Netgear WG111v2 USB wifi works in Snow Leopard

smidge · 2010-01-20

After heaps of reading and not being sure which internal wifi card was going to work, i tried to find a solution to use the WG111v2 that i had lying around from earlier hackintosh attempts these netgear drivers work fine on leopard but snow leopard messes it up, BUT! It works in SNOW LEOPARD! on my 10.6.2 vanilla install on an Aspire one D250 the installer will tell you it failed, and then a notice will come up saying the kext is not working. The solution that worked for me.. 1. connect dongle 2. restart 3. drag the RTL8187l.kext out of system/library/extensions 4. open kexthelper 5. drag the kext in, enter password etc 6. kexthelper than crashed on me, so i force quit, and restart 7. after a LONG boot, the realtek app opened automatically and told me to enable the device in network settings, so i did 8. opened realtek app, entered my wifi details and BOOM it works

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After heaps of reading and not being sure which internal wifi card was going to work, i tried to find a solution to use the WG111v2 that i had lying around from earlier hackintosh attempts

these netgear drivers work fine on leopard but snow leopard messes it up, BUT!

It works in SNOW LEOPARD! on my 10.6.2 vanilla install on an Aspire one D250

the installer will tell you it failed, and then a notice will come up saying the kext is not working.

The solution that worked for me..

1. connect dongle
2. restart
3. drag the RTL8187l.kext out of system/library/extensions
4. open kexthelper
5. drag the kext in, enter password etc
6. kexthelper than crashed on me, so i force quit, and restart
7. after a LONG boot, the realtek app opened automatically and told me to enable the device in network settings, so i did
8. opened realtek app, entered my wifi details and BOOM

it works

smidge, Jan 20, 2010

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