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Airdrop is missing

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phil1995

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Aug 4, 2008
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Anyone know why my AirDrop is completely missing? No sign of it what so ever on my Mid 2008 15 Inch MBP.
 
Is your wifi working properly?

On my system it appears in Finder as you'll see in the attached screen shot. Does it appear there?
 

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DustinT said:
Is your wifi working properly?

On my system it appears in Finder as you'll see in the attached screen shot. Does it appear there?
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No problems with WiFi, that is what I am using right now. Nope, no sign of it at all in the finder!!!
 
Airdrop only works for certain network adapters so not all hardware is supported.
 
phil1995 said:
Anyone know why my AirDrop is completely missing? No sign of it what so ever on my Mid 2008 15 Inch MBP.
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AirDrop
supports the following Mac models:

MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 or newer)
iMac (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010)

Does not get too specific on your model. In Finder preferences, sidebar do you see Airdrop?
 
mrapplegate said:
AirDrop
supports the following Mac models:

MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 or newer)
iMac (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010)

Does not get too specific on your model. In Finder preferences, sidebar do you see Airdrop?
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Nope, not in the sidebar.
 
Just found out that AirDrop is not supported on older computers after I installed it on my old MacBook. A little disappointing.
 
Ya, thats going to require the wifi adapter be capable of mimo (or something like it). And thats a fairly recent technology so I can't say I'm terribly surprised its not supported. Perhaps you could swap your wifi adapter to one from a new system and gain that capability though I'm not sure. Some kext hacking might be required at that point.
 
Yeah. This was probably the biggest feature I wanted besides Launchpad and my iMac is too old for it. I only have two computers, so it completely screwed me. Back to old fashioned over the network transfers. They should have made it clearer before we bought Lion. Though, I still would have bought it :(

Makes me wish I had pirated it though, since the two features I wanted are broken as hell or don't work.
 
airdrop

Lion seems to be a lame goose as far as my Mac pro 1.1 march 2007... I hope steve Jobs and apple stop hurting their longtime followers by forcing them to upgrade their machines all the time. I haven't got a spare £2,000 in my back pocket like them... my specs are below.. and they never said anything about this in the lion preview podcast..

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005D.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT:

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0602
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: 3233
Displays:
L194WT:
Resolution: 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Software Versions:
CoreWLAN: 2.0 (200.46)
CoreWLANKit: 1.0 (100.43)
Menu Extra: 7.0 (700.42)
configd plug-in: 7.0 (700.57)
System Profiler: 7.0 (700.3)
IO80211 Family: 4.0 (400.40)
WiFi Diagnostics: 1.0 (100.26)
AirPort Utility: 5.5.3 (553.20)
Interfaces:
en2:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x87)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.11)
MAC Address: 00:19:e3:dc:eb:d8
Locale: ETSI
Country Code: XA
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140
 
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