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Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] MA401 blues
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From: yuriwho <yu...@ma...> - 2002-10-31 04:30:17
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Did you try this along with the info.plist fix? (posted from a personal
reply by a MA401 user).
> Thanks,
> That eventually did it, it required a couple of other things as well,
the
> driver would still not load after modifying the info.plist file.
> Successful recipe:
> Modify info.plist as described
> Delete "Extensions.kextcache" and "Extensions.mkext" after booting
into OS9
> Reboot into OS X.2.1
> Configure driver with Preference Pane, everything works fine.
> Thanks for your help.
> I just sent a message to the list indicating how to add support for
> this card (pasted below). Can you tell me if it works? We will add this
> to the next release.
>
> Y
>
> _______
>
> This is a re-post of an old message. The string you are interested in
> is "pccardb,7300". Otherwise follow the instructions. We will add this
> to the faq for the next release.
>
> Y
>
> To find out for yourself, the relevant information you need is the
> following:
>
>> ### wirelesscard info
>>
>> | | "VersionOneInfo" = ("3Com","3CRSHPW_96 Wireless
>> LAN PC Card$
>> | | +-o pccard101,696@0,0 <class IOPCCard16Device>
>> | | "IOName" = "pccard101,696"
>
> This info comes from following terminal command when the card is
> inserted:
>
> ioreg -l | grep pccard
>
>
> Now to test if your card is supportable, you will need to edit the
> info.plist file in the WirelessDriver.kext file.
>
> type the following command in the terminal to edit this file with the
> pico text editor:
>
> sudo pico
> /System/Library/Extensions/WirelessDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist
>
> look for the following lines:
>
> <key>everything else</key>
> <dict>
> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
> <string>org.noncontiguous.WirelessDriver</string>
> <key>IOClass</key>
> <string>org_noncontiguous_WirelessDriver</string>
> <key>IONameMatch</key>
> <array>
> <string>pccard156,2</string>
> <string>pccard1eb,807</string>
> <string>pccard274,1613</string>
> <string>pccard274,1612</string>
> <string>pccard138,2</string>
> </array>
>
> and add your pccard string (pccard101,696) as an entry in this array.
> i.e.:
>
> <array>
> <string>pccard156,2</string>
> <string>pccard1eb,807</string>
> <string>pccard274,1613</string>
> <string>pccard274,1612</string>
> <string>pccard138,2</string>
> <string>pccard101,696</string>
> </array>
>
> to save the file type ctrl-x and accept the changes. View the edited
> file in the terminal to be sure your changes are correct:
>
> more /System/Library/Extensions/WirelessDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist
>
> now try removing and re-inserting the card, if you are lucky it will
> now work!
>
> Let us know if you have success so we can add the card to our list of
> supported cards.
>
> Y
On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 10:02 PM, John Goodnough wrote:
> O.k, I've been pouring over posts on this list from the last 2 months
> plus, and it seems that the problem with Netgear's MA401RA card hasn't
> been resolved. I bought one today (no I didn't visit this list first!)
> and I've done everything suggested on this list with no success. I've
> done the multiple installs with restarts in between each one. I've
> uninstalled and reinstalled. I've edited the info.plist file and added
> the correct card info. I've downloaded a flash upgrade for my wireless
> router and installed it. All for nothing. I've got no (en1) in my
> network preferences and no way to connect.
>
> Has anyone ever managed to find a way to make this thing work?
>
> Thanks
> John Goodnough
>
> Powerbook G4/667
> Netgear MA401RA wireless card
> Netgear MR 314 Wireless router
>
> ### system info
>
> ProductName: Mac OS X
> ProductVersion: 10.2.1
> BuildVersion: 6D52
> Darwin Johns-Powerbook.local. 6.1 Darwin Kernel Version 6.1: Fri Sep
> 6 23:24:34 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.2.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power
> Macintosh powerpc
> ppc7450
>
> ### wireless driver files installed
>
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Oct 30 22:22 WirelessDriver.kext
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 27 16:22 IOPCCardFamily.kext
> ls: /Library/PreferencePanes: No such file or directory
>
> ### wirelesscard info
>
> | | "VersionOneInfo" = ("NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless
> PC","Card","I$
> | | +-o pccardb,7300@0,0 <class IOPCCard16Device>
> | | "IOName" = "pccardb,7300"
>
> ### network info
>
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
> stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
> en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::203:93ff:fe9b:537c%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> ether 00:03:93:9b:53:7c
> media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
> supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>
> 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex,hw-loopback> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>
> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <half-duplex>
> 100baseTX <half-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
> <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseTX <full-duplex> 1000baseTX
> <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control>
> 1000baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control,hw-loopback>
>
> ### wd command line tool status
>
> /Users/jgoodno/Applications/Wireless Driver/Utilities/Troubleshooting
> Info.command: WirelessConfig: command not found
> logout
>
>
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