Recent changes to support-requests

Tiger 10.4.x compatibility

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:15:55 -0000

Greetings, I have been using this driver successfully
through OSX version 10.3.9 with an Orinoco PCMCIA card
in a PowerBook 500. Upgrading the OS to 10.4.5 the
other day seems to have broken it. IoExperts has a
purchaseable driver that works, but it would be almost
as cheap to get an external USB "g" compatible antenna.
I was hoping that you might be able to make thr driver
OSX 10.4.x compatible, or be able to tell me if it
would be possible to copy a "kext" file from the old OS
into Tiger that would allow it to function. Breaking
"new" wireless devices isn't an issuse as I can always
reinstall the OS if needed. Thanks!

Stu

Oh, just an FYI... I got the orinoco/lucent wireless
card out of an external 2-Wire (SBC-Yahoo) USB receiver
package. They used the same PCMCIA card as for the PC
card slots and just plugged it into a PCMCIA/USB
converter and put it inside a plastic shark-fin looking
plastic case for use external use with desktop PC's
etc. The removed PCMCIA card works great in my
PowerBook since they didn't make a USB Mac driver.
stutemp1@westminster-mo.edu

USB sitecom wl-012 (prism2?)

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:38:10 -0000

I'd like the wl-012 to be supported (only kismac is showing me it can
work because I can scan and it powers up my usb card …) Thanks a lot for
all your great work

IPW2200BG support

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:04:40 -0000

now that osx86 is around the corner i think it would be
awesome to support ipw2200bg for those of us who are
already running osx86 on generic intel hardware. Take
a look at
http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/index.html for a
freebsd basis on the card.

Problem obtaining IP address via DHCP - 169...*

Peter Janssen — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 01:18:52 -0000

Hello everybody,

I'm working on a Powerbook G4 - 400 MHz, with Mac
OS X 10.2.8 installed and I experienced the same
problems as most of you do. I had my Buffalo WLAN
Card working until today it refused every service.
Problem was that it didn't get any IP-address via DHCP.

The only IP-adres I received was something like
169.254.*.*.

The only solution I could find was changing the channel
in my router's settings (e.g. 11 instead of 6 for my D-
Link DI-713P) and changing the network name from
default to a new name. I also changed the value of Web
Encryption to 128 bit in my router and changed the
position of the WEP key to 2 instead of 1.

Rebooting the router and changing all these values in
my Wireless Config Pane gave me at least the Signal
Strength. OK so far !!

Still I didn't have the desired IP-address. Looking again
in my routers settings revealed that he had changed the
values of the WEP Encryption back to "No WEP
Encryption and the position of the WEP key back to 1.
Changing these values again in the Wireless Config
Pane gave me my desired IP-address. Changing the
value of the DHCP-client-ID didn't change anything...

I hope this will help you a little bit further.

Don't hesitate to contact me when necessary !

Cheers,

How to see available networks

Alan Shuchat — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:42:07 -0000

I have a pre-Airport Lombard powerbook, OS 10.3.3, a Lucent
Orinoco Silver card and WirelessDriver 1.0.0b5. I can connect to
what I think is the strongest wireless network in the vicinity but
cannot figure out how to see a list of available networks. I thought
this is what the Airport Admin Utility did and that the driver can
coexist with this utility, but I can't get it to work at all.I tried
KisMac but got a kernel panic every time.

Suggestions? I'm grateful for any ideas on this.

D link dwl650 rv. p

Anonymous — Tue, 11 May 2004 03:39:32 -0000

I don't get any en1 in my network pref pane, what did i do/not
do? D link said it was a prismII card. I tried all the faq stuff..
by the way, I love this computer, much thanks to those who help
keep it alive by writing drivers and such!
cowboyx@australia.edu

Last login: Tue Apr 25 08:43:55 on console
/Users/michaelw/Desktop/Troubleshooting\ Info.command; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
[sister:~] michaelw% /Users/michaelw/Desktop/
Troubleshooting\ Info.command; exit

### kext versions

Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) <
Linked Against>
24 1 0x10b34000 0x21000 0x20000
com.apple.iokit.IOPCCardFamily (1.4.0)
Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) <
Linked Against>

### system info

ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.2.8
BuildVersion: 6R73
Darwin sister.local. 6.8 Darwin Kernel Version 6.8: Wed Sep 10
15:20:55 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.49.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC
Power Macintosh powerpc
ppc750
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

### wireless driver files installed

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Apr 25 14:57 SigMeter.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Apr 25 14:57
WirelessDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 10 2003
IOPCCardFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 8 2004 AppleAirPort.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 8 2004 AppleAirPort2.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 8 2004
AppleAirPortFW.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Apr 30 2004
WirelessConfig.prefPane
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Apr 25 14:57 WirelessDriver
PPane.prefPane

### wirelesscard info

| | | "VersionOneInfo" = ("D-Link","DWL-650 Wireless
PC Card RevP$
| +-o pccard@13 <class IOPCIDevice>
| | | "device_type" = <"pccard">
| | | "name" = <"pccard">
| | | +-o pccardb,7110@0,0 <class IOPCCard16Device>
| | | "IOName" = "pccardb,7110"
| +-o pccard@13,1 <class IOPCIDevice>
| | "device_type" = <"pccard">
| | "name" = <"pccard">
I don't get any en1 in my network pref pane, what did i do/not
do?
### 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::205:2ff:fee9:357c%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid
0x4
ether 00:05:02:e9:35:7c
media: autoselect (none) status: inactive
supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-
duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex>
100baseTX <full-duplex>
ppp0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
inet 12.74.169.32 --> 199.69.156.184 netmask 0xff000000

### wd command line tool status

/Users/michaelw/Desktop/Troubleshooting Info.command: /usr/
local/bin/WirelessConfig: No such file or directory
logout
[Process completed]

Powerbook OS 10.3 config problems

Ron — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:21:03 -0000

What does one do when all indications say it's working and yet it
isn't.
1. PowerBook G3 (Lombard) with OS 10.3.2
2. d-Link Wireless Router DI-514
3. Airstation WLI-PCM-L11GP
4. Wireless router functioning correctly--connects with other
laptops
I've installed the drivers and they recognize the card. I've done
all the configurations with encryption on and off with no
difference in result. The Wireless Config Panel shows full signal,
the Network Panel Reports Ethernet Adaptor is active, the IP
address has been assigned and that the machine is connected to
the internet via (en1) (green dot). The Router reports the
wireless connection with the appropriate MAC address for the
Powerbook. But it doesn't work. Browser reports "unable to find
find the server". Pinging the PowerBook works fine. Pinging the
router returns: "Host is down". It finds the router but they aren't
talking. Wired ethernet connection works fine. Green lights all
the way and the car won't move. Now what? Would appreciate
help untangling this one. Thanks

Troubleshooting report follows:

Last login: Thu Mar 4 03:30:47 on console
/Volumes/WirelessDriver\ beta\ 5.1/Utilities/TroubWelcome to
Darwin!
leshooting\ Info.command; exit
R-Meeks-Computer:~ rmeek$ /Volumes/WirelessDriver\ beta\
5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting\ Info.command; exit

### system info

ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.3.2
BuildVersion: 7D24
Darwin R-Meeks-Computer.local 7.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version
7.2.0: Thu Dec 11 16:20:23 PST 2003; root:xnu/xnu-
517.3.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
ppc750

### wireless driver files installed

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 3 Mar 13:41
WirelessDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 24 Sep 16:52
IOPCCardFamily.kext

### wirelesscard info

| | "VersionOneInfo" = ("MELCO","WLI-PCM-
L11","Version 01.01","$
| +-o pccard156,2@0,0 <class IOPCCard16Device,
registered, matched$
| | "IOName" = "pccard156,2"
| | "IONameMatched" = "pccard156,2"
| | "IONameMatch" =
("pccard156,2","pccard1eb,807","pccard274$

### network info

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en1: flags=8863<
UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fea7:393 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.0.110 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
192.168.0.255
ether 00:02:2d:a7:03:93
media: <unknown type> (DS11 <full-duplex>) status:
active
supported media: none manual autoselect DS1 <half-
duplex> DS1 <full-duplex> DS2 <half-duplex> DS2 <full-
duplex> DS5 <half-duplex> DS5 <full-duplex> DS11 <half-
duplex> DS11 <full-duplex>
en0: flags=8863<
UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
ether 00:50:e4:25:ed:0e
media: autoselect (none) status: inactive
supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-
duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex>
100baseTX <full-duplex>

### wd command line tool status

/Volumes/WirelessDriver beta 5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting
Info.command: line 33: WirelessConfig: command not found
logout
[Process completed]

DWL-122 (USB) support

John-Michael Mulesa — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:16:56 -0000

I'd like to see this device supported by these drivers in the
near future.

Add PRISM 2.5 support

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:13:31 -0000

I would like to see support for PRISM 2.5 based cards, not just
PRISM/PRISM 2 cards.

High Output Card Support Wanted

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:49:02 -0000

I am hoping the next version will also support the PRISM 2.5
SMC2532W-B high output card and other high output cards. I
think it would be useful to try to get the high ouput cards fully
covered including WEP for these high output cards:

SMC2532W-B (PRISM 2.5)

Engenius NL2511 CD PLUS and NL2511 CD EXT2 (PRISM 2.5) and
its rebranded variants by Surf and Sip and Senao. (current cards
ship with PRISM 2.5)

The Mac Wireless Card (PRISM 2.5)

The MacSense AeroCard WPE700 (I don't know the chipset)

Demarc Reliawave (PRISM 2.5)

According to my research, these cards have the best radios in
the industry and I would like to see them running fully in the
Wireless Driver.