Ok, I have spent most of the morning struggling with the 10.5.7 iDeneb update, but I finally have it mostly working. I was running iDeneb 1.3 updated with the iDeneb 10.5.6 updater.I spent most of the morning in safe mode trying to figure out how to get back to working condition. Needless to say, this update was a bit of a struggle, so here’s some tips to help others.
Main points:
1. Backup to a flash drive or SD card ALL of your AppleIntelGMA950 files. This includes AppleIntelGMA950.kext, the two bundle files containing “950″ in the file name, the plugin file with “950″ in its file name, and the AppleIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext from your 10.5.6 install before you do anything. All of these files are located in your System/Library/Extensions file. The AppleIntel950 files are next to each other in that file so are easy to find.
2. Also backup IOBluetoothFamily.kext from the same file
3. Download the iDeneb 10.5.7 Combo update from Ihackintosh or from the link posted in the first page of the large thread on this forum titled: “OS X on Asus eeePC 1000HE – Updated 5/18/09”
4. Install the combo updater, reboot.
5. Reboot should work, but your machine will be in 800×600 stretched mode (much like the first time you installed). Also, bluetooth will be working, but will not be able to be turned off.
6. Using Kext Helper, reinstall AppleIntelGMA950.kext, AppleIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext and IOBluetoothFamily.kext. Don’t reboot yet.
7. From your backups, copy the 2 bundle files and the 1 plugin file that have “950″ in the file name into your hard drive System/Library/Extensions folder. You will have to tell it to replace existing versions of all those files.
8. Reboot. You should be back to normal, with correct resolution and bluetooth able to be turned on and off.
A couple of issues: I don’t see anything different regarding power with this update-a couple of posters have noticed better battery life, I haven’t seen that yet. Also, no difference in the power management stuff in GenericCPUPMControl-one side’s graphs jump up and down and the other side stays at 100% (this is showing VoodooPower.kext 1.2.3 for reference)
I haven’t noticed that anything else is broken. Yet.
How-to: Install OS X on Asus Eee PC 1000HE Netbook
Update: alternate audio driver
As I said in the OS X on Asus Eee PC 1000HE troubleshooting article, I figured I’d go ahead and throw together a more traditional how-to to help out some folks who were interested in installing OS X on their Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook. Now, it’s not exactly difficult, and this is little more than cobbling together work that others have done, so allow me to give credit where it’s due and list those sources before we get into the actual steps. Just keep in mind that some things won’t work (yet).
Here’s a list of the sources I’ve tapped to figure this out:
OSX Leopard 10.5.5 on the eee 1000H
ipis OS X: Installing iDeneb 1.3
Tutorial: Mac OS X 10.5.5 on Eee PC 1000H
And of course, this guide wouldn’t be what it is without the variety of folks who’ve helped contribute to the guide, call me on my mistakes, and in general make it better for everyone. I don’t mean to leave people out, but seriously, so many people have come together on this that it’d get unwieldy to start listing names…
However, special thanks to the forum members here who are discovering all sorts of thing: GuyHersh who is maintaining (better than I can) a thread with updates for your OS X install on the 1000HE (and for keeping everyone up-to-date with available downloads — I go to the thread when I want to see what’s new, okay?), pwm8 for an excellent iDeneb 10.5.7 update guide, rcfa for a retail OS X (vanilla) 1000HE install thread (it’s a work in progress), and everyone for coming together to help out. Please, I know I haven’t mentioned everyone by name and that doesn’t mean that I or others don’t appreciate your work. Seriosuly, thank you, all of you.
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***** Please see the reader-generated thread on the smallcomputing.net forums for an easier to read (and search!) experience than going through hundreds of comments. Really! *****
Here’s a list of what you can expect to work (or mostly work) and what won’t:
Working: trackpad, video, audio, audio out, video out, sleep, camera (though it’s nowhere near as responsive as a real Mac’s camera), ethernet
Not working: wireless (stock)
Untested by me: microphone in (various reports saying yes and no)
Also, I’ve had reader report that this guide works for the Asus Eee PC 1000HA netbook, but as I don’t have one, I am unable to answer any specific questions about it. However, other readers may be of assistance.
– I’ve tried to rearrange the guide so that it’s easy to follow and knocks out various pieces of the installation in a somewhat logical manner. If you’re only able to do part, you should be able stop, come back later, and pick back up and get things working. Also, if you’ve already installed some of these things but haven’t done others (SpeedStep comes to mind), they’re somewhat separated so you can scroll right now to that section without reading through the entire thing again. And yes, I did sneak fixing LCD brightness into the video section. –
***** Requirements for installation and pre-install notes (i.e. DOWNLOAD THIS STUFF!) *****
Here’s what you’ll need to do this: iDeneb 1.3, external DVD drive, and this collection of various things that should be installed after OS installation (from JokerPCs thread on insanelymac).
From superhai’s Darwin project site, you need two files for SpeedStep (I’m not linking directly to them in case they change) so download VoodooPower.kext and GenericCPUPowerManagement Application. And grab this kext file for LCD brightness control (requires nothing extra to make it work).
Thanks to the awesome user community, a working ethernet driver is now available. Please note that there’s different files for different versions of the OS. If you’ve braved the upgrade to 10.5.6 (or 10.5.7), then grab the 10.5.6 installer. If you’re still working with 10.5.5 or like to do things the hard way, here’s the 10.5.5 (and 10.5.6) files. Note: you only need one of them, not both, if you’re working with 10.5.6.
Since you ought to update your iDeneb install after it’s finished, you may want to look here for the iDeneb 10.5.6 update.
And once you’ve installed 10.5.6, then get iDeneb 10.5.7 update (this updates from 10.5.6) because that’s available now as well.
Now thank GuyHersh making most of this stuff available.
Also, you do not need a custom BIOS as iDeneb 1.3 will install on the default BIOS. I know with other Eee models you need to grab a hacked BIOS, but again, let me be very clear: you do NOT need a modified BIOS to install OS X on the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook. The 0303 BIOS (shipping BIOS) works fine for OS X.(I’ve not tried any others, but my guess is that they’ll work as well.)
Another caveat: I and others have had issues with the trackpad drivers not loading properly (you’ll know they’re not when the cursor jumps down the screen and gets stuck in a corner and is all but unresponsive). Rebooting usually solves it for me, but readers suggest you might also try plugging in a USB mouse before you boot the OS X installer. (Also note: this sometimes happens when you’re actually in OS X, so, again, reboot or USB mouse.)
Final caveat: if you, like me, have installed Windows 7 on your Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook, you may find that it has completely taken over the MBR, thus making it impossible for the chameleon boot loader to make it into OS X. Here’s two solutions: easy way to dual boot Windows 7 and OS X, and the more involved, but cleaner, way to dual boot Windows 7 and OS X. Alternatively (better than either), install the latest version of the Chamelon bootloader (download links on the right because the versions change) and make the OS X partition the active one with the Windows 7 command line tool.
Preparing your Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook for OS X
The first thing you need to do is boot into Windows and get a partition setup for OS X. This is quick and easy.
- Right click My Computer, select Manage, select Disk Management, and then delete your D: partition (it’ll be ~60gb).
- Then right click on the graphical partition table a little below that where it has unassigned space and Create a New Partition.
- Select a Primary partition, do not assign a drive letter, do not format the space. It should only take a moment and when it’s done, reboot.
Mindlessly slam the F2 key to get into the BIOS. You need to tell it to not boot to the hard drive.
- Go to the Boot menu and then Boot Device Priority and make sure your external DVD drive is configured to be the primary boot device, hit F10 to save and exit, and wait.
Installing OS X on the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook
OS X will slowly, very slowly, boot. You do not need to specify any boot flags, just hit Enter to boot.
- Choose your language and click the blue right arrow button (or hit Enter). Now wait several seconds.
- Go to the Utilities menu and select Disk Utility.
- Select the second partition (~60gb) on the left and then click on the Erase tab at the right.
- Change the file system to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in the drop down and type in a helpful name for the partition name.
- Click the Erase button near the bottom and wait.
- Quit Disk Utility and go forward in the install until you can click the Customize button in the bottom left.
Here’s where you’ll need to select a few things to help make stuff work.
- Under Patches and then Audio, choose AppleAzaliaAudio [there's an alternate audio driver linked below -- if you opt to use that, skip this (just keep in mind it's a beta)].
- Under Chipset, choose ICHx Fixed.
- Under Fix, select all of these: ACPI-Fix, Cpus=1-Fix, FireWire Remove, Power Management, PowerOff_Fix.
- Under Video and then Intel choose Intel GMA950.
- Under Applications, be sure you install Kext Helper and OSx86Tools. Pacifist may also be a good idea, but I haven’t needed it thus far. (Or just install everything.)
Once you’ve selected all of these things, hit Done and then Install and wait. Once it’s all done, with some luck, it’ll reboot itself and you’ll be at the usual OS X user registration screen.
Post install cleanup: fixing OS X (sort of) on your Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook
The next part includes the initial computer setup, and because you don’t have a functional ethernet connection, wired or otherwise, be sure to select My computer does not connect to the internet once you’re prompted for that. I’m crossing my fingers that functional drivers will show up soon, or that existing ones can be persuaded to work. Anyhow, soldier on.
Video and miscellaneous support files
Now open up that file that contains all the stuff I said you’d need for post installation.
- Open the Apps folder and install the About this Mac package.
- Now open your Applications folder (OS X’s application folder, to be more precise: Shift-Alt-A will open it if Finder has your focus). In the iDeneb App folder, open Kext Helper b7.
- Now open the Kext folder from the support file and drag all of the .kext files to the open Kext Helper b7 window. Also make sure you drag the AppleIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext file in. Lastly, also drag the VoodooPower.kext file in for SpeedStep so you can kill a lot of birds with one stone. Type in your password at the bottom, click the Easy install button, hit OK, and wait. You’ll have to reboot when done, but when OS X comes back up, you should find your video resolution is now fixed. You can also use the default shortcut keys on the 1000HE to control brightness.
Sound support (if you installed AppleAzaliaAudio)
Next on the list is sound, and this’ll require reading the how-to file in the directory because you need to install CHUD, and if you don’t have a Leopard DVD handy from your Mac, well, that’s where the reading comes into play. (The alternative is to sign up for an Apple Developer Account and then download it from Apple, but reading the how-to is probably faster.)
- Open the Sound Fix folder (from the post install support file) and copy the Audieee program to your OS X Applications folder (you can copy Spark as well, but that’s that’s for short-cut keys and will be covered later).
- Now, read the how-to, download and install CHUD, and then install the AzaliaAudio package. Reboot.
- Open up Audieee and then select Internal speakers from the little icon it’ll add to your system bar and test for sound (open up iTunes and drag an mp3 into it, or find some other way to make sound).
- Assuming you have sound (if not, go through these steps again), go into OS X’s System Preferences and then Accounts and then Login Items and click the + button to add Audieee to your startup items.
Sound support (alternate driver)
If you skipped the AppleAzaliaAudio part in the installation, then that must mean you’re looking for the cleaner way to go. Here it is: VoodooHDA 0.2.2. The driver and prefpane are linked in that thread and reports are generally fairly positive. Install the .kext in the usual method.
Power management
Time to fix power management.
- Open up your OS X System folder, then go into Library and then SystemConfiguration.
- Drag PowerManagement.bundle to the desktop (just in case) and then trash the one in the SystemConfiguration folder.
- Grab the PowerManagement.bundle from the Bundle folder of your miscellaneous support files and put it in the SystemConfiguration folder.
There’s some last minute cleanup to perform, so go back to the iDeneb App folder (it’s in OS X’s Application folder) and run OSx86Tools.
- First, we need to set proper file permissions and make sure everything works. Click the Repair Permissions and Clear Extensions Cache boxes, tell it to Run Selected Tasks, give it your password, and wait, and then your password again and it’s done.
- Click the Enable/Disable QuartzGL button and then choose to Enable it. Password and ok and then click the Reboot button. This will improve video performance.
SpeedStep support
Let’s get SpeedStep working so that you can get more than 3 hours of battery life. This works as of today, 3/7/09. (Disclaimer: the solution has changed in the last few months and old methods you find will not work unless you’re using an Eee customized boot132 disc with the old files on the disc.)
From superhai’s Darwin project site, you need two files (I’m not linking directly to them in case they change).
- Download VoodooPower Kext and GenericCPUPowerManagement Application. (If you’ve already installed the kext in the earlier step, skip to the third bullet point!)
- Open up your OS X Applications folder, go to the iDeneb Apps, and run Kext Helper b7. Drag the kext file into the Kext Helper b7 window. Type your password in, click Easy Install and let it rip.
- Copy the GenericCPUPowerManagement application to your Applications directory and then open up System Preferences, then Accounts, and then select your account on the left and click the Login Items tab. Click the + sign, choose your Applications folder, and select GenericCPUPowerManagement. You may also want to click the Hide button.
- Reboot to verify everything is loading properly and you should have a new icon in your dock and a lot more battery time.
Wireless card swapping
I haven’t personally done this, but there’s been a lot of discussion in the comments about changing the wireless card, so rather than make everyone hunt through the comments, I figured I’d include the links here.
- Disassembly guide for the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook.
- Disassembly videos for the Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook: part one, part two, part three.
- Readers also suggest taking pictures as you go, and being quite careful because of the wire connections you’ll run into when you’re near the end and have to completely pull the case apart.
- Also, if you’re swapping cards, be sure to disable the Boot Booster in BIOS as it can/will cause problems with your wireless card.
Upgrade to 10.5.6
If you missed the link above, I’m just echoing it down here to make sure everyone knows about it and can update their system. I haven’t tried this yet, so I can’t comment or provide directions.
- iDeneb 10.5.6. Upgrade Kit
- Install the ethernet driver (if you didn’t get the manual installer earlier) that works on 10.5.6 or 10.5.7.
- Chances are decent that one or more things will be broken after the update (graphics, sound, etc.). Anything that isn’t working, try reinstalling kexts first. If you continue to have problems, you may want to look at the forums for help or suggestions.
Upgrade to 10.5.7
I’m going to shamelessly steal from the forums for the 10.5.7 update. Aside from formatting, this is entirely pwm8′s work. See the iDeneb 10.5.7 update guide thread for more information.
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You should now have a working OS X on your Asus Eee PC 1000HE
-Updated 5/19/09 with various corrections, updates, and corrected links. Again, my gratitude to the forums team who are dedicated to making OS X run as well as it can. -Updated 4/15/09 to add the beta ethernet driver (headsup courtesy of the forums). -Updated 3/30/09 to add additional drivers and resources that were getting buried in the massive comment thread. Thanks everyone for your patience as I slowly find time to update the guide. - Updated 3/11/09 for further clarification and to remove stuff I forgot to get rid of, and add LCD brightness control. Thanks again for corrections. - Updated 3/7/09 for clarification and layout changes (thanks everyone for tips/corrections). I hope it’s easier to read now. - Updated 2/28/09 to add list of working/non-working items and various typo fixes.
and the zd8000 is a Pentium 4- 3.4ghz with 2gig of ram.
Anyone wanna buy?????
Do anybody of you guys, knows if after a complete install a copy with carbon copy cloner can be made? To just apply it to a 2nd or 3rd netbook, instead of doing the whole process from scratch?
If by the way, anybody has the .iso of that image can you let me know the size of it?
Thanks
A CCC image can probably be made. I’m gonna test this out once I get the replacement wifi card installed (no reason to have to go through all the steps we’ve discovered all over again
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Ordered my Apple broadcom card as well. I figure, it’s not complete till then, (although this USB wifi adapter works quite well). I just cant believe how well the whole thing runs OSX86. I actually like it better than my MBP. Heck, I almost pulled the card out of my MBP, but that would be stupid now wouldnt it?? LOL
Could you guys post which apple card you are purchasing? I looked online, but it didn’t seem to have the same pin connections. Some links would really help us out!
Thanks and good work!
What I bought is the following:
BroadCom BCM94321MC 802.11n 300M Fit Dell Apple NJ449
Description of card: http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-LAN-Solutions/BCM94321MC
Hope this helps
A few notes on my ideneb 1.3 install:
When I followed the install directions regarding the partitions, I was able to get osx installed, but during boot, I got a waiting for root error. I tried the rd=disk0s2 option on the command line, that didn’t work. So I restarted the install, blew away the entire disk with disk utility (the xp partition, the osx partition, the recovery image and the hidden boot loader). Re-installed and it fired right up.
After booting the first time, I got stuck in some sort of loop when it asked if I wanted to restore from another mac. I selected no, hit continue and it looped three times. I shut down, restarted, same thing. I fortunately had a time machine external USB drive. I connected it and that failed. After rebooting again though, I went right by the loop. Dunno what the deal was with that??
Regarding the boot USB stick: Forget everything I said above. All you have to do is this: Format your 8g stick with Mac Extended, Partition with MBR, use Disk Utility to Restore ideneb 1.3 to the stick, Run Chameleon (I didn’t use OSXtools at all for this). Finally, make sure you plug the stick into the eee, go into BIOS, select it as the first boot device, and off you go. I have a perfectly bootable USB stick (repeatable) for the eee now.
Graphics: It had some glitches with the graphics. I’m not sure if it was quartz or the ideneb kext. I found Universal OSx86 Installer, applied the EFI string for Video Card Intel GMA950 and my graphics issues seem to be history. The problem I saw was when I opened system preferences, the top half of the window wouldn’t repaint correctly. The only way I could get the window controls back was to mouse over where they were supposed to be or restart system prefs.
Generic CPUPMCControl Seems to be doing a good job with speed step. Idles at 997, but bursts to 1662 (not 1750 like in XP Home) I’ll give up 88mhz for OSX though
Fan is even quiet and it does ramp up when I hit the CPU.
Sleep/Restore works like a champ.
Left to do:
I get a UUID Hostname error in the logs with Spark. I think that will clear up when my Apple WiFi card gets here.
No Keyboard Volume Control. I’d like to find a fix for that.
That’s about all I’ve got. OSX runs pretty well on the little guy. Overall, I’m really happy with it. I hope my WiFi card is plug and play. No reason to believe it won’t be.
kadave: Link for the Apple WiFi card I bought: http://tinyurl.com/dzf6sa
Tried to install on my eee 1000HE. Boot is ok, then it cycles at the point of Country Settings. I select my country and my language, after a few seconds maybe a minute it’s again at the same screen where I can choose my country…. has anyone an idea? Thnaks.
Ahhh, seems the same problem as above. But I unfortunately I have no Timemachine backup…. Another possibility?
Sigma, its a quite known fact about the Welcome screen loop, try looking here, alot of threads that might be interesting:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=welcome+screen+loop+osx
JoQ Thanks for that. I’ll try out and post it here again.
Ok, now it works fine! Boot with the parameter “Graphics Mode”=”640x480x32″ was the solution for me. -x won’t work. Now all works as described here in the tutorial. Because I read it befor I installed OSX on the 1000HE I exchnaged the wireless card between the eee 901 and eee 1000HE. So it should work now with the ralink driver. It works one time, after finishing the last steps (optimizing, power safe) the ralink driver was gone and I can’t install it anymore. Have to experiment a bit.
(JoQ: Besten Dank für das Google Script: Wink mit dem Zaunpfal, denke ich. Aber suchen ist immer Glücksache, wenn man die richtigen Wörter eingibt, dann kommts schon gut, aber die muss man halt erst mal kennen
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Sigma, great that you solved it
Sorry, don’t understand the last sentence, im not german, im from Sweden
Oh, sorry, I thought because of the google script, it was in german
hihi….
Wireless Problem: After Reboot the wireless module will not be recognized. There’s the same problem as described above. The F2-F10 hint works. But there’s also another way:
1. go to BIOS with F2 at power on
2. go to Boot / Boot Settings Configuration
3. set Quiet Boot to [Disabled]
ant it works at every startup!
I use the wireless module of an eee 901 and the ralink driver package. Should also work with other modules (except the original)
Ethernet driver is on the way. Someone in insanelymac is working on it now. An early test version is already out.
Check the following link for more.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=140907&st=20
I have an issue…any hints. I got my Dell 1500 in the mail and installed it. Fired it up and at first installed the drivers right from Dell. It saw the card and activated the hardware but cannot find the wireless network. Then I found the HP drivers mention above and installed those same thing??? Is it a bad card? Any ideas?
Anyone else showing only 3:30 on battery meter, but still get about 5hours???
Yeah, I get that. Sometimes I get like 5:56, but for the most part the meter says 3:30
Here is some info that I saw during boot. I see this when the –v –f are used. I saw something about this in the Insanely Mac forum.
[AttansicL1Ethernet] Error: Mac address through EEPROM is invalid
[AttansicL1Ethernet] Error: Mac address through SPI is invalid
Just above these two lines it said Extension “ru.Applelife.AttansicL1Ethernet” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernal and com.apple.kpl components; use only one style.
I haven’t seen anything during boot talking about the wireless.
I had already tried the driver from this link Post # 32 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=140907&st=20
After that I started seeing a Mac address instead of the info above. I connected the ethernet cable but nothin no DHCP or manual setting worked. So I took off the flags -v and -f but still had the ethernet cable conneted. I went back into Network and bam my Bluetooth Pan showed greenand connected. I was DHCP got a ip and all from the router. I did mistakenly disconnect it once and connected it back and it reconnected fine. Haven’t tried a rebbot yet. I will post again after I enjoy alittle sufing first. Here is a link to a screen capture. http://s627.photobucket.com/albums/tt355/donnellbullock/?action=view¤t=BloothoothPan.jpg
I like to here the feed back.
I forgot to add that I didn’t get the Bluetooth Pan untill I tried to connect my cellphone. It’s a HTC 8525 and I use it to connect my other laptop which has Vista on it to the internet through the Windows Mobile Internet Connection sharing. So I though why not try it with the Mac to see if it would connect to the phone via Bluetooth and get on the internet. Well they would connect but the shortly after the Bluetooth would get turned off. I guess this is why.
Ethernet works like a charm! I even did a software update (which also worked!). My replacement wifi card came over the weekend, so I’m gonna swap those out tomorrow. By this time tomorrow night, I may have a fuly, completely working OS X netbook!!!
Apple Airport (broadcom) card arrived today, will probably install it tonight after work. Anyone have a linky to a WinXP driver for it, or can I probably extract the bootcamp windows driver for it(From my MBP Leo CD)? Anyway, just thought I’d ask. I’m more interested in its use under ideneb, but that should be just plug and play. I also nuked my iDeneb over the weekend and then installed Xp first, then Acronis boot selector, then iDeneb 1.3 again, then reactivated the Acronis boot selector. Just wanted to tell if case anyone was interested….Originally I was just running iDeneb, but decided to start over and dual boot instead.
My Apple wireless card showed up today. I installed it, fired up OSX and Voila, there it was in Airport. It shows up as a plain old Airport card. Took about 15 minutes to tear down the laptop, install the card, reboot and finally cruising the web with wireless on my 1000HE. Here’s the ebay link I got the card from: http://tinyurl.com/dzf6sa
I downloaded the newest spark, and that got my volume keys working, although I have to assign the ctrl key, not the FN key.
Any suggestions on how to turn the fan down a notch? eeectl in XP enables this function.
Thanks to scn for putting this guide together!
I had a significantly harder time opening up mine, but my wireless card is now in & I’m surfing happily from my bedroom. Broadcom card that shows up as airport extreme. This coupled with the working ethernet driver gives me a complete OS X netbook!
got it installed, put back together, wont boot. Quick flash of the power light then dead. What could cause this anyone???
osxtasy: Did you disconnect the LCD cables and the computer is really running? OR is it truly not turning on? I would re-verify connections. I can’t think of anything you could have done. Static could have caused it of course but you would have noticed.
Is the wifi replacement process pretty consistent with the teardown guide that is posted earlier in the comments? Any surprises? I like the 15 minutes from John, but am concerned about the “significantly harder” comment by evilscientist. Evilscientist, what about your install was harder?
I’m terrified by osxtasy’s report, of course.
got it back running. Evidently has the Webcam and that other cable (on the right side beneath the hinges)connector reversed. Now trying to find an XP driver. Also OSX picks it up, but I cant turn it on (all boot options off already). I click on the turn airport on (button in OSX) but it wont turn on. However when it first boots into OSX its on, but not scanning finding anything
I love computers….LOL
can someone point me to a XP driver for this dam card, I’ve tried 4 so far and NO go or I got a bad card. Its a BCM94321MC
thank you
shit, guess I’ll go to bed, gettin late. I really need that XP ddriver guys so I can test if this card is just bad, or I just keep getting bad/wrong drivers….
Anybody got hibernate working?
Also, password on screen saver/wake seems to be broken! Anybody know a way to fix it?
thank you!
@pwm8: The teardown guide doesn’t actually go all the way through the process; you’ve still got to remove cables and screws in order to get the mobo completely out of the case. On my machine, I also wrestled with removing the upper casing (step 11 in the teardown guide), even after removing the requisite screws. I dunno how the teardown guide writer got his case off that way. Mine I had to pull fairly hard. But YMMV, as they say. After the mobo is free, it’s a cakewalk, but it was a lot more difficult than I expected & took me over a half hour.
@osxtasy: have you tried this: http://www.getpcmemory.com/drivers/download-broadcom-wireless-80211bg-bcm943xx-driver-41021556-whql-for-windows-xp-vista/? I’m not running windows on mine, so I have no idea if these drivers will actually work, but they say that your card is supported.
@Freddy: My hibernate works, as does my password on wake. I’d make sure you’ve got all the right kexts installed.
well did a fresh reload of iDeneb this morning, and card does not show up. The light is on however. Is it necessary to choose the Broadcom driver during the install customization???
@osxtasy
Did you try diabling off the bootbooster option in BIOS?
That was don as soon as I got the netbook, because I nuked the hard disk. I have triple checked, and yea it is disabled.
Hey, anyone wanna buy a netbook (works fine) with 3 wireless cards(1 usb)and 2 internal. First $200.00 takes it!!!
those drivers were 64 bit…
OK FROCK!!! I FINALLY found a driver…UGH! Anyway, well looks like the card is fine, as it’s working great in XP, although it connects to networks slower than the stock card. Anyway, guess I’ll put the iDeneb 80giger back in and see what happens again.
Only 802.11b right now, but at least its running. I dont know why its so hard to find a draft n XP driver for this card, but oh well, at least now I know I didnt fubar anything.
John, I really wish you had of stated your diver was on the ebay website. I never even checked the link because I had already ordered my card. Long story short, the driver your seller provided(http://tinyurl.com/dzf6sa) works perfectly in XP, now I have full 54 plus N speed. Thats what i get for staying up all night trying to fix this thing I guess…LOL.
Thanks for listening to my ranting guys… Gonna swap iDeneb drive back in now and keep fingers crossed…
In ideneb, is anyone else getting airport not configured, but its seen fine in system progiler. It even has the turn airport on button, but it never turns on? Maybe I should reinstall and install the broadcom driver on the ideneb 1.3 disc???
Any suggestions???
I also havnt installed any of the kexts yet in this install, so would that make a difference?? The ralink utility is also missing since I installed the airport card.
Just tried to boot from iDeneb 1.4 and it worked. It would reboot before when i tried it (before I put in the airporrt card) I also selected the broadcom driver, so stay tuned….
Osxtasy: Before you found the XP drivers what was it doing? I had an issue where the card was discovered I installed drivers but it would not find any wireless networks. Just wondering if that was your same issue?
It would show a “bang” in system harware properties, and say the driver install had failed. It would’nt even attempt to work, just the light was on indicating it was functional. I was worried I had screwed up the install/ or ESD’d it(broke it) which is why I was freaking out so bad.
Update: ideneb 1.4 installed great, but no boot still. Gets stuck on boot at frameworks. Going back to 1.3 with broadcom driver install this time….
another long night…why cant i leave this stuff alone?????
Damn you guys, I just ordered one of those wireless cards off eBay (same one as John linked to), and now I guess I’ll be next to attempt this.
Any tips to make the actualy wireless card replacement simpler? I know about the guide, but what else do you have to do after you reach the end of the guide? Take off the motherboard screws, lift it up gently, replace the card, and reassemble?
I think we need a better forum besides comments on this page, but its like the 3rd result in google!
For you guys who need a better teardown-guide to swap the wireless card, i have a good find for you
The guide is for installing a touchscreen, but the process is exactly the same, it shows you how to remove the motherboard from the case!
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTfA0Zyqnbo
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogVEImEZaM0
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008D8X-vVls
Good luck!
@Guy: You’ve got to remove screws from underneath the hinges, so that the LCD panel comes free & then you can take out the mobo & turn it over to get to the wireless card. The wireless is easy to replace after that. Then you just have to ut it all back together. As someone else suggested muuuch earlier in this thread, taking photos as you go is probably a good idea, so you can remind yourself what things are supposed to look like.
Well, got ideneb 1.3 reinstalled(also selected broadcom driver), boots fine. Shows airport icon with bars at first, then when I click on it it shows scanning (just like my MBP). Unfortunately, it then loses all bars(never found networks anyway). It then just shows the icon. So I go to network pref, and click on the airport icon, and it says New airport discovered, please configure and click apply. I try to click the turn airport on gui button, but it wont com on.
I’m all out of Ideas, but I know the card obviously works, so what is the problem?? Should I go ahead and load all of the kexts/powermanagement/video/etc first?? Or am I just screwed? I’ll be really ticked that I went thru all this and still have to settle with no onboard wireless working….
uhh, HELP??
P.S.-you guys rock!
John, did you already have everything installed(all kexts/etc) when you put in your Airport card?