Acer Aspire 3680-2419, no sound, no internet (wifi _or_ ethernet)

[Dementual]

So, I've been a constant Windows supporter forever. I always haaated Mac for having an elitist fanbase (or so I thought), but then a friend of mine opened my eyes to look beyond the elitist fanboys and actually try the operating system. Well, I went and got VMWare and a copy of Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2].iso to install my first virtual machine.

 

All went well, I thought, until I decided to go post about it on a few forums. I opened up Safari and was hit with a "You aren't connected to the Internet" message. I tried the diagnostics tool that was provided, but it said that I don't have an active DSL connection or something, and that nothing else was working.

 

So I decided to connect an ethernet cord to the computer. Nothing. I reboot the virtual machine with the ethernet cord in. Nothing. I reboot the actual laptop itself, nothing.

 

A friend of mine told me that I needed to click the little Wifi button on the toolbar at the top. I told him it isn't there. He recommended I search this forum. I've been looking since around 4AM this morning (it's 4PM now) on and off to try to find the problem. I've run into a few stops left and right.

 

Network Card: Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter

Network Card: Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller

Sound Card: Microsoft High Definition Audio Device

 

All taken from System Information on Windows Vista.

 

For the Atheros card, I followed these directions:

1. Open system/library/extensions/IO80211Family.kext/plugins/airportatheros5424.kext/contents/info.plist

2. Change the "IONameMatch" section to have the following:

• <array>
  
• <string>pci168c,1a</string>
  
• <string>pci168c,1A</string>
  
• <string>pci168c,001A</string>
  
• <string>pci168c,001a</string>
  
• </array>
  

3. Save and reboot the virtual machine.

There were more steps in the tutorial, but they work using the Mac/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist file, which was to be created by the above modification, which wasn't.

 

I didn't find any other help on the Atheros card.

 

As far as the Yukon card goes, this is the best help I found:

1. Get the device id (4352) and vendor id (11ab)

2. Open sudo nano /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon.kext/Contents/Info.plist in the terminal.

3. Go and change

• <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
  
• <string>0x436211AB</string>
  

into

• <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
  
• <string>0x435211AB</string>
  

4. Change the two inaccurate model numbers to

• <key>Yukon-88E8038</key>
  

and

• <string>Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8038</string>
  

5. Save and exit the file.

6. Delete a couple of files

sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

7. diskutil repairPermissions /

8. Reboot.

This did nothing.

 

 

As far as my sound problem is concerned, I haven't looked, but I doubt to find anything anyway, since the sound card is a Microsoft product.

 

Please help in any way possible. It's taken me so long to get interested in Macintosh, and now that I finally am, I can't get it to work.  

 

Thanks in advance.

[bemac]

My Acer has the same networking. You may/will find that Acer is very troublesome to get working. The AR5007 is flat out not compatible. Acer also throws a curve ball when you insert another wireless card that is compatible ... in that during install they still don't work in OSX. They'll work in vista, not in OSX - yet. Several threads regarding the topic. Search AR5006 and AR5007

 

Regular ethernet. Difficulties for many systems.

 

I'm on external USB now. Using JaS install as with uphuck I couldn't get a stable network preference window.

 

Can't say about audio.