Dorian Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I've got everything up and running beautifully but I need to buy a new WiFi card to really finish it. My E6220 shipped with an Intel 6205 dual-band WiFi card that is completely non-functional under OSX. From looking around I've seen many different cards that will work, but I was wondering what would you guys recommend? Here's some I've looked at: Apple Atheros AR9380 Dell Wireless 1510 Broadcom BCM4321 Atheros AR9280 and some other odd cards. Which one would provide the fewest headaches? If it's the Apple card, and I can get drivers for it for Windows 7 X64, I'll get that one then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted April 13, 2012 Administrators Share Posted April 13, 2012 Hi dorian, I'm using the Dell Wireless 1510 for both my dual boot OS X and Windows 7. Worked out of the box. No complain since I installed it. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorian Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Since I've posted that, I went ahead and bought the Apple Atheros AR9380. Works seamlessly and is FAST. I also get crazy range with it... like 500+ feet from the access point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckleea Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Is your AR9380 full height or half height? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpedman Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Since I've posted that, I went ahead and bought the Apple Atheros AR9380. Works seamlessly and is FAST. I also get crazy range with it... like 500+ feet from the access point. Thanks for this. Went ahead and bought one of these and it is working great! Is your AR9380 full height or half height? Yeah, this is what threw me off, thought it was half-mini but when I got it, it was actually full size..didn't read close enough. Luckily the E6520 I have at least has an extra spot for a WWAN card which I didn't have installed which is a full height slot. So I took out the original half-height one and put the full height AR9380 in the WWAN spot. I had to move some of the wires around so it would reach the card in the new location but it is all working fine. I am posting this from my e6520 right now all wireless. Also, one thing that is kind of weird that may be related to using the WWAN spot instead of the WLAN spot is that when I am connected, the network settings in system preferences shows that the Bluetooth PAN is connected as well as the Wi-Fi connection. And while the Wi-Fi connection shows it is connected to the network it doesn't list an IP address/DNS settings, etc, but the Bluetooth PAN has all that information on it...kind of weird but whatever...I didn't have to install any special kexts or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted April 24, 2013 Administrators Share Posted April 24, 2013 sometimes deleting all the network devices hitting apply then adding them back cures weird issues like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpedman Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Nice, that fixed it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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