danielzhang Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Hi all, have installed leopard which works perfectly on my Presario V3000 (exact model V3136TU). Only thing not working is the inbuilt wireless. It's using a broadcom chipset, which is supported by leopard. However, the laptop has a physical slide on/off switch to enable or disable wireless. When leopard boots, even when i slide the wireless switch to on, leopard os x doesn't detect the wireless (red off led light instead of blue on led light). When BIOS boots, wireless is similarly not detected (red led light). Only in Windows XP does the wireless get detected (blue led light). As far as i know, this physical switch issue has yet to be solved, seeing as how Leopard doesn't transmit power to the wireless, hence the led red light instead of the led blue light. Which USB wireless adapter would work for leopard? Something that I could purchase and use out of the box to complete my leopard experience? With all the brands around, i'm not sure if the internal chipset is compatible. Anyone could throw out some popular brands/models of usb wireless that works? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joja1639 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Hi Daniel, I'v tried to install Leopard on my presario v3000 but never succed. Could you help me how to do that? I have leopard dvd installer (kalyway 10.51). Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielzhang Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 i used iatkos, worked fine for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WACOMalt Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 So any answers to the OP's question? which USB adaptor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xosx86 Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 So any answers to the OP's question? which USB adaptor? Sure, I used the airlink here: http://shop3.outpost.com/product/5349928?s...CH:MAIN_RSLT_PG http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4485/5349928bighp0.jpg Driver for Air link > Air_link_installer_OSX10_4.zip Note: it say's 10.4 but also works with Leo 10.5! Fry's has it many times for only $10 Works great with tiger and leopard I just picked up a dell 1390 off ebay for $13 and put that in my vaio (to replace the intel 3945) Now I have airport:) it was just under the keyboard, very easy! good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielzhang Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 i'm not sure if changing the wireless module will help. the v3000 presario compaq i'm using has a broadcom wireless module which is supposedly compatible.the reason why it doesn't work is because there is a physical on/off switch that you can slide on or off to enable the wireless chip. in windows xp, when booting, the wireless switch turns blue, which means it's on.when booting leopard, the wireless switch remains red, which means its off. sliding the physical switch on the 'on' position still leaves the switch OFF. there is no power transmitting to the chip.not sure if anyone here has any advise on that. or would a wireless card swap do the trick?and just a reply to the airlink url given, thanks for the heads up. fry's has it for $25 currently though, i'll see if the price drops.i'm residing in singapore, not in the states. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xosx86 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I see what you are saying about the wireless switch, weird. The dell 1390 (broadcom) works, as well as the wireless switch in my vaio. Good luck, If I see that air link for a better deal soon I will let you know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keypox Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 so after searching and going through the wiki that there isnt an organized list of the working usb wifi. But i see that on CC website they list alot of USB wifis as mac and pc ready. http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Networking/...categorylist.do Does that mean they will work on this hacked mac? Ithink so but not sure i may go buy one tomorrow. also found this little link with some compat usb.... ony guys said those cheap ass trendnets work http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/wi.../topic4046.html may have to grab one last link before bed time http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?f...&category0= lots of cheap ones here they should work since they come with proper drivers right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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