Working PCI Wireless, 10.4.8 and 9

[BoomerBoy]

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.