Confirmed 802.11n Enabler (AirPortEnabler.kext) BREAKS Audio
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:51 pm
OK, this seems major so I decided to make a thread of it's own rather than keep appending to an older 802.11n thread.
Background: ThinkPad T60 (2623-D8U) Upgraded using Lenovo 802.11 a/b/g/n Atheros AR5008 card, running OSX 10.4.8 with Kernel 8.8.1 which recognizes it as an "Airport Extreme (0x168C, 0x33). Also using the modified AppleAzaliaAudio.kext to get 2 channel sound from the ThinkPad.
Situation: After upgrade to the new AR5008 card I had no wireless whatsoever.
Fix #1: I 1st installed the Apple "AirPortExtremeUpdate2007002.dmg" update and after reboot it was recognized as "Airport Extreme" and worked great connecting to 802.11g
Fix #2: In order to get the full potential of the card I then installed the $1.99 Apple "AirPort_Extreme_802.11n_Enabler.dmg" which simply adds a plug-in called "AirPortEnabler.kext" in the Plugins folder of the main "IO80211Family.kext"
PROBLEM: After reboot, 802.11n was working in "N" mode and the card showed up as 802.11 a/b/g/n in the networking utility, BUT my volume control and audio were GONE!!!
WORK: I have since restored my system multiple times and even tried to manually install the "plug-in" in case other changes were invisibly made by the official installer and same result: Placing the plugin inside "IO80211nFamily.kext" will break Audio!
HELP: Does anyone have a fix or idea on how to get audio back without breaking 802.11n?
Note: I also posted about this HERE in the hopes more people see it and someone has a fix.
Background: ThinkPad T60 (2623-D8U) Upgraded using Lenovo 802.11 a/b/g/n Atheros AR5008 card, running OSX 10.4.8 with Kernel 8.8.1 which recognizes it as an "Airport Extreme (0x168C, 0x33). Also using the modified AppleAzaliaAudio.kext to get 2 channel sound from the ThinkPad.
Situation: After upgrade to the new AR5008 card I had no wireless whatsoever.
Fix #1: I 1st installed the Apple "AirPortExtremeUpdate2007002.dmg" update and after reboot it was recognized as "Airport Extreme" and worked great connecting to 802.11g
Fix #2: In order to get the full potential of the card I then installed the $1.99 Apple "AirPort_Extreme_802.11n_Enabler.dmg" which simply adds a plug-in called "AirPortEnabler.kext" in the Plugins folder of the main "IO80211Family.kext"
PROBLEM: After reboot, 802.11n was working in "N" mode and the card showed up as 802.11 a/b/g/n in the networking utility, BUT my volume control and audio were GONE!!!
WORK: I have since restored my system multiple times and even tried to manually install the "plug-in" in case other changes were invisibly made by the official installer and same result: Placing the plugin inside "IO80211nFamily.kext" will break Audio!
HELP: Does anyone have a fix or idea on how to get audio back without breaking 802.11n?
Note: I also posted about this HERE in the hopes more people see it and someone has a fix.
