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Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
Authored by: zmagyar on Nov 23, '05 03:37:50AM

There are a few problems with this approach:
First of all I have to airpot kekxts in my Extensions folder, AppleAirPort, and AppleAirPort2..??
If I list the loaded kexts then I get two entries with Air:
129 1 0x2f0b8000 0x22000 0x21000 com.apple.driver.AppleAirPort (3.4.4) <31 11 2>
130 0 0x2e805000 0x12000 0x11000 com.apple.driver.AirPortFirmware (3.4.4) <129 11>
It is unclear who loads the second one.
Finally if I unload the AppleAirPort.kext then no matter what I do (ex insert my PC Card Wireless) the system says: no airport installed and does not let me configure the Airport port, neither it shows a new port for the inserted card....so for me this solution does not work.
I guess I will have to try to unplug the internal one and see what will happen.
Tx for efforts Zsolt



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Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
Authored by: mindbooger on Nov 23, '05 10:14:01AM

FWIW, you need to unload the Airport driver _before_ you insert the PCCard. If you see them both loaded, it's too late.



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