• Hackintosh problems.
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So I hackintoshed my laptop with a friend's SL disc and Nawcom's BootCD. Installed flawlessly, but after doing some research and troubleshooting of my own, I am still having some problems. First of all, and likely the most important, is that I don't have any network cards showing up. Not my onboard ethernet, nor my wireless card. I understand why the wireless card won't work, as from what I can tell the 3945ABG doesn't have a fully-functional driver yet, but I can't find out the model of my onboard ethernet. I think it's a Maxwell something or other, but I can't pull anything conclusive from any online sources. So if you can help me in that regard, the model number for my laptop is: VGN-C150P USB works, so getting kexts to and from won't be an issue. My next issue is the sound. It works. It does work. But it has some unexpected side effects. Like a very, VERY annoying, loud, high pitched sound. Which is caused by reverb from my microphone and speakers, but when I turn the mic off in the VoodooHDA app, it won't save the changes for the next reboot. So I'm left for 30 seconds as I turn it off again. Next thing is problems with changes my Com.apple.iboot.plist not showing up. I'm 100% positive I'm doing things right. I want the legacy apple logo as opposed to Chameleon's, so I do the string and key shit in the plist, as correct as I can tell, double-checked by a quick google... and the changes don't show up. Neither does my "Graphics Mode=1280x800x32" either. I can enter it in the Chameleon bootup screen, but the changes don't apply after it loads the graphics kext. Which leads me to believe, I need a new kext for my graphics card, which is a GMA945. I can research that, but I wanna double check that I'm not doing anything wrong in the plist. Finally, it won't boot at all unless I do cpus=1. Any fix for that? I can't find any. Thanks in advance!
Presume it's a Marvell, not a Maxwell. Google for Marvell Yukon OS X drivers.
Marvell, yes. I just used PDANet until I can get my hands on a real mini-pcie network adapter. What's one that will work OOB on SL? I've not found any conclusive results by googling.
Anything that shipped in a Macbook or Macbook Pro should be fine. Quite a few Broadcom ones. BCM4312 rings a bell but double check it.
Yeah I was on Ebay and i was thinking about getting one for like $15. Maybe I'd have a wifi adapter for my craptop too!
[QUOTE=Protocol7;30459467]Yeah I was on Ebay and i was thinking about getting one for like $15. Maybe I'd have a wifi adapter for my craptop too![/QUOTE] I found some Broadcom adapter online for $20. Wish I could remember the model name. It wouldn't be a bad buy anyway, since it would upgrade my old laptop to Wireless N. With a new battery, I could breathe some usefulness into this perfectly fine old Core2Duo.
[QUOTE=Demache;30494700]I found some Broadcom adapter online for $20. Wish I could remember the model name. It wouldn't be a bad buy anyway, since it would upgrade my old laptop to Wireless N. With a new battery, I could breathe some usefulness into this perfectly fine old Core2Duo.[/QUOTE] My old laptop is 1.8GHz AMD Athlon or something. Doesn't support ACPI. :v:
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