yamboo-efi Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 HI all! I have a Dell D620, with Intel graphics card and Intel. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I changed the wifi card to a Broadcom 4321 from a HP laptop. Theoretically work natively, but doesn't. After a lot of search, the solutions that i found was: changing or patching the IO80211Family.kext. I only found a post relative to HP laptops that changing the SMboardproduct key on smbios.plist to Mac-F22788A9 would be sufficient. I changed the key, previously was Mac-F42C88C8, and after reboot the wifi card detected!! A simple solution. I think that is valid for others laptops. Sorry for my english, it's my little contribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 3, 2012 Administrators Share Posted October 3, 2012 Thanks, something to add to the list of useful info. For reference, what is the exact model labelled on the card? I'm myself bought a Broadcom card out of an HP laptop and it worked out of the box (it was a 4311 model). There are a few posts on the forum related to the patched 80211 kext and a wiki page here re: rebranding of Broadcom cards: http://www.osxlatitu...irport-extreme/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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