Moderators Jake Lo Posted January 15, 2019 Moderators Share Posted January 15, 2019 DW1510 will work fine on this system, no need to rebrand. Just use FakePCIID.kext + FakePCIID_Broadcom_WiFi.kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.bowman9215 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 @Jake Lo thanks for the info, I'm using a tp-link usb Wi-Fi nano wifi card for now but I think I'm gonna order the DW1510 and get it installed. For anyone interested in a USB Wi-Fi card that works in Mojave(I couldn't find a manufacturer that would guarantee it). I have the TP-Link TL-WN725N version 3. They cost about 10 bucks, and the driver from their website for 10.13.xxx gets it installed and working just fine. Just be sure to reboot after install. One last issue I'm having(which I didn't know about right away because I didn't want to put any money into this laptop before I got it working well). The battery that was in the machine was completely dead, but I got a new one and now it is only showing that it has charged to 59%. I checked out the settings in the BIOS and all of the charging settings seem to be standard(A11 BIOS). Any ideas? I tried installing the ACPIPOWERMANAGER.kext into S/L/E and had no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted January 16, 2019 Moderators Share Posted January 16, 2019 Does it show the same in the BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eC//FrEaK Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 16 hours ago, jason.bowman9215 said: I checked out the settings in the BIOS and all of the charging settings seem to be standard(A11 BIOS). Why are you on such a low BIOS revision? DELL just released revision A21 a few days ago. I think it would be a good idea to update your BIOS first. You can do this even with a bootable USB drive using FreeDOS. I mainly use RUFUS to create that USB drive. Then put the BIOS executable on the drive, boot it up, run the BIOS executable and flash your BIOS. As @Hervé states below, this maybe not such an good idea.. My fault... 16 hours ago, jason.bowman9215 said: I got a new one Is that new one an original DELL battery, or is it a third party device? Sometimes the electronics of third party batteries doe not send accurate data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.bowman9215 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 @Jake Lo the information on battery percentage in the bios matches what is shown I the OS. This made me think that there could be an issue with my power supply. After looking it over, it seems that it is not an OEM dell power supply but an HP(the output specs match that of a 65W dell). Also, in the BIOS it says that since the system does not recognize the PSU, the system may not work properly. Some backstory on this machine, my friend is a maintenance guy at an apartment complex and it was left in someones apartment that had moved. He grabbed it as he does a lot of things and didn't know how to wipe the OS so he gave it to me. I'm wondering if that's what he battery that was in it was acting like it was dead. I'm going to go test an OEM dell power supply and see if that fixes the issue. @eC//FrEaK From the reading that I had done before turning this into a hackintosh, it seemed that many people had issues if they had a newer bios than the A11 and that's what my machine had on it so I decided to just leave it. I did notice some people on here showing that they have a newer bios version so I could give that a try as well. As for the battery, it is an OEM dell battery but like I told Jake Lo above I think it's the PSU that is the issue. I'll report back after I find out what the issue is. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 16, 2019 Administrators Share Posted January 16, 2019 eC//FrEaK is mistaken on the BIOS matter. Leave it as it is. If you update, you're highly likely to end up with garbled graphics, like other E6x30 models, unless/until you re-patch the raw DSDT of the latest BIOS version like I did for the E6230 (A19). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eC//FrEaK Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 @jason.bowman9215That HP power supply will never really load an DELL battery plugged into a DELL system. Well, usually the BIOS should report to you that you have plugged in at least an "unknown" power supply. In this case the electronics is switched to only power the main system, and to not load the battery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.bowman9215 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Update, I went to goodwill today and got an OEM dell charger. Plugged it in, and it is now charging and the battery percentage is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semaj Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 On 1/13/2019 at 12:59 PM, Hervé said: With regards to Semaj's Clover setup, he's injecting some unnecessary kexts like: VoodooTSCSync GenericUSBXHCI AppleBacklightFixup He's also using slightly outdated Lilu + WEG kexts that should be refreshed to latest versions. Then, his Clover config contains some irrelevant or inappropriate settings such as arch=x86_64, KernelPm patch or injection of Intel graphics + Capri layout-id (not necessary with Lilu + WEG), erroneous CPU PM settings, etc. It would benefit from being clean-up. Eg: E6330_config.plist.zip The Clover setup would also gain from being completed with kexts such as CodecCommander (for audio jack output) and FakePCIID/FakePCIID_XHCIMux to activate USB3/USB2 ports multiplexing. Thanks for the feedback! I grabbed all the kexts from the official repo's. Thought they were the latest. I will remove those extra kexts, I'd like to stay as close to vanilla as possible so very appreciative of your input. I don't know about the CPU PM stuff, I will have a look at my config and the one you posted. I haven't had any real issues with this setup though. Will also look into those extra kexts you mentioned. I thought I had it all complete but I guess I missed some resources about the usb multiplexing and CodecCommander. The jack out works as is audio of HDMI. So not too sure what benefits they will have. As for the bios, I updated mine to the latest and nothing changed. My graphics are only messed up on reboots and shutting down the system. I can totally live with that but will make a new DTSD from scratch like I tried before, this time applying the right usb 3 patches so all ports work, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 17, 2019 Administrators Share Posted January 17, 2019 USB3 ports just require to inject Darwin in DSDT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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