sleep kills airport (broadcom bcm43xx)

ginopopo · #1 04-30-2009, 10:20 PM

Hi, first, i would like to thank the creator of the bcm43xx_enabler.sh script for making my wireless working in my laptop

But i got a small issue with airport and sleep.

When i make my computer go to sleep, everything goes well but then when i wakeup the computer, Airport is disabled and i cannot enable it. Clicking on "enable airport" just does nothing. even rerunning the bcm43xx_enabler.sh script in terminal does nothing. Seems like I absolutely need to reboot, then i get airport working right again.

i searched a lot on a couple of forums about this but found nothing to fix it. Thats why i gave up and posted here

I hope someone has a solution, because this is the last thing to fix before i have a 100% working macbook (or Hackbook...).

please help me! thanks in advance

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Computer: Acer Extensa 4620-4963
wifi card: Broadcom BCM43xx (sorry, not sure about the EXACT model, but it begins with BCM43)
OSX: Ideneb 1.3 (10.5.5) updated to 1.4 (10.5.6) with ideneb update kit rev1
Installed all recent apple updates (airport, security etc.)

ginopopo · #2 05-02-2009, 10:32 PM

120+ views and still nothing

no one with the same kind of problem??

#3 05-03-2009, 03:52 AM

No, sorry

But try http://pcwizcomputer.com/osx86search/

mr_murder · #4 05-03-2009, 05:22 AM

Are you using chun-nan's iopcmciafamily.kext? If not try that, it helped with some problems I was having with the same card. (There are 3 versions, one for Tiger, one for Leopard and another for 10.5.6, make you use use the right one.)
http://www.mediafire.com/chunnan