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Geneman,

you have a hardware conflict problem

you can try to change the info,plist - remove all other values and leave only 0x42208086 i

f this don't work:

google for compatible devices id and replace 0x42208086 wih other values

 

iwi3945

fix for power_table

iwi3945.dmg

sigh...I am about to give up. :( I can't find any conflict. Though, now System Profiler sayes there are no PCI-cards installed. I am almost sure that before the reinstall I had cards there. Frustrating to know to almost be there an have a fulle functional system, but taking hours to this last step....but okay. MacOS is worth it.

Jalavoui, to be sure, I have to google the ID to see what device is conflicting?

Jalavoui, to be sure, I have to google the ID to see what device is conflicting?

 

you need to find a value that work for your card - it's not easy to find but google might help

try to search for other thing than pcixxxx,xxxx -> mac os support other values for the pcimatch

there are several ways to identify your hardware in the info.plist file -> try to google and you might find a fix

for instance you can add IOPCIPrimaryMatch and IOPCISecondaryMatch to the info.plist if this helps to detect your hardware

 

iwi3945

add a longer timeout delay

add iwl_up on restart -> might give a kernel panic

iwi3945.dmg

jalavoui any plans for leopard ? for the 2200 ? Finally got the iw2200 working in Tiger, now got the leopard GM running and when I install the latest driver from website it just panicks.

 

the svn version is old

if you have xcode i can upload the latest source code here

i changed the xcode project to build agains current os - i'm using 10.4.8/9/10 - this means it need to be compiled in the 10.5

if you do this it should work

 

iwi3945

this is a free kp version

iwi3945.dmg

the svn version is old

if you have xcode i can upload the latest source code here

i changed the xcode project to build agains current os - i'm using 10.4.8/9/10 - this means it need to be compiled in the 10.5

if you do this it should work

I can try I hope the dvd has xcode and I can compile it. you not planing to go to 10.5 ? upload the source code and ill try or if anyone else here who knows what they are doing

you need to find a value that work for your card - it's not easy to find but google might help

try to search for other thing than pcixxxx,xxxx -> mac os support other values for the pcimatch

there are several ways to identify your hardware in the info.plist file -> try to google and you might find a fix

for instance you can add IOPCIPrimaryMatch and IOPCISecondaryMatch to the info.plist if this helps to detect your hardware

 

Hi Jalavoui, thank you for your answers. I checked the developer docs of Apple and found more info about IOPCIPrimaryMatch and IOPCISecondaryMatch, I checked the information in Windows about the card and any values I can find. Non of the values give a match. No subsystems, vendorid's, I even tried masking. No results. I have the idea something else is going on. Maybe it's the firmware of the card. When I check ioreg I see there is an actual match on PCI8086,2440, this should be iwi2200 isn't it? I also tried to manually set the ethernet card in /Library/Preferences/NetworkPreferences and fix en0 with pci8086,2440 and the iwi2200 driver, though MacOS resets these values at startup, so also no solution. I am running out of options. Is there a chance my card is not supported even though it should?

thanks.

Hi,

 

my card is not being detected at all.. I tried many versions of the driver found here, but with no success. Everytime I tried a new version, I removed the old kext, restarted, installed the new ones and restarted again.

 

I dunno if my Acer laptop turn on the wireless card on boot, and I can't do that by using a switch, because it's a "slide" switch with a led, I have to slide to turning on and off. I tried turning it on on Windows and rebooted, but that didn't work either.

 

Btw, I'm using mac.nub 10.4.10 with 8.10.1 kernel.

 

Note: Acer laptops with Intel 3945abg wireless cards are very popular here in Brazil.

ioreg.txt

system.txt

dmesg.txt

iwi3945

cmd timeouts fix

 

geneman,

 

you know that the info.plist works better if you only add one entry at a time

if you have 0x42208086, 0xaaa,bbbb it will search for 2 matchs

better to try only one value

i don't see any other solution for this problem

have you tried mac os 10.5?

can you explain better what happen when you try pci8086,2440?

it's also possible that the card is plugged on a pci slot that mac os have no driver acess - this is a problem with pci/pci-express devices

you can try to attach the card to other slots if you have any available

iwi3945.dmg

Hi Jalavoui, I've been trying to follow this discussion, unfortunately I've never actually used a Mac in my life until today when I installed the osx86 version of Leopard (10.5 I think it is) on my Thinkpad X60 tablet, installation went easy and all seems to be working except the 3945 (and some hibernation/sleep stuff which is much less important).

The only OS I really know is Linux and I have no problem running iwl3945 as well as ipw3945 and ipwraw kernel modules on my laptop.

Could you please explain what a kext is (I'm thinking its a kernel module) and how I would install it and modprobe it. Also how do I use the dmg's you are posting and do they work in Leopard ?

If not if you can give me some source and a little direction I could try to compile something myself....

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