[GUIDE] (w/ photos) - 100% working Acer 6935g iAtkos v7 10.5.7 with nVidia 9600m GT

[paradoxni]

if I install "default" options, e.g. just press continue without pressing customise to add extra drivers/kexts, then the airport icon appears!

[Gurruwiwi]

Right,

I dont have iDeneb, but your reasoning is not quite right. If you dont customize, it just means you leave the default options chosen by MR.Ideneb himself, so that most PC's boot.

Then you fine tune the system with your machine's kexts.

Reboot iDeneb dvd and check which kexts are selected which are not. If there is a broadcom, there you go. If there isnt, then its using vanilla airport kext. You just need the right kext.

Why dony you install with ideneb, and customize with the rest of my tutorial?

You can even install ideneb, pop in iAtkos dvd and de-select everything, and only choose kexts and install.

You should have no problems whatsoever!

[paradoxni]

your right the airport appears using default kexts, but obviously doesnt work...

i have now tried installing iatkos and ideneb - many many times and still the wifi card does not work.

I give up

[mascal71]

Hi mates, im come back after some very busy working days and now my priority is to install SL !!! :-)

Somebody had troubles to install iDeneb distro, I had a fully working ideneb instalation in this way :

First I changed my intel wireless card with a broadcom one then I used these fix

- ACPI Kext 10.5.6
- PS2 Fix
- ICH Fixed
- Battery Management
- NVinject 1GB

No sound
No ethernet

In this way u obtain a solid leopard ... then u have to use voodooHD for sound and AttensicL1 kext for integrated network card .
The broadcom wireless card is for Leo a real airport without install any kext!!!

@Gurruwiwi

I have some questions about your SL installation guide ...

1 - Can I use a SL retail dmg imagine to restore on the usb stick?
2 - I have to format usb stick using GUID?
3 - After I made the bootable usb stick .... how do I boot from the usb? Using F12 ?

... it's late here ... and im falling asleep ... maybe tommorow I will find the answers for these questions on my own :-)

[Gurruwiwi]

Mascal, welcome back buddy...

SL is solid as a wall of titanium !!

Except when you dont have a rock solid install... As I mess with audio, SL complains a bit. appart from that tampering, I can't rememeber it ever having a hick-up, a stall, a crash, a KP, whatever!

1 - Sure, use the retail dmg and restore to USB stick, pre formatted to HFS+J and GUID.
2 - Before restoring, yes
3 - Install Chameleon onto pen drive, the got to pen root and delete "Extra" folder and Boot.ini (I put and app for this in my SL tutorial download files)
4 - Copy my provided USB Extra folder to USB
5 - Copy "boot.ini" to USB...
6 - Not sure it it is really really necessary for boot, but I did it anyways because its real quick and you only have to do it once for that USB stick, which is to fixate the USB's UUID to the three file, sbios.plist, com.apple.boot.plist and PlatformUUID.kext

Then reboot, f12 or ESQ or whatever brings up your "preffered boot menu" or go into BIOS and put USB first... and ther you go!

[Gurruwiwi]

Originally Posted by paradoxni I give up

Dont do that! This is very normal to happen, and as you learn to solve your problems, you will be able in the future to make better and better installs!

Look, you said you managed to get airport working right? How did you do it? Do it again, and then fix the rest of your install (audio, lan, gfx, etc) - i should be easy!

And We'll be here to help you out. Lets start again, by understanding where you might be going wrong...? Maybe I undesrstood wrong (have to run now) but I have the idea you already managed to get airport working before?

[abct]

Hi Gurruwiwi ,

I have a HP HDX 16 laptop and I managed to install iAtkos 10.5.7. Everything seems ok except the shutdown and sleep problems. I dont bother having a sleep problem but it's a shame that shutdown doesnt work.

I didnt use the NVEnabler 0.1 (by fassl) + GT200 EVGA driver you mentioned since I couldnt create a string file, in fact I had no idea what actually it is. And you string file didnt work for me. So I installed Ndarwin 1.2.3 driver and after that I had a graphic card working properly, at least it seems to be but shutdown it started after installing the driver.



I wonder if you have shutdown problem with the driver you installed. I just want to try the drivers you mentioned without reinstalling the Leopard. I think if I booted with the dvd and chose only the drivers, that would be ok, right? What parameters should I add? For example is "IOPCIPrimaryMatch" should be add?

My graphic card details is above and I am trying to create a string file using this tutorial. What exactly my Graphics.plist file should be look like before creating the string.

In the customisation process, because I used a different tutorial, I chose the same options as you did except the AppleSMBIOS by Netkas and DSDT. I dont know if it is such a big deal. And finally What do you say about the Nvidia 285 driver that is mentioned in this post. Should we update to that?

It has been a one week with mac. So sorry for the simple questions

Thanks.

[jimmy1987]

Gurruwiwi, Can I use this one also as the wireless card for my 6935 and osx ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=130307455345

And is there a 64-bit version of iAtkos v7? as in your profile is listed you have 4GB.

[Gurruwiwi]

Hi abct,

I will answer your question shortly, possibly tomorrow I'm affraid, I rather sit down and write clearly and I cant right now, gotta run.

Hey Jimmy, welcome aboard.

You SHOULD get that card. It native to OSX, rock solid, it the exact same model of many macbook pro's. great signal and a/b/g. There is no Leopard 64 bit, only 32, but it does read 4GB I think...

Anyways, to the the rest of the followers, I have an announcement...

I GOT #%#$&$%/ AUDIO TO WORK !!

Yes, that means a tutorial will come soon.. (dont rush me, I want to do it with time, images, etc...) - yes, a retail version, Snow Leopard, 32/64bit, everything working, including external mic in.

[jimmy1987]

Thanks for the welcome
Ordered the card from ebay now.

I'll wait for the tutorial for SL then as I've been reading through all pages but everything is on different pages which makes following difficult.

But glad too hear you solved it