kizwan Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Dear All, Ok, I have Acer Aspire 3680 with Atheros AR5BXB63. I think this chipset is new, however I can't find it at Atheros website. Very wierd. When I'm using Windows XP Pro, it recognized as Atheros AR5007EG (the driver come with the resource DVD - WinXP & Vista). It works perfectly in windows. However, when I'm using linux - specifically Fedora 7, it is recognized as AR5006EG, and I couln't use it, even when madwifi is installed. I said I have Atheros AR5BXB63 because at the bottom of my laptop, there's a sticker that said so. Is anybody have the same chipset? How about those who have AR5006EG? What is your chipset? I heard AR5006EG is now working in Mac OS X with kext file from Airport Extreme update. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60652-attention-to-atheros-ar5006eg-ar5007eg/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizwan Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Anybody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60652-attention-to-atheros-ar5006eg-ar5007eg/#findComment-432067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTimster Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 yes it is working, check out my post, it has the right kext http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...0&hl=ar5006 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60652-attention-to-atheros-ar5006eg-ar5007eg/#findComment-434584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizwan Posted August 25, 2007 Author Share Posted August 25, 2007 yes it is working, check out my post, it has the right kexthttp://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...0&hl=ar5006 Thanks. However still not working. I have tried it before, copying kext file from airport extreme update 2007-004. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60652-attention-to-atheros-ar5006eg-ar5007eg/#findComment-435091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgio416 Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 I've got a AR5006EG that works under Linux using NDISWRAPPER. No luck with the kext given. Is there any way that I could port Ndiswrapper to Mac by recompiling with XCode? or is that completely crazy. I come from a programming background but know next to nothing about writing drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60652-attention-to-atheros-ar5006eg-ar5007eg/#findComment-1006805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizwan Posted December 21, 2008 Author Share Posted December 21, 2008 I've got a AR5006EG that works under Linux using NDISWRAPPER. No luck with the kext given. Is there any way that I could port Ndiswrapper to Mac by recompiling with XCode? or is that completely crazy. I come from a programming background but know next to nothing about writing drivers. Hi, Try go to this URL. It look like they have the solution. I can't try it because I has brick my card. Don't worry, I brick my card after I tried to change device id of that card in the EEPROM & it has nothing to do with that guide. Good luck. kizwan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60652-attention-to-atheros-ar5006eg-ar5007eg/#findComment-1008014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasballz Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Dear All, Ok, I have Acer Aspire 3680 with Atheros AR5BXB63. I think this chipset is new, however I can't find it at Atheros website. Very wierd. When I'm using Windows XP Pro, it recognized as Atheros AR5007EG (the driver come with the resource DVD - WinXP & Vista). It works perfectly in windows. However, when I'm using linux - specifically Fedora 7, it is recognized as AR5006EG, and I couln't use it, even when madwifi is installed. I said I have Atheros AR5BXB63 because at the bottom of my laptop, there's a sticker that said so. Is anybody have the same chipset? How about those who have AR5006EG? What is your chipset? I heard AR5006EG is now working in Mac OS X with kext file from Airport Extreme update. Check out my post here (I have a working Atheros AR5006(7)EG// 168cx001c): http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1101087 You need Chun Nan's IOPCI, IONetworking and IOPMCI kexts with IO80211 v 2.1.2 and kismac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60652-attention-to-atheros-ar5006eg-ar5007eg/#findComment-1101096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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