!MNc99 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 On my old 10.4.6 install, Airport worked natively, as in, it was there as soon as I got to the desktop for the first time. Have replaced hard-drive recently and re-installed, same card. Mac now no longer picks up my Belkin wireless card as AirPort Extreme. Help, how do I get this fixed?! Thanks M Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43767-airport/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
!MNc99 Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 PLEASE, help me out here! This is a big deal, I need it fixed. Thanks. M Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43767-airport/#findComment-323821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wang Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Two methods: 1. Replace IO80211Family.kext with the one in 10.4.6 2. Edit IO80211Family.kext/ontents/Plugins/AirPortAtheros5424.kext (or AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext depending on the chip)/Contents/Info.plist to include the Vendor-ID and Device_ID of your card. Repair permissions and reboot. Bruce Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43767-airport/#findComment-324030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
!MNc99 Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 I tried copying the IO80211Family.kext file over from the 10.4.6, to no avail. The airPort icon appears in the top bar, but I can't configure it. How can one find the vendor_id and devide_id of their card and how do they put it in? Idiot's guide, please. This is unchartered ground for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43767-airport/#findComment-334857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gthlm Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 After you've replaced/edited the IO80211Family.kext, delete the AppleAirport2.kext, Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext and restart. If you startup in verbose mode, you'll see the system trying to load the AppleAirport2.kext and failing. When it's not there it'll load the IO80211Family.kext instead, hopefully successfully. That is, if your card has a broadcom chip... I'm not on my hackintosh right now so I'm going by memory, but you can find the vendor and device id's by booting in windows, opening the properties page for your card in the device manager, and looking in the last tab, I forget what it's called. You can probably work it out from there tho! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43767-airport/#findComment-334883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
!MNc99 Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 Thanks gthlm, I'll try that one out. My card's a Belkin, not a Broadcom, but I have my fingers crossed anyway. Damn shame having the lastest kernel without the most important fixes included. I love my old 10.4.6 DVD but it's outdated. Guess I'll just have to wait for Jasser to release a new one on Demonoid.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43767-airport/#findComment-334947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
!MNc99 Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 Well gthlm, after following your advice, I now receive an error telling me AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext was not properly installed. The AirPort icon is now gone from my top bar as well, so that's no good. Heeelp!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43767-airport/#findComment-336323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdruth Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Well gthlm, after following your advice, I now receive an error telling me AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext was not properly installed. The AirPort icon is now gone from my top bar as well, so that's no good. Heeelp!! I followed Bruce Wang's option #2 (use the IO80211 from 10.4.8, and adjust the info.plist) and provided my chip's id. To find the id, I ran the following in Terminal: ioreg -l | grep pci14e4 Look for the "Name" or "IOName" - and find the second number, that's the other part of the tuple you'll need whilst following his directions. Rebooted, the card was "not configured", so I went to network prefs, it configured itself and picked up my airport settings from before my upgrade. No worries. Working like a charm. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43767-airport/#findComment-346566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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