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If this has been covered sufficiently elsewhere then please just point me to the best explanation, but nothing I have read yet seems conclusive.

 

I have Kalyway 10.5.1 successfully installed for the first time today about an hour ago. Unfortunately no wireless yet. the P5K runs the Realtek RTL8187 chipset.

 

I tried using the drivers that came on the Kalyway disc to no avail. I have downloaded the drivers from the Realtek website, the 10.4 universal ones. Any other ideas? gonna burn them to a CD and reboot and try now. All help appreciated!

 

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having gone further now. I have managed to install the realtek drivers from the website, however they are dreadful. The best I can manage at the moment is that when Mac OS X first boots the Realtek Client comes up (and I can't type into it) and sees the wireless networks available. I have to the kill the instance of the client running as I cannot type in it; I restart the client and try to connect to one of the networks (I run two wireless routers, both recognised).

 

It will connect, but only for a couple of seconds. After that even if I scan for networks again none will be recognised and the only solution that works is restarting the Mac.

 

Without wireless my hackintosh is useless to me, so it's pretty annoying! Anyone had a success story with the Asus P5K wireless?

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I've got the same board, if the P5K Premium is the same..... I've tried the wifi driver built in to the Kalyway disc but it doesn't seem to work for me either. It LOOKS like it's trying to connect, then it seems to lose all signal and wont refresh the list. I DO get a list of available networks though.

 

Any idea?

 

By the way, what settings should be set in the System Preferences, Network, Advanced for the wifi card under 804.11x? I think maybe some setting in there need to match the specific settings in the Realtek utility. Can someone go through, or link to some complete details as to what settings need to be set in both the System Preferences and the Realtek utility? I for one would really appreciate that, as, i'm sure a lot of others will too.

 

Thanks

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Guys, this has been covered. Go get the drivers directly from the realtek site ftp://66.104.77.130/cn/wlan/87_Mac10.4_v1309.zip.

 

Reboot! (It will come up new network interface found but wait till you reboot before playing with it)

 

Realtek utility will poppup saying you need to activate card...

 

This driver DOES NOT use AirPort, instead, you'll have to go to Network in System Preferences and ADD A NEW CONNECTION. It will be a Ethernet connection (normally second one).

 

Rename it as wireless and DHCP then the Realtek utility will detect and hopefully work for you.

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