BoomerBoy Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 TEW-443PI Trendnet PCI Card, Atheros chipset. Recognized as Airport, support from 10.4.5 IO80211Family.kext, installed with Pacifist Instructions... Download 10.4.5 update from Apple and open it ( show package contents or use Pacifist ) up and copy IO80211Family.kext to your desktop. Open System/Library/Extensions and backup then delete existing IO80211Family.kext Copy desktop extracted version to Extensions folder Use Disk Utilitues to repair permissions Shutdown Install Card Restart Go to system preferrences/network New port detected as Airport works on every system if have tried it on, ( only intel based ) System Profiler Report AirPort Card Information: Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x2051) Wireless Card Locale: Unknown Wireless Card Firmware Version: 0.1.12 Current Wireless Network: SMC Wireless Channel: 6 AirPort: Type: AirPort Hardware: AirPort BSD Device Name: en2 IPv4 Addresses: 192.168.2.183 IPv4: Addresses: 192.168.2.183 Configuration Method: DHCP Interface Name: en2 Router: 192.168.2.1 Subnet Masks: 255.255.255.0 IPv6: Configuration Method: Automatic DNS: Server Addresses: 192.168.2.1 DHCP Server Responses: Domain Name Servers: 192.168.2.1 Lease Duration (seconds): 0 DHCP Message Type: 0x05 Option Overload: 0x03 Routers: 192.168.2.1 Server Identifier: 192.168.2.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Proxies: Proxy Configuration Method: Manual ExcludeSimpleHostnames: 0 FTP Passive Mode: Yes Auto Discovery Enabled: No Ethernet: MAC Address: 00:18:e7:09:bf:e4 Media Options: Media Subtype: autoselect PLEASE DON'T ASK WHERE TO FIND THESE CARDS...NOT HARD TO LOCATE, OR ASK HOW TO DO THIS, IT IS EXPLAINED STEP FOR STEP ABOVE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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