leox64 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 i have an intel 2100 3B on my Thinkpad T41, would it work on my laptop? could anyone tell me what type (artherous) card do i have? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-615907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 Try in terminal, type in the stuff in bold: sudo chmod +s /usr/sbin/networksetup /*you will need to enter your password at this point*/ sudo nano /etc/rc.local networksetup -setairportnetwork "your network name here" "your password name here" ctrl-W /*save the file (hit enter)*/ ctrl-X /*exit from the nano editor*/ alternately attached is the zip of the script from the p5, but you might need to edit it to allow sudo Connect.command.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-616109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
palote Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Try in terminal, type in the stuff in bold: sudo chmod +s /usr/sbin/networksetup /*you will need to enter your password at this point*/ sudo nano /etc/rc.local networksetup -setairportnetwork "your network name here" "your password name here" ctrl-W /*save the file (hit enter)*/ ctrl-X /*exit from the nano editor*/ alternately attached is the zip of the script from the p5, but you might need to edit it to allow sudo Thanks A LOT!!! consolation!!! hope this helps more people like me. Thanks 4 everything!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-616428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 .5.2 works with the .4.8 kext. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-619263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fb* Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Do we get the wireless improvements with the .4.8 kext? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-621217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
palote Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 hi there again..... Any success with 10.5.2? because i have lost my airport setting with new update... any update on this? Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-621844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 hi there again..... Any success with 10.5.2? because i have lost my airport setting with new update... any update on this? Cheers As posted above, the 4.8 kext works with 5.2, I'll have a play with 5.2 kexts when I have some spare time. Generally, backup your edited kexts before applying updates . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-622624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kseelbo Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 I used this installer to get my wg311t working perfectly under 10.5.2. See attachment. AtherosAR5004G.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-626505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Hi. thanks consolation for your support on these chipset.Here everything is working but the issue on wake form sleep..as others around. I hope in future we will be ble to solve it, I think it's smbios related. cheers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-631135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsavage Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Is anyone else getting sporadic disconnects on their Netgear 311T? <key>Atheros Wireless LAN PCI</key> <dict> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>com.apple.driver.AirPortAtheros</string> <key>IOClass</key> <string>AirPort_Athr5424</string> <key>IOMatchCategory</key> <string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string> <key>IONameMatch</key> <array> <string>pci168c,23</string> <string>pci168c,24</string> </array> <key>IOProviderClass</key> <string>IOPCIDevice</string> </dict> </dict> This is my AirportAtheros.ktext. The device ids you guys give are pretty different from mine. Should i change the pci strings to yours? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-634163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 The device ids you guys give are pretty different from mine. Should i change the pci strings to yours? You should set them to whatever your device id is. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-634526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simisimisimi Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Using the 10.4.8 kext, my card is fully functional. However, wake from sleep is not working. Without it, wake from sleep works perfectly same thing here, used consolations kext and lost sleep - put the old one back and sleep worked again. simon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-643010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simisimisimi Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 I used this installer to get my wg311t working perfectly under 10.5.2. See attachment. does sleep work, too? simon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-648913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kseelbo Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 My machine will start up after sleep, but no monitor. So the short answer is "No." Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-652518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 does sleep work, too? simon For me sleep depends on smbios/kext combination. I can have working sleep OR working apple profiler... Try a few different ones. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-653168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistapony Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Could someone please post the 10.4.8 IO80211Family.kext I can't seem to find it even though i downloaded the 10.4.8 Update dmg from apple. Using pacifist I still can't find it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-653465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 There are a few links posted in the thread already . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-654850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchammer187 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 This worked for me somewhat. on a D-Link 2320 Gold. The bit about the changing En0 -> En1 did nothing for me including any edits to IONetworkingFamily.kext however I did get mine to work my merely changing the Service Order of Airport so it is at the top of the list. The 2nd time I installed I did not edit IONetworkingFamily.kext only IO80211Family from c->13 and changing the service order so airport was on top and it worked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-660265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtom255 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I have a D-Link DWL-G520 PCI card and when I go to network I don't see airport in the list. This is my first time trying to get wireless working, can someone help. Thanks 10.5.2 Zephyroth AMD 6400+ MSI K9N Diamond ATI X1950 pro Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-660335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NT2OOO Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 .....................................sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/ sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/ sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache (Or, use the script in the attached .dmg file if you can't be bothered cleaning up permissions by hand) Reboot... and voilà detected as an airport extreme card .................................. are you sure????? my Acer Aspire 9410 & Kaly 10.5.1 do not detect anything....... previously 10.4.9 has worked wery well sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache DO NOT FIND!!!! address is correct?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-660373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache DO NOT FIND!!!! address is correct?? That's only required in 10.4, you can ignore that error. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-661145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo(2) Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 That's only required in 10.4, you can ignore that error. Consolidation, I have a Netgear WG511T (PCMCIA Card) and I was wondering if all of the work you, and others, have collected for the WG311T (PCI Card) will work for my WG511T card? Many thanks, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-671023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
taurusrecords Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 i have a wg311 v1 and that didnt worked for me i used the io8.kext from 10.4.8 and my mac says it cant load that kext. so i used the normal io802 kext add the string 168c,13 and also did that stff with the network.plist but it doenst show up under the profiler "airport".. it only says in the network config new eth02 device.. but no wireless somebody know what to do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-671366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo(2) Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 I was also having the same problems as most of us here with gettting my wireless card to work. I was using a D-Link DWL-G510 card under 10.4.10 that worked great. I upgraded to Leopard and it quit working. I tried the old kexts, editing Leopard's, etc... The closest I came was it was recognized, Airport was on, but it was lock up my system. Then I tried a WMP300N card from Linksys. This card's ID is included in Leopard's IO80211Family.kext, so I thought it may work natively. No luck there either. So out of frustration, I tried Orange Ware's 3.3 version of their driver found at http://www.orangeware.com/endusers/wirelessformac.html and on reboot my card worked great! Don't ask me why because their driver is PPC and for Atheros chipsets. Maybe one of you can figure it out. Just a note, The apple airport in the menubar works, but Orangeware's included wireless utility does not (error about intel macs). kseelbo, thanks for the tip about orageware's drivers. i downloaded the .sit file and then stuffit for mac and then ran through the whole setup and installation process with no problems. however, when i went into systempreferences and launched the wireless icon i got a message that this software doe NOT run on intel based macs. i am trying to connect with a netgear wg511t cardbus card. do you have any other suggestions ? many thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-679309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 Have you checked that your cardbus/pcmcia is working correctly? Most laptops seem to need it tweeked for osX... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40317-how-toatheros-ar5212-based-cards-now-w-leopard/page/9/#findComment-684459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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