[Wirelessdriver-support] Re: Tried list tips...still no en1-- Found fix (for Netgear MA401RA)

[jim t. <ji...@ma...>]

After further digging I found the solution amongst a couple of posts, 
so here it is, consolidated for your pleasure:

Boot into OS9: Delete "Extensions.kextcache" and "Extensions.mkext" 
from /System/Library (don't worry, they get created again by your Mac).

Reboot into OS X.2.1
	Run the troubleshooting script included with the installer and get the 
"IOName" from the "###wirelesscard info" section:

### wirelesscard info

     | |             "VersionOneInfo" = ("NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless 
PC","Card","I$
     | |       +-o pccardb,7300@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
     | |             "IOName" = "pccardb,7300"

   > Modify info.plist by typing 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

scroll down to the "everything else" section as seen here:


<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 IOName string (pccardb,7300 in the case of the MA401RA) 
as found in the troubleshooting script as an entry in this array like 
so:

	<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>
		<string>pccardb,7300</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 remove and re-insert the card, go to network prefs and (hopefully) 
see that en1 has appeared. Configure with the WirelessDriver Preference 
Pane, everything should work fine.

Thanks to those who provided the pieces,

jimt

On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 01:38  PM, 
wir...@li... wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been through months of other 'no en1' postings trying everything
> that I could before posting here, but I can't get anything besides ir,
> modem and built in ethernet to show up in net prefs. My Netgear MA401RA
> shows up in the menubar and in the troubleshooting script, and it works
> on my uncle's thinkpad.
> I have uninstalled, checked the sys/lib/ext and prefpanes and the items
> were gone, then i reinstalled and rebooted, no en1 (but
> WirelessDriver.kext is in System/Library/Extensions and WirelessDriver
> PPane.prefPane is in System/Library/PreferencePanes), reinstalled and
> rebooted again, still no en1. I manually loaded with kextload
> System/Library/Extensions/WirelessDriver.kext in Terminal, and it
> loads, but still no en1 in net prefs. The prefpane is in the system
> prefs, but everything is greyed out.
> This is on a TiBook 500/256
>
> TIA,
> jimt
>
> Here's my tshoot info:
>
> ### system info
>
> ProductName:    Mac OS X
> ProductVersion: 10.2.3
> BuildVersion:   6G30
> Darwin jimts-Computer.local. 6.3 Darwin Kernel Version 6.3: Sat Dec 14
> 03:11:25 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.23.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC  Power
> Macintosh powerpc
> ppc7400
>
> ### wireless driver files installed
>
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel     102 Jan 20 07:36 WirelessDriver.kext
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel     102 Nov  5 23:04 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:fe10:1a7e%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>          ether 00:03:93:10:1a:7e
>          media: autoselect (none) status: inactive
>          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>
>
> ### wd command line tool status
>
> /Volumes/WirelessDriver beta 5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting
> Info.command: WirelessConfig: command not found
> logout
> [Process completed]