Everything Wifi (including USB) for OSX

I go search on net yesterday. In a AAO fans blog from Taiwan, I found a visitor's (This guy may come from Acer inside & may working for the AAO hardware) reply and said -

The OS X has the Atheors driver inside. But it only has the generic driver. So it can not recognize the ACER OEM version Atheros card. The way we can try it's,

input the PID, VID, SVID, SSID, total 16 digi and character into the OS X Atheros drivers file.
I am not sure if the file is here: IO80211Family.kext-->AppleAtheros.kext.

So, If some already instal OS X and please try this and share to us. Thank you so much!

 

I don't think anyone sells this card retail.. so the only place would be places that people have taken parts out of laptops and what not. which is why ebay is about the only place you can find it unless you have some local buy/sell forums in your area.

I got mine off ebay for 16.95USD shipping included from US to Canada off ebay..

 

Here's the contents of the info.plist for the AirPortAtheros.kext file inside IO80211Family.kext:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
	<string>English</string>
	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>AirPortAtheros</string>
	<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
	<string>3.1.5, Copyright © 2006–2008 Apple Inc. All Rights Reserved.</string>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros</string>
	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
	<string>6.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleName</key>
	<string>AirPortAtheros</string>
	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
	<string>KEXT</string>
	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
	<string>3.1.5</string>
	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
	<string>????</string>
	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
	<string>315.44.0</string>
	<key>IOKitPersonalities</key>
	<dict>
		<key>Atheros Wireless LAN PCI</key>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
			<string>com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros</string>
			<key>IOClass</key>
			<string>AirPort_Athr5424ab</string>
			<key>IOMatchCategory</key>
			<string>IODefaultMatchCategory</string>
			<key>IONameMatch</key>
			<array>
				<string>pci106b,0086</string>
				<string>pci168c,1c</string>
				<string>pci168c,23</string>
				<string>pci168c,24</string>
			</array>
			<key>IOProviderClass</key>
			<string>IOPCIDevice</string>
		</dict>
	</dict>
	<key>OSBundleLibraries</key>
	<dict>
		<key>com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family</key>
		<string>200.0</string>
		<key>com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily</key>
		<string>1.6.0</string>
		<key>com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily</key>
		<string>2.0</string>
		<key>com.apple.kpi.bsd</key>
		<string>9.0.0</string>
		<key>com.apple.kpi.iokit</key>
		<string>9.0.0</string>
		<key>com.apple.kpi.libkern</key>
		<string>9.0.0</string>
		<key>com.apple.kpi.mach</key>
		<string>9.0.0</string>
		<key>com.apple.kpi.unsupported</key>
		<string>9.0.0</string>
	</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Not sure if that will help anyone with this, but I thought I'd post it as I'm in OSX 10.5.5 on my desktop right now. I have my desktop setup for a quad boot and it works quite well.

Once I get my Aspire One ironed out and everything figured out I will probably load up OS X on it and do a dual boot with that and XP. Sure is nice to have a 120GB HD to work with in that little thing!

 

Also thought I'd add this as it kind of surprised me, looking at my Aspire One's listed device instance ID for the wireless card it says: VEN_168C&DEV_001C. It looks like in this info.plist the second hardware string listed *should* match to the AR5007EG in the Aspire One. Perhaps it needs to see the two zeros before the DEV identifier, but I'm not sure.

Those that are willing to tinker should see what they can find with a simple mod to this kext!

 

I've put a MacMini PCIE Wifi card in my AspireOne .

It's works very well under Leopard .

Before...


After...




Oli.

 

i have installed GIGABYTE GN-WI06N-RH (802.11b/g/n).
it is slightly tight, but works fine with OS X natively!

 

wifi usb stick

i was wondering if it was possible if i could use my old linsys g usb adapter or i would have to open up my acer and through in a card which i really am afraid to do

 

Re: wifi usb stick

whats the model number? if its Linksys WUSB54GC you can use ralink drivers from this link http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=33896&hl=linksys+wusb54gc

just post the model number so that we can try to help you.

-jANjALANi

 

Re: wifi usb stick

or search something like this on google
it is the most visited site on the web ffs
linksys (model number) os x
youll probably be redirected to insanelymac.com int he first few results where youre likely to find a fix..

 

Hello,
I have ordered a dell 1390 card and will be putting it into my system as soon as it arrives. I have been reading through this topic and I haven't seen my question answered:
Once the hardware is installed, will OS X recognize the card at bootup? Or is a reinstall of the OS needed?

I am just hoping that I don't have to reinstall os x to get it working. My Trendnet usb dongle has worked great with the Realtek USB WLAN Client utility, but I could really use the extra USB port.

Thanks
I am currently dual booting iAtkos 10.5.4 and windows xp on my AA1 upgraded to 1.5 gb of RAM.

 

No need to reinstall the OS. Mac OS X will see it as a genuine Airport card.

 

Oli54:

Did the airport mini pci card you installed work with Windows XP also?

GuapoAspire

 

I just want to add in another confirmation that the Dell DW-1390 works great under OS X. I just installed the card and I was able to sign onto wifi no problem.

 

Re: wifi usb stick

i'm using an DLink DWA-111 USB Wlan stick (RT73 - Ralink Chipset)

works pretty good at the moment,
testing since 3 days and it seems very stable!

version: WindosX86.iso slipstream + voodoo_beta2 kernel


grtx -fire-

 

I just received up my Dell 1390 off of EBay earlier this week for 13.90 shipped.
Following directions on this most excellent forum on how to disassemble the
little Aspire One, I installed the Dell 1390 and tested it with a USB keyboard
and mouse before reassembly. It worked perfectly in the following operating
systems that I have installed :

Leopard 10.5.4 (iATKOS) - totally automatic, worked instantly!
Windows XP SP3 - downloaded drivers from Dell's website, worked perfectly!
Ubuntu 8.10 - I was alerted of hardware drivers to download and install (via
my connected ethernet). I installed and rebooted and worked
perfectly!

So as you can tell I am very pleased with my switch-out of the factory Atheros
WiFi adapter!!

 

Did you use the instructions on this site to get the triple booting working? I followed all the instructions, but as soon as I installed ubuntu 8.04, I could not soo OSX in the grup boot loader. I edited the menu.lst, and setup the boot.zip file as per the instructions, but I kept getting error 2 when I selected OSX from grub...

Any suggestions or ideas???

 

Can you post the following?

(a) In Ubuntu, the lines you added to /boot/grub/menu.lst
(b) The output of the following command:

ls -l /boot

(c) The output of the following commands:

sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1

(Note that you will have to enter your login password and hit return after you hit return after typing in "sudo grub" ... when you type your password, it will NOT appear on the screen).

Thanks.

 

The resolution of 1024x600 really isn't enough for almost all programs.
Does anybody know of a solution for this? setting a higher resolution or lower dpi?

 

Just installed Broadcom BCM94321MC MiniPci - 80211 b/g/n on my dual boot winxp/Leopard machine..

Buy it new here $15:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=220300867959

WinXP drivers here:
http://www.wireless-driver.com/download/broadcom/Broadcom-4321AGNBCM94321MC-80211n-WiFi-Adapter.htm

On Leopard you have to go deep inside IO80211Family.kext and edit the info.plist in AppleAirportBrcm4311.kext and add the device id in the <key>IOnameMatch</key> section like this:
<string>pci14e4,4321</string>

repair permissions
Restart Leopard

Works great, very fast..

 

I gave up on this method. I now have triple-boot working. First I installed XP, then OS X, then did a Wubi install of ubuntu 8.10 from in XP. Now when i boot up I choose OS X or XP. Once I choose XP, I then can choose Ubuntu or XP. It's two steps instead of one, but It work right away.

Thanks tho