jadajada Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I am planning to hackintosh a Dell D620. I have access to several. Some have broadcom wi-fi and some have intel wi-fi. Some have intel graphics and some have nvidia graphics. What is the most suitable configuration? Since the wi-fi card is easy to replace I can make sure that I start out with a machine that is as compatible as possible. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madgibbon Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Both nVidia and Intel GPU's are supported. However you should get better performance from the nVidia setup as has dedicated video ram etc. With regards to the Wifi, broadcom is the way to go. The Intel cards tend not to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted March 15, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 15, 2012 Hi jada.. You should go for the broadcom wifi and nvidia graphics. However, make sure the broadcom wifi is supported. Check the wiki section on rebranding broadcom wifi for list of supported model. Furthermore, as the upcoming mountain lion will most likely drop support for intel gma 950 and x3100, you should steer away from those cards and go for nvidia cards. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadajada Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 OK. Up and running. However my wi-fi does not show up. I took the card from a D420 I have, I think it is called DW 1390 or something similar. When I boot up 10.6.0 there's no airport card present. If I put the card back into the D420, also on OSX 10.6.0, it shows up. Can a wi-fi card work in the D420, but not in the D620? This was strange... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipart Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 OK. Up and running. However my wi-fi does not show up. I took the card from a D420 I have, I think it is called DW 1390 or something similar. When I boot up 10.6.0 there's no airport card present. If I put the card back into the D420, also on OSX 10.6.0, it shows up. Can a wi-fi card work in the D420, but not in the D620? This was strange... This might help: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/256-how-to-install-lion-on-d620/page__view__findpost__p__8050 Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted March 16, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 16, 2012 Hi jada, Have you check the bios to make sure wifi is on? I made a similar mistake where I open up everything only to realize that my bios setting for wifi is off Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 16, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 16, 2012 make sure it's seated correctly and that pci and wifi are on in bios like Syonagar states... if you have a model with a wifi switch then make sure it's on as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadajada Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 I tried the tip from the link above. It seems to apply to Lion, but I tried it anyway. Nothing happened. Still no wi-fi. The card is seated and it is turned on in bios. The switch is on. If I boot a Linux live-cd wi-fi works, so the card does work. I have another hackintosh, a Dell D420. If I move the card over to that machine, it also works. But not on this D620... I am running out of options... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipart Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Buy a new card (I bought two) - loads cheap on ebay - I bought a DW1395 and worked fine after applying the kext as in above link I posted - don't know where you are but here's a UK one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Inspiron-1525-DW-1395-WiFi-Card-/180734485477?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopAccess_RL&hash=item2a149d63e5#ht_2011wt_1348 Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted March 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 18, 2012 Dear jada, I think it may be related to to the dsdt or kexts in the extra specifically for the D620 model. Have you tried to reinstall EDP? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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