hi jamobinge,

things for you are like this. unfortunately more bad than good news, but after all it is very much possible to make your laptop run OSX just fine and with network connection. At least you will know what you have to deal with.

Your LAN and WiFi are NOT supported under OSX. I have the same situation with my Sony VAIO FW serie only my graphic card isn't supported also and yours is. So you have unsupported lan and wifi but supported graphics, which is great, cause it still makes your laptop usable with CI/QE and i am still waiting for ati hd 3450 driver.

I am not absolutely (but very much) sure about your ethernet card. So far, it doesnt work. You can't replace it either. Your wi-fi, i am absolutely sure, isn't working, and i don't think it will. But it is replacable. It is a mini Pci-express card, as easy to replace as a ram module in any laptop; take it out, put new one in the slot, click and its in. You can find mini-pci-e cards with broadcom chip on ebay for around 10-15 eur. So it is possible to make your network working at least wireless which is much better for the laptops than ethernet.

Graphic 9600M is supported. Try to remove all the graphical injectors. This card works jut with efi string (i heard that using injectors just make things harder and it doesn;t work). Try to make efi string with EFIstudio or just search for a proper, working string for your card (pay attention on amount of RAM, nvram string).

After all, as i said, this could be a great laptop with OSX. It is true it requires some work to make network working but with C2D, 4Gb ram, 9600M you could have a real macbook pro clone.

Take care dude, i hope i've put some light on your issue.

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