Ok, I'll try using those other Voodoo files you linked to. Maybe they'll work...

The Ralink driver is working again; don't know what I've done to make that happen. The whole thing seems pretty idiosyncratic. Oh well - don't question results, right?

Thanks for the help!

Success! I finally got it to work by re-running Netbook-Installer and then re-installing the kexts afterward. I also used the updated VoodooHDA files from the link that you provided. I don't know what was wrong before, but it's good to know that a reset might be able to solve my problems (now and in the future). I think that solves all biggest issues—the 1000HE seems to be running with ~95% of the functionality of my MacBook Pro, and I can live with that considering how much the OSx86 solution cost (and how much I learned about the innerworkings of OS X!).

Thanks again!

Is there anything I can do for power management? it shows 20:00 hours left all the time.

thanks

Thanks for the excellent guide. I followed it word for word several times, but I can't get past this kernel panic. Everything works fine as long as I am booting from the thumb drive. I can select the internal hard drive and it boots fine. Then I can remove the thumb drive as continue as normal.

However, if I try to boot without the thumb drive, it begins booting then immediately causes a kernel panic. The very first line in the traceback (barely visible behind the black "restart your computer" box) says this:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x1c2a7459): "Unsupported CPU: family = 0x6, model = 0x17, stepping = 0x2"@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-90/pnProcessor.c:210

Since many have had success with your guide, I must be doing something wrong. Any clues?

For the booting issue i was having the same thing. I cloned the ssd to another hard drive. Then installed the other hard drive and It would boot when i have the thumb drive attach only. So i booted and reinstalled Chameleon 2 NBI bootloader only checked and the other options not checked and it worked again.

@silvercard - thanks for the idea. I downloaded the older netbookinstaller 0.8.3 and that seemed to solve the problem. I am using a retail 10.6.0 DVD so maybe that's why. I don't know.

Anyway, it was working fine until I installed the RAlink 2860 wifi driver. Now it randomly kernel panics, especially with anything related to shutdown or sleep or lid closing. After a kernel panic it sometimes takes several power cycles to get it to boot again without an immediate kernel panic. I'll be removing the RAlink driver as soon as I finish typing this.

Someone in this thread mentioned downloading RAlink 2870 drivers which support OSX 10.6 but the only 2870 drivers I could find on the RAlink website were for USB wifi not miniPCI wifi.

Does anyone have their ASUS 1000HE with AW-NE766 wireless working? (you can check your wireless module on a sticker under the battery)

I ran the same 10.6.0 then updated to 10.6.4. I have the aw-ne771. Most of the times if I let it boot regular without me pressing no keys it boots and with no wifi. I found out if I press f2 when it boots and gets into the bios menu and exit without saving wifi appears. To avoid doing that alll the time i put it to sleep. Try this website (http://minhdanh2002.blogspot.com/201...d-windows.html) and download it kexts and install kext helper and install the kexts using that. Got the battery to show up normal showing real hours left. At times 12 hours and yes I have used it 10 hours before it dies lol.

@tmbutcher
i found that i had to move the kext files in, run the UpdateExtra, reboot, verify sound was working by emptying something in trash, then install the preference pane for the sound - no error anymore...

That error occurs because OS X 10.6.4 no longer officially supports Atom processors (support ended with 10.6.2).

To fix the error, you need a patched kernel:

• http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...ic=197020&st=0
• http://minhdanh2002.blogspot.com/201...d-windows.html (See the section named "Installing Snow Leopard")

For me, I was able to successfully upgrade from 10.6.0 to 10.6.4 and everything works (wireless, sleep, sound, booting from internal hard disk, etc.) However, I am unhappy with 10.6.4 because it seems to have introduced some very unstable network connections. When I launch Terminal and do "ping google.com," I get some horrible latencies. When I was on 10.6.0, the network was very responsive.

Therefore, I am doing the install over and am sticking with 10.6.0 (or 10.6.1 if there are no network issues).

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Follow-up:
I have the AW-NE766 wireless card (listed as Atheros in OS X). I stayed with 10.6.1 because 10.6.2 and 10.6.4 caused terrible ping latency times (800 milliseconds) while 10.6.0 and 10.6.1 had no major wireless issues (latencies of 48 milliseconds).

When the laptop wakes up from sleep, it usually doesn't auto-connect to the wireless network, but it's not a big deal because I can just go up to the AirPort icon in the menubar, turn off wireless, and turn it back on; the laptop will connect to my previous base station (I'm using a WEP password).

For people having issues with the strange error after double-clicking on VoodooHDA.prefPane, make sure to reboot first to have OS X load the VoodooHDA.kext extension, then install the prefPane.

I used NetbookInstaller 0.8.3 (NOT anything newer) as that was appropriate for 10.6.0 and 10.6.1.

Thank you, will1384, for your awesome instructions. The Hackintosh works well. The last order of business is that I'm having issues installing Windows XP. Tried both Windows 7 and XP but haven't gotten that to work yet.

I had a lot of trouble getting Windows 7 to dual boot with OS X. I do finally have it working with the Chameleon 2.0-RC3 boot loader (and not EasyBCD).

The part about "I then restart the computer without the Thumb Drive and it starts Windows 7" did not work for me at all. Windows 7 refused to boot, and I kept getting an "0xc00000e" error. I was able to fix this by following Post #5 from this thread. If I can remember the steps correctly, here's what I did:

• Boot netbook with bootable Win7 USB thumb drive.
• Click on "Repair"
• Open a Command Prompt. Type the following commands:
  • diskpart
  • list drives (the main hard drive was shown as drive 0)
  • select drive 0
  • list partitions (partition 4 was the Win7 partition in my setup)
  • select partition 4
  • active
• Without closing Command Prompt, alt-tab to the main Repair window.
• Start the repair. It will fix the boot error. But don't press "OK" because it will force a restart.
• Alt-tab back to Command Prompt. Use the same commands as above for diskpart except make the OS X partition active.
• Alt-tab back to the Repair window and click "OK" to have it restart.
• Windows 7 now correctly boots after choosing it from Chameleon boot loader. Installation of EasyBCD wasn't necessary.

Windows XP
I tried for a long time to install XP, but it never worked. I slipstreamed SATA drivers and all of that, but it never finished installing or would just blue screen. The Windows 7 DVD and USB drive eventually worked.

USB Drives used for the install of OS X and Win7
These two thumb drives were essential in fixing problems. It's also much faster to install Windows 7 from USB sticks.

• Small USB drive with Chameleon Bootloader (512 MB)
  Follow mechdrew's initial instructions to write the NBI_083F image to a USB drive. This drive always worked when everything else failed (OS X wouldn't boot, Win7 wouldn't boot, WinXP wouldn't boot).
• Large USB drive for bootable Win7 install (16 GB)
  I wasted a lot of time re-installing Win7 from DVD. I eventually found these bulletproof instructions for making a bootable USB drive from the Win7 DVD. (Remember, you must use diskpart from Vista or Win7 as the XP version won't recognize USB drives.)

Extra KEXTS
I tried to use some extra KEXTS from Minh Danh.

• VoodooBattery.kext: fixes the estimated battery time display.
• VoodooSDHC.kext: allows the SD slot to work (I didn't test it though).
• VoodooPower.kext and VoodooPowerMini.kext: these kept getting umounted during the verbose boot, so I eventually did not include them in GeneralExtensions.

Function Keys
The function keys do work on my 1000HE Hackintosh. For example, I can use F9, F10, and F11 for the Expose keys. Only some of the blue "Fn" keys work. I can press Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 to lower and increase screen brightness. I can press Fn to access the PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End functions. The Fn keys for volume control do not work. You can use Keyboard Maestro (free trial) to map Ctrl-F10,F11,F12 to Mute, Volume Down, and Volume Up, and it works very nicely.

Final Thoughts
So I have OS X 10.6.1 and Windows 7 working really well on my Asus 1000HE (firmware 1104). It took a huge amount of time, and I was only able to do it because of the extra time from Christmas break. I was lucky in that the built-in wireless card is interfacing well with OS X: it reconnects during startup but after waking up from sleep, I have to "Turn Aiport Off" and then "Turn Airport On" for it to connect to WiFi (using a WEP password because I have an old clamshell iBook on my network that can only connect by WEP). Thanks again to will1384, the makers of NetbookInstaller, and the Dell Mini community for sharing all of their knowledge in getting this to work!