Networking Problems w/ 10.4.8

[gist]

Hey, I read alot around the Forums on how to get your networking card working properly, however I have no idea what half of it means, and where to locate certain files. The OSX currently reads my Broadcom 802.11g card as an Airport card, but it is not working or I have to enable it/configure it which I have no idea how to do. And my built is card is read but does not work, tried manually configuring it.

Any help putting some of this into lamens terms would be much appreciated.

 

Or better yet, could some one who has a Broadcom 802.11g just upload there modified .kext files?

 

Thanx Gist

Edited February 4, 2007 by gist

[DiaboliK]

thers tons of broadcom 80211 cards around. little more help here

 

whats the vendor and device id of your card (in windows you can find this in Device Manager>Networking>Your Wireless Card>Details)

 

or just the manufacturer and model number.

 

If you ar still lost on how to find Vendor/Device ID's refer to rammjets tutorial here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=261387

Edited February 4, 2007 by DiaboliK

[gist]

My broadcom 802.11g card is a PCI_14E34 and DEV_4320.

When it says edit .plist, how do I edit them?? Do I open and do it through terminal or some other program. Im new to this in case you couldn't tell

Edited February 4, 2007 by gist

[DiaboliK]

to get your Broadcom chipset workin again:

 

you have to edit the info.plist of the AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext

you can find that by opening finder and selecting your HD> System> Library> Extensions> IO80211Famliy.kext

once you get to the IO80211Family.kext control-click or right click and show package contents> Contents> Plugins

then do the same. show package contents of the AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext and then open up the info.plist in text edit

find this string:

<key>IONameMatch</key>

<array>

<string>pci14e4,4311</string>

 

and insert your's which will be something of the same.

 

<string>pci14e4,4320</string> <-- thats exactly what you want to put in

 

then save it or save as and save it to the desktop as info.plist

 

now open terminal and type in: sudo -s

then you password (hit enter)

 

now type in:

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/ (hit enter)

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/ (hit enter)

 

Now type in:

diskutil repairPermissions / (hit enter)

 

let it do its thing now when its done. quit terminal then reboot

 

now if you get the airport diamond in the menubar, open System Preferences (you can do that from the apple menu)

now goto Network, if all went well a window should popup saying new port found : airport (click ok, then click apply now) then you have workin wireless

 

if not you have to change the bsd name of the airport from en1 to en0 in the networkinterfaces.plist found in:

your hd> Library> Preferences> SystemConfiguration> NetworkInterfaces.plist

 

do the edit in text edit then save it then do another: diskutil repairPermissions / (in terminal)

then reboot and try the Network Preference pane step again.

[oneboywonder]

Hi ,

 

I have a similar problem but I have checked all the config you have advised and it all looks correct. The difference that I can see is that I cannot see my card as an Airport card and its not showing in the PCI positions. But it seems to be regestering as a built in ethernet after checking the mac address ...

 

It is the same card as above and on first power up after istall it worked and I had internet but does not any more.

 

Also very new to this so step by step would be most welcome.

 

Cheers