ninjajeff Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Hello everyone. Before I ask my question I would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation for all your impressive and challenging work! I was ecstatic at how easy it was to install OSX Latitude on my 4300. I am wondering what route I have to take to get my wifi (Intel wireless) working. I am thinking that I may have to rebrand it but before I tried that I thought I would try flashing the bios with the 4300 update however, when I boot from my usb key it gives me a "missing operating system" (after installing freedos via unetbootin) Have I overlooked something in order to get my wifi working? Thank you kindly for any assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Intel Wifi dont work in osx... lack of drivers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 28, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 28, 2012 Replace the wifi with a broadcom card .. you can pick one up from ebay quite cheap Make sure that your usb key is MBR and not GUID (many people change it to GUID when installing OSX, and forget to change it back to MBR after done installing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjajeff Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 Replace the wifi with a broadcom card .. you can pick one up from ebay quite cheap Make sure that your usb key is MBR and not GUID (many people change it to GUID when installing OSX, and forget to change it back to MBR after done installing) Thanks for the replies. I will get a Broadcom card. I ensured the USB was set to MBR and not GUID and also tried different USB keys and tried different ways of installing the freedos image etc, all to no avail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 28, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 28, 2012 try making the freedos pen from windows instead... i have a feeling the osx version is buggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjajeff Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 wifi is now working, purchased a Dlink DWA-151 N150 pico usb adaptor and installed the realtek 8188CUS driver for 10.6 located here: http://www.premiertek.net/support/RTL-8188CUS/RTL8188CUS_MacOS10.6.zip will try installing freedos on windows. thanks for the tip. will report findings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjajeff Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 try making the freedos pen from windows instead... i have a feeling the osx version is buggy freedos installed via windows unetbootin and custom bios installed. no issues to report. thanks for the tip. oddly enough the cpu is only reporting 1.81ghz instead of 2ghz. i can live with that though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 28, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 28, 2012 actually, thats just cosmetics.. if you run a xbench test you will see that you still get full performance.. you can correct it by mnodifying smbios.plist in /Extra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjajeff Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 actually, thats just cosmetics.. if you run a xbench test you will see that you still get full performance.. you can correct it by mnodifying smbios.plist in /Extra yikes, only a score of 65.36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 28, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 28, 2012 post your results here.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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