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thor2008
thor2008
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Hello everyone

 

i finally get my wifi, usibg this guide

 

in the benining all was right but, when i restart my system freezes, i have to enter in secure boot and erase networkpreferences.plist, and when i try to conect to my wireless network 8 of 10 tryes fails and my system freezes, what i can do????, thanks

 

PD: My Wifi card: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)

My OSX: Base: Leo4ALLV3 update to 10.5.5

easter_rebel
easter_rebel
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was following my own tutorial after reinstalling, and found that for whatever reason it didn't work. I found that deleting the /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache and then doing either a kextcache -e or kextcache -k fixed it. sorry for not providing more details, but i typed one of those commands, rebooted, and then System Prefs detected airport.

 

I tried your system multiple times and then I found this added note. can't find kextcache and it still doesn't recognize the AR5007 minipci card. Other than that which really bugs me, 10.5.5 is the bomb. Can you please help?

bubbageek75
bubbageek75
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Posted this in another forum the other day and haven't heard anything. Hoping someone here can help.

 

A little background first:

 

System: iATKOS v4i (10.5.4) on

 

Acer Aspire 4720z laptop

 

I am dual booting with Vista with no problems. I have the sound working and power management is working correctly. The built-in Ethernet (Broadcom 57xx) does not work under OSX and neither does the built-in Atheros 5007EG (PCI Express mini card). The wireless is what brings me to my question. I just purchased a MacSense WUA-880 wireless usb adapter for Mac/PC. It works with no issues on my Hackintosh laptop. It is an Atheros 5007UG chipset. So my question is this: Is there any way to modify the driver for the USB adapter to have it see and initialize the pci-e 5007EG?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

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Thor
Thor
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To get the Broadcom 57xx going sometimes this works.

 

Make sure you have the AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext, witch should be a plugin in IOnetworking.kext

The problem seems to be that osx does not find the Broadcom Mac address so read here what made it work for me:

 

check post by timerace.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...amp;hl=Spoofing

  • 2 weeks later...
PHILH
PHILH
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Ok, got atheros 5005 MiniPCI working, also using 10.4.7 JaS.

edit: please note you have to have your wireless/airport device as en1, in my case my built in ethernet takes en0 so it works out fine. (make change in /library/systemconfiguration/networkinterfaces.plist)

  1. Download the official Intel 10.4.5 update from Apple (98MB) (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/mac...45forintel.html)
  2. Backup your /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
  3. Extract the IO80211Family.kext from the 10.4.5 update (using pacifist?)
  4. open finder to /System/Library/Extensions
  5. drag the kext from 10.4.5 update into the /System/Library/Extensions folder
  6. enter passsword when prompted
  7. open the disk utility (/Application/Utilities/Disk Utility), then repair permissions on your Startup volume (may take a little while)
  8. open up terminal, and switch to root (enter sudo -s, enter your user password)

cd /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 IO80211family.kext
chown -R root:wheel IO80211family.kext

then list the contents

ls -l

make sure the IO80211Family line looks like this:

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 IO80211Family.kext

check that the permissions propagated to subdirectories:

cd IO80211Family.kext/contents/plugins
ls -l

should look like this:

total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 AirPortAtheros5424.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext

then test that the extensions works:

kextload AirPortAtheros5424.kext

should give a extension loaded successfully message

 

then you have to go to System Preferences>Network

a message should pop up telling you you have a new AirPort. from the Show: box, pick AirPort. you can set the options here, i suggest you check the Show airport status in menu bar, make sure you click apply now.

 

There you have it, fully working native Atheros card! :rolleyes:

anatharias
anatharias
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I`ve just done it now ... as i tought won`t work, even if my apple brand athero card is well identified in the kext....

 

damn I'm looking for this to work for many days now... seem's to be the answer to my question : should I consider buying a supported PCI-E wifi card... ?? answer seems to be YES :-[

 

I've found some on ebay ... barely 15 euros

Thor
Thor
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I have Sony Vaio TZ and has Intel 4965AGN. Has anyone suggest to change a new working wifi card instead of 4965agn?

I`ve found Gigabyte wi01ht (atheros ar5006) on ebay. Will this item work on my leopard?

 

 

This one works,

 

Apple-MacBook-PRO-WiFi-Card-802-11n-AR5BXB72

 

You can find on ebay here for example:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-MacBook-PRO-A121...%3A1|240%3A1318

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waldisweety
waldisweety
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have an Acer Aspire 5315 using Leopard 10.5.4.(iATKOS 4i.iso) and Vista Ultimate

.In Vista under Device Manager it gives me an Atheros 5007EG but on another

hard Disk runing XP it displays Atheros 5006 so i did the following

 

1.Without installing Airport Update 2008-004 l use kext helper to install io80211family.kext (v.2.1.2)

2. After an restart l noticed that Airport turned on but yellow (No Network) I have tried at least 5

or 6 different versions of io80211family.kext but only version 2.1.2 loads properly and gives me

under System Profiler/Airport Card/ Airport Extreme (0x168c,0x428) and System Profiler/ Extensions

-AirPortAtheros v.3.1.5

-IO80211Family v.2.1.2

I noticed that the networkinterface.plist under /library/preferences/systemconfiguration is en1

If l delete all the mkext files and repair io80211family.kext permissions

(chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions/io80211family.kext

chown -R root:wheel /system/extensions/io80211family.kext),

after the next restart the AirPortAtheros /IO80211Family are vanished!!!

3. So I tried the >-f< trick editing f to com.apple.boot.plist

from /Library /Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

as bellow

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key> Kernel Flags </key>

<string>-f</string>

4. Although it gave me kernel panic l rebooted as -v so l reboot again as root user

5.Then without Repair disk permission or repairing io80211family.kext permissions again or anything else

6.l started kismac went to preferences --> driver and add airport extreme passive mode --> Start scan

and after l see network detected, l close it .l went to the airport icon on the top right on my desktop

and my network was listed. I clicked on it

From System preferences/Network the Airport icon is green!!!!Surfing with safari the the wireless Lan LED is

always inactive like if it doesn't work?The only thing thats annoying is that l have to always start kismac.

 

l have an Acer Aspire 5315 using Leopard 10.5.4.(iATKOS 4i.iso) and Vista Ultimate

.In Vista under Device Manager it gives me an Atheros 5007EG but on another

hard Disk runing XP it displays Atheros 5006 so i did the following

 

1.Without installing Airport Update 2008-004 l use kext helper to install io80211family.kext (v.2.1.2)

2. After an restart l noticed that Airport turned on but yellow (No Network) I have tried at least 5

or 6 different versions of io80211family.kext but only version 2.1.2 loads properly and gives me

under System Profiler/Airport Card/ Airport Extreme (0x168c,0x428) and System Profiler/ Extensions

-AirPortAtheros v.3.1.5

-IO80211Family v.2.1.2

I noticed that the networkinterface.plist under /library/preferences/systemconfiguration is en1

If l delete all the mkext files and repair io80211family.kext permissions

(chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions/io80211family.kext

chown -R root:wheel /system/extensions/io80211family.kext),

after the next restart the AirPortAtheros /IO80211Family are vanished!!!

3. So I tried the >-f< trick editing f to com.apple.boot.plist

from /Library /Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

as bellow

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key> Kernel Flags </key>

<string>-f</string>

4. Although it gave me kernel panic l rebooted as -v so l reboot again as root user

5.Then without Repair disk permission or repairing io80211family.kext permissions again or anything else

6.l started kismac went to preferences --> driver and add airport extreme passive mode --> Start scan

and after l see network detected, l close it .l went to the airport icon on the top right on my desktop

and my network was listed. I clicked on it

From System preferences/Network the Airport icon is green!!!!Surfing with safari the the wireless Lan LED is

always inactive like if it doesn't work?The only thing thats annoying is that l have to always start kismac.

IO80211Family_kext_v.2.1.2.zip

Atheros_5007EG_proof.zip

IO80211Family_kext_v.2.1.2.zip

Atheros_5007EG_proof.zip

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iAurora
iAurora
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Okay, so I have VEN_168C&DEV_001B. I am told it is the Atheros 5006X chipset. I have tried the Atheros kexts provided on the forums already, and none of them have worked for me. Am I doing something wrong? I am using Kext Helper, and simply dragging the files in that I am finding.

Let me know what other information you need to help me

 

Thanks!

Steven

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pat salko
pat salko
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I have a Dlink DWL-G510 rev B (Atheros AR5005G 802.11abg 168c 001a). I was able to get this working out of the box when I installed iDeneb v1 and selected the Atheros WiFi adapter during custom install.

 

Hope this helps.

 

If anyone needs the install package...here it is!

 

Atheros.pkg.zip for wireless.

 

---

 

FYI, before reformatting, I had the same issues where the card was detected, but I couldn't "turn it on". Now it works flawlessly :)

THANK!!!!

 

This work with my DELL D610. I m trying to figure out how to connect with WPA2 now

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eidwisam
eidwisam
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Posted
Ok, got atheros 5005 MiniPCI working, also using 10.4.7 JaS.

edit: please note you have to have your wireless/airport device as en1, in my case my built in ethernet takes en0 so it works out fine. (make change in /library/systemconfiguration/networkinterfaces.plist)

  1. Download the official Intel 10.4.5 update from Apple (98MB) (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/mac...45forintel.html)
  2. Backup your /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
  3. Extract the IO80211Family.kext from the 10.4.5 update (using pacifist?)
  4. open finder to /System/Library/Extensions
  5. drag the kext from 10.4.5 update into the /System/Library/Extensions folder
  6. enter passsword when prompted
  7. open the disk utility (/Application/Utilities/Disk Utility), then repair permissions on your Startup volume (may take a little while)
  8. open up terminal, and switch to root (enter sudo -s, enter your user password)

cd /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 IO80211family.kext
chown -R root:wheel IO80211family.kext

then list the contents

ls -l

make sure the IO80211Family line looks like this:

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 IO80211Family.kext

check that the permissions propagated to subdirectories:

cd IO80211Family.kext/contents/plugins
ls -l

should look like this:

total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 AirPortAtheros5424.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext

then test that the extensions works:

kextload AirPortAtheros5424.kext

should give a extension loaded successfully message

 

then you have to go to System Preferences>Network

a message should pop up telling you you have a new AirPort. from the Show: box, pick AirPort. you can set the options here, i suggest you check the Show airport status in menu bar, make sure you click apply now.

 

There you have it, fully working native Atheros card! :P

 

hi, I followed your instruction, but when I reach the code (kextload airportatheros5424.kext) , I get the message ( no such bundle file exist). Nay suggestions?

I have ahteros 168c, 001c on acer aspire one.

Many thanks

eidwisam
eidwisam
Posted
Posted
Ok, got atheros 5005 MiniPCI working, also using 10.4.7 JaS.

edit: please note you have to have your wireless/airport device as en1, in my case my built in ethernet takes en0 so it works out fine. (make change in /library/systemconfiguration/networkinterfaces.plist)

  1. Download the official Intel 10.4.5 update from Apple (98MB) (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/mac...45forintel.html)
  2. Backup your /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
  3. Extract the IO80211Family.kext from the 10.4.5 update (using pacifist?)
  4. open finder to /System/Library/Extensions
  5. drag the kext from 10.4.5 update into the /System/Library/Extensions folder
  6. enter passsword when prompted
  7. open the disk utility (/Application/Utilities/Disk Utility), then repair permissions on your Startup volume (may take a little while)
  8. open up terminal, and switch to root (enter sudo -s, enter your user password)

cd /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 IO80211family.kext
chown -R root:wheel IO80211family.kext

then list the contents

ls -l

make sure the IO80211Family line looks like this:

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 IO80211Family.kext

check that the permissions propagated to subdirectories:

cd IO80211Family.kext/contents/plugins
ls -l

should look like this:

total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 AirPortAtheros5424.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext

then test that the extensions works:

kextload AirPortAtheros5424.kext

should give a extension loaded successfully message

 

then you have to go to System Preferences>Network

a message should pop up telling you you have a new AirPort. from the Show: box, pick AirPort. you can set the options here, i suggest you check the Show airport status in menu bar, make sure you click apply now.

 

There you have it, fully working native Atheros card! :P

 

hi, I followed your instruction, but when I reach the code (kextload airportatheros5424.kext) , I get the message ( no such bundle file exist). Nay suggestions?

I have ahteros 168c, 001c on acer aspire one.

Many thanks

 

Ok, got atheros 5005 MiniPCI working, also using 10.4.7 JaS.

edit: please note you have to have your wireless/airport device as en1, in my case my built in ethernet takes en0 so it works out fine. (make change in /library/systemconfiguration/networkinterfaces.plist)

  1. Download the official Intel 10.4.5 update from Apple (98MB) (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/mac...45forintel.html)
  2. Backup your /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
  3. Extract the IO80211Family.kext from the 10.4.5 update (using pacifist?)
  4. open finder to /System/Library/Extensions
  5. drag the kext from 10.4.5 update into the /System/Library/Extensions folder
  6. enter passsword when prompted
  7. open the disk utility (/Application/Utilities/Disk Utility), then repair permissions on your Startup volume (may take a little while)
  8. open up terminal, and switch to root (enter sudo -s, enter your user password)

cd /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 IO80211family.kext
chown -R root:wheel IO80211family.kext

then list the contents

ls -l

make sure the IO80211Family line looks like this:

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 IO80211Family.kext

check that the permissions propagated to subdirectories:

cd IO80211Family.kext/contents/plugins
ls -l

should look like this:

total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 AirPortAtheros5424.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Feb  2  2006 AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext

then test that the extensions works:

kextload AirPortAtheros5424.kext

should give a extension loaded successfully message

 

then you have to go to System Preferences>Network

a message should pop up telling you you have a new AirPort. from the Show: box, pick AirPort. you can set the options here, i suggest you check the Show airport status in menu bar, make sure you click apply now.

 

There you have it, fully working native Atheros card! ;)

 

hi, I followed your instruction, but when I reach the code (kextload airportatheros5424.kext) , I get the message ( no such bundle file exist). Any suggestions?

I have ahteros 168c, 001c on acer aspire one.

Many thanks

Gabo_c
Gabo_c
Posted
Posted
Hi,

 

I'm searching for a workaround or a driver for an atheros AR5005G Wlan-Card (in a Laptop)

 

Is there any solution to get it running?

 

Thanks!

 

 

Well playing arround I found a way to make work with a lattest version of IO80211Family.kext (ver 2.1.4) for 10.5.6 I hope this one works for you. tested with a 10.5.6 and vanilla, on a tp-link tl-wn551g (168c,001a) (atheros 5005g) PCI.

Sometimes sleep works, but if not, you have to deactivate airport before sleep....but almost times works fine.

 

EDIT!!!

 

Solved at all use Wireless Sleeper, just add to autorun programs at users startup items , now allways sleep without a problem download here

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pimpinmonkey247
pimpinmonkey247
Posted
Posted
Well playing arround I found a way to make work with a lattest version of IO80211Family.kext (ver 2.1.4) for 10.5.6 I hope this one works for you. tested with a 10.5.6 and vanilla, on a tp-link tl-wn551g (168c,001a) (atheros 5005g) PCI.

Sometimes sleep works, but if not, you have to deactivate airport before sleep....but almost times works fine.

 

EDIT!!!

 

Solved at all use Wireless Sleeper, just add to autorun programs at users startup items , now allways sleep without a problem download here

 

Is this kext spose to work for 5007eg? Cause i had no luck.

  • 3 weeks later...
Gabo_c
Gabo_c
Posted
Posted
Hi,

 

I'm searching for a workaround or a driver for an atheros AR5005G Wlan-Card (in a Laptop)

 

Is there any solution to get it running?

 

Thanks!

 

 

Once again after airport security update 2009-1 you will loose wireless again, then i made a new one after install it only for 10.5.6 here :

darthkud
darthkud
Posted
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Once again after airport security update 2009-1 you will loose wireless again, then i made a new one after install it only for 10.5.6 here :

 

 

Ahh! Thank you very much! After applying the new kext, it worked perfectly with my dlink DWL-G510 wireless card. I did have to delete the network connection and add it back but other than that no problems.

 

Out of curiosity... what did you have to change in the package?

jasballz
jasballz
Posted
Posted

Check out my post:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=156546

 

I have an Atheros AR5007EG in my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 Laptop, I have not been able to get it to work at all. It has the vendor ID of 168c, and device ID of 1c. I'm trying to use it on a 10.4.8 Jas install, and have also tried using the 10.4.5 kexts. Can someone help me out? Thanks
Gabo_c
Gabo_c
Posted
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Ahh! Thank you very much! After applying the new kext, it worked perfectly with my dlink DWL-G510 wireless card. I did have to delete the network connection and add it back but other than that no problems.

 

Out of curiosity... what did you have to change in the package?

 

 

The binary IO80211Family

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