OS X Hax

Man you made my day. 1st thanxx for the hack. Then let me tell you and your visitors that I installed it today on a PB333 bronze running 10.2.6, latest airport version and a LinkSys WPC54G (french version). Your instructions are prefect. You may add: to log as Root User before running the procedure. I am happy too, to tell that on this bronze i have no hang at startup with this card. Thanxx God ;-)

hey, I just got the buffalo WLI-CB-G54 wireless card . And from what I've read it sounds like the posted hack should work. Where can a newbie like me get more information on what I am trying to do. Kind of wary about I am supposed to do, but willing to learn. Any posts or links I can go to help me understand perl and the script i am supposed to run. Any help greatly appreciated.

Hi! I've got a first generation G4 400mhz Powerbook running 10.2.6 and I bought a Linksys Wireless-G card and a Linksys Wireless-G Router on ebay and almost gave up on it when Linksys or Apple were proven as worthless support ... until I found your site!

I just wanted to say thanks for the awesome hack! I'm a newbie at using the Terminal stuff and had a rough time trying to run the script (since I don't know much about Terminal "commands") until my co-worker told me to put the perl script in my users home directory and type this in Terminal "sudo perl ./xxxx.pl" and after deleting those two .kext files and rebooting... my wireless connection has been working great! So far, no hang ups or booting problems.

The other day I took my Powerbook out for a ride on the elevators at work and picked up several networks! Haha. Anyway, thanks again!

I've gotten my Linksys "G" card working on my Powerbook 800 using your perl script and instructions. Thanks,...However, I purchased the card hoping I could pop it in when needed because my signal strength was bad. Usually, I'm OK, but sometimes, iBook users around me enjoy full strength while I'm fading in and out of existence with the TiPB. So, I figured a card with an external antenna would be useful to have. Is there a way to use this card on a need be basis without having to disable my internal Apple Airport card and reboot? Is there a way to have the system distinguish between the two so I just get another network choice in the System prefs?

Thanks

After reading all this I bought a full Lynksys 54G set (router and PC card), for a bronze "lombard" 333 powerbook and 10.2.6, with some doubt it would ever work.
The script was allmost fine for me, but I have the french version of the Lynksys WPC54G, which has a different pci device number i easily found close to "cardbus" in ioreg.
As a beginner in the terminal, it took me quite a few hour to find out running a perl script is done using the terminal by typing "perl /path/[scriptname]"
Everything is now fine, I use a lynksys 54G wireless router, the network is not far from a 100 ethernet, works on a Window$ NT network, and a genuine airport extreme.

Pismo Powerbook, OS X 10.2.6 and Buffalo WLICBG54R cardbus card. Have run the hack, commenting out default Linksys, uncommenting the Buffalo WLICBG54 line, and no go.

Dump of ioreg -l yields:

| | +-o pci14e4,4320@0 <class IOCardBusDevice&rt;
| | {
| | "name" = "pci14e4,4320"
| | "IOChildIndex" = 0
| | "VersionOneInfo" = ("Broadcom","802.11b CardBus","8.0")
| | "subsystem-vendor-id" = <00001154&rt;
| | "class-code" = <00028000&rt;
| | "reg" = <00010000&rt;
| | "compatible" = <"pci1154,324","pci14e4,4320","pciclass,028000"&rt;
| | "IOInterruptSpecifiers" = (<00000000&rt;)
| | "Power Management private data" = "{ this object = 01a87f00, interested driver = 01a87f00, driverDesire = 0, deviceDesire = 0, ourDesiredPowerStat$
| | "IODeviceMemory" = (({"length"=8192,"address"=18446744071830511616}))
| | "vendor-id" = <000014e4&rt;
| | "device-id" = <00004320&rt;
| | "revision-id" = <00000002&rt;
| | "subsystem-id" = <00000324&rt;
| | "Power Management protected data" = "{ theNumberOfPowerStates = 3, version 1, power state 0 = { capabilityFlags 00000000, outputPowerCharacter 000$
| | "assigned-addresses" = <0201001000000000900020000000000000002000&rt;
| | "IOInterruptControllers" = ("IOPCCardInterruptController00001a00")
| | "IOGeneralInterest" = ("_IOServiceInterestNotifier is not serializable")
| | "FunctionNumber" = 0
| | "SocketNumber" = 0
| | "IOName" = "pci14e4,4320"
| | }

Thoughts?

I'd tried a Linksys G card previously, and while the card worked, I was unhappy with the Linksys G router, and returned everything to give all Buffalo equipment a whirl. Doing router to router bridging across two floors, works like a champ. If I can get the cardbus to work, then I'm really golden.

Help?

Are you using the PCI device ID "pci1154,324"?
From the Feb. 23, 2003 discussion, where there are a lot of entries about getting your specific Buffalo card to work:
"Bruce Thompson noted earlier that the correct PCI device ID for Buffalo WLI-CB-G54 CardBus cards is "pci1154,324".

It's also possible you have some issues related to having a previously working card. If you haven't read that Feb. 23 discussion, you might find something helpful in there.

A K Noorian,

Hmm. Well, got it working on a TiBook, same Buffalo card. The device ID is indeed "pci1154,324" (as indicated in the Perl script).

I did the following to blow away previous settings for the Linksys card I'd tried first (which worked, but their routers didn't do the trick for me).

type: cd /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext/Contents
type: sudo cp Info.plist.orig Info.plist
(enter your admin password if you haven't sudo'ed in the last few minutes)
type: sudo rm Info.plist.orig
type: cd MacOS
type: sudo rm AppleAirPort2_patched

type: cd /System/Library
type: sudo rm Extensions.mkext
type: sudo rm Extensions.kextcache

reboot yo'self - airport features should now be available.

Successfully using 128bit WEP as well (with hex password)

And now, to see if the Pismo will work with same trick.

If I weren't so lazy, I'd offer up a Perl reset script to help folks out with cleanup and try again scenarios.

Ah, sidenote - this Buffalo card doesn't appear to want to grab IP info via DHCP, but setting it manually works. The Buffalo router shows that it gets the request, but the TiBook and/or card appear to give up immediately and set itself to 169.254.x.x (self-assigned road to nowhere). Anyone else experience this?

Any of you folks know how a novice can make these hacks happen? I am SO weak in this field, it's scary.

I was hoping there was something I could cut and paste into an existing application that would do the trick.

I have a Linksys PC card (WPC54G) and want it to work with a Ti Powerbook.

Thanks, guys!

Lindsay, for the Linksys, the step by step instructions work with no issues, or at least, they did with me, first time, on a TiBook with same Linksys card.

Assume you've downloaded the perl script to your Documents folder...

open a terminal.app window
type: cd Documents/
type: sudo perl ./wpc_driver_hack.pl
(enter your admin password if necessary)
should say "finished"
reboot, you should see airport icon in right-side of menubar, go configure it in network preference pane.

And to wrap up my last post - clearing out the Pismo per my instructions and running the Perl script again with proper Buffalo string uncommented - worked like a charm. Half the price of an Apple Extreme card, and I'm good to go.

Bob:

>> Assume you've downloaded the perl script to your Documents folder...

Again, I hate to sound so dumb, but how do I do THAT? Maybe it's the blonde hair? ; )

Lindsay

Lindsay - control-click the link to the perl script, download link to disk, navigate and save it to your Documents folder.

Hope that helps.

After downloading the perl script, I tried and tried to get the script to run, but I kept getting a "file cannot be found" message. I finally did a "Get Info" on the file and found out a hidden ".txt" extension had been added to the name. After listing the proper name in the script, it worked like a champ.

Does the new NetGear WG511 802.11g card work with the hack?

I'm trying to get a Linksys "G" PCI card to work in my desktop.
I just got it and already have 10.2.6 installed. When I run the PERL script I get a "not correct version of driver" message.

So, I read the below but I'm afraid I don't know how to do an ASCII dump of the driver to get the correct $patchloc .

"If the script says that it isn't finding the correct version of the driver, then you need to uncomment one of the other definitions of $patchloc. This number changes every time Apple recompiles the kext. If you have come across a driver that requires a $patchloc not present in the script, let me know so I can add it. You can determine $patchloc for yourself by carefully examining an ASCII dump of the driver file and looking for pci106b in it somewhere."

Any help would be appreciated.

What is the device ID for the AP card? No the Extreme-one. Any help will be apreciated

Hi all - I've been trying to get this to work on a Lombard G3 with the WPC54G card and OS10.2.6 - so far no joy.

When I run the script I get:
"cp: MacOS/AppleAirPort2: No such file or directory"
and the script exits. However, if I ls "/System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext/Contents/MacOS", I see "AppleAirPort2"!

Any ideas on this?

TIA,
rich

Hi again - ignore the previous post - I've gotten it to work! I had opened the hack in Textedit - didn't change anything, but apparently something happened in the process of opening in Textedit and saving, 'cause I re-downloaded the hack, ran it without opening it, and voila! works fine...

Many thanks,
rich

This is the short version of my previous post.

Does anyone know what the "$patchloc" is for 10.2.6?

Thanks, it's all that's standing between me and being connected. (I hope!)

Hmm... Mixed results: is the PB supposed to list the card in the menu bar as 802.11b or 802.11g? This is on a PB G4/500, 10.2.6 and AP 3.0.4 installed, and a WPC54G. I ran the script and tried to rm the kext.cache files.

The menu says 'Broadcom 802.11b CardBus'. I have not tried this with an 802.11g network yet (none available), but shouldn't it show it as such, allowing me to do a 'Computer to Computer' network in 802.11g mode? 802.11b connectivity works fine.

Please help! Thanks in advance!

Aloha all!

Unlike most of you, I don't have a broadband connection at home but I do have access to several wireless hubs round the island. I was all but decided on installing a regular Airport Card in my TiBook 667 when I stumbled upon this site and its Linksys WPC54G hax. If I installed the WPC54G (and ran the script w/the new drivers), how difficult would it be to configure my system to "outside" networks, and specifically, what kind of problems might I run into (e.g. reception, compatibility, access, etc). I'm a total newbie so please be kind!

Mahalo!
katino@flex.com

I was wondering if anyone could help me out on getting the Belkin 54G PC card to work. the menu says it is Broadcom 802.11g Cardbus. Any advice or help would be great.

john

I have a new 15" imac with 10.2.3 I need
to go back to 10.2.1 in order to put on some kiosk software drivers that wont work with the newer one, Apple says you cant go back to 10.2.1 on that machine how do I do it successfully?

Help!

Gary

I have a PB G3 Wallstreet, and I purchased a Linksys WPC54G wireless card. I am running 10.2.6(I didn't do the special update instructions posted on this site) I ran the perl script and it appeared to run perfectly fine. After rebooting I didn't see the airport icon so I ran the Setup program. It told me I did not have the appropriate hardware installed. Sooooo What should I do? I was at least hoping for some smoke, kernel panic, or interesting crash when I rebooted :-) but all i got was nothing at all. Thanks for all your help!
Charlie Ice

Two things:

1) Follow up to my earlier post: I tested a Computer to Computer 802.11g connection with my WPC54G: even though the menu bar said 'Broadcom 802.11b Cardbus', the connection was locked at 54Mbps (WPC54G (Mac) WPC54G (PC)).

2) Charlie: try installing the Airport 3.0.4 update, run the perl script (after cleaning up using the instructions), and go to Network and Airport should be enabled. I had to do this for 10.2.6 (went straight from 10.2 to 10.2.6) on a TiBook.

Thank you so much "Just another Mac user"!! It works wonderfuly! I can even eject the card and not have any problems. Wow! I just put an IBM Travelstar 5400 RPM drive with an 8MB buffer into my PB, if you want to give your TiBook a major kick in the pants buy one for around $150 on ebay! You will see a major difference! Thanks again for your help!
Charlie
PS whenever hardware acts goofy if all else fails try cleaning the pins w/ some rubbing alchohol!

I am looking for some help on a related, but not identical problem but I think that the solution may be some kind of OSX Hack.
I have a LinkSys BEFWS11 802.11b wireless router that works just fine with Airport Macs, and with a PC.
A few days ago I got a 12" Powerbook with Airport Extreme. But I have had real trouble getting them to communicate. The Powerbook started out communicating OK, but if I try to download a large file it slows down and finally looses the connection. This typically happens after 400k or so. I still have a good signal strength indication, but no data (I can't even do DNS lookup etc.). Shutting down the airport card then restarting it will sometimes restore the connection.
Also, using the Powerbook seems to "confuse" an 802.11b PC on the same net. Once I am talking to the Powerbook, the PC stopped working until I powercycled the Linksys box. At other times I have not been able to get the Powerbook to talk at all to the Linksys box. It shows a good signal strength but would not send or receive any data. Again, powercycling the LinkSys box and making sure that I first power on the Powerbook (before the PC) allowed the Powerbook to connect (but not for large amounts of data).
Any suggestions about what is going on here, and what I can do about it?
I spent an hour on the phone with Apple with no help at all.

--Adam

Hey there folks. You guessed it. I'm lookin' for that new $patchloc value for Airport v3.1. Exactly what is the rocket science that is being applied to discover said $patchloc values? I wouldn't mind learning the skills to obtain the value myself, if it ain't *too* much of a brain bender. I get along in the terminal just fine, but the deeper mysteries of OS X's unix underbelly is still above my airspace.

Have a great day ya'll.

Nevermind. I take it all back.

My WPC54G works straight out of the gate with spankin' fresh v3.1 drivers. No patches whatsoever. I naively just assumed it wouldn't work. One look at the AppleAirPort2 driver tells quite a tale. Major changes in the way it's structured, that's for sure. Maybe you über-geeks can give us the lowdown on what has changed, eh, now that we're in full 802.11g spec. compliance?

Hi, I found your site by google. I was trying to get a linksys wireless card to work but I have no idea how to get to the instructions that all these people are talking about. Can you send me the url? Thank you.

Hello all. I was wondering if anyone has been able to get 802.11g devices working in Mac OS 10.1.x. I have an old PB 3400 that will run 10.1.x (via XPostFacto) but not 10.2.x and would like to use it for wireless with OS X (not OS 9). I have an 802.11b Lucent PC card, but 16bit cards don't work in OS X on this model. I do have a Linksys WPC54G PC card. The PB 3400 does support 32bit PC cards and so does OS X, but I don't think there were Apple drivers for 802.11g until 10.2.x. I read all the info on this site and there is no mention of 10.1.x.

Any help or info you could send my way would be greatly appreciated!

Don't flame me anyone, I posted a similar post in what I think may be the wrong place. So I am posting again.

Does anyone know a way to get a skyline 802.11b card (in a skyline PCI cradle) to work with a desktop and OSX.
I have a PM 8500 running OSX and it would be really fun to run it wireless(ly).

Thanks!

Jim

looking for driver or way to install WG511 (netgear). Link to perl appreciated!!!

Thank you,

Michael

Um, i was wondering if you knew of a way to gain temporary administrator access to OS X without having admin privellages? See...there is an account i have access to that is not an administrative account...I want admin privellages for this account, but i don't know of a way i can gain them without having the password...do you?

email me if you know anything, thanks
Nick

what the tits! my power book doesn't recognize the pc card and i can't hook up with my airport or with girls...help me please!

Hey, may i ask a question?
I have bought a pair of Buffalo 11g product, i.e. WBR-G54 and WLI-CB-G54.
When i insert the cardbus WLAN card, the cardbus icon displayed on the right top of the finder shows implicitly 802.11b even if i configure the airstation to '802.11g only' state. After my simple test, i make a FTP connection to another PC via my TiBook with this cardbus WLAN card. The data rate is only 50 kByte/sec. However, in the another test, the speed of the FTP connection between two PCs becomes 1000kByte/sec. Can anyone help me to overcome this problem?

Hey, may i ask a question?
I have bought a pair of Buffalo 11g product, i.e. WBR-G54 and WLI-CB-G54.
When i insert the cardbus WLAN card, the cardbus icon displayed on the right top of the finder shows implicitly 802.11b even if i configure the airstation to '802.11g only' state. After my simple test, i make a FTP connection to another PC via my TiBook with this cardbus WLAN card. The data rate is only 50 kByte/sec. However, in the another test, the speed of the FTP connection between two PCs becomes 1000kByte/sec. Can anyone help me to overcome this problem?

Hey, may i ask a question?
I have bought a pair of Buffalo 11g product, i.e. WBR-G54 and WLI-CB-G54.
When i insert the cardbus WLAN card, the cardbus icon displayed on the right top of the finder shows implicitly 802.11b even if i configure the airstation to '802.11g only' state. After my simple test, i make a FTP connection to another PC via my TiBook with this cardbus WLAN card. The data rate is only 50 kByte/sec. However, in the another test, the speed of the FTP connection between two PCs becomes 1000kByte/sec. Can anyone help me to overcome this problem?

Hey, may i ask a question?
I have bought a pair of Buffalo 11g product, i.e. WBR-G54 and WLI-CB-G54.
When i insert the cardbus WLAN card, the cardbus icon displayed on the right top of the finder shows implicitly 802.11b even if i configure the airstation to '802.11g only' state. After my simple test, i make a FTP connection to another PC via my TiBook with this cardbus WLAN card. The data rate is only 50 kByte/sec. However, in the another test, the speed of the FTP connection between two PCs becomes 1000kByte/sec. Can anyone help me to overcome this problem?

I am trying to get a Linksys WPM11 802.b to work. I don't need the G and curious how this hax works so I can do it to skyline pc adapter too.

It claims that "new_device_id: Undefined variable." I have done a dump. The device ID is 000038737. I have a device ID of pci1737, 3847 in the device id of the perl program. Is the patchloc also the device ID too if so how do convert to this "0x4e8ac" code? Or how do you determine it? I used this code and others with no luck. Do you still need the patch in the info.plist? A little confused. All support will be highly appreciated! Thanks, David Brown
popeyebrown@bigfoot.com

I know that there is a "mytunes" for PCs that allows you to download the songs people are shairing. I was curious if there was a Mac version of this program.

I have an old Airport card. It flaked out and now I see this error in my logs:
Jan 26 14:26:21 localhost configd[89]: updateAirportPersonality can't update Apple80211Monitor.plist: Lock required for this operation

I cannot find the referenced file.

I have the following files in Extensions:

AppleAirport.kext
AppleAirport2.kext
AppleAirportFW.kext

Details:
Pismo PowerBook
640 MB
400 Mhz
Graphite Base Station.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Derek

I have a PowerBook Pismo that I'm trying to connect to a Palm Vx via a High-End Tech USB to RS232 cable I bought on Ebay. I'm running Panther. I can't get the thing to HotSynch. It seems like a problem with the connection, and I can't find a driver for this adapter. Anyone got one? Any suggestions?

I have a I-Book

I bought a I530 nextel

I bought a usb cable to hook up to my Ibook

The iden site for software only has PC software

How do i find software to use the cable with my I-Book

Hey a friend sent me an .m4a file and im pretty much computer illiterate and wanna knonw how I can change it to play it on my pc i play my music on windows media player thats it

Hey,Sorry for reposting twice but I think I posted the first one in the wrong section. I'm using a TiBook500mhz OS10.3.5, with the latest airport update, trying to get a Linksys WPC11b v.4 card to work. Don't have a router at home, just using public hotspots. Have tried the ioxperts and orangeware drivers and neither works. Is there any way I can get this to work? Am a total newbie and don't really have a clue re:previous posts on perl etc, apologies for super basic questions and many thanks for help!

Take that card back, uninstall those drivers and go buy a WCP54G instead. It will actually work with Apple's drivers and as a bonus you'll get Airport Extreme.

hi there, i have converted some mp3 files to m4a files using itunes because the original mp3 file wouldn't let me convert the info. unfortunately, the conversion has created each file to something like 4-5 times its original size. so now a file that was 3.5mb is now like 28mb. does anyone know why this happened and how i can revers it please? thanks.

Hey all, I just picked up the WPC54G card and am trying to get it to work with my Pismo under Os X 10.3.8. I have an even newer version of this card, version 4. Has anyone had any luck getting this version to work?

Thanks,

Bill

is it possible to convert a m4a file to an mp3 or wav file so that i can burn it onto a cd and play it on a regular cd player?

thanks, kimi

It really is super simple to make CDs that play in all commercial players.(another post recommend this and it works with elegant simplicity)

Go to iTunes Preferences
Choose Advanced
Choose Burn
Choose the Disc Format: Audio CD button

That's it.

Right now I'm listening to the Christmas tunes I purchased from iTunes on my Toshiba HD TV via the attached VCR/DVD-R in my home entertainment system.

Doesn't that sound super Mac simple?

As I read the other posts on this topic, I kept thinking, if something on a Mac seems hard, we're probably over-thinking this problem. (This is my 11th computer and my 9th Mac.)

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all!

Just to let everyone here know how to convert the iTunes m4p files is actually easier than expected. We bought some songs from itunes and directly it would not convert the song to mp3. So we had itunes burn it to a cd. Then we took itunes and imported it from the cd and itunes was able to convert it to mp3. Thanks for the info that helped us discover the answer.