Wireless - Recommendations?
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Ok so for the people who don't want the hassle of spending £30-40 on parts to build an internal airport I have found a solution that works for OSX Lion and that costs UK £4.
I spent the best part of today trying to get this working so I thought I would share my findings with anyone who wants to know.
1. Bought a Belkin G Mimo from Ebay for £4
2. Download the Belkin wireless software from website for OSX 10.4
3. Install Belkin software and relise that it does not work
4. Go to Kext.com and download RT73 Chip Kext http://www.kexts.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1096
5. Unzip RT73 Kext and place in HDD/Extra/Extentions
6. Download Kext Utility 2 for Lion, and run **this should install your wireless Kext**
http://www.kexts.com/view/1065-latest_kext_utility_x64_for_lion_from_cvad.html 7. Restart computer to get full speed wireless
P.S. If you can see the Mimo in the belkin software but cannot get connected, open network from system preferences to help it get started.
Although I wrote this guide for a Belkin G Mimo I think it should work for other types of USB wireless as well, you just need to find out your chipset for the adapter.
I found mine here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkCardsBelkin
It reads chipset Ralink RT2671F, RT2528L (RT73) So by trial and error I found I just needed to search for the last part "RT73" and "Lion" as well.
Hope this helps some people as I found it very confusing and nearly gave up many times along the way, Just keep trying you can get there in the end.
I spent the best part of today trying to get this working so I thought I would share my findings with anyone who wants to know.
1. Bought a Belkin G Mimo from Ebay for £4
2. Download the Belkin wireless software from website for OSX 10.4
3. Install Belkin software and relise that it does not work
4. Go to Kext.com and download RT73 Chip Kext http://www.kexts.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1096
5. Unzip RT73 Kext and place in HDD/Extra/Extentions
6. Download Kext Utility 2 for Lion, and run **this should install your wireless Kext**
http://www.kexts.com/view/1065-latest_kext_utility_x64_for_lion_from_cvad.html 7. Restart computer to get full speed wireless
P.S. If you can see the Mimo in the belkin software but cannot get connected, open network from system preferences to help it get started.
Although I wrote this guide for a Belkin G Mimo I think it should work for other types of USB wireless as well, you just need to find out your chipset for the adapter.
I found mine here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkCardsBelkin
It reads chipset Ralink RT2671F, RT2528L (RT73) So by trial and error I found I just needed to search for the last part "RT73" and "Lion" as well.
Hope this helps some people as I found it very confusing and nearly gave up many times along the way, Just keep trying you can get there in the end.
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