New Hardware

I've searched everywhere I can find but I can't seem to find an actual answer to this question.

I have a Samsung DVD Drive and a RaLink WiFi PCI card that I can't get OS X to recognize for the life of me. System Profiler/IOReg doesn't seem to be even aware that they exist on the motherboard, nevermind having the drivers to use them.

OS X has been able to use everything else (Sound, onboard Ethernet, Video, etc) with no issues.

So my question is how do I get OS X to even recognize that the hardware is even there? Linux Mint and Windows 7 both see and use the devices with no issue.

Now I'm aware from searching that many wireless cards simply aren't supported (Though the USB version of my card is, and I haven't tried using the 10.5 PCI drivers), but I haven't heard anything about DVD drives.

Patching the DSDT.aml (Which I read will help OS X see the DVD drive since the BIOS sees it just fine) file leads to kernel panic/CMOS errors on startup. I'm guessing this means I'm doing something wrong. Once again, no useful tutorials on this one.

I have had no luck with kext patching and can't find a helpful tutorial on EFI strings.

If anyone could help me with even getting OS X to see the hardware exists would be amazing

-CB