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[rcfa]

I got the Stock WiFi to work:
I Googled for the following string:

Ralink PCI/mPCI/CB (RT2860/RT2790)

and I found a driver for MacOS X Leopard.

I installed it, and rebooted, and then put in my network password, and it worked.
 

I think there are different "stock" cards in use. Mine was an Atheros card.
Anyway, the Apple card works with 802.11[abgn] and the stock card only with 802.11[bgn], in particular it can't use the 5GHz 802.11n version. So just for that alone the upgrade to the original Apple card was worth it, plus it's one less driver to worry about when doing system upgrades...
...still, glad it worked for you!

[myokoyama1]

Sorry for the confusion!!!  I am a noob to OSX86.  I have some experience of Desktop Support for Win98/2000 and also recently (14 months) have adopted Macs.  I am very impressed to hear from you (rcfa) yourself!  Its like meeting a GrandMaster!!

Actually, I have a very unusual configuration, because here in Tokyo I can only get the Japanese version of the eee PC 1000HE.  So, the fact that it works on my little computer is testimony to your great technology.

The Keyboard is mapped to USA keys but the key caps are for Japanese, for example,  Shift-8 should be a ( but it actually produces a *.

Doumo Arigatou for your fabulous work!  Thanks also to LonelyTV for his wonderful guide.

As far as I know, this configuration works entirely, except I have a dialog box with a yield sign and an exclamation mark.  It says

System Extension cannot be used. 
The system extension "/System/Library/Extensions/lspcidrv.kext" was installed improperly and cannot be used.  Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product's vendor for an update.  OK

Mike

[rcfa]

As far as I know, this configuration works entirely, except I have a dialog box with a yield sign and an exclamation mark.  It says

System Extension cannot be used. 
The system extension "/System/Library/Extensions/lspcidrv.kext" was installed improperly and cannot be used.  Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product's vendor for an update.  OK

That extension is not essential. It's only there to help debugging things, since it allows to use the lspci utility, which lists device IDs of installed devices, which is useful to modify existing drivers to match up with the device IDs reported.

Did you install the Apple developer tools? Otherwise, I'm not sure why you get the error, maybe something was messed up in the process of copying the driver, but you can delete the driver and the corresponding tool without consequence for operating the machine.

Alternatively, you can just google for lspci and you should find a download link for that package, and simply reinstall the kernel extension from that. Try here: http://www.x86dev.org/forum/index.php?topic=307.0

People who are trying to hack 10.6 may want to look into this: http://forums.msiwind.net/osx-software/lspci-for-t14320.html

Hope this helps.

[myokoyama1]

That extension is not essential. It's only there to help debugging things, since it allows to use the lspci utility, which lists device IDs of installed devices, which is useful to modify existing drivers to match up with the device IDs reported.

Did you install the Apple developer tools? Otherwise, I'm not sure why you get the error, maybe something was messed up in the process of copying the driver, but you can delete the driver and the corresponding tool without consequence for operating the machine.

Alternatively, you can just google for lspci and you should find a download link for that package, and simply reinstall the kernel extension from that. Try here: http://www.x86dev.org/forum/index.php?topic=307.0

People who are trying to hack 10.6 may want to look into this: http://forums.msiwind.net/osx-software/lspci-for-t14320.html

Hope this helps.

Thanks!  All I did was:
sudo su
rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/lspcidrv.kext
and rebooted, and it worked!!

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" -- Ancient Chinese Proverb

I am wondering, rcfa, if you can tell me how I would go about determining which device driver (do you say kext in the Mac OS environment?) I need to delete or what setting I need to set so as to disable the trackpad?  I say this, because I am so used to resting my palm on my desk when I use my iMac's keyboard, that I would prefer to disable the trackpad because it sends the cursor flying!

If you could let me know how I would go about finding this technology for myself, it would make it easier for me to do enhancements by myself in the future.  I am doing this Mac OSX install not only because this Netbook is cool, and, I am interested in learning to support low-level MacOSX technology.

Thank you again for your answer and your previous posts!!

Mike