#183 by Dispatches #2,153 by Author Reads #361 by Thread Reach Member #1,414 AMD OSx86 ATI Radeon AHCI / SATA
@smileyme
InfiniteMac community contributor with 39 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (4,608 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,274,120 historical readers.
Dispatches
39
Ranked #183 of 6,691
Author Reads
4,608
Ranked #2,153 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach
1,274,120
Ranked #361 in reach
Lead Dossiers
2
2,304 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#1,414
Joined 2008-02-21
Active Window
2008–2009
2008-03-03 → 2009-02-13
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Biostar NF61S Micro AMD · Athlon 64x2 4000+ 2.1 Ghz · Antec 430W PS · PCIe Radeon HD2600 XT 512 · 2 x 1GBs PC 6400 DDR · Pioneer DVR 110D · SATA 2 · PCI Firewire 800 · HD audio · Full duplex 100 baseTX LAN
Athlon 64x2 4000+ · Biostar NF61S Micro AM2 · Radeon HD2600XT PCIe · 2GB PC6400 · Pioneer DVR110D · SATA 250 GB x 2 · Belkin 10/100 NIC · SIIG Firewire 800
- Archive Standing
- #183 of 6,691 by Dispatches (39 notes) · #2,153 of 3,454 by Author Readership (4,608 reads across 2 dossiers) · #361 by Thread Reach (1,274,120 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #1,414 · Joined 2008-02-21
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- AMD OSx86 (12) · ATI Radeon (6) · AHCI / SATA (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (2)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @WinLinMac01 (13) @naquaada (8) @xx66stangxx (7) @Ianxxx (7) @bhast2 (7) @Puttabong (7) @R0GUE (6) @pαuℓzurrr. (6) @zuz242 (5) @Hara Taiki (4) @roisoft (4) @nfoav8or (3) @CyCLoBoT (3) @farcaller (3)
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 4 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @smileyme (2)
4,608 cumulative reads on threads started by @smileyme
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Can't connect to LAN This is an odd one. Using a Belkin/Realtek NIC, I have full internet access and can share desktop with others on my LAN. However, I can't connect for file sharing, either way, Mac or PC. Although, all machines on the LAN show up in Finder.… | Leopard 10.5 | 2,401 reads 2008-03-26 · 5 notes |
| Installation instructions I there a wiki or something on installing Zephyroth's 10.5.2? I was able to install to a partition created on the HDD by Gnome Partition Editor. The partition was made primary and active, flagged in Terminal. The installer installs to it,… | Leopard 10.5 | 2,207 reads 2008-03-03 · 3 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (37)
Direct links into threads where @smileyme contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 “I have been running Zephyroth's 10.5.2 updated over the last year to 10.5.5. I have had some issues, but nothing I couldn't fix or live with. I liked it so much, I gave my G5 to my wife and my HacIntosh became my main machine. When I tried …” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-10 965,272 dossier reads |
| iPC OSx86 10.5.6 problems/wishes “Hm, it should work with your NIC. To make sure, remove any non working connections or connections you'll never use from the Network preferences. iPC is also basically as vanilla as it gets too, other distro's may have replaced files with ha…” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-13 100,995 dossier reads |
| iPC OSx86 10.5.6 problems/wishes “As for Time Machine, the fix is just a ToH IONetworkingFamily.kext that was patched. It still requires your onboard ethernet to be working, as there are ties to networking with this because of Time Capsule. Once your ethernet is working, Ti…” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-12 100,995 dossier reads |
| iPC OSx86 10.5.6 problems/wishes “iPC OSx86 10.5.6 has been great. Everything on my BioStar NF61S, besides onboard video (which I haven't tried), and onboard networking (which again, I haven't tried), is working; with one exception. TimeMachine doesn't work. I tried "Time M…” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-12 100,995 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard AMD 10.5.2 Rev.2 Issue Discussion “[cite] smileyme:From day 1, OSX86 had problems with the onboard (Realtek RTL8201CL PHY) LAN, and I didn't want to post until I had solved it. Thanks to naquaada, it's now working. Spoke too soon. Issues with syslogd. Have gone back to the N…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-15 35,425 dossier reads |
| Zephyroth Leopard AMD 10.5.2 Rev.2 Issue Discussion “Cheap ($400), fast, fully functional dual core AMD OSX86 box, + Windows XP & Linux Ubuntu AMD64 8.04 From day 1, OSX86 had problems with the onboard (Realtek RTL8201CL PHY) LAN, and I didn't want to post until I had solved it. Thanks to naq…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-13 35,425 dossier reads |
| Realtek PHY RTL8201CL ID 0x03EF no connection “[cite] cgsheen:I still sctrach my head about all the posts I see where people are still fighting with RTL8201's... Why go through all that when you can install a $5-$10 RTL8139 or RTL8169 PCI LAN adapter that's supported natively by OSX. Th…” | 10.X Core | 2008-05-14 34,304 dossier reads |
| Realtek PHY RTL8201CL ID 0x03EF no connection “The only way I was able to get things going was to use the Forcedeth-nockd.kext. Unfortunately, this causes syslogd to run erratically and cripples Console. I tried adding my device ID to the original Forcedeth and this gives me a connectio…” | 10.X Core | 2008-05-14 34,304 dossier reads |
| Realtek PHY RTL8201CL ID 0x03EF no connection “[cite] gully666uk:its pci-e , my lan has stopped working now aswell, im not having the best of luck with this motherboard This is disheartening, as I just got mine working with naquaada's fix. I guess I'll give it a few days to see if it ho…” | 10.X Core | 2008-05-13 34,304 dossier reads |
| Realtek PHY RTL8201CL ID 0x03EF no connection “[cite] naquaada:I made a standard installation I'm using the common forcedeth driver for this board. Is your ethernet connector recognized in System Profiler? Look in About this Mac -> More Information -> Network Not recognized; just the NI…” | 10.X Core | 2008-05-05 34,304 dossier reads |
| Realtek PHY RTL8201CL ID 0x03EF no connection “[cite] naquaada:I have an Asus board with nForce 4 chipset and RTL8201C LAN chip. Works w/o problems except transferring large files in networking use. naquaada, Can you tell us what you did to get your LAN working? I tried several suggesti…” | 10.X Core | 2008-05-04 34,304 dossier reads |
| Realtek PHY RTL8201CL ID 0x03EF no connection “I had the same problem, and installed a Belkin 10/100 NIC. Realtek chipset also works with XP and Ubuntu. <$10 Rick” | 10.X Core | 2008-05-04 34,304 dossier reads |
| Leo4Allv3 released, Tell us what you think “[cite] smileyme:I tried Leo4Allv3 on an SATA>USB drive. It boots all the way through to the blue screen, than switches to a dark gray screen with the spinning disk. Having already installed Zephyroth's 10.5.2, I have a pretty good idea of w…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-10 17,655 dossier reads |
| Leo4Allv3 released, Tell us what you think “I tried Leo4Allv3 on an SATA>USB drive. It boots all the way through to the blue screen, than switches to a dark gray screen with the spinning disk. Having already installed Zephyroth's 10.5.2, I have a pretty good idea of which options to …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-04 17,655 dossier reads |
| Leo4Allv3 released, Tell us what you think “I feel like an idiot. I downloaded the torrent. I get 36 RAR files, but don't know how to create the iso image. I tried Disk Utilities, but couldn't boot from the resulting .dmg or .cdr. I know there are some tutorials, but can't seem to fi…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-25 17,655 dossier reads |
| What do our usernames symbolize “My last name is Smiley, and cuz there are so many smileys out there, I added me to the end” | General | 2008-06-03 14,759 dossier reads |
| Installed Zephs Leopard 10.5.2 REV.2 but windows bootloader doesnt give me option to BOOT to Leopard “I use GRUB as my bootloader. There is a boot CD called "Super GRUB" which should be able to setup GRUB on your Windows XP. Rick” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-23 13,669 dossier reads |
| Few questions before install “"wat different bootloaders do we have? n their advantages?" OS X has its own bootloader. Vista has its own. I use GRUB. I don't know if there is any advantage to one over another, other than GRUB having a boot CD to repair the bootloader if…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-23 12,180 dossier reads |
| Few questions before install “EFI only installs on your OSX86 partition. It's necessary only for OSX. It won't effect your BIOS, or your XP installation. Booting back into your XP installation is dependent on what boot loader you use. I Triple boot with XP and Ubuntu an…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-21 12,180 dossier reads |
| iLife '08 “So far I have no issues with any of the iLife 08 apps or the updates. Even iMovie 08 works fine. Zephyroth 10.5.2 Rev 2 Biostar, Athlon 64x2 4000+, SATA. Rick” | Software & Kexts | 2008-04-23 11,135 dossier reads |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience “I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD/Intel on my Athlon 64x2 4000+ using the sleep kernel. I tried sleep and it worked, and woke, but my external drives disconnected giving the disconnect error; then came back on line. Biostar NF61S 2 GBs Gskill …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-15 10,079 dossier reads |
| Can't connect to Windows shares anymore “[cite] Maksimum:Got some other fix for the different problems (the one with the File Sharing not working on the Hackintoth and the one with not connecting to another file share): The Rev.2-install has some problems with file paths of some s…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-18 9,121 dossier reads |
| Can't connect to Windows shares anymore “[cite] Maksimum:Got some other fix for the different problems (the one with the File Sharing not working on the Hackintoth and the one with not connecting to another file share): The Rev.2-install has some problems with file paths of some s…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-27 9,121 dossier reads |
| Will this work? Adding Mac OSX to GRUB. “I used GRUB, though did it kind of backwards. I installed XP first, then Ubuntu. Then my XP crashed and I had to reinstall XP, but then I could only boot to XP. I used SuperGrub to recover my Linux partition, and had to add XP to my GRUB li…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-17 5,520 dossier reads |
| Gimp requires X11, X11 not available on Zephyroth 10.5.2 rev.2 AMD “My memory isn't all that good, but I think I remember by-passing X11 in Zephyroth's 10.5.2 Rev.2. On the other hand; shyramblings.blog spot.com/2007/11/gimp-on-mac-os-x-without-x11-from.html Rick” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-02 4,833 dossier reads |
| 10.5.2 REV 2 .Torrent “I tried searching Pirate Bay, and all I can find is Rev. 1. What am I missing? I also Googled it with the same results.” | 10.X Core | 2008-03-15 3,693 dossier reads |
| Problem with Mail.app and/or Keychain “Following puttabong's advice, the Mail server password didn't do it for me. However, following the same acvice in .Mac access did. Thanks puttabong, Rick” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-11 3,573 dossier reads |
| Best method to upgrade hard disk. “I use CCC then boot to the Zephyroth 10.5.2 CD and install only the EFI bootloader. In my case, as I triple boot with XP and Ubuntu, I use MBR.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-14 2,989 dossier reads |
| I gave up “I guess I was lucky. I've been running Macs since I got my first computer. As a project, I built my PC for Ubuntu and XP, based on price/speed. OSX86 was an afterthought. Everything worked with a little effort except the onboard ethernet, w…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-21 2,946 dossier reads |
| Installation Help “"@Smileyme, what are you computer specs?" BioStar K8M800 Micro AM2 Athlon 64x2 4000 2 GB DDR5300 FX5200128 MB AGP SATA Firewire 400/800 PCI I just added the Firewire card, and will try to install to a Firewire drive later today. The machine…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-03 2,492 dossier reads |
| Installation Help “I have had the same situation several times, but successive retries have proven fruitful. I don't know why it fails some times and not others. I haven't been able to boot from the SATA drive installed on, though. The computer just doesn't s…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-03 2,492 dossier reads |
| Can't connect to LAN “[cite] roisoft:go here (osx.kb ot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=720&page=1) Thanks. It looks promising.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-26 2,401 dossier reads |
| Can't connect to LAN “[cite] Ianxxx:I think you might find one or two posts about this if you search around on here. Thanks for the input. I did search, and found lots of posts about various cards and problems, but nothing related to my particular issue. Maybe t…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-26 2,401 dossier reads |
| Installation instructions “I had tried adding the Leopard partition to grub.conf [the same way I had added Windows XP], and when I boot there is the option to choose Leopard, but it still can't find it. I was hoping someone would have put together a how-to for AMD us…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-03 2,207 dossier reads |
| About this Mac installer “Works great here. Rick” | Software & Kexts | 2008-04-18 15,118 dossier reads |
| Can't connect to Windows shares anymore “Here is where mine is” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-21 9,121 dossier reads |
| network lan “my onboard is realtek, but doesn't work. anyone know what I need to get it working? Rick” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-13 3,754 dossier reads |