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WLAN, Bluetooth, Sound not working

I just installed OSX 10.5.6 with iAtkos 5i. I cannot get my wireless/bluetooth/sound to work. I have a Dell Studio 1537 laptop. Airport says no wireless card present, same with bluetooth. And sound says no device attached. Any help? or…

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@jered6323 Published 2009-06-03
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13,595 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 6 dispatches) · 2009-06-03
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I just installed OSX 10.5.6 with iAtkos 5i.
I cannot get my wireless/bluetooth/sound to work.
I have a Dell Studio 1537 laptop.
Airport says no wireless card present, same with bluetooth. And sound says no device attached.
Any help? or ideas?

Wireless - Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
Bluetooth - Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-Card
Sound - IDT High Def. Audio Codec (no idea where to find what speakers?)

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Follow-up dispatches by @jered6323

Author Update #1 @jered6323 2009-06-03

Sorry, I'm pretty new at the whole Apple scene.
Try and find out what what is?
Where/how should I search for these kernel extensions?

edit: iAtkos 5i or iPC?

Author Update #2 @jered6323 2009-06-03

Well I found a kext for the wireless, and now it's working great.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=51725 ↗

I still haven't had any luck with bluetooth or sound yet.
I'm about to try and find the VoodooHDA.kext and see how that works, I'll post back and let you all know how that works out.

Edit: Found a VoodooHDA.kext.
http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda/ ↗
And sound works now! Thanks for all your help!
Now on to bluetooth...
And the battery isn't recognized/sleep does not work.

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3 technical responses curated from 6 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @xXrkidXx 2009-06-03

try finding out what they are, and search for kexts

Field Note #2 @Aydinz 2009-06-03

search for them on google umm the reason your bluetooth probably doesnt work is because it has to have a broadcom chipset. and if it doesnt i dont know how to get it, but try searching the model of the hardware you want the kext for and just add the word kext to the end and search that in google e.g. Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Kext

that may work.

Field Note #3 @thorazine74 2009-06-03

For sound try using VoodooHDA.kext, otherwise try to locate a modded AppleHDA suited to your specific laptop if already exists, otherwise you would need to know exact details about the IDT hardware (codec model, codec dump, etc.) and find something close and try to make it work on your own.

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@thorazine74Contributor12009-06-03