[Wirelessdriver-support] wireless driver fix for 10.2 for the Terminally Challenged

[Brian F. <yo...@ma...>]

Hello all,

I am new to the list but a user of the Wireless Driver since beta 2. 
Thanks to the many developers for all your great work.

In following the recent threads concerning the problems encountered 
by upgrading to 10.2, I have found a work-around fix for those list 
members who may not wish to try their hand at using the Terminal. In 
other words, people like myself who may feel Terminally Challenged.

Thanks to Robert, Michael and all the rest who posted various fixes 
that got rolled into this one.

If you are trying to newly install or re-install the Wireless 1.0.0 
Beta 4 drivers do all the following steps, if you have the Beta 4 
driver installed already skip to Step D:


Step A
Do this first:

1. Download Pacifist http://www.charlessoft.com/Pacifist.dmg
2. Mount the Pacifist disk image
3. Copy the application to your hard drive.
4. Mount the Wireless Driver 1.0.0 Beta 4 disk image 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wirelessdriver/WirelessDriverBeta4.sit
5. Copy the Installers folder to your hard drive


Step B
Go into the Installers folder. Install the following components in this order:

1. Wireless Config Terminal Tool.pkg
2. WirelessDriver 1.0.0beta4.pkg

Following the WirelessDriver install you will be forced to Restart your Mac.


Step C
Once you are back up, run Pacifist (from Robert's directions).

1. In the Pacifist window, Click Open Package...
2. Select Wireless Preference Pane.pkg in the Installers folder. 
/Installers/Wireless Preference Pane.pkg.
3. Click the triangle to Open the Package Contents.
4. Click to highlight WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane.
5. Click Extract To...
6. Navigate the dialog box to  /System/Library/PreferencePanes  or 
just /Library/PreferencePanes (this should work as it is where the 
installer will place it, but it is untested.)
7. Click Choose.


Step D
Next, go to /System/Library/Extensions and find the WirelessDriver.kext file.

1. Control Click on the file and choose Show Package Contents.
2. Open the Contents folder
3. Open the Info.Plist at the root of Contents with either BBEdit or 
TextEdit.  BBEdit provides line numbers so it might be easier, but I 
did it with TextEdit and counted the lines just fine.  Just make sure 
you make the window big so you do not count a wrapped line by 
accident.
3. Find lines 33 & 34. They should look like this:

	<key>IOKitDebug</key>
	<string>65535</string>

4. Remove these lines and do not leave any blank lines between the 
entries above and below.
5. Save
6. A warning dialog box will come up and say Couldn't Save...   Click 
the Overwrite button.
7. Quit your text editor.

Step E
And the final step - fix the permissions

1. Highlight the WirelessDriver.kext file at /System/Library/Extensions.
2. Choose Get Info from the File Menu.
3. Open the Ownership & Permissions section
4. Click the lock to unlock.
5. Change Owner to System. It may ask for your Administrator login 
and password here, if so enter it.
6. Change Group to Wheel.
7. Click the lock to lock the file.
7. Repeat this for the WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane wherever you put 
it. Either in  /System/Library/PreferencePanes  or just 
/Library/PreferencePanes.

That's it....   it will work just fine.

Good Luck,

Brian