MSI MP54G-BT2 wireless working

[Amuso]

The old Atheros AR5005 card would not work under Leopard in my HP dv1410 laptop so I went about looking for a solution.

 

Came across a good deal on a brand new MSI PM54G-BT2 MiniPCI WiFi-card with Bluetooth embedded. Not that I needed another Bluetooth device, but the price was right I am seemed to recall that Ralink was supported under Leopard.

 

After hacking the HP BIOS to allow the machine to boot with an "unautorized" WiFi card I first was disappointed. No WiFi detected. Searched the forums a bit and with help from this thread I solved the problem.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=75775

 

I downloaded the RT25** drivers from http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Macintosh.html

 

These are only 10.3 and 10.4 versions, but works under Leopard... Well, WPA doesnt work, so I switched over to WEP and that works brilliantly.

 

Make sure you get the right drivers, the ones for MPCI and the RT2500-chipset. I tried the other drivers which had Leopard support, but then the card would not be detected at all. Probably could be solved with some hacking But since it works with WEP I am happy so far. Now the laptop has wireless as well. Only the battery issues to fix. And I think I found a few pointers to PowerManagement.bundle that I will attempt.