Asus 1008HA with Snow Leopard Fresh Installation (Updated)

[apdg]

Thanks for putting together such a thorough guide ikeny. It has been indispensable on my own 1008 project. I'll be doing another cleaner installation when my wireless card arrives and I have the drive out but for the time being I have everything working pretty well with the exception of power management.

I'm trying to work out if VoodooPowerMini.kext is doing its thing. I'm getting somewhere between 2 and 3 hours of battery life which seems low. It appears that the processor, fan and hard drive are all working harder than they need to. The case below the processor is warm while idle. And there are two distinct hums, one from the fan and one from the HD, at all times. Maybe it's normal for the fan to run all the time but I'm sure the HD can spin down when the machine is idle.

I haven't found anyone else complaining of the same issues which I don't quite get. Usually I find someone else has already asked all my questions. Is this behaviour the same as others are seeing or have I buggered something up?

Edit: Forgot to mention what the battery meter is doing. Starts off up around 8 to 10 hours then drops by exponentially smaller increments over the duration of the battery. It never really gives a good approximation until the last 20 minutes or so.

[ikeny]

To see the cpu throttle, google for an app called cpu-x. I'm getting 2-4 hours of battery life on my 1008. I don't think anyone can get the advertised 6 hours battery life when running OS X.

[apdg]

Awesome, thanks for pointing me in that direction. I figured 6 hours was unrealistic, I'd be more than satisfied with 4ish.

Out of curiosity, do you find that your HD is always spinning? Just wanted to see if that's expected behaviour or something I should be trying to fix.

[dizzuncan]

Hey thanks again for the great guide. Did you happen to have a working power button? I have a 1005ha, which might be the problem, but if you did anything special to get yours working, please let me know. Thanks!

[tommitls]

thanks for this great tutorial, i got my 1008ha all hooked up! now i'm waiting for the wireless card from ebay and i should be all set. thanks again ikeny!

[ikeny]

@dizzuncan - Power button never worked in powering off the computer. It of course works for power on the unit.

@tommitis - be very careful in opening up the case of the 1008 to get inside. Make sure you switch off the tiny switch under the keyboard before you touch anything inside. Google for "1008HA, RAM upgrade, won't turn on". Many fried their computer after RAM upgrade.

[The Spirit]

thanks for this great guide.
i have one problem with point 6 under C.
when i run the netbookinstaller it allways hangs during "regenerating DSDT.aml".
how can i solve this issue?
or another thing i have in mind, which things to i need to have checked within the netbookinstaller prog?
thanks

edit: one more thing:
everything works fine now
thanks for the great guide again

[kenhoho]

Quick note about 10.6.2 update:

I tried the two methods currently available:
- patched 10.6.2 mach_kernel
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3569&start=10#p24937

- netbookInstaller 0.8.3 (RC 4) with vanilla 10.6.2
http://www.meklort.com/?p=111

Both were successful, but bluetooth was lost. Nothing is recognized in System Profiler.
I will update when I find out more.

Just an update on the thread for those of you who use 1005ha for SL Hackintosh:
- I have been using 1005ha (N280 Atom) Hackintosh and have found no problems with sleep whatsoever, even without the backlight after sleep fix. So, those of you intending to install 10.6 on Hackintosh, you needn't worry about Step (F) on iKeny's Guide.

- Many of you have problems with updating from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. Well, good news is that the new NBI 0.8.3 RC5 and Final Release will now patch the 10.6.2 kernel automatically, with a 99% Mac-Like Bootloader. Contrary to what iKeny have posted before, Bluetooth works after NBI 0.8.3 patching on a 1005ha-h.

(iKeny's guide only covers NBI RC4 - a buggy release of NBI)

- However, the patching is not without its drawbacks. For starters, the machine would need to be forced to shutdown when SL powers-off if you use an older BIOS version. With a new updated BIOS as at Jan 2010 from ASUS, the problem persists periodically only. So update your BIOS from Windows before you attempt to install SL with NBI 0.8.3.
(I found that when SL powers down, if you give the power button on the netbook a press when it shows the light blue shtdown screen, the system will power down (new BIOS only).

For those of you who already have an exisitng 10.6.1 install:
- Check out osx.mechdrew.com for a guide about backing-up and restoring your Hackintosh install using OSX Disk Utility or Time Machine.
- Once you have backed-up your Netbook, install the new bootloader on Hackintosh with NBI 0.8.3 (RC5 or above)
- Restart and update system to 10.6.2, then boot into OSX installer (using NBI Bootmaker 0.8.3)
- Install Bootloader again using NBI 0.8.3 from installer/ Make sure you check the bootloader and "General Extensions" - don't check "generate system specificdsdt.aml", otherwise it will freeze up.
- Restart and install kexts listed in iKeny's guide - Don't worry if your system doesn't power-off ofter shutdown. As you install the kexts, you will find the problem will disappear or at least only occur periodically if you have installed the new BIOS from ASUS.

[kenhoho]

Check out the kext pack from Jack of Queen's Eee PC blog...

http://maceee.blogspot.com/2010/02/snow ... opard.html

I still think iKeny's post beat anyone else's 1005/8ha guides so far...

[redondo5]

Firstly, I think i may have stumbled across a fix for the ethernet port... it's pure coincidence but while i was installing a package to tether my iphone to the 1008ha... i was installing a package called PDANET ...the file was downloaded from their website: PdaNetSetup110.pkg

when completing the installation it came up with a message saying its picked up ethernet port... i didn't try it but i get the yellow light with a new eth1 port shown in network settings.

Secondly... i would like to know how some people got the about apple screen to show actual processor type... like Intel Atom? mine just shows basic 1.67 Unknown ...i'm on 10.6.1 btw