zeclubbeur Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Finaly works like Joeandmat... I hope you will finalize this driver and make it fully work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megnus Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 This is great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaybc Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 dont want to sound like a noob.... but im fairly new to the Haxintel/mak how can i load the kext? i copied the kext to the /Extensions folder and then console this : cd /System/Library/Extensions sudo chown -R root:wheel iwi3945.kext sudo chmod -R 755 iwi3945.kext sudo rm -f /System/Library/Extensions.mkext sudo rm -f /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache diskutil repairPermissions / correct me if im wrong!!?? thank you.. you guys are freaking smart !!!!! just do: kextload /System/Library/Extensions/iwi3945.kext or point to the kext you want to load, also restart should do it :-) but please note that this driver is not working because the guy that wrote it dont have the hardware so he is coding blind, if you succeed please share your knowladge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabesir Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 just do:kextload /System/Library/Extensions/iwi3945.kext or point to the kext you want to load, also restart should do it :-) but please note that this driver is not working because the guy that wrote it dont have the hardware so he is coding blind, if you succeed please share your knowladge! thank you! good to know for the next time . but yeah i copied the .kext to the /Extansions folder and did all the step i posted... =( live and learn i guess but guess what it worked! i can see my wi-fi card but can't connect also the MAC address changes everytime i boot on mac laptop specs : Alienware M5550 nVidia Go 6600 80 gig Hdd Lan : pro/100 intel wi-fi : 3945 ABG intel mini PCIe sound : highdefinition ACL8800 dual boot XP-OSX using acronis , the sound works on the 3.5mm jack but not on the internal speakers and cant figure the problem.... and if you guys get the wi-fi working i will support via paypal!!!! for the hard work!!! rock on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeclubbeur Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Idem... I didn't see it before but the mac adress is different than before... Wait and see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalavoui Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 i've requested codegoogle for more svn quota http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting/topics i'm using a imac g3 to keep iwidarwin going... http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/ i'd like to move to mac os x 10.5 but unless there's more people making donations i think this project will end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilSoldier Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Hi, I see the work at the moment seems to be centred around 3945s on 10.5, but is the intel 2200bg on 10.4 project still going? I really need either a WPA driver or a WEP driver that can remember the password for certain access points. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverHerz Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 wait, 3945 on 1st place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulyanov77 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Great work guys! I was very close to settling on a usb adapter and I'm very glad that I haven't already. If you need me to do any testing, I'm more than willing (if given instructions as to what I need to do). Thanks for your hard work, Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unkind Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Thank you guys! You and Your work will not be forgotten! ЗЫ: Ребята, судя по мессагам, тут как минимум половина русскоговрящие... =) Thanks and best regards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believable Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Alright I have the 3945 wireless card. I go to the site, download it, mount it, drag that little network whatever thing to my Mac Hard drive, then I run the package. As soon as I run the package, a big thing fades over my desktop, telling me I have to restart. Upon restart, same message appears, doesn't let me boot back into Leopard. So I had to install Leopard again. Then I tried switching off the wireless button, same outcome, had to install Leopard yet again Any one have an idea on what is exactly wrong? Laptop HP dv2000t 3945a/b/g wireless card+Bluetooth 120 SATA Hard Drive Intel Core 2 Duo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jl7854 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Alright I have the 3945 wireless card. I go to the site, download it, mount it, drag that little network whatever thing to my Mac Hard drive, then I run the package. As soon as I run the package, a big thing fades over my desktop, telling me I have to restart. Upon restart, same message appears, doesn't let me boot back into Leopard. So I had to install Leopard again. Then I tried switching off the wireless button, same outcome, had to install Leopard yet again Any one have an idea on what is exactly wrong? I do believe the 3945 driver as well as the others do not work with Leopard. These lines Mac OS X version This drivers are made for 10.4.x there's no support for 10.5 at this time are what lead me to that conclusion. You say you had to install Leopard again. Was it a clean install (reformat of the partition)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeclubbeur Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I do believe the 3945 driver as well as the others do not work with Leopard. These lines Mac OS X version This drivers are made for 10.4.x there's no support for 10.5 at this time are what lead me to that conclusion. You say you had to install Leopard again. Was it a clean install (reformat of the partition)? This driver doesn't work yet !!! It's a pre-beta driver wich only have the ability to make a 3945 card as an airport card... But, there is no network and no start/stop. So, please wait If you can't boot onto Leo, you have to start with -s command and delete the iwi3945.kext driver from /Syster/Library/Extensions and delete extentions.mkext. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulyanov77 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I do believe the 3945 driver as well as the others do not work with Leopard. The version on the project website is not, but the latest work of symuc is (thankfully) aimed at leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeandmat Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 The version on the project website is not, but the latest work of symuc is (thankfully) aimed at leopard. Fully quote! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeclubbeur Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 hum hum... I repeat... This driver doesn't work !!! It doesn't crash leopard but, still doesn't work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x4hu Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Since Mac is UNIX based why its so hard to link linux 3945 and 4965 drivers to mac os ? I saw some work around with http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=159550 and with http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ ...and I also believe 3945 and 4965 drivers are close because on intel website there is only one source for the two cards : http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_res...mp;submit=Go%21 Maybe this project will help : http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symuc Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 @x4hu That's the ultimate goal -- to come up with a harness that will allow any Linux wireless driver to work in OS X. Many differences can just be #ifdef'ed away (such as locking and kmalloc/IOMalloc differences), but the hardest differences lie at the edges: How does the wireless driver talk to the network/wireless stack, and how does the wireless driver talk to the hardware? The drivers (both past and present) are ports of the intelwireless drivers, which are the successor to the ipw3945 project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x4hu Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Well I see. That explains a lot of things and this project seems interesting. I'll try to understand more what's happening with linux drivers. I'm thinking about making a linux dump of my 4965... I guess that's ain't easy but its sad to see how this card works great on one hand and just gives a kernel panic on the other hand. Hehe don't give up the work guys ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mac Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Hi, I was was looking all through this post and i can't determine which is the latest post of the 3945 dmg and i was wondering if anyone could repost it for me please it would be greatly appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emranit Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 download from Post #3934 i use kext helper to instal it on root user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symuc Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 A quick update: I've learned quite a lot from the initial driver I posted,and now am beginning to understand how the card works. (the mac adds issue, by the way, was caused by a debugging attempt where I made the first line of the getHardwareAddress function "return 0". I've since worked on trying to get unmodified iwl drivers to first compile, then actually run. Through abusing the preprocessor, I've succeeded in the first, but need to do more work to get it to load. Mostly, coming up with shims to adapt the Linux code to run on Darwin. Based on what I've seen so far, I think it's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starimage Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Entire peace stood still in the expectation.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeandmat Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 x Symuc: if you post your works, we will test it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalavoui Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 symuc, the iwidarwin svn tree now as an amazing 500 MB quota i think we should keep the iwi3945 version with ioethernetcontroller just in case io80211 framework fail to work - i'll move it to the folder "old" you can add your source to the trunk - this will keep the source code up to date i've update iwi2200 latest code - this will be rev 579 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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