Made my own airport card...but there are issues.

[mizino]

Ok so I bought a BCM94322MC, and a mini-pci to pci converter. Put it all together and rebooted the system, and it acknowledges it as an airport extreme, and it connects to my wireless router fine. I can browse the net, and get pretty decent speeds, but problems arise upon trying to do anything internal to my network. For instance, if I want to print, it will tell me it cannot connect to the printer, but if I turn off my card for a moment then turn it back on, it connects and prints easily. Same thing with connecting to its file share via the network. It works for a while then quits, and when I reset the wireless it works for a while. I'm not sure what the issue is does anyone have any suggestions? I tried making sure the connections in side where good, and I tried changing the MTU, but nothing has worked.

 

[mizino]

Really? Hasn't any one a clue? or perhaps need more information to figure it out?

 

[mizino]

anyone with any other ideas?

 

[ironhide]

try with ubuntu that can be run as a live cd to test the system, that way you can see if its the card or some config in the hack

 

[mizino]

Thats brilliant actually it should have occurred to me. Will ubuntu have drivers for the airport card?

 

[powerpcg5]

Might be a bad card.