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OS X can't see wireless card

Jethryn Freyman

Jethryn Freyman

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I have a TP Link USB wireless card with the Realtek RT73 chipset, OS X 10.5 Intel.

I plug it in, and it is not recognised by the system. Previously, it would come up with a dialog box when I plugged it in asking if I wanted to configure it. Now, it isn't detected at all. ifconfig doesn't detect it.

This started happening after I installed the drivers for the card. The drivers never worked, so I removed them. Every single driver file and kerel extension has been removed, but it is no longer detected. A reboot didn't fix it, and the wireless card itself is fine.

Any ideas why I can't see it?
 
Have you tried downloading the latest drivers from their website? Most driver CDs are really out of date by the time you get them.
 
It never came with a driver CD, so I had to download them. The latest drivers are for 10.4.

Before I installed the drivers, the system would recognise it as a wireless network interface. I installed them, they didn't work properly, so I totally uninstalled them, every last file, and now the card isn't detected at all in OS X.

For what I am doing, I don't actually need drivers for the card, I just need it to be detectable by the system.
 
Problem solved. I installed Realtek's generic OS X 10.5 drivers for my chipset and configured it manually in system preferences.
 
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