I was reading up on guide on how to upgrade a 1st gen MacBook's Airport to 802.11n. They used a Mac Pro Airport Extreme card which can be purchased from a number of authorised Apple resellers that stock parts.

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Replacement 3ctop Extreme Card Airport Wireless Card For Macbook Pro

Upgrading the MacBook Pro Core Duo to 802.11n Wireless Connectivity. On the left is the Original AirPort Extreme Card from the MacBook Pro Core Duo and on the right the AirPort Extreme Card from a Mac Pro. The reason I selected to use the Mac Pro Card is because the card only requires two antenna leads to connect instead of the three on the.

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In the second paragraph they said that the Airport Extreme module is PCI Express 1x. Can the Mac Pro's Airport Extreme card or a Dell 1500/1505 wireless PCIe card (which is identical to the Airport card) work on a hackintosh with a EFI/vanilla Leopard install and a mobo that supports PCIe 1x? You would think that this wireless card would be the most compatible with Leopard as its used in the Mac Pro. Im want to build a hackintosh that is very similar to the Mac Pro besides the 4 core xeons and the FB-DIMM RAM so i would love to get a wireless card that has no external antennae! And yes i like using wireless with a desktop as my wireless router and ADSL port is situated in a different room. Thanks macgirl for the link!

Ill definitely take this into consideration. Terrancewhod how was the installation?

Does it work out of the box and appear as Aiport? Full draft-N speeds? The hardest part of the installation was putting the antennas on the atheros AR 5008 pcie card. Small little devils.

I then put the card in the adapter and turned on the machine. Leopard recognized it as Airport Extreme (a/b/g/n) without drivers. I haven't tested the speeds, as I'm waiting for my Time Capsule order to ship. But I believe my reception improved.

So far I have no problems with downloads/web access and I think it's moving more data due to the pci express bus than regular pci. I bought more antennas online for my mini (upgraded that to a 802.11N card as well) with a 5dbi to improve reception and they should be in soon. The solution is more expensive (I paid $50 for the wireless card and $104 USD for the adapter) but I can theoretically connect to the Airport Express at the 5ghz speed from the desktop.

Did you folks who have the PCI card working use a PCI-e x1 slot or regular PCI? Also, did you have to use both antennas to the mini pci card? What adapter did you use, i have purchased the Mp2W from hwtools.net and can't seem to get my computer to recognize the card when installed.

I have been told that I need to activate the card via windows however my hackintosh is single boot OSX only. The card I have is a airport extreme card broadcom 4321 MC that works in my MSI wind as a native card. Any suggestions would be much apprecaited. Also, what dbi antennas are needed for wireless n at 5ghz?

It is also possible to build your own wireless adapter out of a real apple airport card; see. Self-build adapters are often the most reliable and cost-effective.

Laptops Nearly all laptops ship with wireless cards that must be replaced to get WiFi on OS X. Laptops use Mini-PCIe cards and Half Mini-PCIe cards. Make sure you know which type your laptop uses. Mini-PCIe This is an actual Apple Airport Extreme card. It will work out of the box. I’m not sure how far back it is compatible, but it should at least go to 10.6.

This card will work out of the box with OS X 10.6+ and onwards. This card will work with. You will have to start them at boot, so your wireless will load slightly more slowly. It works for 10.6-10.8 and should also work on 10.9. The wn727n requires a patched kext which has been tested on 10.6-10.8 and it should also work on 10.9. The kext should load faster than Realtek’s driver; however, it is more likely to cause compatibility issues.

Replacement 3ctop Extreme Card Airport Wireless Card For Macbook

As with the D-Link, you’ll need a for this card. It is designed to work on 10.4-10.8 and should work on 10.9. Sources: MacBreaker.