Oh, and one more thing, will1384, should I update my BIOS to help solve this problem? I think the current version is 0501. The newest on the site is BIOS 1104 (after I narrow it down to Windows XP for my OS). What's the best way to go about updating my BIOS? I'm a little unclear with regard to the USB drive process. Is there a good guide for updating the BIOS in hackintoshes?

It might be a good idea to update the BIOS,

Just use Windows if you can, to make the thumb drive, and
then download and rename the bios, put it on your thumb drive
and let the BIOS install the new BIOS, just make sure your battery
is charged and your power adapter is plugged into the wall

Also have a look over at that Linux "how to" page of making the
thumb drive up for your BIOS update

http://www.blakeanthonyjohnson.com/?p=170


As far as making the BIOS update thumb drive under OS X, I dont know,
OS X seams to only use FAT32, I just tried with a 2GB thumb drive and
Disk Utility, and its FAT32.

I have not yet found any modified wireless KEXT for the 1000he
sorry,

I succeeded in updating the BIOS to version 1104 and still no luck, even after I reinstalled Snow Leopard for the 3rd time. Some thoughts:

-I am using a 10.6.3 DVD. Could this be the problem? I'm using the newest NBI available from Meklort's website (http://www.meklort.com/?p=262).
-The wifi did work for a very brief time - the very first time I ever booted from the SL USB drive and the 1000HE's HDD hadn't yet been partitioned. At that time, I still had the option of turning off Boot Booster, which I understand is not related to the BIOS as much as it's related to the recovery partition that comes on the 1000HE along with Windows XP. After I partitioned the entire drive and installed SL (and subsequently lost wifi), the Boot Booster option went away; all I have now is Quick Boot and Quiet Boot. These are both disabled, btw.
-I took the battery out and the wireless module sticker says: "AW-NE771" which, as far as I've read, is the supported card for this computer. Like I said before, under About This Mac... the installed wireless card is Atheros 9280. I'm really at my wit's end about this.

In the meantime, I'm going to make an Ubuntu live drive and boot from that to see if the wifi card works with Ubuntu (it did when I booted into Ubuntu with my intact Windows XP install). This could possibly indicate whether my particular wifi functionality is tied to that recovery partition from the original install. Is there anyone out there with similar problems? Any input?

Thanks

No, that should work just fine

You could always try this, at this point we are grasping at straws,
but maybe it will help

Did replacing the rt2860 with the apple pci card (plus deleting the old network settings) correct all the Wifi issues? I've just ordered the apple pci card you recommended but wanted to know a couple of things: A) will I be able to use the native wifi icon from the menu bar instead of a third-party utility B) does it stay connected reliably.

Thank you.

The Apple wireless card I used works perfect, just like it was in a real
mac, and everything worked out perfect, other than having to re-setup
my networking, but that's easy and only has to be done once, the hard
part is disassembling and reassembling the netbook, go slow, and
remember that they sometimes double-tape the keyboard on so that
its really hard to remove.

Good Luck

I've got my 1000HE updated to 10.6.4, and all works fine, except after every reboot, wifi no longer works. To fix, I have to go to bios and disable then enable wlan again every time I quit Mac OS X. Has anyone figured out how to fix this? My wirless card is AW-NE771.

Thanks so much for this guide. I followed it pretty much exactly, and now I've got SL running at 10.6.4 almost perfectly. I do have a few issues remaining, though, and I was wondering if anyone here could help me out (a few hours of googling didn't really come up with any solutions.)

1.) When I try to install the Voodoo prefpane, it tells me that it "Can't get registry-entry path." As far as I know, the VoodooHDA.kext is installed properly into General/Extensions, so I'm not sure what else I should be doing. I had the issue briefly while I was still at 10.6.0, but somehow got it to work then—not having so much luck now. Any ideas?

2.) Every once in a while the netbook will freeze coming out of sleep. This seems to mostly happen when it's been sleeping for a while, so my guess would be that it happens when the computer itself goes to sleep, not just the display. I could probably get around this by setting the computer to never sleep if necessary, but I'd prefer not to do that for obvious reasons.

On this point, samtheman said earlier:
This looks like it might solve my problem and be able to lower the fanspeed at the same time, but I've also seen (in this thread, and elsewhere) multiple people saying not to install the sleepenabler.kext on SL, so I thought I would ask about it.

3.) Sometimes OS X will boot and I won't be able to use the mouse or keyboard at all. This hasn't happened in a while though, and the last time it did was while I was still in the initial install phase, so maybe I inadvertently fixed it since then.

4.) The trackpad is a little fidgety, and in general is much too fast to assume I'm dragging, rather than scrolling. Also, it doesn't seem to respond to the Trackpad item in System Preferences at all. This isn't too big an issue, but I thought I'd go ahead and ask if anyone knows how to improve the trackpad.

One other thing: for those who are having issues with the RaLink driver (it won't recognize your device, etc.), I finally solved my problem by downloading the driver for RT2870, instead of RT2860, which is compatible with 10.6. It's certainly an ugly driver, and I'm having trouble connecting it to WEP2 encoded routers, but at least I finally got wireless working—and without having to void my warranty too!

One other suggestion about the guide: for people like me who are really new to this, your language in the kext and dsdt section was a little confusing. It might be better to say that we should "place" the kexts into the general/extension folder, and then afterwards to "install" them by running UpdateExtra—that way we won't be googling around trying to find out how to install kexts, and then reading stuff that tells us to use terminal commands to install them into System/Library/Extensions, and then being confused when they don't work, and so forth. I don't know who would make that mistake, but it seems plausible to me...

Similarly with the dsdt section, if you said to "place" it into the general folder, and then to "install" it by rebooting, I think that might allay some confusion.

Thanks again to will1384 and the others here who have been providing help in this forum, it's much appreciated!

Hmm... now the RaLink isn't working again. It does recognize the wireless card, but can't seem to pick up any networks. Sigh. Back to the drawing board on that one I suppose...

That is odd, its acting like VoodooHDA.kext is not loading, I am using
the same files and they are working, BTW if you want to download
the audio files from the source, get updated drivers, and so on, go to

Voodoohda Driver, Fully working!

About the only thing I can think to fix it, is to reinstall VoodooHDA.kext,
by putting it into "/Extra/GeneralExtensions" and re-running "UpdateExtra"
then install VoodooHDA.prefPane, by double clicking on it

I have always had sleep trouble on all my Windows PCs, and tend to not
use it, I did let the netbook sleep a few times, and at least once I had
to press a few keys and I think ESC a few times and it took a long time
to wake

I had also had that happen, but my wireless mouse still worked, so it
may have been a KEXT problem, or lack of a KEXT

I have given up on netbook/laptop trackpads, I always use a mouse, but
I do wish I had a fix for it, again I believe its a KEXT issue

Yea good idea, I just changed that