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Airport Card Not Recognized after Leopard Install

After the Leopard install the airport card on my Dual 1.8 G5 is not being recognized (the airport menu reads "no aiport card installed". Of course there is a card and when booting a from Tiger there is no problem. It's a stock apple airport card. Any suggestions?

Dual 1.8 G5, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Oct 26, 2007 6:27 PM

56 replies

wclark

Level 1

8 points

Oct 27, 2007 4:36 PM in response to Chris Harmount

You can delete it. As Pete H pointed out, it s a driver specific to Tiger. Leopard does not use it.

regards,
billc

Oct 27, 2007 5:38 PM in response to Raul Gutierrez

A solution that worked for me: I compared my install with a clean install and found that in the private frameworks folder in the system there was an extra airport folder called airportconfig.framework.

I disabled that folder and rebooted and everything was back to normal.

Message was edited by: Raul Gutierrez

carman63

Level 1

4 points

Oct 27, 2007 6:05 PM in response to Pete H

Pete,

This worked for me on my 24" iMac (installed on top of Tiger). Thanks for the tip! I was pulling my hair out on this one.

-Jim

BryanH

Level 1

10 points

Oct 27, 2007 7:34 PM in response to Pete H

Pete you're my hero 🙂

Bryan

Message was edited by: BryanH

Oct 27, 2007 7:49 PM in response to BryanH

Pete's solution worked for me as well. Updated with the Keychain updater... no AirPort. Deleted the AppleAirport.kext and boom! AirPort returned. I didn't even have to reboot. Just dropping the file in the trash did the trick.

Oct 27, 2007 8:34 PM in response to Pete H

Thank you! That's the ticket... Much, much better than new.

Oct 27, 2007 9:15 PM in response to Raul Gutierrez

Are you upgrading from Panther or Tiger? If Tiger, did you have all the latest updates installed?

MoTate

Level 1

4 points

Oct 27, 2007 9:36 PM in response to Raul Gutierrez

I ran into a similar problem not after the leopard install but after a software update. The icon for airport after the update dis-appeared. According to the computer the airport card was not there. I went to the system profiler and it told me the same thing.

I did a search of my hard drive and up popped "airportconfigapps.dmg" a program I downloaded I think last year. I ran it and my airport card icon re-appeared in the top screen.

Give it a try and let me know how everyone comes out.

themo@aol.com
Model powerbook G4

parrots

Level 1

0 points

Oct 28, 2007 4:53 AM in response to Raul Gutierrez

Pete H:
Elimination of this file solved the problem for me as well. Thank you very much! Your Karma reserves have been replenished.

parrots

johnoooo

Level 1

0 points

Oct 28, 2007 5:19 AM in response to Pete H

I upgraded from Panther. Your suggestion fixed my problem too. If this is a Tiger file, why was it on my machine? No reply necessary. Just stating that even if you were not running Tiger, this fix works!