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alright. so me being the idiot i am, decided it would be best to install the Airport Express security update. After the reinstall my wireless card wouldn't work. So I figured alright, I'll just re-install the IONetworking kext to get everything working again, but now I dont have Ethernet. I still don't even have Airport. It shows up in the Network Util but when I open Internet Connect it says "No Airport Hardware found." I have an Atheros based wireless card. Ven 168c Dev 0013 and an Intel 100 Pro/VE ethernet (Ven 103d Dev 8086) Can you guys help me?

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Alright, I tried the package fix that was in "Airport Extreme Update 2007-001" that worked to the extent that I can get Airport in my network preferences, but now it says under Internet Connect "No Airport Hardware found." Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

hey buddie,

 

the update replaces the IO80211Family.kext,

 

replace yours with this one i attached and fix permissions of the kext before loading the atheros kext manually

 

after replacing,

 

execute the following commands:

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions

 

chmod -R 755 IO80211family.kext

 

chown -R root:wheel IO80211family.kext

 

cd IO80211Family.kext/contents/plugins

 

kextload AirPortAtheros5424.kext

 

reboot, open the network diagnostics and set up your wirless connection..

 

hope this helps,

 

IO80211Family.kext.zip

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alright, so i looked at the permissions of the IO80211Family.kext file and it has "6 root" instead of "5 root" or"3 root" whatever it's supposed to be, I'm not certain anymore. Anyway, my question is how do I change that? or fix that permission? I've tried Disk Utility but to no avail.

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OK, If I were you I would:.

1) reapply the update.

2) you have two choices you can A) use the IO80211Family.kext from 10.4.5 combo update to get working Airport or B) you can use this method to get a working Airport Extreme.

3) always repair permissions and delete kext caches before rebooting.

 

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

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