Project: Camphor - Latest Comments in VoodooWireless is now completed

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

James — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:20:19 -0000

No way man, i got 3945 and thats what i want... And from the posts here it seems that many others also want the 3945

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

xtian_sk9 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:14:22 -0000

I'd love to help out testing drivers for my 3945 WLAN hack. email sent! I'm running a Sony VAIO VGN-C140G w/Leopard 10.5.6.
Please e-mail me at xtian_sk9@yahoo.com. Thank You Very Much!

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

gabrielmckinnon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:16:16 -0000

Hey mate. I am trying to Hackintosh my sisters HP Laptop and that has an 2915 wireless chipset is there one for mac os x?

Best of luck to ya and hope this project Succeeds and brings packets of happiness (XD) to all who require something like this

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

drmikecrawford — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:53:29 -0000

Send some info and i will see what i can do.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

ptesone — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:23:51 -0000

I'd love to help out testing drivers for my 3945 WLAN hack. email sent! I'm running a Dell Latitude D620 w/Leopard 10.5.6

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

mercurysquad — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:30:40 -0000

You will need at least Tiger 10.4.11 to use the kext. I have not tried it, but according to Apple some features that the kext uses are only available in Leopard, and were later ported back to Tiger in v10.4.11.

You don't have to worry about firmware, it is included within the driver. You just have to accept the Intel firmware license agreement before you download/use the driver.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

chopdoc — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:17:26 -0000

Thanks so much. I would like to try it, and I do have KextHelper. Perhaps I'll just give it a go. The thing is I read something about firmware being involved. Don't I have to do something regarding this firmware in addition to just installing the kext? I just figured there must be more to it than just the kext because of the firmware. Again, consider me a noob.

It's amazing to me that people are willing to put so much into such things. If I don't get a definite response on the Tiger compatibility issue I'll probably just give it a go and post the results.

Thank you.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

Drakulix — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:05:41 -0000

I don't know if this driver works on Tiger. But to install it download KextHelper. Open it, select 2200.kext, type in your passwort and klick install.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

chopdoc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:18:53 -0000

I discovered this project while trying to understand how to get my 2200BG working in my Presario M2108US. I am running OS X 10.4.6 though, and I see nothing on these pages about what version of OS X are supported. I am also at a loss about how to install the drivers.

Will this work on 10.4.6? If so, how can I install them? Consider me a noob.

I have considered trying to run Jaguar, but the information on the OSX86 site, including the forums, is scattered and incomplete so I really don't even know if I should try it. Everything except my wireless card works and I am currently using a USB D-Link WiFi adapter. I really want the internal.

I would be willing to contribute, but as it stands there is very little information here I can use. Lots of info on the development but almost no practical info for somebody to use. And I have read many pages. I don't even know if I can try the drivers, or how to try them. Hard to contribute under such circumstances.

Any info would help.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

heyhey — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:47:16 -0000

give us an update! pleaaaaaaaaaase :) even if it's bad news!

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

Sebinouse — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:32:06 -0000

Actually, we don't need an "estimated time of completion", the driver will be realeased when it will be ready. What we need is update to see the project evolutions ...
I just can't wait to see an update showing the progress for 3945 development...

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

drmikecrawford — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:49:27 -0000

What is the estimated time of completion for the 3945 driver. And is there anything i may do to help things along?

PS Keep up the great work!!!

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

yell0wghost — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:46:03 -0000

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

mercurysquad — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:12:20 -0000

Two points.

1. There is no problem installing these drivers directly in /S/L/E. Since it's a 3rd party kext, no OS X update will mess with it. There is no need to install these (or any 3rd party kext which does not overwrite an Apple-supplied driver) in the EFI partition.

2. Chameleon already supports override kexts 100%. The reason some of them fail to load is OS X itself -- most of these kexts depend on other kexts, for example the IOFramework kexts depend on IOPCIFamily, ACPIPlatform and IOGraphics kexts. So you must put all dependencies in /Extra. Even then it's a bit of a gamble as these kexts are loaded too early and might not have some other resources ready yet.

That said, I have not tested loading project:camphor drivers from EFI partition, nor will it be supported because such is not required for its working.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

foo — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:42:29 -0000

Yeah, it makes sense that the ones that don't work in this way are trying to override existing kexts (or parts of kexts) in /S/L/E.
However I could have sworn that a few brand new kexts sometimes didn't work, but it could have been my imagination.
I think not knowing how the OS loads kexts or how the bootloader works, it's just seemed like voodoo before (pardon the pun).

I think Chameleon (which I'm running) should have better support for overriding the same named kexts in /S/L/E, but that's a topic for another time and forum.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

magare — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:49:44 -0000

Hey guys, let's not put pressure on the developer. Comments like the two above are really annoying !!!
Remember that this is voluntarily work !!!
Just wait patiently. He is working hard enough.

And be thankful as we don't have lots of options here.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

ChengTao H. — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:27:42 -0000

BTW,

Can you tell me, what time can you finnish the 3945 driver?

Thx!

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

ChengTao H. — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:22:44 -0000

Hi!

Any chance for 3945 driver, please?

I'm waiting for that.

Thx,
ChengTao H.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

yell0wghost — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:13:32 -0000

Nice!

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

mercurysquad — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:43:52 -0000

UPDATE: Ok I'm on 10.5.8 now and am typing this while connected through existing project:camphor beta driver v05. So obviously everything's peachy.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

mercurysquad — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:04:55 -0000

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm updating to 10.5.8 right now. Hopefully it has only bugfixes and no API changes.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

foo — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:22:37 -0000

Mac OS X 10.5.8 was just released, and one of the changes is: "Improves compatibility and reliability for joining AirPort networks."... Just wanted to make sure you were aware of this (any API changes, etc) so your drivers will still work in 10.5.8.

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

Subby — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:53:52 -0000

Well my Toshiba Equium A100 laptop is now bios dead :( but i still feel my donation went to a good cause!! good luck with testing! (i can send you my 3945 from my laptop if you want? (my email was used to post this message, or leave your email here & i can contact you ;) )

all the best

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

macosx86 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:26:29 -0000

Hi !!

Good job !!!

I would like to know if you're developping the 4965 drivers too or not ?

Because that's many users want, before the 3945.

Tanks for your job, and i'm waiting a solution for my intel 4965 AGN.

I could be a tester if you want !

Re: VoodooWireless is now completed

alex0n — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:11:27 -0000

waiting for 3945ABG ... great project, man!