Andrmgic Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Has anyone with a card that Mac OS X picks up as an airport extreme been able to run the enabler successfully? My card (Netgear WN311B) has the Broadcom BCM4321 chipset and was picked up by OS X as an AirPort Extreme as soon as I popped it into the computer. For giggles I tried the enabler, only to find out that I needed the AirPort Extreme update first, so I grabbed that, and it changed the description of my card from supporting only 802.11g to 802.11 a/b/g. I still get an issue trying to run the enabler, though. This is the install.log I see after I try to open the package: Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : @(#)PROGRAM:Install PROJECT:Install-141 DEVELOPER:root BUILT:Jul 13 2006 20:14:15\n Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : @(#)PROGRAM:Installer PROJECT:Installer-94 DEVELOPER:root BUILT:Jul 2 2006 00:22:31\n Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : Hardware: ADP2,1 @ 2210 MHz (x2), 2048 MB Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : Running OS Build: 8L2127 Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : AirPort Extreme 802.11n Enabler Installation Log Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : Opened from: /Volumes/AirMac Extreme 802.11n Enabler/AirMac Extreme 802.11n Enabler.pkg Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : Distribution: AirPort Extreme 802.11n Enabler Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : It took 0.239189 seconds to finish launching. Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : Installation checks failed. Feb 16 08:55:04 mck-mac : Installation check failure. (null). Your computer does not meet the hardware requirements for this update.. Any idea if this might be caused by a cpu check hidden in the .dist file? I looked in the various Info.plist files and didn't see any requirements to edit out, unlike the Parallels 3150 install. If anyone has some ideas or knows a potential way around it, it would be cool to see this working Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42599-non-intel-cpus-and-the-airport-enabler-cpu_id-checks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 LOL, why are you trying to use a apple firmware update for a non apple product? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42599-non-intel-cpus-and-the-airport-enabler-cpu_id-checks/#findComment-304592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrmgic Posted February 16, 2007 Author Share Posted February 16, 2007 (edited) For fun, really. It uses the same innards, I believe. The Netgear router associated with this particular card is eerily similar to the Airport Extreme, also. Figured it was worth a shot, and the airport update worked perfectly. The other reason I tried is because it wasn't clear that it was an update to the firmware, I thought the feature could have been disabled in software in Apple's driver for the airport extreme cards. If it really is a firmware update as you say it is, then of course it isn't going to work with the card. I had just thought since OS X thinks Apple makes my card, that it would be worth a try Edited February 16, 2007 by Andrmgic Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42599-non-intel-cpus-and-the-airport-enabler-cpu_id-checks/#findComment-304604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
packysauce Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Is this maybe something pacifist can install forcibly? I haven't used pacifist to get past an install hanger quite like this though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42599-non-intel-cpus-and-the-airport-enabler-cpu_id-checks/#findComment-307171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 I think it's just a new kext (driver). SO just use pacisift to extract the pkg Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42599-non-intel-cpus-and-the-airport-enabler-cpu_id-checks/#findComment-307295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrmgic Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 I tried extracting the driver from the archive.pax.gz inside, but it doesn't seem to work when I put it into extensions, there is a .dist file in there, but I'm not sure how or if it is even possible to open those up. I've pretty much given up hope of it working at this point Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42599-non-intel-cpus-and-the-airport-enabler-cpu_id-checks/#findComment-307710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 lol, repair permission on it, and then do a kextload with it. And if it doesnt work, then dont get angry, it probably wasnt ment to work in the first place Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42599-non-intel-cpus-and-the-airport-enabler-cpu_id-checks/#findComment-307742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mofo-X Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Greetings, The Airport Enabler flashes the firmware on the actual network adapters shipped with the Core 2 systems (The adapter itself can handle 802.11n) and allows the system to see it as a draft n card. If your card has n capabilities it might be a while, you could modify the kext and try to match vendev ids but chances are nill, the kext will most likely being using EFI firmware on the network card just as their video cards. I personally think this is a useless venture, you would be better off finding the flags used to report your card as an n card and modify the wireless kext currently used to report this feature, just then might your "extreme" card work. Regards, {censored}-x Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42599-non-intel-cpus-and-the-airport-enabler-cpu_id-checks/#findComment-307839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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