On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:52 PM, DLC wrote:
Am I still missing something?
When you open System Preferences>Network you should see an "Airport" network port shown. If it's not there, it should automatically recognize when you open Network. If it doesn't automatically recognize, you and add it manually, but this shouldn't be necessary and might indicate your specific combination of VID & PID may be missing from the Broadcom kext. The "easy" way of adding all the possible supported VID & PID combinations is to use "bcm43xx_enabler.sh" script to modify the info.plist file of the AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext which is located within:System > Library > Extensions > IO80211Family .kext>Contents>Plugins>AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext>Contents>info.plist.
I'd opt to download the "bcm43xx_enabler.sh" script, open Terminal, and type: sudo with a space after, and drag the script into the Terminal window which will add the path to the script, than hit the Return and follow the instructions (usually only pressing the Return key several times for a default installation, which 99.9% of the time is correct). The advantage of the script is that it corrects the ownership & permissions automatically, and adds all known support for every possible Broadcom device.
If you've verified that your specific VID & PID combo are in the info.plist, and that Airport is in Network preferences, you should be able to connect if the Network preferences are correctly configured.
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