Some Problems with Snow leopard on my Intel.

[Saulidava]

Hello i have some problems.. I have Intel Core 2 Duo and my wifi is DWA-547.

My problems are:
1. After Booting SL and restarting the IDE/ACHI changes to RAID.
2. My Wifi doesnt work. I got DWA-547 And IO80221Family.Kext doesnt work. but it works perfect on Leopard without any kext :S ( 32bit ) To make wifi work i have to boot with x32..

3. Restart hangs up :S

Please help me

[Imkantus]

1. Propably the CMOS Reset Bug? It can be solved by either DSDT Fix or using ElliotForceLegacyRTC.kext (which is doing nearly the same as the DSDT edit does.)

2. Why not booting Snow Leopard in 32-Bit Kernel?
Do you have any real purpose for using the 64-Bit Kernel like virtualization of a 64-Bit OS?

3. Maybe this Kernel Extensions will solve your problem:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=199048

[Saulidava]

What do u mean with nr2? Do i need to download another kernel to make my wifi work? And where do i download kernel? 32bit

My Restart problem is fixed now

[Imkantus]

Sorry I have been a little imprecise with 2.
On compatible processors, our bootloaders use to boot with 64-Bit Kernel & Kernel Extensions by default. Problem can be that not all Kernel Extensions are x86_64 capable. Your NIC is using Atheros AR5008 chip and the Atheros drivers have been translated for 64-Bit initaly with the Release of 10.6.2 - you can boot into 32-Bit Kernel & Extensions mode by using -x32 bootflag on PC_EFI or arch=i386 bootflag on Chameleon & BootThink...

If it still won't work, please post your device ID.

[Saulidava]

Originally Posted by Imkantus Sorry I have been a little imprecise with 2. On compatible processors, our bootloaders use to boot with 64-Bit Kernel & Kernel Extensions by default. Problem can be that not all Kernel Extensions are x86_64 capable. Your NIC is using Atheros AR5008 chip and the Atheros drivers have been translated for 64-Bit initaly with the Release of 10.6.2 - you can boot into 32-Bit Kernel & Extensions mode by using -x32 bootflag on PC_EFI or arch=i386 bootflag on Chameleon & BootThink... If it still won't work, please post your device ID.

What? Lol i am a total noob.. Give me some easy steps?
And i downloaded Cameleon 2 RC3 But now my SL wont load ;S
How do i fix this?

[Saulidava]

Can you just tell me what to do and how?
I dont know nothing. I dont even know if Chameleon is a kernel or not..

[Imkantus]

You should remove that link again. It is not allowed to post warez here.

Things are easy:
If you are on 10.6.0 or 10.6.1 try to boot Snow Leopard using "-x32 arch=i386" as the Atheros drivers can not be used on 64-Bit Kernel mode.
If you are on 10.6.2 and it still doesn't work post again to get further instructions...

And sorry I do not know what you made wrong when trying to install Chameleon.

[Saulidava]

Originally Posted by Imkantus You should remove that link again. It is not allowed to post warez here. Things are easy: If you are on 10.6.0 or 10.6.1 try to boot Snow Leopard using "-x32 arch=i386" as the Atheros drivers can not be used on 64-Bit Kernel mode. If you are on 10.6.2 and it still doesn't work post again to get further instructions... And sorry I do not know what you made wrong when trying to install Chameleon.

Sorry.. Link removed. But i do boot with x32.. And my wifi works.. But do i have to boot x32 everytime?
It only works when i boot x32..

[Saulidava]

Did i download wrong SL? Where did u download urs?

[Imkantus]

There is nothing bad about booting Snow Leopard in 32-Bit mode. Even real Macs do this by default. The 32-Bit Snow Leopard Kernel doesn't mean to use 32-Bit in generell the software can adress more than 3GB of memory even using that mode.

And you do not need to enter this option manually every time.
Look into /Extra folder (if it exists) for com.apple.Boot.plist - if there is not such file go to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
Copy that file to your Desktop. Open it and look for
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
between the string field you can add any boot option you want to use.
Once you are done editing this file, copy it back to the folder you took it from.

Once you are on 10.6.2 you can use 64-bit Kernel again, as the Atheros drivers got translated with that update.

Originally Posted by Saulidava Where did u download urs?

I bought my Retail copy for 29€ from my local Apple reseller and installed it using my already installed 10.5 Leopard system to a second partition.

Back to 1.:
Here is the mentioned Kernel Extensions, which I believe should fix this:
http://rapidshare.com/files/30969294...cyRTC.kext.zip