Buffalo Usb Drive Software For Mac

All of Apple’s laptops come with a built-in WiFi adapter called an Airport. But I needed a second WiFi port for a client application.

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I didn’t anticipate any issues with just adding a USB wifi adapter. However after checking out the three Mac stores in downtown Vancouver, Simply Computing, WestWorld and Mac Market I came up dry. No one even wanted to talk about using a USB wireless adapter on a Mac laptop. The consensus seemed to be it was impossible. Well fortunately RAlink develops drivers for all their wireless chipsets that enable them to work with Windows, Linux AND Mac! The chipsets are used by a variety of manufactures to build WiFi N USB adapters. Here’s what I did to get the Buffalo WLI-UC-GN Wireless N USB dongle working with OSX 10.5.8, Darwin kernel 9.8.0.

It took me a couple of days to get it running. Hopefully this post will help someone else get their Buffalo Wifi adapter running with fewer hassles. Here’s a related forum thread. – the site is in Japanese, but you can get the main idea by looking at the screen print. I chose the Buffalo Wireless N USB dongle WLI-UC-GN because it uses the Ralink chipset which is well supported on Macs. And it was on sale for about $40 at NCIX in Vancouver.

I installed the driver, rebooted and plugged the dongle in. The dongle showed up in System Profiler, but the blue activity light on the USB dongle stayed on constantly. On a properly installed dongle the activity light should be flashing. I also got a “No Device” status when I opened the Ralink Utility. The problem boiled down to an incorrect product id in the info.plist file for the device’s driver. The Buffalo USB dongle uses the Ralink 2870 chipset. (Google “Buffalo WLI-UC-GN chipset” 1.

Download the Macintosh drivers version 2.0.1.0 from. The drivers for for Buffalo WLI-UC-GN are labelled USB(RT2870 /RT2770 /RT307X /RT2070 /RT3572).

Plug in the Wifi dongle and verify it is showing up in System Profiler. Click Apple =>About this Mac => More Info => USB => 802.11n WLAN Verify that the device is being recognized and has enough current: Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 450 3.

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Write down the Product ID and Device ID for the WLI-UC-GN, This should be the same for everybody. Click Apple =>About this Mac => More Info => USB => 802.11n WLAN The Product ID 0x014f or 335 in decimal The Device ID 0x0411 or 1041 in decimal 4, Open up /System/Library/Extensions/RT2870USBWirelessDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist using nano and scroll down until you reach the information related to Buffalo. There are 3 entries 2870-1, 2870-2 and 2870-3. The Product ID in the third entry needs to be changed from 336 to 335 to match the settings from system profiler above.