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Newbie Questions - E7240 with i7-4600U


LaMosca

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Dell Latitude e7240 with i7-4600U, 16GB RAM, 512GB Samsung 860 EVO, Dell DW1550 WiFi/BT card.

 

Followed all the guides as best I can to install macOS 10.4.3 (including supplement) and most all is good.

 

I have the kexts installed (I believe per the guide) to EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other (except for CodecCommander.kext and DisableTurboBoostBattery_2.3.kext which were copied to /Library/Extensions). The trackpad works, but nearly all the time, the Trackpad Pref Pane indicates "No trackpad found."

 

One question I have after reading more, I'm wondering if some/most/all of the kexts should be moved to /Library/Extensions? This guide indicates "Copy FakeSMC and only critical kext's needed to run the MacOS Installer, Updater or Recovery to EFI/Clover/kexts/Other" - which ones are considered critical for Installer/Updater/Recovery?

 

To enable my new WiFi/BT card (Dell DW1550), I need some additional kexts (AirportBrcmFixup.kext, BrcmPatchRAM2.kext, BrcmFirmwareRepo.kext) ... these should go to /Library/Extensions, correct?

 

I'm also not sure yet if the battery indicator is correct. Is the fix for that part of the guide (and thus would already be in place if I did it correctly) or is there something additional I need to do?

 

Thanks in advance for any help/guidance.

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For your laptop - FakeSMC, Liu, USBports, and trackpad kexts can be in the OTHER folder. Make sure that you are using DETECT mode in the clover, which let the OSX to load Kexts from the L/E first. 

 

As the guide states all of the third party kexts should be in LE. Also use the method mentioned in the guide to install kexts rather just copy and paste.

 

 

 

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" using DETECT mode in the clover, which let the OSX to load Kexts from the L/E first. "

 

That is not completely correct.

"Detect" will only work for detecting fakesmc in L/E and if so then load. clover is hard coded to first pull from "Other" folder

best option is to use "Inject"

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