Airport Drivers

I wnat to configure my 15" Powerbook G4 Titanium (400MHz, pre gigibit, OS 10.3.2) so that I can use wireless networking. After unsuccessfully trying a Belkin card, I just ordered a Sonnet Aria Extreme. The manufacturer's web site indicated I need Airport Drivers vesion 3.1 or later. How do I determine what version drivers are installed on my computer. If they are not the correct version, where can I find the right ones?
Powerbook G4 (15-inch Titanium) Mac OS X (10.3.2)

I notice you're running 10.4.2. The latest Mac OS X version is 10.4.6, and these incremental updates include AirPort Extreme updates. Therefore keeping on top of them ensures your AirPort Extreme drivers will be current.
Run Software Update!
Matt

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Hi -
I have a regular BootX boot time kernal panic which i have traced to the attempt to load AirPort Exteme drivers in 10.4.2. What is odd is that after a reboot (or cold boot), I get a KP, have to restart, and my PB is then fine. In other words it only fails every other boot, like clockwork. Booting Commmand-V shows the panic occurs in loading Airport driver.
So I would like to remove and reinstall the drivers. Can anyone advise 1) where I can get the latest drivers/kext files and 2) what I need to do to reinstall?
Many thx.

The latest drivers are provided by Airport 4.2:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airport42formacosx1042.html
If installing Airport 4.2 fails to solve the problem (which is highly likely), I suspect that only an archive and reinstall of MacOS 10.4 will be necessary to solved your problem.

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Are you entering the WEP key in ascii (just a word) or hex pairs? If you were using ascii, try switching to hex pairs and see if that works (just click the menu in the password window and it should appear as something like "128 bit WEP hex"). I know you said the password is correct, but if using ascii, sometimes the keys don't match on the router and computer (or something like that), so the router thinks the password you gave is wrong. When this happens for me, it just cites "problems joining network" or something similar, rather than citing an incorrect password. Hex pairs bypass this problem.
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Intermittent Airport

I've posted this before, but have had little luck, so here goes:
The computer in question belongs to my Dad:
iMac DV SE 400 mHz
640 megs RAM
OS X 10.4.3
The airport card installed in it works only on some occassions, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason for it working when it does or not working when it doesn't.
What I've tried:
-upgrading the airport drivers on both the iMac and airport extreme base station and all other computers on the network
-De-upgrading airport drivers on all the above
-Reseating the card
-reseating the antenna cable for the card
I may have forgotten a few things, but that about sums it up. I'd really like to get this computer working regularly again, and am unsure why it has refused to work. When the card doesn't work, the airport menu goes grey and it cannot see any wireless routers or computers in range. When it works it sees everything and automatically logs on to the right wireless router and internet works just as advertised.
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Kernel panics in 10.4.10 - Airport driver

From my panic.log:
Mon Jul 2 10:09:24 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A4A55): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page faul
t), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0008010a, CR3: 0x00f0e000, CR4: 0x000026e0
EAX: 0x00000006, EBX: 0x3519e107, ECX: 0x0008010a, EDX: 0x349dabd0
CR2: 0x0008010a, EBP: 0x36363bf8, ESI: 0x00080110, EDI: 0x349da2c8
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x00198d64, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00090010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x363639f8 : 0x128d08 (0x3cc0a4 0x36363a1c 0x131de5 0x0)
0x36363a38 : 0x1a4a55 (0x3d24b8 0x0 0xe 0x3d1cdc)
0x36363b48 : 0x19aeb4 (0x36363b60 0x91 0x0 0xa1f44c)
0x36363bf8 : 0x9f9e1e (0x8010a 0x3519e107 0x6 0x63fd67a0)
0x36363dd8 : 0x9fc059 (0x349da2c8 0x536c0e0 0x36363e08 0x32e89d)
0x36363f08 : 0x39b3c3 (0x349da000 0x5031600 0x1 0x4ce6cec)
0x36363f58 : 0x39a595 (0x5031600 0x668e280 0x36363f78 0x4b2038)
0x36363f88 : 0x39a2cb (0x5157dc0 0x360000 0x454db8 0xffffffff)
0x36363fc8 : 0x19ad2c (0x5157dc0 0x0 0x19e0b5 0x55d3d60) Backtrace terminated-in
valid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros(230.8.5)@0x9c8000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x700000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x577000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(160.2)@0x835000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/
RELEASE_I386
I've had 18 of these over the last week since I updated to 10.4.10. It only happens when running on battery. All of my co-workers who also have the same MacBook Pro (intel duo core 2, 15") are experiencing the exact same problem with 10.4.10. There are 6 of us here at my office all seeing this problem.
While on battery, the network connection flakes out and my MacBook is unable to connect to anything. Clicking on the airport utility in the menu bar, or bringing up the network system preferences causes a kernel panic.
We are using a cisco wireless access point:
Cisco Aironet
Model# AIR-AP1131AG-A-K9 (v03)
802.11 a/b/g support
2.4 - 5 Ghz
I point this out because I have yet to get the kernel panics at home on my linksys wireless AP. However, at work with the Cisco AP, my Mac panics faster than the mob at the local iStore when they ran out of iPhones. I'm thinking that the Cisco AP might be sending a signal that the Airport drivers don't like.
Anyone have any suggestions?
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.10)
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.10) Intel Core Duo 2, 3GB RAM

Our ops team figured out the problem. Our wireless access point was misconfigured to used "WPA Personal" encryption instead of WEP.
Even after the updated driver patch to 10.4.10, people at my office were no longer getting kernel panics, but everyone was still getting dropped connections and errors trying to connect. It seems that Apple has bugs in the driver for WAP Personal based encryption.
If you are having any problems with wireless on 10.4.10, check your wireless connection to make sure you're using WEP encryption. If not, reconfigure your wireless access point to use WEP.

Basic Airport card can't connect to Wi-Fi using WPA encryption

I have a Powerbook Pismo 500mhz using OS 9.2.2 and Airport 2.0.4 software with a basic Airport card installed in it. For over a month I was able to connect to my resorts wi-fi network by putting in there Key 1 password and I was connected just fine. The other day they changed the password and upgraded there software from WEP to WPA, Now no matter what I do I can't get it to accept my password. The password is 24 letters long and every time I enter it I get "An error occurred while trying to join the selected airport network" .
I have tried everything from putting the password in quotes, to starting it with $, to even using Wep Key maker. In fact they call it a PassPhrase, not a Password. There is no options to change the encryption with Airport 2.0.4. I have looked all over the net and this is my last resort. Please help. If you wish you can email me directly at [email protected]
Powerbook Pismo 500 Mac OS 9.2.x Basic Airport card, 768 ram, 30 GB HD

I've been having horribly similar problems trying to get my Mac to join up with a non-Apple Wi-Fi network running WPA.
I suspect you are probably entering the WPA password into the old WEP password field on your Powerbook. If you are, that will never work. You need to have the system asking you for a WPA password not a WEP one, and if you're software isn't current you won't be given the option.
Try this - you need to get your OS level and airport drivers much more current. I was experiencing the same error message as you when I was on OSX 10.3, which I have a feeling is the first level of OSX that properly supports WPA. Move up to 10.4 if you can. Also get the latest Airport drivers installed. Henry B may be able to give you the link, or you will find it embedded in another post.
If you are as unlucky as me you may find that even this doesn't fix your problem. I'm now getting the message that my password is not accepted - a step forward but not a cure.
If you do manage to get it going (and all advice is that the OSX upgrade and new drivers usually do the trick), let me know what your fix was!
By the way, things also seem to work better if you have your SSID broadcast by the Access Point.
Richard

How to install the driver for Airport card in a mini

In a post regarding trouble with wireless connections some suggested...
cd /System/Library/Extensions
mv IO80211Family.kext IO8021Family.1066
well I did it and now my system is telling me there is no Airport card installed. How can I reload just the Airport drivers? I have my 10.6.3 OS X disk. Can I do it with that?
I tried running Disk Permissions with no change. I have since renamed the file back to what it was. The I started getting pop ups telling me the kernel file was improperly installed.
I just don't want to reinstall my complete OS.

I've already put it back to the original file name of IO80211Family.kext. I've run disk permissions too, in fact I've run it several times.
It keeps repairing a bunch of java stuff but that's all.
I've set the permission on the file to what I believe they were before I ran the mv command.
It was after I restored the file name, that I got the popup saying it was installed incorrectly, but, it's not saying it now.
And I have rebooted too, still no Airport.
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I have a PowerBook (Alum 1GHz) which after installing the above mentioned airport update has problem obtaining valid DHCP leases from my Airport Extreme or Airport Express base stations.
It works (or doesn't) something like this:
1) open laptop (wake from sleep)
2) airport connects, but network status says it can't obtain an IP.
3) turn airport off and on again (doesn't usually fix it)
4) open network sys pref and click "renew" over and over again until it gets a valid IP address.
It usually takes a while before it works. I can also, alternatively, just wait for 5 min or so and it'll fix itself. But waiting 5 minutes to get a network connection every time i open the laptop isn't really a good option.
Anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix? I think i'll downgrade my airport drivers in the meantime.
.tim
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FYI: rolling back to the kext files from before the update didn't seem to make the issue go away. Which is very strange since I didn't have the problem before the update.
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Kernel Panics (AFPFS) when using airport discs AND user switching!

Ok,
I would love to see if anyone else has had this happen;
I can replicate this on 2 Mac Pro's we use:
We have airports discs (in accounts mode) connected, all works fine. However, IF one user does not log out, and another logs on (user switching) we will invariably get a Kernel Panic after some time (sometimes when putting to sleep or logging on, sometimes 'just'. This has not happened when airport discs are NOT MOUNTED, or befure using them (we are using the latest, just-updated software patch). Any suggestions?
The Panic log (with the memory dump removed) is below:
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A3135): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000004, CR3: 0x00e87000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x486eb2b4, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x0000010c
CR2: 0x00000004, EBP: 0x486eb3c8, ESI: 0x486eb4fc, EDI: 0x00000000
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x5fe0d9ef, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x074c0010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.filesystems.afpfs(8.0.9)@0x5fddd000
Cheersm
Dan

I don't have any solutions, but I had been reading about some folks having airport related kernel panics in the MacBook discussion forum. As a matter of fact, I had a kernel panic a little while back on my MacBook, and the crash log pointed to some issues with airport drivers. Here is what Macfixit says about these drivers and I quote:
"Bad built-in hardware (including hard drives) Repeated kernel panics can be the result of incompatible, damaged or misconfigured built-in hardware. This includes built in AirPort, Bluetooth and other networking hardware, corrupt or damaged hard drives, faulty processors and more. Examine your crash log (as discussed in our tutorial "An introduction to reading Mac OS X crash reports") for clues as to which device is implicated.
Sometimes the fix is as simple as re-seating built-in hardware. Make sure any PCI, PCI Express, AirPort and other expansion-type hardware is firmly and properly seated in its appropriate port.
In other cases, the fix involves attacking the problem at a driver or kernel extension level. Again, examine your crash reports and look for components specifically linked to certain hardware. For instance, the following Mac OS X components are all used by Apple AirPort hardware, and can be implicated (by crash logs) in kernel panics:
com.apple.driver.AirPortAtheros5424(100.21)
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.0)
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.9)
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(110.19)
After determining device-specific components, you can try re-installing them -- either by performing an "Archive and Install" of Mac OS X, or downloading and manually placing items."
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060911080447777

User Contributed Tips in AirPort Extreme Forum

*The following User Contributed Tips are located in the AirPort Extreme forum:*
Rich Love - kair: Airport and Roadrunner
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121815
Publish date: Jan 6, 2002
Mark Lansdown - Semi-wireless Wake on Lan
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1276830
Publish date: Oct 8, 2008
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adsfushi72 - What does this acronym mean?
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Publish date: June 4, 2010
a brody - Airport, 10.5.8, and MacBook and MacBook Pros and slow internet
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Publish date: January 7, 2010
William Kucharski - Having issues with your AirPort connection? Please be specific.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2227197
Publish date: Nov 21, 2009
William Kucharski - Apple AirPort drivers only support a WEP key index of 1
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Publish date: Oct 16, 2008
Pondini - Using Time MACHINE with a USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme
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