Ahh, thank you. I found the iAtkos torrent, and am working on downloading it now. I appreciate the help.

I'm going to wipe my hard drive to install this, so what order should I install my operating systems? Windows 7, Windows XP, Ubuntu and Mac OSX.

Can I upgrade to Snow Leopard after I install the iAtkos v7?

Ok, I looked at the specs for your computer, and it has a different processor. Yours has a Core 2 Duo, and mine is a Pentium Mobile Processor. Will that make a difference in the install?

I'm getting confused about the brand of the LAN adapter on the Acer 5810T

Could anybody help me to find out the brand/model ???
From Windows I see Atheros...
From OSX86Tools I see Attansic... what the hell shoud I look for ?

Thanks

Oh, I didn't know the meaning of the Z on your laptop model... not too bad, in my opinion. Read about "backward" compatibility towards mono core processors somewhere. Your experience will be precious.
BTW, it's nice seeing that there are travel mates in this desparados journey

Now the problem is: how to upgrade to Snow Leopard ? I've made some search around, but there is no iAtkos v8 available (if you find it, pls reply), and as you may have read in a recent reply the automatic update broke some parts of the system. So I'm very skeptical about the success of an upgrade from the retail SL DVD... we need something that's already patched, I suppose.

Right now, I applied the screen patch and it seems to be fixed... but USB... mmm don't know where to start.
Stay connected, Radi.

Thanks. I'll update you when I get this downloaded. It'll probably be tomorrow or the next day.

Well, I followed your directions, and I got Leopard installed on here. It seems to be working so far. I'm hoping to get wifi and ethernet working on here asap.

Hi everyone,
as I told before the resolution needed to be fixed, and I've installed the USB driver again. Now I'm (almost) back to the previous step, that is, no network card (wired or wireless, some problems with the webcam (I remember that at the first post-install, when configuring the user info, it worked and I shot an image for the account with it, now it's apparently broken).

After installing iAtkos v7 I applied several updates (from the web):
- Safari
- Security updates
- Quick Time
- System updates (after this one I had to apply the two fixes, screen and usb)
- Java (two updates, 6 and 7)

I finally got everything installed correctly. To triple boot, I installed Leopard first, Windows 7 next, then Ubuntu last. Windows 7 changed the bootloader so you couldn't boot anything but Windows 7, and deleted the partition Ubuntu was installed on. Chameleon wouldn't boot Windows 7. I ended up having to use GRUB to boot them all.

In Windows 7, I found that the Wired Network Card for my laptop is an Intel card. I tried the Kext that isn't Gigabit, but haven't tested it yet.

My three main goals are to get Wired and Wireless Networking on my laptop, and to get the DVD drive to work.

Ok I found some kexts for the Atheros Ethernet port. Here's the link.

http://code.google.com/p/iats/

I haven't got it working correctly though.

When I try to install it, I keep getting the "the system extension cannot be used" error.

UPDATE: I figured out how to make this work

Hi, everyone,
just wanted to report partial success after installing Snow Leopard from iAtkos S3 dvd.
Three attemps with iAtkos and a 4th with "dvd_by_hazard" had several problems.
I finally did it with iAtkos S3, fixed the USB problem, fixed the screen and voilà...

Refer to this post to see what works and what doesn't work yet...
http://osx86.net/f47/iatkos-s3-on-ac...e-5810t-t6267/