S10-3 Snow Leopard tutorial (alternate method)

[five12plus]

No need for a dmg... the USB built using DD worked fine.

When updating to 10.6.5, are you just downloading the 10.6.5 combo update from Apple and installing it, or is it more complicated than that?

Thanks again for sharing all of this!

[treyjazz]

Just installing the combo update from Apple. The only thing special you need to do is have the battery taken out or it will have a kp when it gets to a certain point (probably due to SMC or ACPI). Other than that it installs fine (though it still lies to you about the time left during the whole install ).

[five12plus]

Yes, that worked. I lost access to kb & trackpad, but rerunning NBI fixed it.

[five12plus]

I actually updated to 10.6.6 and it all seems to be working as expected. I currently have it set up triple-booting OS X 10.6.6, Windows 7 Starter, and Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook using Chameleon. Getting the bootloaders to cooperate took some doing, but it's very satisfying to have it working now!

Getting video acceleration and wifi working would be very useful, I have to say. Also, any flash content was hosing Safari, so I uninstalled Flash. I'm assuming that this must be related to video drivers somehow.

[five12plus]

Wow, there's so much conflicting info out there on how to install kext files! I'm a total n00b and still trying to understand how it all fits together.

I copied /Extra/GeneralExtensions/IO80211Family.kext to my desktop and edited Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents/Info.plist to add string pci1434,4727 to the IONameMatch array. What do I do next to "load" the updated kext file? I tried clicking the Install Kexts button in the OSx86 Tools Utility, but the ~/Desktop/IO80211Family.kext file is greyed out when I try to select it.

I don't know if it will work, but it seems worth a shot. 4727 is the device ID that I see when I generate a PCI Device/Vendor ID list using the OSx86 Tools Utility, even though the sticker on the card says BCM94313HMG2L.

[treyjazz]

Wifi cards are very touchy in OSX/SL. It is possible that the card doesn't work at all with the S10-3 -- especially if it is the fullsized mini-PCIe slot -- because the BIOS won't allow it to detect properly. Besides that there are some issues with getting some cards "activated". Many cards will only wake up when they enter a Windows install with the drivers installed so they can actually be used. Check some Ubuntu forums to see if there is any mention of having to copy the ROM from Windows drivers and that will let you know if the card isn't available from booting into just SL but having to reboot from Windows into it.

[mjack]

It will take a while to get booted up but eventually you should be greeted by the OSX install screen
From the menu select Utilities - Disk Utility

I'm stuck here. My keyboard and trackpad don't respond. Any ideas?

Regards,
Michael

[five12plus]

The card works in Ubuntu on my machine.

Michael, are you using the fixed NBI image?

[treyjazz]

@mjack:
What five12plus asked.. Plus make sure you are installing the NBI from the OSX install drive with my patch.

@five12plus:
I didn't know 10.6.6 was available now. Hopefully it will bring about some stability in 3rd party (yet supported) wifi cards.

Also on a side note, since five12plus brought it up, if anyone is going to be installing multiple OSes always go with Windows first -- Vista and Windows 7 absolutely first as the boot manager doesn't get installed if you install XP first. Linux next and OSX at the end just so Chameleon gets control over the partitions properly and can boot up right.

[five12plus]

I wish I understood all this better. I don't really understand the implications of having two active Extensions.mkext files... one in /Extra and one in /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup. I can see from bdmesg that both are loading, and /Extra/Extensions.mkext is loading before /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext.

If IO80211Family.kext is loaded in both, which has precedence?