zedle Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 I just upgraded to 10.4.9 (SEE2), and dropped my Atheros minipci card into my laptop and edited the Atheros plist file to pick up on it. After I rebooted the airport icon was there, and it seemed fine.. As soon as I clicked on the airport icon the system locked up completely. The only thing i could do was move the mouse. Every other part of the system was frozen. The minipci card is a AR5212 chipset, took it out of a Netgear WG311 PCI card (it was just a minipci adapter). It worked in Windows, Linux, etc. with no issues at all. One time when i clicked the airport icon it brought up the menu, but showed no wireless networks. I clicked "Other" and typed in my network info hoping it would connect, but it said "Unable to connect to [NetworkName]" and then locked up the system as soon as i clicked the airport icon a 2nd time... I've tried just about everything I could find relating to Atheros wireless on these forums and nothing has worked. Anyone have any ideas? Also, the card is listed as en1, so thats not the issue. People with the same chipset IDs have had no problems with this, but I seem to be having a lot of issues with it. It'd be great if someone could help fix this, this is my last problem to fix before it works perfectly. Edit: Updated to 10.4.10, now the airport icon is gone, profiler doesn't detect, the changed to the plist are still there however. More confused than ever. Specs: dv1000 laptop pentium m 1.6ghz 60gb hd i915 graphics (GMA900 QE+CI work) @ 1280x768x32 512mb ram AC97 audio working orig. had IPW2200BG wireless, but the OSX driver won't do encryption, so I switched to AR5212. 10.4.8 JaS upgraded to 10.4.9 SSE2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedle Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 no one has any idea? Still haven't been able to fix this issue. I've read that 10.4.10 has wireless problems, but those people at least see the Airport icon in the menu bar, that doesn't even show up for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 is this the kext you changed? /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AirPortAtheros5424.kext/Contents/Info.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedle Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 weird, as long as you put in your specific manufacturer & device ID, fixed permissions and deleted caches: it should have worked. This method has always worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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