amdmatt Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 ive installed iATKOS on my laptop and i have an Atheros AR5006X installed for wifi.. The card worked fine in kalyway nativly.. but i cant get it working with iATKOS.. ive tried adding the vender and device id (168c,001c) to the IO80211Family.kext and set permissions but all it does is show the airport icon and say not configured.. when i click on preferences it shows the airport as off and the button that is supposed to turn it on does nothing.. I also tried moving the Kalyway IO80211Family.kext over and repaired permissions but no luck.. Also eskurza posted a hacked .kext on iATKOS uphuck forums for his AR5005G but that didnt work either.. any ideas/suggestions? thanks peace Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTimster Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 i ran into this issue when i stopped using ToH rc2 and used kalyway. it seems that sometimes the kexts mess up the bsd subsystem for device names (en0, en1 and so forth). reinstalling fixed my problem. its really a matter of luck of the draw. does the airport icon at least show up when you did a fresh install? if it did then you're experiencing exactly what i did. EDIT: put your specs in your sig, it makes troubleshooting easier for other users. i think i recognize your username, didnt i help you wiht something before? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/#findComment-597414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdmatt Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 i ran into this issue when i stopped using ToH rc2 and used kalyway. it seems that sometimes the kexts mess up the bsd subsystem for device names (en0, en1 and so forth). reinstalling fixed my problem. its really a matter of luck of the draw. does the airport icon at least show up when you did a fresh install? if it did then you're experiencing exactly what i did. EDIT: put your specs in your sig, it makes troubleshooting easier for other users. i think i recognize your username, didnt i help you wiht something before? hahaha yeah you did i pmed u with some questions a few days ago but ill try reinstalling.. and the airport icon was there when i was first installed just said it could not be configured... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/#findComment-597439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTimster Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 yeah thats bsd not deteciting adapters correctly. try reinstalling, why did you switch from kalyway, if it works, its a great distro! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/#findComment-597508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdmatt Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 because iATKOS is the only distro ive found to be able to sport the vanilla kernal and get the battery meter working plus eskurza uses and acer and i gotta keep it real yo! haha peace Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/#findComment-597869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTimster Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 the reaso iatkos can use the battery meter is because it does use the vanilla acpiplatform kext. kalyway uses the vanilla acpiplatform kext which isnt compatible with the hacked powermanagement.bundle. you can choose to not install the canilla acpiplatform kext when installing kalyway Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/#findComment-597997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitaristz Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 AMD Matt, I just went through that debackle as well but with Kalyway. Finally after hours- installed IATKOS. It's all good. Yeah, don't 100% install 10.5.2 update (see netkas.org). Small issue: Upon reboot the Airport defaults to off. How does one make ON permanent? thanks... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/#findComment-643705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunknbass Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 do you know if the ar5006Xs is supported the same as the ar5006x? loking to buy this [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/Atheros-AR5006XS-SUPER-AG-wireless-miniPCI-card-108Mbps_W0QQitemZ300201716282QQihZ020QQcategoryZ45000QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcm ZViewItem[/url] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/#findComment-646331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julees Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 I'm having trouble with this =/ I have iatkos v7 running on my Presario ( atheros ar5006x ) and I can't find how to fix the problem... the Airport option is turned gray. any issue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/84153-atheros-ar5006x-with-iatkos/#findComment-1484779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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