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Nine days after the installation of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 iDeneb v1.3 edition and four days of fiddling around with the drivers and settings, I manage to get the WiFi working. Thanks for the help that I got from InsanelyMac forum. Well, forum is really a good place to look for information. People always have different ideas when come to test a system and different system acts differently too. With the help of community, we will be able to know what works and what does not work for different types of systems. Sadly, there are minority of them tend to provide wrong information. Thus, it will be up to us to know who the ones to be trusted are.

Before you read on:
IO80211family.kext – A modified kext that enable the detection of Atheros WiFi chipsets
Kernel Panic – A message that urge the user to switch off the machine and restart

What I did yesterday was quite similar to my first few attempts. One missing step would be the deletion of system kext cache. I suspect that my system kext cache somehow corrupted during the installation and that affected the installation of IO80211family.kext. However, removing the system kext cache will cause kernel panic and each time I deleted the system kext cache, I got around three to four kernel panics before able to boot into the desktop properly.

I will soon provide a guide with pictures. But before this, I need to make a few experiments to see if there is a shorter way. A rough guide is available HERE.