WIFI for OS X & 150?????

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  1. paul3200

    paul3200

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    has anyone been able to get the wifi working on the AOA150 yet???
    i really want OS X on my AAO but need wifi on it thanks in advance
     
    paul3200, Apr 8, 2011
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    sirwiggum

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    I couldn't get the Atheros card to work on my 150.
    So I bit the bullet and had a broken fairly recent Dell laptop lying around, so I pulled the Broadcom 4312 card from it.

    Took the old one out via the usual disassembly (and managed to break the "insert" key mechanism), the wireless card fitted properly and the wires connected. However, as it was a smaller card it couldn't be screwed down. I used a small cable tie through the screw hole and the cable underneath it to keep it down and in place.

    Initially a bit of panic as I couldn't test it, as Linpus didn't recognise it and I need to fix the boot.ini of my XP partition due to placing an OSX partition in the middle of the two.

    I used OSX iDeneb. Installed the base system and the netbook - Acer Aspire One, together with the network - wireless - broadcom drivers. Installed and worked, apart from the keyboard and mouse. Had to use a USB keyboard and mouse, give no details on the initial username / password fields, download the osx tools and use the kexthelper to install the PS2 keyboard kext. Deleted the Voodoo PS2 kext.

    Wireless works perfectly, absolutely amazed at how well it works out of the box, a fantastic cheap hackintosh :)

    Just need to find Linux broadcom drivers for Linpus and my triple boot machine will be complete :)
     
    sirwiggum, Apr 18, 2011
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