Or so I thought. But don't blame it on the Atheros AR5B93 card that came, finally, last Friday. Somewhere in between the challenge of solving the Snow Leopard + Windows 7 dual-boot puzzle on the HP Mini 311 and my excitement over receiving yet another new, err, 'hardware', I may have slipped up.
We all know about HP's white lists and locked PCI slots and there's also the fact of this so called 'soft switch' which in essence, means that an HP laptop uses this to 'switch off' hardware installed in it. Now this soft switch is not something that Mac OS X appreciates. So, going straight to the point, what it means for the HP Mini 311 hackintosh user like me is that they would have their WiFi, that has always worked brilliantly, to suddenly not work. i.e. 'No AirPort card installed' message in place of the signal indicator at the menubar.
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This particular scenario, I've discovered, is more likely to happen when one is on dual-boot. Specifically a Windows version + Mac OS X. It appears to me that Windows appreciates this little trick of HP that after booting into Windows 7 and Mac OS X alternately for a while, I find my WiFi card disabled. And I have to use an Ubuntu USB flashdrive to try re-enabling the WiFi card thus I've proven Linux to be above this soft switch situation. But sometimes, as good as Linux undoubtedly is, this stupidity can sometimes be beyond its tolerance level and I resort to re-seating my WiFi card in the PCI slot.Reinstalling drivers (twice)-running the Windows troubleshooter-resetting Windows 10-flushing the DNS-ipconfig renew-netsh winsock reset. System specs: Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1470. OS: Windows 7 (formerly), Windows 10 (currently) Network adapter: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card. I have included several screenshots for you better diagnose.
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Taping PIN 20 of the WiFi card solved the problem for me, at least in the Broadcom BCM4312HMG card's case and so finally, I decided to peel the copper contact strip of that card's PIN 20 to make the fix permanent. And that's exactly where I say that I've started to slip up, perhaps.*NOTE: this Broadcom BCM4312HMG is NOT the same as the HP Mini 311's stock WiFi card, which is a Broadcom BCM4312HMGB. That Broadcom BCM4312HMGB DOES NOT work in Snow Leopard. People, seriously, let us try to accept the fact and move on ;-)
You see, with my happy and giddy, and not to mention a bit troubled (with the dual-boot issue a fellow forumer was having) state last week, I had the equally happy idea of doing the permanent fix on my all brand new Atheros AR5B93.
It does work, mind you. It's even recognized by Snow Leopard as AirPort Extreme without me having to flash its Device ID's in Linux. My only problem now is that it would cause my HP Mini to freeze in 10.6. And when I updated my fresh install (I had to do a fresh install for the dual-boot experiment) to 10.6.4, I would get stuck at boot.
I'm really suspecting it's my 'PIN 20 attack' that caused this problem and may have damaged my Atheros AR5B93. Perhaps it's only the Broadcom cards that benefit from that specific solution?
Anyone who have experience with Atheros AR5B93 on their HP Mini 311 share their feedback regarding the freeze ups at boot?
You installed Ubuntu and the only access to the interweb is via Wifi (no ethernet cat 5 connection in sight for miles). However, your system is not recognizing your Broadcom wireless card. Your are in trouble.
First, you need to determine which card you have:
Mine is a BCM43142 14e4:4365 rev 01. And I am running Trusty 14.04 TLS so I need to use bcmwl-kernel-source. Iphone emulator mac os.
Next, you need to utilize a different computer (or phone, or phablet) to download the appropriate package. Save the .deb file to a separate USB (or whatever) and copy to your local system.
You can now either set up a local aptget offline repository or even easier - just right-click on the file from within Ubuntu and select “Open with Ubuntu Software Center” to install.
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