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Matej: Sweeeet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rparker Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Emailed them today, and they have finished the driver. They will be testing now, and will release at the end of the month. If they follow through, what a great Christmas present for us Asus users. Dear Sir, Thanks for your e-mail. We already finish this program and begin test now. We expected release it at end of this month. Regards, Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renard45 Posted December 8, 2006 Author Share Posted December 8, 2006 very good news but i have bought a compatible card but i will try the driver! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 A buddy of mine bought this mobo on my recommendation It would be very nice to have the Wi-Fi working Keep us posted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xopek Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Waiting for the driver too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicko_029 Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 So, is this driver out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renard45 Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) not yet wait until january i hope so! Edited December 18, 2006 by Renard45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Almost January - anyone hear of anything for the WiFi driver yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gecko Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 It is January... any word?!!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gecko Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) realtek released the driver on their site on 1/13/2007??... or is it 2006??? files inside are dated 2006 too http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...;Downloads=true BUT... I have just tested it and it is not working for me. Has anyone had luck with this? Edited January 16, 2007 by gecko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gecko Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 other things to mention... There is no kernel integration and there is a sourceforge project concerning this wireless "usb" card. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of...ireless_Drivers http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/ thoughts ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panurge Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 This sourceforge driver is for linux, for old realtek 8180, and it's not even 100% compatible with latest linux kernels as far as i've tested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuruu Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 mmm, i get so excited when I get email notification for these activities, but we're still waiting for realtek to release their driver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabcat Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 realtek released the driver on their site on 1/13/2007??... or is it 2006??? files inside are dated 2006 too http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...;Downloads=true BUT... I have just tested it and it is not working for me. Has anyone had luck with this? That is the powerpc only driver that was mentioned earlier in this thread and released in 2006. We are still waiting for the intel (or universal) version of this driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 any news form taiwan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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