Confirmed 802.11n Enabler (AirPortEnabler.kext) BREAKS Audio

[ssimon]

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.

[ssimon]

Wow, no one using 802.11n yet, cmon guys, step it up

[Tammy]

Hi,

I'm using the same wifi card as you, but my Mac OSX doesn't recgnize it. I tried downloading the update your reffered to, but when I try to install it, I get the following:

"You cannot install ... on this volume. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update"

I guess because it can't find the card.

Can you help me?

Grtz