becker666 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I installed the 10.6.3 with minor issues and everything was working I have an Atheros Wifi card which also worked so pretty cool .. then I decided to load the Comboupdate 10.6.8 saved the IOUSB kexts and stuff After doing the last steps and some tweaking it seemed to be OK but the Wifi stopped working I tried to install some Atheros kext I found on the net but still no WiFI I get the "No AirPort Card installed" I'm using the pdanet/iPhone for now which works but it'll be great if I get the AirPort to work as it did. Any hints???? Which kext is the one for the Wifi???? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 15, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 15, 2013 Without knowing the wireless card model, it's going to be difficult to answer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becker666 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 Oopsie ... it is a TrendNet TEW 443PI with the Atheros chipset, since it worked wit the default setting from the 10.6.3 install I thought there was some generic kext to use or roll back Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 15, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 15, 2013 some old atheros cards only have 32 bit kexts. what mode are you running? try booting chameleon with the arch=i386 flag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becker666 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Share Posted March 5, 2013 It's a P4 it'd only run in 32-bit no?? ... I started with the arch switch still no difference. I did make a copy of /S/L/E found the IO80211Family.kext and overwrote/reinstall it but still no luck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 5, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 5, 2013 Could you: 1) provide the PCI Vendor Id + Device ID of your Atheros card ? 2) provide the list of PCI ids as shown in the Atheros kext plist file (kext could be a plugin in IO80211Family kext) ? We can then check if the Atheros kext needs patching. I also read at insanelyMac that you may need to edit the NetworkInterfaces plist to change interface index. It's all here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25701-tew-443pi-does-not-work/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becker666 Posted March 6, 2013 Author Share Posted March 6, 2013 Appreciate the answer, only issue I had was the WiFi stopped working after the update to 10.6.8 everything else was beautiful , well ..... was playing with the Extra and just throwing darts in the dark, using myHack decided to give it a shot and install the Extra Generic but that one seemed to have completely destroyed my SL , get the infamous waiting on root no matter what I try, booted from the USB got to the cmd line deleted /Extra no difference put back the older IOUSBs kext no diff, copied over the whole S/L/E folder from the copy I made when it worked in 10.6.3 ownership/mode looked fine e.g. root:wheel/755 no diff and it seems to be going worse ... might be more constructive if I just reformat and start over right??? Isn't this fun ... At least it helped when I was doing Lion on my D430 which is up and running Update: was about to nuke it but I thought it couldn't be that this myHack guy doesn't do a backup before messing with it and looking hard I found it under some weird number name, put back the Extra and back it is. I messed around wit the IO80211 still no cigar put me back to the Waiting on root, but easy to get it back now, may be is not meant to be touched past this point Only thing that bugs me is it was working fine in 10.6.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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