[Wirelessdriver-support] Stephan Huy's question about ioreg

[Patrick & E. <pd...@pa...>]

Stephan,

To get the ioreg signature for your particular card, open up the 
terminal and type :
ioreg -l | grep pccard
Another signature is the VersionOneInfo. For this one :
ioreg -l | grep VersionOneInfo

Now, when you look at the Info.plist file inside the 
Wirelessdriver.kext (best is to use the Property List Editor from the 
Developer applications), cards are recognized by either one of those 
signatures. If you don't see either, then the driver will not load for 
you card.
You can quickly add your card by adding the pccard signature (returned 
by the first ioreg command above) in the "everything else" 
IOKitPersonalities (IONameMatch entry). There are currently 5 in there. 
I added the one from my NetGear card ("pccardb,7300") in there and the 
driver could see it and use it after loading the kext.
You can also create a new IOKitPersonalities directly, by using the 
ioreg VersionOneInfo signature. Best way is to copy one from the other 
cards and just change the name and the VersionOneInfo to match your 
card. I tried that as well and it works great, as long as you're 
careful to create each small string separately for all the returned 
strings from ioreg -l | grep VersionOneInfo.
I know this sound a little technical, so if you're still uncomfortable 
about the procedure, let us know.

Patrick



> Hi,
>
> Patrick & Emmanuelle <pdebaum@pa...> wrote something about getting the
> ioreg signature of the card. How do I get this signature?
>
> Thanks
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