Macman911 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Hey guys! Love this forum! It helped me through alot of things. My recent challenge was installing lion on my Latitude D630. I got everything working perfectly except wifi. I was wondering how to get it working. I have the Latitude D630 with the nvidia. I know my Wifi card is: Intel Pro Wireless 4965 802.11 (a/g/n) Mini Card. Is there a kext or something to get his working. my video, sound, power, keyboard, mouse, and bluetooth are all working flawlessly so far all i need is my wifi card. Thanks for all the help. it is greatly appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted July 1, 2012 Administrators Share Posted July 1, 2012 Dear macman, Unfortunately the original intel wifi card is not supported by os x. You need to replace it with a broadcom one. Search around the forum on list of compatible model. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macman911 Posted July 2, 2012 Author Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hey! Thank you for the Help! I was just looking in my office and found a dell that i had scrapped a little while ago. So i thought id investigate. Turns out that that dell has a broadcom BRCM 1016 wifi card. The difference is this dell is an inspiron B130. Would this wifi card work? If it will...will it even fit into my latitude D630? Also if it wont work at all what kind of broadcom wifi card is know to work in Latitude D630s? any suggestion? Again Thanks for the Help! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawhnL5 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 It depends if the wireless card is a Mini-PCI card or one of the older ones that were bigger. Compare the two cards, and if the one you found is bigger it wont fit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted July 2, 2012 Administrators Share Posted July 2, 2012 DW1390, DW1490, DW1395 with modified kext, DW1505 and a few more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipart Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 As per Bronxteck suggests. I have always picked up DW1395's off ebay for about £3 delivered After physical install of card you will probably need to do this:Download the IO80211Family.kext.zip from here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=267408Download and install/run Kext Helper. get it from here: http://cheetha.net/Unzip the Kext file,Launch Kext Helper,Drag the Kext into window.Put your password in and apply.Once done reboot (fingers crossed) and WIFI working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macman911 Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 Ok Sweet. I'll just order the DW1395 then. Thanks for all the help and the instructions! Cant thank you guys enough. As soon as i get the card ill let you guys know the results. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macman911 Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 Alright Again thanks for all your help guys. So I ordered the DW1395 today and put it in. Followed sipart's instructions and now i have osx working flawlessly. Its perfect. Only things was. Using the link he posted both kexts are needed. The IO80211Family.kext.zip and the IONetworkingFamily.kext. The link he posted for the kext helper just showed me some crap about mobile me not working so i downloaded Kext Wizard and installed the using that. I have a perfectly Functioning Dell Latitude D630 running OSX 10.7.4 with working wifi using the DW1395. all in all it costed me $3.50 for another mac haha. Thanks for all the help guys! IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip IO80211Family.kext.zip Kext Wizard.zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipart Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Thanks Macman911 for the updates - seems like the author of kext helper used to use Apples mobile-me web hosting and it's gone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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