[IMG][/IMG]I have taken a screen shot as per your instructions above . There shows no airport device in the system profiler and as you can see in the attachment there is no airport icon on desktop.


http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/...N/Picture3.png

Ok...

As you can see, the second to last line reads Broadcom 4312. We already had confirmed this in Windows, but its better to be double sure.

Your only problem now is software.

You didnt tell me if you tried making a new connection in the Network Prefs...

Lets recap just one second. You have a 6930G right... did you follow my tutorial or do you have a different install? If so, what distro/method did you do to install OSX...

And also... did you install any kexts for this? This would only work out of the box if you are running vanilla kernel.

Anyway, try this kext and report back. Install with OSXtools, and reboot with -v -f flags

link:

https://www.yousendit.com/download/Y...dENqV0R2Wmc9PQ http://www.yousendit.com/en/images/1x1_gry.gif http://www.yousendit.com/en/images/1x1_grn.gif

Installed the kext from link but still no airport card shows.
I followed your install using Iatkos v7 but without ethernet as i know mine is not compatible and also didnt have to use 9600 gt string as nvenabler/gt200 seemed to work fine on their own,other than that same install as yours.
How would i try making a new connection if airport card not available ?

I dont know, but I distinctly remember a couple of posts from long ago when I was dealing with my other hackintosh, 10.5.5, and it seemed to work for some people.

apple -> system prefs -> network -> bottom left there is a "+" and "-"

delete all and create e new one.

Also, go to spotlight and type "network utility", first tab "info" there is a dropdown menu below "Please select network interface for information"

en0 is normally ethernet
en1 is wifi

check if it shows up there

unable to manually create manual wifi connection as there is no option for wifi/airport and in network utility only shows en0 ethernet in the dropdown menu.

damn it ! :mad:

I am out of ideas...

Except, of course, to find a usb stick that is compatible, loads around, do a search... but of course its not ideal, but at least temporarily.

You could try with another pcie card, broadcom or atheros.

Your card should be working fine !!! I know how irritating this can be, hang in there.

Another thought. Where did you put that kext? S/L/E or E/L/E ?

IF you used OSXtools, or manually, do the following.

Copy the kext out of S/L/E to desktop, then delete the kext from folder. Copy it to Extra/Library/Extensions.

Delete extensions.mkext from S/L

Go to disk utility and repair permissions.

Reboot with -v -f

-f is the same as deleting extensions.mkext, but on boot it forces deletion again and rebuilds.

Just for reference, I have mine in S/L/E, but for some reason you might need it overriden. Could be something to do with a not so friendly dsdt.aml code...

I find this tutorial confusing for someone new to this
 

I find this tutorial lacking information, at least for someone new to this. for instance:

So let get started... (single boot)

- from USB I loaded up iAtkos v7
- With disk utility choose HD and partion with 1 partition again (essential so as to not only erase drive, but to erase bootloader info from previous try outs. I've been at this non stop for two weeks! did over 15 instals os Leo and Snow Leo.)
- Customize with;

iAtkos essential system
Bootlader - Chameleon 2




How do I load it from USB? Do I mount it? Do I put it in a pen drive and reboot? Do i put it in an xternal hardrive. How do I "load up"

It is not that lacking if you read the first two pages of the thread. And in all honesty, it can be simpler than this, you have no idea the amount of hours it took me to get this a good install. It is absolutely simple and clean, if you'd tried installing Leopard even once before, it would all have made sense to you.

When I say "load up" mean "boot it"... Everything seems kind of scary and hazy because until you try it out, its a misterious land of strange lingo.

If you have the same model as me, worry not, my tutorial is almost 100% noob proof, and I'll help you out

Booting from usb is exactly the same as booting from DVD, except it is 20x faster, and especially handy to tweak your install if needed, disk utilities,, reload bootloader, kexts/enablers in distro or simply fresh re-install, etc.

Restore the DMG to a blank USB formatted hfs+journalled, slap chameleon onto pen drive and you are good to go.

This is also very handy, to have a Chameleon bootloader on a pen, saved my ass 5x already!

When I say "slap chameleon onto pen drive" I mean "install chameleon 2 rc 1 to pen drive"

If you have OSx running, just download it.

If you dont, boot iatkos DVD, customize install and uncheck EVERYTHING except chameleon 2 bootloader, making double sure in the previous step to choose USB drive as destination.

It very well might report a yellow exclamation mark as "failed to install" - this is absolutely normal as you will NOT be running post-action scripts from the iAtkos dvd.

Reboot with Pen drive, make sure you know how to make bios boot the pen drive in first place.

Can be done in BIOS order, I just press f12 on bios flash screen and it gives me a menu. My other hack (asus) its ESC. If not, just go in BIOS and change order to USB first.

I have just about given up on this card, can you recommend a usb wireless stick that should work ok.

Thanks for your help

hey chrish10,

I'm really sorry for you, but this should not be happening. Try another clean install...

Or... now that you have the card, try booting iAtkos a just running the dsdt patcher again and re-load the broadcom kexts from installer...

Yeah, you can always go USB, but thats just... yuk!

I could recommend one to you, but I would just have to use the search engine and go to the known places to get the info. Like google, insanepeople's forums, HCL etc.

If I knew one off the top of my head, of course I would tell you straight off.

Really, this should not be happening to you.

Please, help!
 

----FIXED---

Thank you! it's working, all except ethernet...

I've the same machine as you, aspire 6935g - 864g32mn

Installed the ktext with osxtools, but still no ethernet... what am I doing wrong? How?

----""----

Whenever something doesn't work properly, just re-install. I did it , and now it works. Now to get dual boot working... MAybe i'll use bootcamp, since I always manage to corrupt the Vista install...

i have acer 6935g 944g32bn is a bit diferent , i haven´t got intenet , mi card by ethernet don´twork i have the drivers same idea?

Fisheye - YEY !! congratulations!! :) You must have forgotten to do something... anyways, now it is fixed.

Dual booting, people think its a problem but it is NOT, you only have to understand how play with bootloaders and active partitions.

Install Osx first, install Vista/Win7 second, this will "break" OSx booting, dont worry. Vista has set its partion as active.

If it gives an error at the end, its normal.

Insert Vista DVD and choose repair option, when it looks for OS, dont let it automatically fix, go to the next menu and choose the command prompt.

In command prompt type

"diskpart" - without the "" of course, just to let you know the sequence. Press enter

"list disk" - this shows all disks present.

"select disk X" - where X is the numer 0, 1, 2 whatever. See the number of your Leo/vista install.

"list partition" same procedure as before. See number of your Leo install

"select partition X" - where X = Leo partition

"active" - press enter

"quit" - just to be nice and tidy. Not really necessary

Reboot

Now you'll have Chameleon showing both partition, but do NOT try to boot into VISTA or WIN 7. Boot Leopard, and copy the boot.ini files that is in the root into the root of Vista/Win7.

If by any chance when you reboot you get an error, insert iAtkos DVD and ONLY select Chameleon 2 and Post Action. This of course to the destination of your Leo and NOT Vista partition

Reboot and you should be able to go into Microcrap Vomit, or Winsh*t 7.

(sorry, having major problems with these two idiot OS's)

3
2
1
<GO !

Scorpio...

Please go to terminal and type "lspci"

Tell me what it says for ethernet.

Greetings!! :p

I will as soon as I get it working. The irony is I got it to work before trying this Leopard !! I only bought this laptop 2 months ago

But now, I simply cannot get it working dual booting. No matter what I try or what flags I try, it always KP's in the same way and I cannot find out why. I need a new HDD for a project, so I'll try mono booting (as before) to try to figure out what is going on.

Anyways, its fun to know, and I do think I've got the gold master (10a432) but until its actually released some things could change. So lets be patient!

For those having trouble with ethernet, find the RealtekR1000.kext and try it.

Please do come back to say if it works, dont forget to mention your specs.

ta-ta

I finally went out and bought a new hard drive.

I will start to get funky with Snow Leopard pretty soon. Hope to make it my long run dual boot system.

Anyone want to join me ? :p

hey Gurruwiwi I have almost the same your laptop.
Mine is the version with 1GB nvidia, display at 1920x1080 and blueray dvd .
I used iDeneb 10.5.8 and everything worked fine from my first reboot.
For sound I used voodooHDA kext and I solved the mic problem using a tiny USB one.
My only problem is the CPU speed that is 1,60 GHz instead 2,40.

Could u tell me how did u fixed this?
Which kind of SMBIOS did u installed ?

:-) and i'm waiting for the postman to bring me my copy of Snow Leopard, I hope tommorrow, and than let's get funky together ! :-)

Gurruwiwi , the ethernet dosen´t work , i install this drivers realtek and restar and dosen´t work , any other idea? thank you for all

I have a 6930G, which has slightly differing hardware to the 6935G, e.g NVIDIA 9300GS

what do I need to do to adjust your guide for this model?

thanks

Awesome guide
 

ive currently installed OSX v7 using iatkos Thanks to this Awesome Guide !! :D
i already have vista on a different partition
and i created an another partition and installed hackint0sh and it worked i can boot into mac with chameleon but now the problem is i cant boot into Vista as soon as i select vista it just loops and instantly restarts

i tried making the vista partition active using the Vista DVD and then it would just boot straight to Vista

any help i can get on this dual booting both of them
Partition structure

Vista = Partition 1
Data = Partition 2
PQSERVICE = Partition 3
Mac = Partition 4

PS.
i already had vista on this laptop before installing iatkos

Thanks

Right on !! :p

Well done hasseb!

Did you copy the chameleon boot.ini to the Vista partition after installing OSx? It is easy, but its fussy.
chameleon needs a special boot.ini to recognize.
But... I cannot get to dual boot the original hard drive with the same partition structure as yours. I mean, dual boot Vista and XP !!!
No matter what I try, this vista will not let me. I've done this bunch of times before, so my only conclusion is that the recovery partiton, pq service or the fact that the drive alredy has a large number of partitions, will not allow this.

For instance, I've always before booted windows via e-sata, having my Leopard inside the laptop. With the original Vsta, if its inside, it boot as normal, if I try via e-sata, I cannot boot, it goes into recovery, but it does not even find either Vista or XP !
It is always best to have two simple partitopns for dual booting ! That is exactly why I bought a new drive to try SL.Plus, if anything goes seriously wrong (like I wiped and entire drive with backups by accident), you can always fire up another OS to get your life back in order, and even assist your failled attempts.

Sata drives are really cheap now!

Just to check, you do install these kexts to S/L/E with OSXtools or Kexthelper?

Permissions must be repaired (although mine woke up immediately)

Ok, lets try with strings then. Find EFI Studio, I'm pretty sure it has ethernet.

I've never used it, as I stringed manually for gfx card only. Do a quick search, it should be easy as click click click. Be sure to check for vendor ID from Terminal "lspci" command with your system spec (in windows or internet) just in case OSX reads it wrong.

Hi paradoxni

Not much I suppose.

Well, basically check for different HW, for instance, you gfx card. Whatever is different, you'll have to hunt down kexts for it.

Basically, I think, you have different gfx and two harddrives.

If that is the case, just follow my tutorial, except you cant just copy my apple.plist because it containes gfx string for 9600m GT for this Acer model. You'll have to make your own and copy it to the info.boot.apple.plist.

One thing is to boot up, that is 80% of the work done, and these new distros + chameleon are heaven sent.

Next step is fine tune your system for eficiency and stability. Stability comes from correct CPU, Ram readings, solid gfx, although sometimes it works right but reads wrong in system profile. You should run some tests (geekbench, xbench) to check.


Kernel Panics are to be dealt with. If you have them, something is wrong. One thing is KP from wrong HW specs, another is random KP. Tis last one is very rare.

Is it possible to use your apple.plist and then edit it and change some strings to work with my hardware? I am not 100% sure I understand the process.

Hi Mascal71,

hmmm... yes I too had that issue before, with both CPU and RAM speed. To be quite honest, I can't remeber how I fixed it.... :eek: ... and now that I think about it, anyone else here with 6935g that followed my tutorial pleas confirm cpu and ram are correct please?

At the time I was batteling several fronts. audio, video, ethernet and and this!
I cannot be sure, since dsdt.aml confuses the heck out of me, I can't tell if it works or not, as if I remove it, everything works the same, but supposadly it shouldn´t be working with this disto/chameleon... But I do have it there for... protocol really...

Does iDeneb install ask you for dsdt.aml?
Anyways, SMBIOS is supposed to be one of the culprits for this, I will post mine up when I get home... I really dont remember if I edited this or not.
That is actually a great question, thank you, I'd never thought about this issue up to now.... I wrote the tuorial after the final battle, gfx card. Took me SO long to figure it out, I cant remember the CPU n Ram part.
Try my SMBIOS later on, I'll google around to refresh my memory.
You bought the Snow ? lool, why not go shopping at the bay or with demons ?

cherrios!

Ps: you sure your gfx is gddr3? I thought 512 were gddr3, whilst the 1gb were gddr2, but that's just a suposition

why Did I buy the snow?

Because I wanted the 2 Apple Stickers!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

No it's because I have some real Mac in Office and so ...

iDeneb doesnt ask you to install dsdt.aml and anyway I tried to use the SMBIOS800 and the processor speed is right ... but now the memory is wrong :-) DDR2 @ 800 and not DDR3 @ 1066

Thanks for your answer, but do not know much English and if we add that I do not understand much of this new operating system, I understand nothing of what you say, now I use a translator for this, I can explain it more clear please? thank you very much indeed

That's precisely why I bought the iphone :p

... but I only got one. :mad:

Tell you what, I'll trade you my smbios.kext for one of your stickers ...?

....

Just uploaded a zip with 2 smbios.kext... one is applesmbios.kext, the other is applesmbios2.kext.

I have no idea where this second one came from. Must have been one of those nights I stayed up late trying to figure it out, I find no logical explanation except it must have worked and went to sleep and forgot about it.

First try the normal one, then the second one, and then, heck, like me, try both!

Tell me how it goes

Ok.

EFI Studio is program to automatically find ethernet (or graphic, audio, etc) and show Leopard that it exists, and make it work.

EFI Studio does not work 100% of the time.

1 - go here and download program.

http://nguyenhai.wordpress.com/2009/...kintosh-tools/

2 - Choose Ethernet from drop down menu

3 - Click add device

4 - Click "write to com.apple.Boot.plist"

Reboot.

Hope it work... should look something like this

hey tnx u mate!!!!
I used both your kexts ... it didnt fix the processor speed but now my hackintosh is faster than before to do everything !!!!
Look in the boot rom version in the picture I attached ... it seems to be moded for the Acer laptops !!! U did a good job in that night :D

U deserved the sticker indeed!!!!

Belissimo !!:D bravo, bravo !!

But check your RAM speed too. Anyway, great news.
Can you check somehow if your CPU actually WORKS at the correct speed?
There are many known cases where the About My Mac does not read correct, but the machine works correct. There are also tool to modify directly about my mac.
heheh... you can make it read quad core extreme and stun your friends! hehe I think maybe OSXtools does this

Also, for the sake of stability, try removing smbios number 2 and reboot (dont forget to repair permissions) - check if it reads coorect, then the opposite.
There is no need for these 2 kexts, it could be both are conflicting. I dont have mine here right now, but sure as heck I will remove one too!
Also, thanks for the kudos, but I assure you I did not do anything special other than read kilometers of threads and edit plist. No programming or hacking here - so I guess its the dsdt.aml actually doing something...

Right.. but you dont use dsdt with ideneb...hmmm ...

DSDT is really really confusing. I undesrtand what it is, but I dont understand who needs it and who doesnt. I seem to not need it.

yes the CPu seems to work at its real speed.
This hackintosh is faster than my real iMac @ 2,133 in 3D renderings so I'm quite sure it's a case of wrong "about this Mac" reading.

I'm still waiting for the postman ... I think that with this warm weather my snow leopard is melting away :-)

Well, I'm glad to inform you that I am at this very moment typing from my fresh install of Snow :D:

Still from usb keyboard and mouse, no gfx, etc.. but stage one complete!

build 10A432 roll n roll :p

Going too reboot to test 64bit, then its back again to hunting kexts etc.

Mascal, are you planning to attempt 64bit? or stick with 32? I haven't yet figured out which one to go. I mean, I know logically 64bit is the way to go, but all macbooks and many other iMac's etc are going to boot only 32bit.

I know its basically not much difference since the way Snow is build, both 64bit and 32 kernels will run 64 and 32 apps either way...

Anyway, getting ahead of myself, first see what happens on the other side, 64bit.

Wish me luck... ooooff :-d
:cool:

WOW THAT WAS FAST !!!

64bit rockin#$%$#$% YEAH ! !!:D:D:D:p:p


I think I'm going to cry now....

haha !! :D

No really, even without verbose mode, I've never seen an OS boot so %&$ fast!

Sorry for the fowl language, I'm stoked! Look at the time! from posting the last port, to posting this one, under 4 minutes! That is shutdown, reboot, boot in verbose mode, find internet, safari, manual login, find thread and post ! without an optimized OS !

No really, I think I'm going to cry now... :'( just under 4 minutes :p and that was the first 64bit boot!

Report so far, looking good. But I might need to re-install, so far;

Graphics ok
Keyboard and Mouse.... now with multitouch :p
Bluetooth, Webcam
Sata support and E-sata, but have to confirm speeds
Wifi


No audio. no ethernet,

SL on a new Quad Core Acer AS8930-7665
 

Hi,

I have been silently watching this forum and curious to get SL running on Acer Aspire AS8930-7665. As you know, this has Intel Q9000 Quad Core. Please check the specs here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115542

I wanted to tell that I absolutely play no games and will only be using notebook for DV/HD video editing purposes. I was told Quad Core will give me ultra power during DV/HD video editing. Having said that, can I use your excellent guide for this Acer model?

There are some differences:
1. The GPU is 9700M GT.
2. Does SL recognize that the CPU is indeed Quad Core?
3. Does SL support Full HD (1080p) - 1920 x 1080?
4. The newegg site doesn't say the max RAM allowed is 8GB. I hope it does.
5. What about audio? Does it fully work?
6. I also use Skype/Yahoo Messenger for video/audio chat, so the internal mic/webcam working is a must.
7. What about wireless card? Do I have to replace the one that came with it?
I do have a Dell Wireless 1510 card and a Atheros b/g wirless card. Can I use these on this Acer model?

Sorry to ask you too many questions. I'm a newbie and wanted to make sure I covered everything.

Thanks.

Well, I just now managed to get audio working perfect, except internal mic, but external mic works fine! Finally! If you dont want to use headphones, you just need to plug the mic and leave it about.

Also AHCI for correct Sata buses

And boy is multitouch nice for websurfing, scrolling... tapping isn't working, but I dont like it anyway.

sl_mac... as a newbie, I'd wait a little longer before attempting. I'm doing all the dirty work, that should cover 85% of your needs. The rests you'll have to do on your own, like generating a valid graphics string specifically for your machine, and edit it in the com.apple.boot.plist.

Keep coming back, by the looks of this there might be a first run tutorial soon :) And I'll help my best with the rest.

Making SL boot by the method I managed to do is dead easy, but does envolve some editing of a couple of files, a USB 8GB will be mandatory not optional, snow leo ISO not DVD (sorry mascal, right now I dont think there is any way around this) must be used to create a custom bootable USB.

Also, I installed on fresh drive, there are some problems with dual booting Leo and Snow under the same drive, but this method will allow dual booters to correctly do it because the trick lies in the UUID serial numbers of partitions.

Just need correct CPU info and Ram speed, ethernet, SD card... and we're done I think.

Ps: Mascal, forget what I said, you can make your own ISO in 20 minutes, duh, no need to download.

I HAZ SUCCESS !

i have got VISTA + OSX to dual boot without copying the boot.ini files (it doesn't makes any difference even if you do or not Vista doesnt uses boot.ini to boot) OR Reinstalling Vista or Osx all over again.No need to do anything like that

Now all you need is a specific BETA version of EasyBCD Beta 2.0 Build 63 (the stable version don't seem to work for eg v1.7.2) on vista you won't find these on the normal website either on the NeoSmart Forums
and then just add a new Entry as a Mac

Follow the screenshot below
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7637/easybcd.jpg

after down click add entry Restart the PC and you will get 2 selections Vista and NST MAC OSX.
Now you can either choose Mac OSX (it will redirect you to the chameleon,select OSX ) or Vista (which will boot striaght to vista) and voila you can boot into Mac + Vista

Link to the EASYBCD http://is.gd/2GXRN
You will have to register to the forums for free and after you do that you will be able to download !


Now the only problem im going through with OSX v7 is a small lag (could be the graphics card driver)
when i try visualizer on itunes or a slideshow using the default Preview both the things don't go smoothly either they load have the picture or in the case of visualizer it would freeze for 1secs and then continue

Any fix i can get on that would be appreciated :)

SL on a new Quad Core Acer AS8930-7665
 

Hi Gurruwiwi...

Thanks for your reply.

As you said, I'll wait and watch on your progress.

I haven't bought this model yet. All I need is a Q90xx Quad core Intel Core 2 CPU with Full HD support and a 15.4'' notebook running on a Nvidia 9400 or 9600M. I don't know if 9700M will work in SL.

As a newbie, I'm completely newbie on this and I hope your upcoming new guide will walk me step by step with references to higher models with different GPUs like the one that comes with 9700M.

Thanks.

Great !!!
So did u use an USB 8Gb memory pen to install snow?
For audio did u use the voodooHD at 64 Bit?
Im using Cinema4d at 64 bit for rendering.... and it works great ... I will be very happy to try it in a full 64 Bit S.O ... but the postman is still missing!!!!

Keep in touch !!!

hey guys...currently installing iatkos v7 using this guide on my 6930G, fingers crossed its going well so far.. expect me to post again with some problems haha :)

first problem, I have installed a dell 1395 wifi card into the acer and its not detected, also tried the PIN20 trick by covering in tape,but still the wifi light does not light up and no device detected in OSX.

I know this card is compatible as its from an inspiron 1525 which runs osx (including wifi) very well...

wot else to try ?

looks like its the same card and problem as chris was having a few pages ago :(

this card works in my dell inspiron in osx so why not here! :(

ive also tested the card (with pin20 trick) in windows and it works fine and the killswitch has no effect, its always on. so this must be a driver issue in osx

Well, I'm sorry but like with Chris, I'm out of ideas.. Except dsdt.aml patching, which I now know is not dangerous at all, and quite easy. But its hard to follow threads from people who know how, it very confusing, and there is little help for noobs like me in that field.

But basically, you have to generate a DSDT.aml file (like in my tutorial) and then fix certain entries to contain proper info that OSX can understand. You do that converting it into another format (I forget the extension, but this is decompiling stage)... the open that, edit, save, and recompile back to dsdt.aml, and is very very effective if done properly.

There is only danger if you try to flash your bios to contain the new dsdt.aml info. This is what I have gathered, anyone please jump in to elaborate, because appart from that, its still a mystery to me who needs it and who doesn´t.

So far in SL, its the opposite, it makes the system unstable. Delete it, no more KP, seems rock solid and snappy, yet I'm using Chameleon 2 RC 1 which is supposed to need that file for stability.

Try finding the entry for wifi and edit that.

Also, are you sure the "lspci" command in terminal doesn´t find the card?

For example, look at this thread. Looks horribly complicated as I've never tried it. Currently investigating audio for SL. Thats all I need left but I'm having no luck;

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lof...p/t182384.html

lspci lists the card as Broadcom corp. BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] rev 01

but airport icon dont appear and wifi light stays out (even thou ive done pin20 fix, tested in windows)

also found on another site

tries this too but not working

Hey haseeb, there are other ways. But if its working, its working :)

You have two bootloaders now. No problem, just an extra step. You have Windows partition set as active with it bootloeader, that redirects you to Chameleon bootloader.

It is possible to only use Chameleon, I've done it before but only once and I dont want to go all over the SL install yet again!! but now I am concentrating on SL when I'm done, I also want Windows 7, so I'm looking into that too.

That means the card is there and recognized. It's not in "up" status, there are linux commands to "up" and "down" the wifi card, and I think terminal might have them.

So, your card in Windows works, internet tested and all? But with the light on? and When you boot to OSx it stays off... When you boot in windows, is the light on since shutdown to boot, or does it light up during the windows boot?

How many pci-e slots do you have?

Also, do you have the airport "blank" icon at the top?

airport
 

same problem, i have an aspire 6930g, 4312 and 4311 broadcom card, they work on windows, but on osx i have nothing, airport = unrecognized