My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it.
 

Installing OS X on a Asus EeePC 1000HE




The beginning:

I wanted a Netbook that would run OS X without problems, and was
easy to make into an Hackintosh, I also wanted "Quality" so I
decided to go with Asus, and spent a few days Googling everything
I could find out about Netbook Hackintoshes, I then tried to find
a new one for sale, but it seams like most of the Asus Netbooks
that are known to work and that also have guides, seam to have
been discontinued.

When I had a chance to buy an new Asus EeePC 1000HE, I quickly
snapped it up, at the time however, I did not know about the
wireless issue or that the FN keys may not work, if I had I
might have chosen differently.


I started with this guide

[GUIDE] Retail Snow Leopard Install on Asus EeePC 1000HE

and refined it for my own use, the Video and Bluetooth KEXTs
come from that post.



Stuff you will need:

(1) Retail OS X DVD
(2) 8GB or larger Thumb drive
(3) Hackintosh or Mac to prepare the Thumb drive,
or use "Empire EFI v1.085 for Intel Atom"
to start the install
(4) NetbookBootMaker and NetbookInstaller
(5) The 1000HE KEXTs
(6) DSDT

The Install, Part 1:

Start the "Disk Utility" put the "Snow Leopard DVD" into
the Mac or Hackintoshe's DVD drive and wait for it to show
up in "Disk Utility", then click on the "Snow Leopard DVD"
and then click New Image at the top, save were ever you
want, and wait, it may take an half hour.

Now lets format your thumb drive, plug the thumb drive
into your Mac or Hackintosh and and wait for it to show
up in "Disk Utility", then click on the thumb drive
and then "Partition" near the top,

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_fdzi3MTtYas/TC...0/THUMB01a.png


http://lh4.ggpht.com/_fdzi3MTtYas/TC...00/THUMB02.png

under "Volume Scheme" click on "Current" and select
"1 Partition" near the bottom click on "Options" and
select "GUID Partition Table" now over at the side
near the top for "Format" select "Mac OS Extended (journaled)"
and for "Name" what ever you want.

Now lets restore the "Snow Leopard DVD" to the thumb drive,

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_fdzi3MTtYas/TC...00/THUMB03.png

select the "Snow Leopard DVD" DMG file then click on "Images"
up at the top, and then "Scan for Image Restore" wait for
that to finish, then click on the thumb drive, in
"Disk Utility", then click on "Restore" near the top, then
drag the "Snow Leopard DVD" DMG file to "Source" and then
drag the thumb drive to the "Destination" and click "Restore"
near the bottom, and again wait up to an half hour for
it to finish.

If you have any problems with the above look over this guide
its for a motherboard but covers creating the thumb drive

How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish

and

Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required


Now download and install NetbookBootMaker and install to
your freshly made OS X install thumb drive, you can get
NetbookBootMaker over at

Netbook-Installer


The Install, Part 2:

Now lets boot the netbook with the thumb drive, or
"Empire EFI v1.085 for Intel Atom", and install, you
press ESC at boot to select the boot menu.

"NetbookBootMaker" will locking up during the install
but thats OK, it will finish installing OS X before
it gets to that point.

When installing OS X with "NetbookBootMaker", click on
"Window" and "Installer Log" to view the LOG file, set to
"Show all Logs" when log file endlessly shows the same error
about ramdisk, like this

./postinstall: cp: /Volumes/ramdisk/dsdt/latest_dsdl.dsl: No such file or directory

go to "Mac OS X Installer" and select "Quit Mac OS X Installer"
and then "Restart", leave the "OS X install Thumb drive"
plugged in

Boot again with the "Thumb Drive", or "Empire EFI v1.085 for Intel Atom",
keep pressing "TAB" until you can select your internal hard drive and
then boot, booting may take a few minutes

After you are at the desktop, then install "NetbookInstaller"
selecting only "Install Chameleon 2 NBI" and "Install General Extensions"

This is enough to boot, but no sound, no acceleration, no Ethernet
and bluetooth messes up.

Installing KEXTs:

KEXTs you will need


(1) AppleIntelGMA950.kext ----------------This is for your Video
(2) AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext ----This is for your Video
(3) AttansicL1eEthernet.kext---------------This is for your Ethernet
(4) IOBluetoothfamily.kext-----------------This is for your BlueTooth
(5) OpenHaltRestart.kext------------------ This replaces OSXRestart.kext
(6) VoodooHDA.kext---------------------- This is for you sound


Place the KEXTs into "/Extra/GeneralExtensions", remove "OSXRestart.kext"
then run "UpdateExtra", the Shoe program that's in "/Extra".

With "VoodooHDA.kext" you should also install "VoodooHDA.prefPane"
just double click "VoodooHDA.prefPane" to instal.


DSDT:

There is a video on making a DSDT for the 1000HE over at

Learn how to create your own dsdt.aml file

Its webpage

Learn how to create your own DSDT (Updated)

and the files that go with it

OSX 10.6.1 SnowLeopard on the eee 1000HE

Or just use mine, there are two DSDT files, one is for systems
with 1GB of memory installed, and another is for systems with
2GB of memory installed, you have to use the correct DSDT.

You place the correct DSDT into "/Extra" and remove the "1201N.DSDT.aml" file


Update to 10.6.4:

This is how I updated mine.

The first thing I did was get the updated Netbookinstaller
for 10.6.4 from

http://www.meklort.com/?p=262

I installed Netbookinstaller for 10.6.4 first, selecting only
"Install Chameleon 2 NBI" and "Install General Extensions" then
with out restarting or shutting down, download and install all
updates, let it restart, and press "TAB" a few times at boot
until you see a command line, and then type in "recovery=y",
once at the desktop reinstall "Netbookinstaller for 10.6.4",
select only "Install Chameleon 2 NBI" and "Install General Extensions"

Now go to your /Extra and remove "1201N.DSDT.aml" if you are using
a DSDT.aml for you own laptop, Netbookinstaller always seams to put
"1201N.DSDT.aml" in /Extra.

Replace the com.apple.Boot.plist with a backup of your own customized
version, because Netbookinstaller always replaces it.

Put the Asus 1000HE KEXTs into "GeneralExtensions"


(1) AppleIntelGMA950.kext ----------------This is for your Video
(2) AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext ----This is for your Video
(3) AttansicL1eEthernet.kext---------------This is for your Ethernet
(4) IOBluetoothfamily.kext-----------------This is for your BlueTooth
(5) OpenHaltRestart.kext------------------ This replaces OSXRestart.kext
(6) VoodooHDA.kext---------------------- This is for you sound


Place the KEXTS into "/Extra/GeneralExtensions", remove "OSXRestart.kext",
then run "UpdateExtra", the Shoe program that's in "/Extra".

With "VoodooHDA.kext" you should also install "VoodooHDA.prefPane"
just double click "VoodooHDA.prefPane" to instal.


Notes:

I was able to start the install with "Empire EFI v1.085
for Intel Atom" so that may help if you don't have access
to a Mac or Hackintosh, I did not finish the install
with "Empire EFI v1.085 for Intel Atom" as I had already
installed using a different method listed above.

The FN keys don't work, or at least on mine they don't.

Wireless

The Asus EeePC 1000HE comes with one of two, Mini PCI
Express wireless network cards, the "Atheros 9280" and
AW-NE766, both will work, but the AW-NE766 requires you
to download the "RaLink RT2860" drivers for Mac, and has
an ugly launch program that pops up on every reboot.

There is no easy way to replace the Mini PCI Express
wireless network card on the Asus EeePC 1000HE, the
netbook has to be completely disassembled, and the
RaLink drivers are just annoying enough to make you
want to try.

Also most newer Asus EeePC 1000HE came with the
"RaLink RT2860".

If you are unfortunate enough to have the Ralink
wireless card, you can get the drivers at

http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=3

I replaced my Mini PCI Express wireless network card
with

Apple part no. : 020-4894-A
Apple model no. : BCM94311MCAG


Wireless fails to auto-reconnect

After I replaced the "RaLink RT2860" with the Apple Mini PCI Express
wireless network card, I found that it would connect and work, but on
reboot it failed to auto-reconnect, I Goggled the problem, and found
that's a common problem even for real Macs, here is how to fix

(1) Run “System Preferences" go to "Network" and delete all your Networks.
(2) Run “Keychain Access” delete all your networking related keys (Wi-Fi)
(3) Shutdown and reboot.
(4) Set your networks back up

Some hints on disassembly

The keyboard has sticky tape on its back, that tape is very strong, very
slowly pry and allow the tapes adhesive to let-go or you will bend
your keyboard, and there is a void warranty sticker over one of the
screws you need to remove, I tried heating with an hair dryer to soften
it up, I got it so hot I could not touch the netbook's heat spreader, the
sticker still tore.

You can find a disassembly video on YouTube

EEE PC 1000HE TOUCH SCREEN INSTALLATION PART 1

EEE PC 1000HE TOUCH SCREEN INSTALLATION PART 2

EEE PC 1000HE TOUCH SCREEN INSTALLATION PART 3

BIOS

Update the Bios first, before you remove Windows or you
will have to find a thumbdrive that works with the built
in Bios update program, and format it to "FAT" not "FAT32",
to do that, use a small thumbdrive 2GB or under, and rename
the BIOS file to 1000HE.ROM

Here is the Linux "how to" of making the thumbdrive up
for your BIOS update

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

It might also be a good idea to download "SIW" or "System
Information for Windows" buy its full name, and use it
to make a system report and save that system report in
a safe place for later before you remove Windows.

Dual Booting:

I cheated, I used a patched Boot Camp, here is what I did.

I installed OS X, then ran the patched Boot Camp, and made
a partition for Windows 7 using Boot Camp, I gave OS X most
of the hard drives storage space, you will see why later,
and then restarted and installed Windows 7, letting Windows
7 format the partition that Boot Camp made for Windows.

When the Windows 7 install was done, I then booted back into
OS X using the Thumb Drive that I installed OS X from, hit
"TAB" until you can select your internal hard drive, I then
reinstalled Netbookinstaller and only selected
"Install Chameleon 2 NBI" and "Install General Extensions".

I then ran "Disk Utility" and resized the OS X partition, giving
Windows and OS X equal amounts of hard drive space, but leaving
free space between them.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_fdzi3MTtYas/TC...Partitions.png

I then used "Disk Utility" to turn that free space into a FAT32
partition.

I then restart the computer without the Thumb Drive and it starts
Windows 7, once Windows 7 has loaded I find and download
"EasyBCD 2.0 Beta - Build 100" or newer and install.

Here is some info on setting up EasyBCD

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Mac+OS+X

Here how my EasyBCD is setup

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_fdzi3MTtYas/TC...asyBCD_001.png

Now with EasyBCD setup, the Windows bootloader will let you
choose between OS X and Windows 7


Backing up your hard drive

If you have taken the time to do a dual boot and all the updates and
so on, it most likely took a long time, so you might want to make a
backup copy of your entire drive, there are a number of ways to do
that but one of the most simple is to buy an external hard drive that's
the same size or bigger, than the hard drive you want to back up, and
use EaseUs Disk Copy, its free and simple to use, its a boot CD that
you use to start your computer with and then just select a source
and destination and it starts making a copy, and it works just fine
with USB drives, you can get it at the link below

http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/



Asus EeePC 1000HE files

Here are the files I used, I also included a "com.apple.Boot.plist" thats
trimmed down to the bare necessities, just make sure you use the correct
DSDT for the amount of memory you have

thank you so much !
for the fist time i was able to put mac osx on my 1000HE

i must admit i didn't upgrade to 10.6.4 because i'm not sure i understand everything

but it's already perfect like this !

thanks again !

You are welcome, one of the biggest reasons I make guides like this is for
later on in the future I may have forgot, or need to know something
and it helps having a reference ;) LOL

I to had mixed feelings about upgrading, and decided to make a
backup of my entire hard drive first, but it went well and I did not
have problems, at least that I remember.

When upgrading just make sure to use the NetbookInstaller made
for 10.6.4, and keep that install thumb drive in a safe place, it can
help later on if you have problems

I will probably try the upgrade next week.

by the way.. do you have also problems with the "sleep" and "shutdown" ?

both are not working for me. if you have any solutions.. i'll give a try.
tx again

I looked in my "/Extra/GeneralExtensions" under 10.6.4 and I was using
"OpenHaltRestart.kext" and then I checked out 10.6.1, I booted from that
backup I made with "EaseUs Disk Copy", I had not updated it yet so it still
had 10.6.1 on it, and with 10.6.1 I was also using "OpenHaltRestart.kext".


I had replaced "OSXRestart.kext" with "OpenHaltRestart.kext" in
"/Extra/GeneralExtensions" and forgot

I am going to update my guide and files download

everything is 100% working now ! perfect , i'm really very happy ! ;)

thank you!
 

Yay! I am typing this on my new 1000he hackintosh, the first I have been able to make work.

I also used Allan Kelly's tutorial (as I did not have a mac or hackintosh to prepare the install media), but your 1000he guide was key for getting all of the specifics figured out (such as kexts, DSDT, etc.). Thank you so much for your post, it made all the difference for me. :D

Cool, glad it worked for you, you could also try "Empire EFI v1.085
for Intel Atom" I was able to boot the Retail OS X DVD, on the 1000HE,
using "Empire EFI", but did not start the install, I did not want to overwrite
my current install, later on I may back-up my system and try installing
using "Empire EFI" just to see if it works.

Thanks for the idea. I'll check it out and keep it handy for next time! :)

Hi,
1-Do I need to use a sleepenabler.kext at all?
2-Do you have a link for a patched Bootcamp that you mentioned..

Thanks a lot.. I shall give it a go when I get a chance.

"SleepEnabler.kext" is not even on mine, and I don't think that it
was installed on mine, but it may cause problems, and on another
forum, someone with an 1000HE had problems getting sleep to
work with "SleepEnabler.kext" installed.

If its causing problems try removing it.



Look here

Boot Camp for Hackintoshes

and

Boot Camp for Hackintoshes - Prasys’ Blog

Hi Will1384,

Your guide works like a charm thank you. It is pretty straight forward than some other methods I had tried before.
The temperatures for CPU were pretty high, hence the fan noise. To fix that, I also used NullCPUPowerManagement.kext as well. But that stuffed up deep sleep so I had to use the sleepenabler.kext too. They seemed to complement each other just fine. At some stage I chucked in the Voodoopowermini.kext but that spoiled the harmony a bit so I gave that a miss.
Just a heads up for everyone.. If you do a memory upgrade make sure it's 100% compatible, I learned the hard way. Took me 2 weeks and numerous reboots due to various KP which stopped after reverting back to original RAM yesterday?!. A working RAM doesn't mean compatible! I found the original 1GB is just fine for everyday use anyways. Thanks again...

clearest guide I've seen for the 1000HE. Thank you. 10.6.1 appears to run much quicker than the base 10.6 SL. Having a bootable backup AND the tweaked install USB are critical because mistakes happen.
I had difficulty with 10.6.4 - followed your guide using the newest Netbookinstaller. The result was booting through almost to the desktop. Freezes right at the desktop before the Dock appears. I did not update DSDT file. I only updated kext using Kext Helper (the updater from /Extra didn't work for me either)

I have a 10.6.1 with working ethernet, sound, bluetooth. Works great. Maybe I should just be happy, but if you have a suggestion to get to 10.6.4, I'd appreciate it.

cheers

(1) Don't use "Kext Helper" as its most likely installing KEXT into
"/System/Library/Extensions/" and that's not were you want then,
ONLY add and remove from "/Extra/GeneralExtensions" and then
run "UpdateExtra"

(2) The DSDT that Netbookinstaller installs is for another netbook,
so you need to replace it, ether with one you made, or from someone
else who made one for the 1000HE


"UpdateExtra" Looks at the files in "/Extra/GeneralExtensions" and
finds all the "dependencies" of the files in "/Extra/GeneralExtensions",
and then makes a "Extensions.mkext" containing both the files
from "/Extra/GeneralExtensions" and the "dependencies", the
"dependencies" are KEXTs from "/System/Library/Extensions/"
that are needed by KEXTs in "/Extra/GeneralExtensions"

Re: patched boot camp
 

RE:Hi,
1-Do I need to use a sleepenabler.kext at all?-NO ----ING WAY(srry lmao) u'll get kp
2-Do you have a link for a patched Bootcamp that you mentioned. get it from here> http://www.mediafire.com/?dxxwyzgumni
or just google: patched bootcamp (EXACTLY!) , and it's first link

Hope this helps, now that I have given something, I want something in return aka advice.
HOW EXACTLY DO I UPGRADE FROM 10.6.0 TO 10.6.4 ON SAME NETBOOK (asus eee pc 1000HE) oh and srry caps plus is there eee storage, SuperHybridEngine ported to osx thank you

10.6.4 Cannot get to command line
 

Help! Flawless install on my 1000HE ... until I tried the section on updating to 10.6.4.

I ran the updated netbook installer and the 10.6.4 update (before restarting) - no problem.

On restart, the Tab key does not get me to the Command Line but boots past onto a grey screen with a mac laptop icon and and endlessly spinning circle below.

Is there any other way to get to the Command Line for the "recovery=y" trick??

Thanks.

Ben Cable
Kailua, HI

Some times I run into problems with OS X, and I need to boot from
the USB drive I installed OS X from, so I keep it handy, it "may" help
in your case

Also, I Goggled and found

on Meklort's Blog,

So I followed this guide quite closely, and I made it to 10.6.4 just fine. Everything is up and running, except wifi. It occasionally finds networks, but when I enter my password (and before you ask, yes it's the right password, I'm positive) it briefly tries to connect, then says, "Connection timeout." The network has WPA security. I'm about to throw all my hard work against the wall.

My 1000HE has the Atheros 9280, as indicated by About This Mac..., it's enabled in BIOS, I've tried going into BIOS and disabling/enabling it, and I've turned off Quick Boot. I used your DSDT table with your com.apple.Boot.plist and everything on the computer is working flawlessly, including Ethernet, sound and all. (Though I didn't install Bluetooth because I never use it).

Please, somebody help me. I've done the installation twice already and I just don't know what to do. Wireless worked in both Windows XP and Ubuntu. I got the hard part done! I upgraded to 10.6.4 with no kernel panics! Why won't my wifi work with the one card it's supposed to work with?!

I had problems also, mine would connect, and even get on the net, but
just suddenly drop connection at random times, BTW I was never able to
fix that, I ended up swapping out wireless cards - huge pain in the butt -
but I had the "RaLink RT2860" not the "Atheros 9280", I do kinda think I
remember a modified KEXT for the "Atheros 9280" but am not sure were
it is, I will have to search for it, and I only faintly remember it, or think I
remember it, I will look this afternoon for you to see if I can find it,
no guarantees

OK, so I may have uncovered a bit of the problem, it turns out that my Airport is assigned to en0 and Ethernet is en1, which is backwards as far as I can tell. On bootup I kept getting something like:

Airport: Link down on en0

I'm trying to reassign ethernet to en0 and airport to en1, but I'm having some issues. Any input anyone?

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

Apple PCI Wifi Card
 

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

AW-NE771 doesn't work after reboot in OS X
 

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.

A Few Nagging Problems
 

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 ;)

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!

power managment
 

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

thanks

Panic: "Unsupported CPU"
 

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. :(

Got dual boot OSX + Win7 to work
 

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! :-*

Thanks will1384 for the guide and to technosmurf for the command prompt idea. This is what I did to enable dual boot. I installed OSX first, partitioned the drive with patched Bootcamp, performed post installations and then installed Win7 using an 8Gb USB stick. I also prepared an SD card which contains a Chameleon bootloader. I just have to reinstall Chameleon after completing the Win7 installation by booting back to OSX with the SD card. After reinstalling Chameleon I then restarted with the Win7 USB stick and used the command prompt to set OSX partition as active. Btw, you can also do this when inside the Windows 7 desktop by typing "diskpart" in the search bar. Here is the screen shot:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...tionactive.png

Any step by step instructions to upgrade to 10.6.6?? I'm currently running 10.6.3 and each time I update it I get a Failed to locate smc error. Everything is 100% working at 10.6.3. Any ideas?

sorry, you were more brave than me. I left it at 10.6 because I was afraid to break things.
It would sure be nice if someone who made it past 10.6 on their eeepc 1000HE would post instructions assuming the base is a fully functional 10.6

EDIT: i"ll try this newly posted guide
http://www.bikingbrian.com/2011/01/2...-eeepc-1000he/

That is the same guide the OP updated! I just updated to 10.6.4 but now my speakers always hiss, is there any way to fix this? I also have 2 internal battery icons now, how do I fix this?

Dualboot question
 

Hi Will,

thanks very much for this guide! I have a question: I'm gonna do this for my dad's 1000HE, he wants to mess around with mac ox. However, he already has WIN-XP installed on it, and wants me to somehow dual-boot it with his existing installation... just wondering if this is even remotely possible. Thanks!
-Noah

My primary partition was Windows 7, then I used ubuntu live on a flashdrive to partition it so OS X could see it, then I used iPortable Snow on a flashdrive, booted , then once it installed (follow the directions) I followed the guide at insanelymac to install SL 10.6.0, then I found this guide and upgraded to 10.6.4!

For some reason my BT stopped working! I reinstalled the appropriate kept and updated Extras, BT is turned on in Windows but it still doesn't see it in OS X. Any ideas?

Kext causing Kernal to panic!!!
 

Hi All,

I recently updated my Asus 1000he to 10.6.3, I done some research before doing this and noticed that I needed to delete the sleepenabler.kext before rebooting. I did this and restarted the machine and now I get a kernal panic on the same sleepenabler.kext.

I cannot boot in as single user or any other option. I have tried to insert the mounted image of SL 10.6 and tried install netbootinstaller again by getting the new sleepenabler.kext and adding it into the extensions folder for some reason the kernal still panics for the same kext.

I would like to know if there is anyway of installing the kext or deleting the kext. I have done a google search and it is telling me to do it via terminal but as I try this in the installer screen it comes up as Bash 80x297 and cannot read any commands.

PLEASE HELP as i know after installing the kext again everything will be fine.

Thank you in advance!!

Kris

Thanks for the guide! Using your files and some other guides, I was able to get to 10.6.6 with everything working (sound w/o hiss, sleep, wifi, shutdown, etc.) Mac app store works well.

Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Issue with "system uptime in nanoseconds"
 

Hi - great guide, thanks.

I followed the guide step by step but I am having an issue. After I installed all the kexts, copied over the dsts file, I restarted my computer and it stalls at: "System uptime in nanoseconds: 1818304364"

I have 2GB ram (so I used the 2 GB dsts file) and I have the Asus 1000HEB not the 1000HE... Could that be the problem?

The computer starts great when I boot from the USB drive and then select the hard drive. How can I get this working without having to use the USB drive?

Thanks in advance!