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11-05-2009, 01:55 PM
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Thanks lukemdfree, now I'm back online with your help. In fact I'm posting this with my freshly working WG111v3 dongle on Snow Leopard 10.6.1!
 anyway, for those who're still facing problem to connect, I just want to add here few more steps to I had to take to make it work.
 Thank you everyone.
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11-06-2009, 03:53 AM
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Happy to hear axn
 I've just bought a broadcom 4311 card to replace the intel wifi 5100 agn so that I can have true airport, and run 64 bit. A few things I'd like to add also, I used voodooBattery to get my battery meter fully working, I also had flaky USB controllers until I installed a pkg that came with the developer version of snow leopard. (10A..etc), and after some searching I found a patched version of RealtekR1000.kext that I have in my e/e folder that works in 64 bit. this solutions obviously apply specifically to my config, hp dv5 1054tx (pci vendor info in my first post) hope this helps others!
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11-07-2009, 04:49 AM
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Yes, i forgot to mention about installing the official developer USB controller for SL (iousbfamily378.4.3_log.dmg) that came with the USB prober tool that helped me to verify that my wifi dongle was correctly connected & detected.
UPDATE: after I restarted my machine, the connection was lost (wireless is fully connected yet there was no internet, ie; couldn't load any pages). so after looking for solutions from other the internet from my (lucky i haven't erased my Leopard partition yet!) i found a solution that worked for me: 1. Downgrade my wifi connection security from WPA2 to WPA 2. Delete my dongle service in the Network preferences 3. Delete "com.apple.network.identification.plist, NetworkInterfaces.plist and preferences.plist" from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ 4. Add new location in the Network preferences (it detected my dongle again) 5. Restart and boot with -F Since then, I didn't face any more problem connecting & loading pages after shutdowns & restarts so far. Hope these would help. 
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11-19-2009, 04:19 AM
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my asus x83v also has a intel wifilink 5100, how did the replacement go?
I was think of doing the same i saw a this one, it says it works with all notebook, but hp, etc..which is great...did you have to flash a custom bios like you said you might have to, and which card did you get "broadcom-4311 wise" after you installed it what did you do just boot up a snow leopard just picked it right up, or what? PLEASE tell me everything in detail thanks! http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Broadcom-431...item3a5470dcbe Quote:
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11-19-2009, 06:13 AM
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Hi puppetj
The card I purchased is that model you've linked from ebay. I've been alot to try and get this card to work for me. Most people report that it works out of the box, some people say it just won't work at all. I'm part of the second group. I've tried all the solutions I could find. Another hickup has been yes, I would have to flash my BIOS if I wanted to start up the computer with the card in, I've been pausing startup and putting the card in to test it first. So for me, this card does NOT WORK. It's detected when I run lspci, but not in system profiler, no mention of an airport card.
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11-22-2009, 04:51 PM
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12-22-2009, 06:11 PM
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Ok so I'm really confused with my wifi in this laptop. I have a DV5T and I bought mine with the brcm43xx card in it. But, the reason I put 43xx is that 'osx68tools' reports it as 4312 yet the EvoTools (or w/e) reported it as 4315. I followed the instructions for the 4315 and i can get it detected as an 'airport' but from there, it's completely non-functional.
Has anyone had any luck with other cards OTHER than usb wifi dongles on this laptop? 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers.
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