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Member #16,266 · 2009-10-22 → 2009-11-19
#911 by Dispatches #452 by Author Reads #3,521 by Thread Reach Member #16,266 ALC889a / Audio USB / EHCI NVIDIA GeForce

@lukemdfree

InfiniteMac community contributor with 9 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (24,864 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 24,864 historical readers.

Dispatches 9 Ranked #911 of 6,691
Author Reads 24,864 Ranked #452 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 24,864 Ranked #3,521 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 24,864 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #16,266 Joined 2009-10-22
Active Window 2009 2009-10-22 → 2009-11-19
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#911 of 6,691 by Dispatches (9 notes) · #452 of 3,454 by Author Readership (24,864 reads across 1 dossiers) · #3,521 by Thread Reach (24,864 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #16,266 · Joined 2009-10-22
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ALC889a / Audio (4) · USB / EHCI (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

10.X Core
9 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @lukemdfree (1)

24,864 cumulative reads on threads started by @lukemdfree

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
I currently have a bootable vanilla snow leopard volume, using chameleon2 RC3 on EFI, (Extra folder in /Volumes/Snow/) and a nearly-fully-working Leopard volumes (ugly S/L/E folder). I would like to have Snow Leopard fully working (except…
10.X Core24,864 reads
2009-10-22 · 17 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (8)

Direct links into threads where @lukemdfree contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
“The card I purchased is that model you've linked from ebay. I've been alot to try and get this card to work for me. Most people report that it works out of the box, some people say it just won't work at all. I'm part of the second group. I'…”
10.X Core2009-11-19
24,864 dossier reads
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
“Happy to hear axn I've just bought a broadcom 4311 card to replace the intel wifi 5100 agn so that I can have true airport, and run 64 bit. A few things I'd like to add also, I used voodooBattery to get my battery meter fully working, I als…”
10.X Core2009-11-06
24,864 dossier reads
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
“Update 2: got the USB adapter working with realtek driver RTL8187Bt.kext and 32bit mode. Now I need to find USB drivers for 32bit. Still considering replacing PCIe card so that I can use airport and don't have the USB single taking up a por…”
10.X Core2009-10-25
24,864 dossier reads
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
“UPDATE : I am now again booting into 64bit mode, because I don't have the 32bit drivers for my USB ports. Working : GFX (CE/CI) : still the flickering, very noticable on grey, I imagine similar to described above. Using EFI string in my boo…”
10.X Core2009-10-24
24,864 dossier reads
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
“Hmm. Looks like two of my USB ports aren't working, along with the hp webcam. This happened with 10.5 too. Last time some iousbfamily kext fixed it. Also, even with correct permissions and ownership the kext from the wg111v3 adapter won't s…”
10.X Core2009-10-23
24,864 dossier reads
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
“Update: voodooHDA from the link above is working except for native volume control. Still no luck with the wg111v3. (now always booting 32bit mode). Either manually placing the kext in or using the installer pig from netgear both give me a p…”
10.X Core2009-10-23
24,864 dossier reads
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
“Thanks for your quick reply. I will have a look into that voodoohda. The graphics flickering is very minor. Over some shades of purple/blue on selected items. The USB issue is USB drives not mounting sometimes. I don't have any options in m…”
10.X Core2009-10-23
24,864 dossier reads
Problems with Snow Leopard install - HP DV5T - Mainly WG111V3 USB wifi dongle
“I have tried using VoodooHDA, but no results (tried in S/L/E, removing appleHDA also, and tried in E/E. with prefpane.) The wifi dongle works under leopard, but apparently is only 32bit. on the 10.6.1 HCL wiki, someone has listed this usb a…”
10.X Core2009-10-23
24,864 dossier reads