#Hackintosh wifi card kext mac os x#
Still, if you're looking for a proven way to get WiFi on your Hackintosh, the DWA-556 is a safe bet.īack in its glory days, the ASUS WL-138g V2 was the choice wireless adapter for anybody in the Hackintosh community who wanted to have WiFi on Mac OS X Leopard. Most people really won't care about this, but if you're a networking enthusiast, the DWA-556's single range might be too limiting for you. Being able to work on multiple bands can make your computer connect to your router a tiny bit faster, as long as your router supports multiple frequency bands as well. Since it's a relatively old model, it only supports a single wireless frequency band. The DWA-556 has mostly been discontinued, and costs nearly twice as much as most mainstream wireless adapters. Like all of the other cards on this list, this adapter works out of the box, on Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. It has the standard set of WiFi features, including support for 802.11n (the second fastest wireless standard, after 802.11ac) and WPA2 security. The DWA-556 is a high-end wireless adapter with a stellar reputation in the Hackintoshing community for being easy to set up. Since Mac OS X will think that these adapters are real Airport cards, AirDrop should work automatically, so you won't have to activate AirDrop with the normal workaround. USB wireless adapters cannot be recognized as Airport cards.
#Hackintosh wifi card kext install#
All of the adapters on this list are PCI cards, so you'll have to install them on the motherboard of your Hackintosh.
Mac OS X should automatically recognize these adapters as Airport cards (which are the wireless adapters that real Macs use). Instead, to save you a lot of time, we've compiled a short list of the most Hackintosh-compatible wireless adapters on the market.Īll of these wireless adapters will work with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion out of the box (unless otherwise noted) they do not require any extra kexts or helper applications to function. However, finding the right wireless adapter for your Hackintosh can be tricky, since Mac OS X only supports an extremely limited number of wireless chipsets. If you want to connect your Hackintosh to the internet via WiFi, you'll have to install a wireless adapter (also known as a WiFi card).
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