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.
ok guys all kexts/files installed. Still wireless icon seen but will not see any networks (even if I manually input) and will not work with “turn on” gui button.
HELP!! Can anyone maybe get me a kext for this or something. The airport card once again is a BCM94321MC, and works fine in Windows XP, so I know the card is good.
and by the way, I have a MBP here(coreduo 2 ghz) if I need to copy a file from it(running 10.5.6), I just dont know where from….
At least can anyone tell me where to find that ralink utility (the one that was installing originally when i was using my Dlink usb adapter)? It has the little airport icon. It for some reason no longer installs now that I have this piece of crap airport card installed. If I can at least reinstall that utility, I can at least get wireless over my usb adapter. I am so freaking pissed that I spent money on this dam Airport card when I was working fine with the usb one….
Received my Broadcom BCM4321 card today from Hong Kong (ordered March 5). After staring at it for a couple of hours, I gathered up my courage and broke into the 1000HE, following the teardown guide and then the Youtubes posted earlier. For anyone trying this, part 2 is the one you want to watch carefully-it shows where all the hidden/extra screws are, and the cables you have to disconnect.
Obviously, since I’m posting, I can report total success. I am posting from my 1000HE on OS X with an airport symbol in my top bar. Post-install was a bit tricky, so here are all my steps. First boot after installing the card, I got nothing at all regarding airport-just a standard boot into OSX. No symbol, no indication it was installed at all. In fact, during the first startup, System Profiler said no PCI card at all (just like it did with the old Atheros card installed). At this point, Im just happy its booting up and I got all the parts back together correctly.
So, I booted into XP, installed the XP drivers for the Broadcom card-no problem at all there-and did some searching for a Kext. Found AppleAirportbcm4311.kext on InsanelyMac, downloaded it. I went into BIOS and disabled the Boot Booster and then restarted in OSX. Literally, before I had a chance to even load up KextHelper, I noticed the airport symbol in the menu bar. I clicked on it, turned airport on. It gave me a message about configuring the airport in System Preferences. I went to System Preferences/Network, Airport. Tried to connect to my network. Entered my password literally about a hundred times, and got “connection failed” each time. Well, now Im getting a bit irritated after getting this close. So I close the password window, hit “Apply” then rescan networks, connect again, enter password, and BOOM. Connection. All is well.
So, two lessons. Boot up twice before getting worried, and disable Boot Booster in BIOS. Im not sure if it was the reboot or the disabling boot booster that did it. Second lesson is don’t just try to join your network right away, hit Apply in System Preferences/Network/Airport first-that must confirm to OS X that your airport is on and working. Then and only then, join your network and enter password.
Hope this helps someone else. Again my card is BCM4321 (doesn’t have the ’9′ in it like some others on here. Got it on ebay. I’ll post the link if anyone wants it. Also, I have some pics of the teardown, not sure how good they are. I’ll try to post them after I look at them to see if they are any good. I started out taking a bunch of pictures, but got wrapped up in assembly when I hit the mobo so I kind of forgot to keep taking pics.
Excellent work pwm8! I’m excited to see someone having great success on here. I guess now i have to suck it up and buy the BCM4321. We’d love to see the link to your card as well as photos. :-\
@kadave: Thanks. Here is the link to the card I bought-looks like this seller has these for sale consistently. http://tinyurl.com/d2jsf9
The number BCM4321 is what is listed on the ebay page, there was nothing on the card itself that matched this exactly. The XP driver is downloadable from the ebay listing page. This card could easily be the same one that EvilScientist and John are using-the seller did not list it with the “9″ in the number. Here’s the whole info on the card from System Profiler/Airport Card: Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0×88); Wireless Card Locale: Worldwide; Wireless Card Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.38.27)
One drawback is the card took 20 calendar days to arrive from HK (this is noted in the ebay listing, so I expected it.)
Just a few other notes, now that I have slept a few hours.
1.Be aware that if you do this you’ll probably void the warranty unless you are super careful. The author of the teardown guide was able to massage the warranty sticker off without tearing it, but mine ripped in half basically the minute I touched it.
2. I went ahead and disconnected all the cables from the Mobo just like shown in the Youtube guide Part 2. Im not sure if this is totally necessary, but I did it just to be safe. Make sure you remember where each goes.
3. My upper casing came off easily as opposed to EvilScientist’s experience. Seems like a huge YMMV as he stated. Be careful of the cable that is hooked to the mobo when you take off the upper casing, and be sure you follow the teardown guide by going left to right when removing the upper casing.
4. Use separate bowls or containers for all screws taken off in a particular step-and put the bowls in order from first to last so you can work backward when you put it back together. I kept all the screws in separate piles, but its easy to get confused in the heat of the moment.
5. Im not sure if you have to take the Hard Drive out to do this. I did because its easy. No ill effects.
6. Dont force the mobo when its time to lift it up. If it doesn’t come easily, odds are there’s another screw somewhere you forgot to take out. I thought mine was sticking on the VGA port, but it turns out I forgot to undo a screw in that area. No harm done, but make sure you get them all and the mobo should lift right out.
Final thoughts-I really am glad I decided to do this switch. Its so much nicer than the USB solution. Im looking at the pics now and will post some of them when I can-I’m not sure how helpful they will be.
Sorry-error in #3 above-you need to work right to left when taking off the upper casing the cable is hooked to the mobo on the left side as you look at the 1000HE.
Congrats pwm8, wish I had that kind of luck. I’ve had to go back to the USB adapter, as it appears my card is unsupported. Worst part, is I can believe that I just went thru all that hell to install it, and I’m not sure I can bring myself to do it again. I’m afraid I might tempt fate and break something this time. To me the keyboard is the hardest part to take off. Those tabs are so small and flimsy.
pwm8, can I get that kext(AppleAirportbcm4311.kext ) from you just in case???A link or something??
The card that I got appears to be the same card as pwm8; my System Profiler has the same info listed for it (Wireless Card Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.38.27)). I’ll see what kext I have on my machine & report back later.
osxtasy, since you’re basically down to just trying things to see if they work, here’s a work-around that’s worked for a few folks having Airport problems: “The cure was to delete in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration the following files: com.apple.airport.preferences.plist, com.apple.network.identification.plist and preferences.plist and reboot. After reboot I had to recreate all my Network Locations that I had previously configured, but Airport now works flawlessly.” (from http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/leopard/topic4834.html; scroll down to the Mike Wallace quote) I’ve done this with actual Macs to get them to connect after the infamous 10.5.6 update.
Hope it helps
@osxtasy, check this link. http://drop.io/oezduxj
ALso try this one: http://www.4shared.com/dir/7229561/b42cfc17/sharing.html (I cant verify its there as it is blocked for me at work)
Hey, thanks for this Guide. I just spent the last couple hours doing it, and following the guide made it pretty simple, no real speed bumps to speak of! Only think that’s not working is my wireless, but I already have a new card coming, so it’s only a matter of time.
I thought Windows 7 ran good on this bad boy, OS X runs even smoother!
I would love to know how the trackpad works in OSX? I have been following the community for a while now, and what i know is that 1000HE has the Elantech trackpad, with multitouch features (at least in XP). But how does it work in OSX? And what multitouch features is functional? Scrolling? Is it customizable in settings?
Give me everything you have guys! Releasedate is near now here in Sweden
JoQ, its partially working. I can confirm that two finger scrolling works in OSX-I have tried in both Safari and Adobe Reader. Three finger touch is the equivalent of a right-click (brings up a menu specific to the document or app you are working in).
The pinch and expand gestures have no effect in OS X that I have seen.
Okey, that’s a start. Let’s hope someone develops drivers for it, so we can customize. I would love to have like two finger tap=right click, and three finger swipe for Exposé-functions.
Pinch and such are just cool features, not that usable, but it would be great ofcourse!
Anyone else have some progress to share?
JoQ,
A quick Google search didn’t give me any information about progress for the trackpad in OS X. However, after all the work it took to get all the other hardware working, I was presently surprised when 2 fingers is either scroll or middle click, and 3 is right click! I didn’t expect multi-touch to work at all.
@osxtasy, i posted a link earlier to the kext but it says comment awaiting moderation. There must be a prohibition against posting links to sharing sites. Search insanelymac forum to find it-its not buried too deeply in there.
My airport card shows an older firmware that you guys.
It shows: Airport Extreme (0x14E4, 0×87)
Wireless Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.170.25.8)
hmm….any ideas??? Well we know its got the “9″ in front but wonder if the firmware can be flashed…LOL??
@osxtacy: with your USB network card attached, have you tried doing a software update?
osxtasy, first off i assume you have the Airport update? And you have tried going into bios and deactivate + activate wifi before you boot?
JoQ, that would be correct. I’ve even deleted the extensions mentioned above and rebooted. And although once rebooted, it looks as if its gonna work (grayed out bars in the airport icon), as soon as I go into network pref panel and single click on the Airport icon (which says on), it immediately turns off before I can even add my network.
anyone been crazy enough to do the 10.6 update (DELTA) yet?
Anyone else having problems getting the ethernet driver to obtain an IP from DCHP? I was able to put the IP in manually, but it wouldn’t work until I restarted, then everything worked fine. Also, if the computer goes to sleep, the ethernet won’t work anymore until a reboot.
Is this normal?
Whoa, site changed!
Anyway, I upgraded to iDeneb 10.5.6, and my video stopped working correctly, so I redid all of the kexts in the kexts folder in the post install tools. From what I can tell, everything else is working properly.
My question is, did I need to reinstall the kexts? Anyone else have the problem of the video not working after upgrading to 10.5.6? Is there anything else in the post-installation process that I should re-do? Thanks!
Hi,
I tried installing a retail copy of 10.5.6 with the boot132 cd from eeemac.blogspot.com on a 1000he. The installation stops at
“using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers”.
Anyone knows what can be done here. I looked around and there are solutions for iDeneb or kalway. I want to try using the retail dvd. My BIOS version is 0605 (it came with it)
Thanks for any help.
Hey Guy, how did you do that update? Is there an ISO out there already? I havent looked in a while….
Care to give any specifics….
Let’s talk Time Machine. Does anyone have it working now that the new Ethernet kext is up? Mine still gives me an error that the built-in networking interface is not found. I am hooked up to ethernet hardwired and pulling a valid IP-I can connect to the internet through it. Obviously the new ethernet kext doesn’t give Time Machine what its looking for-is there anything else to do?
I found the explanation earlier in this thread about time machine but I’m a bit confused on it. Messing with EFIStudio makes me worried-last time I did that I screwed up my install.
I don’t even use TimeMachine on my real macs, I always used CCC or SuperDuper as they are battle tested in this area. Unfortunately, I dont think anyone has tested CCC or SD on these 1000HE’s yet.
Ok, tried the EFIStudio Fix in this comment from March 12 by Shy:
Shy
March 12th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Thanks, the solution is to:
- Launch EFIStudio; in the “Device” area, click on the field were it says “Display” and change it to “Ethernet”
- Click on “Add Device” button below and in the new Editor window click on the “Write to com.apple.Boot.plist” button
- Enter you password, close the program and reboot
It will not let me “Add Device”…… By the way the Airport card shows as en0.
I tried that fix, it didn’t work. I also deleted my USB Wireless from System Preferences/Network which was showing up as en0. That didn’t work either…perhaps because wired Ethernet is still showing as en1. Then I manually changed the name of Ethernet Adaptor (en1) to Ethernet Adaptor (en0). Reboot. No luck-same time machine error although not Ethernet Adaptor (en0) shows up and works fine. Run EFIStudio fix again. Reboot. Same error.
I’m out of ideas now. Only other idea I have is to reinstall the ethernet kext, so I’ll try that next. It may just be one of those things we have to live with (frankly, Time Machine isn’t that big of a deal for me as I don’t plan on keeping much data on my 1000HE), but it seems fixable. I’ll keep plugging away on it. If anyone has Time Machine working, please let me know what you did.
Time Machine fixed- here’s what I did in terminal. There may be an easier way:
http://blog.marxy.org/2008/12/time-machine-requires-built-in-network.html
YMMV. Worked first time for me. Be sure you get the whole command line as it runs off the page on this blog-I had to view the html to get the whole thing.
Also found this on the Apple site which looks like basically the same thing (Scroll to the bottom of the page for the exact error message).
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275
Backing up now.
@Sridhar: You can’t use a vanilla retail OS X Leopard disk to install. You *must*—so far, use iDeneb 10.5.5 (then you can use iDeneb 10.5.6 updater). For iDeneb install instructions, scroll all the way up to the top & work your way down
osxtasy,
I got the iDeneb 10.5.6 update from here:
http://www.ihackintosh.net/en/download?task=viewcategory&catid=3
Like I said in my post, I had redo the “Video and miscellaneous support files” step again, which is installing all those kexts with the kextHelper.
In case anyone is looking for the ethernet driver, some kind soul on InsanelyMac made an installer package for it (for OS X 10.5.6): http://files.me.com/bno2005/km5z9e
So need some help. I got the ethernet working off of the insanelymac forums. Everything is fine and I do a system update. Everything runs and it tells me to reboot. Once I do it boots up and comes back to the same exact screen saying I need to reboot. It is a screen with multiple languages and I am told it is a Kernel Panic. Any ideas? I know others updated to the new update with no problem. I thought I had seen someone with a similar problem but with the site redesign I cannot find it. Thanks!
Hey Guys,
Got my wireless card in the mail today, it took me about an hour to tear it down and put it back together. Enabled the card in the BIOS, and right on boot OSX detected a new airport card. I used the same card most other people got here (BCM94321).
Using the videos here:
http://smallcomputing.net/2009/02/25/how-to-install-os-x-on-asus-eee-pc-1000he-netbook/comment-page-4/#comment-1263
And the teardown guide here:
http://jenders.vox.com/library/post/asus-eeepc-1000he-teardown-guide.html
It all went pretty smoothly! Had a little trouble getting the antenna’s off an on, but you just gotta pop em and push em, don’t be all careful about it.
Alright, I bit the bullet and installed iDeneb 1.3. Thanks, @evilscientist. I was at the DSDT application step for the two “cores” showing up in profiler and followed what Chewy did with the boot.plist file and now my mac keeps rebooting.
What do I do now? I am trying to access the mac partition and revert the cpus -1 back (using Macdrive from windows).
Ok, I reverted the boot.plist with the cpus=1 and it came back alright except for a small glitch in the trackpad. My question is this. In removing the cpus=1 should I remove the entire line along with the -f flag?
Also, how do you guys change the brightness of the display? My display is stuck at full bright and was wondering if there was any specific key combo. I tried all the function keys. The displays pane doesn’t show a brightness slider.
Thanks all of you for putting this together.
I just have to get the wifi and if possible get the broadcom card.
@Sridhar, brightness is controlled by Fn+F5 (lower brightness) or Fn+F6 (more brightness). Its the one exception I am aware of where the Fn key actually has an effect in OS X.
Thanks @pwm8. I realized there was a second more recent AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext file available. I put that in using the kext helper and rebooted and brightness keys works like a charm.
What does the DSDT patch do? For that matter, what does DSDT even stand for? I have PC EVIv9 installed and also installed the iDeneb 10.5.6 update. Will I see better performance with the DSDT patch?
A DSDT is a Differentiated System Description Table, (from this page. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DSDT ). It supplies configuration information about a base system. like when fans run, screen shuts off when lid closes etc… From @Chewy’s comment two pages ago, I tried to get both cores working (I guess in this case, hyperthreading )
……….
“Actually found another method using DSDT patching to get both cores working without touching the BIOS. In system profiler it will still show as 1 core, but if you open up GenericCPUPowerManagement application from Superhai both cores will show there.
Grab the DSDT Patcher GUI from:
http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=48
Check all three patch options (Force Compile, New HPET, Apply DSDT to), chose Windows XP, and chose your volume.
I got an error when I did it, but it still seemed to work.”
…………..
It didn’t work for me, as to better performance YMMV.
So weird that my wirelss Airport card wont work(BCM94321), and everyone elses does… LOL
Can someone else with working unit give me this infor from profiler? i must have gotten a different firmware version. Here is mine again:
Airport Extreme (0×14E4, 0×87)
Wireless Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.170.25.8)
I’ve had to go back to my Dlink USB wireless adapter obviously..
Thanks for a great tutorial… I now have a Asus 1002ha eeeMac. Yes, these steps work for the 1002ha as well. The only issue I have of course is the wireless card. I need one that will work with XP and OS X, not sure if Apple’s Airport card works in XP?
ALSO: Good news for those 1002ha owners. The wireless card is under the memory cover – no need to pull everything apart. A couple screws to remove and that’s it. I hope
Hi everyone. I’m trying to install iDeneb 1.3 and went in the custom setup, I get a Kernel Panic of “unsupported CPU” and a message about powermanagement after getting a successfuly installed message. I have tried so many times with different options (mainly in the fix section) but keep getting the same Kernel Panic error. This last time I just chose in the fixes ACPI-Fix and Firewire remove and get a restart at the splash screen. Pretty frustrating as I had no problem installing it on a 1000H
.
I’ve disabled a few things in the BIOS also: Camera, WLAN, Ethernet, bluetooth, Quick boot. Still no difference even enabling these.
I’m using one of those Sata to USB adatpers and have a DVD burner hooked up to it since I don’t have an actual external dvd drive. This wouldn’t be an issue right? I mean, I’ve tried so many options that I don’t know why I’m not getting any iDeneb love
. If someone can give some advice I would greatly appreciate it. Reading that LAN is working has inspired me to get this on my laptop and maybe even installing a wifi card for full airport support 
. Thanks everyone, great tut by the way. Cheers
Quick question everyone, are you partitioning your HDs on your 1000HE and running both Mac OS X and Windows XP (or 7) or is it just OS X that you’re running?
@BabaBooey, I am using a Sata to USB adapter with a dvd burner hooked up to it and it worked for me. I don’t know what to say about the other problems.
@Lightng, I resized my original partitions and installed mac osx on the second partition. I am running both XP and OS X
Yep…running osx and xp on the factory partitions.
@osxtasy:
It does look like my BCM94321 might a newer firmware version. Here is what profiler says:
AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0×87)
Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.38.24)
I don’t know if you can update your firmware or what. I couldn’t find any info on updating firmware, but I did find this. I hope it helps!
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=51725
Thanks for the reply Sridhar, kadave & Guy. So if we follow these steps above how do we select running OS X vs XP on the startup?(sorry in advance if this is such a lame question)