On my MacBook Air is no AirDrop available in the Finder. I heard that some Wifi Firmware Versions aren't compatible with AirDrop, I have: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.11) Any idea, why this doesn't work?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I'm looking for AirDrop, not for AirPlay. This doesn't help me much.
Use one of the AirPlay sources from ES to proof your hardware.
Have you filed a bug?
OK. My Mac can be used as an AirPlay Station. But I want to use AirDrop! How does that help me? No, didn't write an bug report, I thought, that it was not a bug...
Hi,
Did you find a solution? Got the same problem with two macs: old macbook Pro (not unibody) ant Mac Pro (2008). No airdrop, and noway to activate it !
I suggest asking your question at the dev-forums: https://devforums.apple.com/community/mac/lion because AirDrop means Lion and Lion means Beta and Beta means NDA. :-)
Oups, i thought I was on developper forums. Let's go on the good one ! thanks !
Airdrop will NOT WORK on some older macs even though you can run LION on them.
I think Apple should have made this clear in LARGE PRINT when saying what the minimum specs were for 😠upgrading to Lion.
Apple suck a little more each day 😟
Airdrop will NOT WORK on some older macs even though you can run LION on them.
I think Apple should have made this clear in LARGE PRINT when saying what the minimum specs were for 😠upgrading to Lion.
Apple **** a little more each day 😟
I have the same problem with my 1.1 Mac Pro and my 4.1 Macbook.
Dropcopy does work so I am not too concerned. It is free if you have 1 - 3 devices
I'm in the same boat. I cannot comment on why older Macs are not supported, but this is mentioned on the Lion Tech Specs page: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
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)
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
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
I found this forum because I was wondering why my iMac (purchased January 2009) doesn't support AirDrop.
It works perfectly fine on my MacBook Pro (purchased March 2010). Since I'm at work and can only supply my MacBook Pro stats here they are:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,4
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP53.00AC.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.49f2
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0863
Revision ID: 0x00b1
ROM Revision: 3448
Interfaces:
en1:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.100.98.75.6)
I didn't realize that you had to have a certain chip in order for AirDrop to work. I assumed that it would work because my iMac is only 2 years old. I'll have to wait to get home and compare my MacBook Pro settings to my iMac. AirDrop sounds great; it's a shame I won't be able to use it. I'm forced to stick with DropBox to continue sharing between my Macs - which works for me.
Airdrop only works on recent generation macs. Here is the list
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)
* The MacBook Pro (17-Inch Late 2008) and the white MacBook (Late 2008) do not support AirDrop.
For older Mac (intel)
In your terminal enter "defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1"
Once run run "killall Finder".... you may need to run on both old and new Macs if connecting to a non Airdrop compatible Mac. But won't work if both Apple ID are the same. !!! So it doesn't solve a lot if your looking to transfer files between say and iMac and MacBook Air both of which you own and share the same account.
No AirDrop on MacBook Air 2008
