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Dear Community, I’ve read many postings in many threads about MacBook Airport/Bluetooth-Card (“No wifi-hardware installed”) issues… Also some suggestions about fixing this problems at component level. But most of them end up in successful SMC or PRAM-Reset. Some are working at component level on the LogicBoard, but 99% of the problems are solved in changing the inductor L3404 or some in changing L3401. But back to my special problem: I’ve got problems with a combo-card (Airport/Bluetooth) in a white MacBook 13" 7.1 (Mid 2010). A friend gave me two of these older MacBooks. One is functioning good, the second one doesn’t have WiFi (while Bluetooth is okay). At first I resetted PRAM and SMC but nothing changed. The system goes on to say, there isn’t WiFi-hardware attached… In the system-profiler under “Network->WLAN” isn’t a WiFi-card present, only the driver and WLAN-software is shown:
The next step was to change the combo-cards between the both MacBooks. The good system was able to see other’s combo-card without problems, the bad system still doesn’t “see” the airport-section of the combo-card (bluetooth was going on to functioning correctly – on the first and the second card). So it was evident, that something isn’t okay with the mainboard. I found many dialogs to this problem – so the thread in the the macrumor-forum too: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...c-… There “Dadioh” discusses with “russthechamp” about this problem. Now I took a few measurements on my two LogicBoards (LBs) and found out, that the described inductors “L3401” and “L3404” are good. But I wondered that the voltages around the MOSFET “Q3450” were different on both LBs. I hope you could help me. I’d be very, very grateful to you, if you’d do so? Here is the relevant part of the schematics with my voltage-values:
What do you think about that? Is it a defective MOSFET? Btw: over R3450 I measure on the good LB something around 32kOhm, on the defective Board something around 13kOhm. Nominal this R has 100kOhm. Sorry for my poor english… I am looking forward and hope to hear from anyone who works at component level on this issue. Best Regards from Germany! Georg
Hello community, now I have solved the problem successfully. It was actually the MOSFET Q3450 that I suspected. Have it exchanged for a same from a dead motherboard and see: “Wifi onboard” works again. Only if someone looks over … Georg
Before we go deep into the circuitry lets check one more part and thats the AirPort flex cable. I’ve encountered a few which needed a new cable as it was damaged. For reference here’s the part: Airport/Bluetooth Flex Cable for the Macbook - Apple P/N 922-9259
