Any driver for Marvell Libertas (88W8335), aka TENDA TWL541P

After numerous attempts with a TENDA W311U, aka Ralink 3070, and no replies from the Thai support address, I want to know - I have another TENDA, a TWL541P based on the Marvell Libertas 88W8335 chipset - Is there a Mac driver for it? It needs to work on an old G3 with OS X 10.4.11 and 9.2.2. Any help will be appreciated.

Power Macintosh G3 (Blue) 400MHz Rev. B, Mac OS X (10.4.11), along with 9.2.2, 8.0-10.4.1 on CD/DVD, 10.0, 10.2 on CD

Posted on Sep 12, 2010 8:22 AM

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Sep 12, 2010 10:30 AM in response to Dr. Power User

I'd give up on the Libertus, see last post here...

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=86353

Did find a couple for Marvell 88SE61xx, but they require 10.5.2...

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/3rdPartyDrivers

Possible clues of other wifi devices that use Marvell chipsets...

http://marvell.rapla.net/

When you say 9.2.2, does that mean in Classic under OSX, or native 9.2.2 boot?

If the first, OSX is handling the HW, if the second I think your only hope is an Ethernet->Wifi adapter...

http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F5D7330-802-11g-Wireless-Ethernet/dp/B00020H1TG

http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWL-G810-Ethernet-Wireless-Adapter/dp/B0000CEPCH

Sep 13, 2010 10:11 PM in response to Dr. Power User

OK, here I am booted on my iMac/G3/600 from my eMac/1.42/10.411 which is in Target mode, the preinstalled Ralink USB drivers work fine on my G3, not sure what you're using... PCI or USB I'm on Dialup so it's about another hour & a half downloading...

http://tinyurl.com/27pdt4u

To see if there's some G# problem.

Do you have a download link to the one you're trying?

Sep 14, 2010 10:37 AM in response to BDAqua

The download link I tried is the longer version of that TinyURL address provided. My system is a PMG3 (Blue) clocked at 400MHz with OS X 10.4.11 (details provided already). I will try again with that disk. Do install the driver with the wireless unplugged, or do I install it with the wireless plugged in?

No, I did not use that link, I used the USB driver, but with that utility, it is still not working - the icon bounces on the dock and then disappears.

Message was edited by: Dr. Power User

Sep 16, 2010 12:58 PM in response to Dr. Power User

I still need to know what 'Trace/BPT trap' is.


Whew, in my research it can be caused by a variety of things, generally some missing OS or other component it's looking for though.

Did you try the USB ones here...

http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=3

Hey, just had another idea, get Pacifist, maybe an older version, I used v 1.6.3 here, and try to force install it in the File>Install to Default Locations...

User uploaded file

Get Pacifist...

http://www.charlessoft.com/

Nov 15, 2010 5:22 PM in response to BDAqua

I don't have the same brand of USB Wi-Fi stick, but I probably had the same problem and figured out a solution after reading some similar, but archived, threads about this problem. I'll share it here and I hope this solution also works for your situation.

It seems that the WirelessUtility that Ralink provides in newer versions of its drivers is not compiled anymore for the PPC G3 processor. However, I found that the driver itself still works on a G3. The solution for me was to install the driver and afterwards copy an older version of the USBWirelessUtily to my Applications folder. The older USBWirelessUtility still works with the newer driver.

My hardware/software configuration: 12" iBook G3 Dual USB 700 MHz, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11, Sitecom WL-329 USB stick. Drivers: Version 2.0.0.0 version of the RT2870 driver from the Sitecom website. Version 1.4.8.0 of the USB Wireless Utility, which is available in the Ralink driver that Newer Technology has on its website. It seems to be all generic Ralink software, just different versions.

Step 1: install the driver and reboot. Sitecom provides version 2.0.0.0 for the RT2870 chip which works for my USB stick. (I haven't tried it with version 3.0.3.0 from the Ralink website.)
Step 2: extract the application USBWirelessUtility and copy it to your Applications folder. I have version 1.4.8.0 working here in conjunction with the 2.0.0.0 driver.
Step 3: Go! It works, but it is similar to dialing in with a modem.

Details for step 2: Download the driver from NewerTech. I chose to download the driver and manual for the N-version Wi-Fi USB stick. Then mount the "maxpower usbn.dmg" image. Go to the "USBWireless-10.4&10.5" folder and open the package contents of "USBWireless-Tiger.pkg" through the contextual menu (or use Pacifist). Open the Contents folder, copy the file "Archive.pax.gz" to your hard drive and extract it. You'll find USBWirelessUtility in the newly extracted Archive->Applications folder. Copy it to your own Appications folder.

Tip 1: Also download the manual from Newer Technology, it explains how the USBWirelessUtility works.
Tip 2: I'm not sure, but I've gotten the impression that while installing a new version of the driver, it removes any older version of (USB-)WirelessUtility. If true, be aware that USBWirelessUtility will be removed if you have to reinstall the driver.

Links used:
http://www.sitecom.com/support-product/productid/751#drivers
(click on Drivers to show a list of available downloads)
http://www.newertech.com/downloads/maxpowerusbn.dmg
http://www.newertech.com/downloads/NT-WiFi-USB-N.pdf

In case you're wondering why I want to use a fast Wi-Fi b/g/n USB stick on an iBook G3 with built-in Airport card (Wi-Fi b) and only 12 Mbit USB 1.1? Because I'd bought it for use with a WD TV Live and wanted to test it on WPA and WPA2 networks on the iBooks. The built-in Airport card of the iBook G3 only supports WEP encryption, while more and more networks use for instance WPA or WPA2 and so should my own home network. Now I'll have to test if that works and of course test the stick on the G4 iBook...

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