| Re: G5 won't recognise Airport Express card [message #276246 is a reply to message #274201] |
Sun, 21 December 2014 17:32   |
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Kris:
Thanks for the advice. After various family health issues (and deaths)
since Thanksgiving, I only got around to giving this a try today.
As you suspected, those KEXTs are NOT installed. Unfortunately, none of the
steps you suggested managed to install any of them. Even after running the
10.5.8 updater again, Airport still isn't able to be 'picked', and running
the Terminal again, I can confirm the KEXTs still weren't installed after
running the updater.
I don't guess you have any more ideas? Or do you think there's some
hardware problem preventing the system from 'seeing' the card (and
therefore preventing installation of those KEXTs with the updater)?
Andy
On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:14:42 AM UTC-5, Kris Tilford wrote:
>
> On Nov 25, 2014, at 7:16 AM, 'mythmaker18' via G-Group <
> g3-5...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote:
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> It does NOT appear in the "list" on the left-hand side of the System
> Preferences window, nor can it be added to it.
>
> When I click the "assist me" button, then click on "diagnostics", where it
> says "choose network port configuration", AirPort is GREYED-OUT (i.e. not
> selectable) in the list of choices. It only alllows me to choose Ethernet
> or Other (I disconnected the Internal Modem, hoping that would help, but it
> didn't make any difference one way or the other).
>
> I don't know what you mean by "deleting" it, since it's not on the list.
>
> I've tried TWO different cards, both of which the seller says have been
> tested. I've seated them, re-seated them, rebooted, pressed the CUDA
> button, repaired disk permissions, everything I can think of.
>
>
> I think I see the problem. This is a software issue.
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> The problem is likely that the 802.11 kext isn’t loading.
>
> Startup by doing a Safe Boot holding the shift key which will force a
> rebuilding of the kext cache, hopefully getting the 802.11 kexts to load.
> If the kexts load, you should be able to open System Preferences > Network
> and it will automatically offer to add the new device port “Airport”. If
> this does NOT happen, then it’s likely the kext is still failing to load.
> You can open Applications > Utilities > Terminal and use the command
> “kextstat” to so the list of loaded kexts. Within this list you’ll be
> looking for “IO80211Family” and “AirPortBrcm43xx”. If they aren’t loaded,
> this is still the problem. At this point, it’s probably simplest to
> “refresh” your System software by reinstalling the 10.5.8 Combo Update,
> which will give you a fresh, up-to-date copy of the latest updated
> software. If the card isn’t recognized in System Preferences > Network,
> then you’ve got a more serious problem, perhaps a hardware issue?
>
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