i'm an IT pro, but a newbie when it comes to osx86...

have a g31m-es2l running SL.. sound, but no networking?/ i mean nothing in the prefs panel?

i must be missing a kext or something

Thoughts?

If it is a rev 2.0 board there are no drivers in OS X that work for the on board ethernet. I use this PCI card in my rev 2.0 and it uses the drivers built into SL. No other hacking required.

Britney

Can you do this from a usb hdd not a pen drive ? currently I have one usb hdd but not a pen drive, when I do boot rom it all i get is the blinking cursor at the top of the screen ? any help ?

blancmaison
Yes! An external hdd works, as it's how I did my install on a rev 2 board. I even had a drive with 2 partitions, added a third 10gb partition, and put snow install on it. I'm not sure if it matters, but is your drive guid partition mapped?

Hi

Yes it is guid , I am waiting for the board that is mentioned in the post to turn up so I thought I would try to build the boot disk on my old emac onto a usb hdd I have , I have tried different format options as well , I then tried the usb hdd on a dell optiplex gx 520 which normally like hackintosh but just get a blinking cursor.

Thanks for the guide, is excellent, but i mixed up with the DSDT patch and my motherboard is different that in the guide the chipset is the same, i have problems with video when i write the string line with efi studio the resolution that i only get is 1024x768, and the sound not working at al the kext that i use is the ACL662 but no exit, so i had to use and external audio, I need help to get this working at fully capacity, by the way, im using a 7600gt nvidia 256 mb and a cpu intel dual core 5200, but im going to buy an E7500 core two duo and start over again, any sugestions or advices? thanks

Looks like the 6.2 (nov 11) breaks the install. Hopefully It wont require a reinstall.

Go to netkas.org and download the latest SleepEnabler.kext.
1. Boot from the USB Installer and go to the install drive and remove /Extra/CustomExtensions/SleepEnabler.kext

2. Rebuild /Extra/Extensions.kext.
I used MkextTool.
Drag all the extensions in /Extra/CustomExtensions
Change the folder to /Extra and enter Build.
It will over-write the previous version of /Extra/Extensions.mkext

3. If you have not updated yet, Update to 10.6.2. Reboot

4. Put the patched SleepEnabler.kext from netkas into /Extra/CustomExtensions

5. Rebuild /Extra/Extensions.mkext (see (2)

I generally use linux dd command to save an exact copy of my partition before doing this kind of work.

Followed the guide here, and on netkas's site to update to 10.6.2 fine.

Everything works fine, always has.

But i've always had a problem with sleep not being reliable. Sometimes it'll go to sleep fine, then when I wake it (keyboard or power button) it'll all spin up but nothing, blank screen (and dead to any ping/ssh attempts).

Any ideas people?

It's not an easily reproducible error, and nothing seems to get written to the logs. Suggestions as to how I could even track down the issue would be welcome.

I had a similar problem (not the same). My mistake was the I had the fake buffer kext also loaded.
Maybe you can try putting in the -v (verbose) flag in the /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist and see what happens?

Coming out of sleep takes a different path though so maybe you should ask netkas the question. He is the real guru. He may have a way of tracing the problem.

The other thing I noted in my issues were that sleep problems were created when the system was going to sleep. I would see some errors in the log then. I would see nothing bad on waking up.