robriderOnMyspace Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 the on board wireless apears to be using the RealTek 8187 wireless 802.11g... under win xp it apears as a usb device, but its built into my board. anyone have any suggestions how to get airport to recognize it? if not that how about a USB Linksys WUSB54G fix? ..not having the internet is killing my macing expierence ::sigh:: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64468-onboard-wireless-support/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
monoem Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 You most likely need those official drivers: ftp://209.216.61.149/cn/wlan/MacOS10.4_Universal_Driver_1.4.5_UI1.4.7.zip or this in case of using OSX 10.3: ftp://61.56.69.18/cn/wlan/Realtek_MacOS10.3_Driver1.4.5_UI1.4.7.zip Make sure you've read the instructions as the configuration is a bit problematic. Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64468-onboard-wireless-support/#findComment-456898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robriderOnMyspace Posted September 27, 2007 Author Share Posted September 27, 2007 you are f :censored2:ucking awsome! you made my day. i am now 100% as far as i can tell.. its talkin a little getting use to the OS but not bad i had it all up and running in about 3 days. now i might look for ways to speed up my pc.....i dont know if its normal but the gray apple screen hangs there for about a min or 2 befor the rest of the boot process. xp seems to boot right up. i dont know if thats normal or if i should look into other kernals? any suggestiosn are welcome.....thank you again to the enitre board for all help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64468-onboard-wireless-support/#findComment-457248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slip Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Hey Robrider Does the SIL 3132 SATA onboard work outa the box. I'm planning on upgrading my recent ASUS M2N-E board .Thats a real bonus as the WI-FI will work as well. ! According to my research Asus m2n-e board has a Nforce sata controller = no proper driver Asus m2n-e SLI version has the JB Micron sata controller = has a driver. Asus m2n32-sli-deluxe has the SIL 3132 sata controller = has a quality Driver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64468-onboard-wireless-support/#findComment-457261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
monoem Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 @Robrider - glad i could help. about the gray apple logo: i think that you boot in standard mode. in verbose mode you don't see it, but instead you have a console which writes messages about booting/errors/issues/etc. i also get a slightly longer boot than to windows xp but then again, both systems work flawlessly after @Slip - check out this thread on nForce drivers: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35985 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64468-onboard-wireless-support/#findComment-457290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robriderOnMyspace Posted September 27, 2007 Author Share Posted September 27, 2007 Hey RobriderDoes the SIL 3132 SATA onboard work outa the box. I'm planning on upgrading my recent ASUS M2N-E board .Thats a real bonus as the WI-FI will work as well. ! According to my research Asus m2n-e board has a Nforce sata controller = no proper driverAsus m2n-e SLI version has the JB Micron sata controller = has a driver.Asus m2n32-sli-deluxe has the SIL 3132 sata controller = has a quality Driver.ill be honest..after reading the board sata hard drives seemed liek a pain in the ass....i said f it and i left my sata2 320 gig to xp....i used a pata 120 and gave it to apple....the only bumb i had in the begining of it was after the install...kept getting ebios errors... so i made it a master in the ide and made my dvdrw the salve, and the thing went right to install. i know that dosnt really answer your sata question....it might have just been easier to tell you i dont know ;-)@Robrider - glad i could help. about the gray apple logo: i think that you boot in standard mode. in verbose mode you don't see it, but instead you have a console which writes messages about booting/errors/issues/etc. i also get a slightly longer boot than to windows xp but then again, both systems work flawlessly after @Slip - check out this thread on nForce drivers: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35985 i might try that out. would eliminating *.kext's that arent used and or problemsome, make the boot time quicker? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64468-onboard-wireless-support/#findComment-457310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slip Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 I should be able to test the MOBO Sata tonight. ! The M2N-E only has one ATA the Generic driver and 2 devices ( DVD/ HD ) on one cable - installing Garageband loops from DVD example is slow. Also my Xbench score got hammered with Disk IO performance. I get 7 diskarb errors while booting adds about 20secs . With Tubgirl 10.4.10 default boot is verbose . Cheers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64468-onboard-wireless-support/#findComment-457666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slip Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 M2N32-SLI Deluxe SATA works outa the box. Heres the hard part you have to use the sil 3132 connection at the top/rear of the MOBO, and set the SATA controller to sata mode in the bios. Guess sometimes you just have to look at the manual. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64468-onboard-wireless-support/#findComment-458152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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