KozaG Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Hi. I have installed successfully OSX 10.6 SL to my D830 laptop. Where can I now enable WiFi? I don't seem to find any program nor driver which would do that. Also will Nvidia quadro nvs 140m perform better with osx 10.6 than with Win XP? My laptop: D830 1.8 ghz dual core CPU 2gb RAM Quadro nvs 140m Thanks. ps. thank you for great site, how-to's and program! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 8, 2013 Administrators Share Posted January 8, 2013 In all likelyhood, you have an Intel 3945 wireless card in your D830 and that's not supported. You'll need to replace that by a Mac OS X compatible card such as DW1390, DW1395, DW1490, etc. These are Broadcom-based cards. Some Atheros cards work too. Do a search in the forum, there are tons of threads on this very matter. DW1390 and DW1490 work OOB. DW1395 requires a kext to be installed in /E/E (either BCM43xxx kext or patched IO80211 kext). All these cards are available for pennies on ebay. Ways to check which wireless card you have: 1) Apple menu -> About this Mac -> System Report -> Hardware -> PCI interface: Intel 3945 will be Vendor id 0x8086 and Device id 0x4222/0x4227/0x4888 2) From Windows, look at your Network Adapters under Device Manager 3) Remove plastic casing with On/Off button, remove all 3 keyboard screws and lift it. The Wireless card will be right under the keyboard. Read up the sticker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawhnL5 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 The 1395 will work with a modified kext that adds the Device IDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcr Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Herve, Decided to see if I could get the D830 going (got frustrated with Optiplex 745). Turns out I have the model with GMA X3100 running WSXGA+ 1680x1050, so when i boot from the USB installer, my screen is blank. Is there a possibility you folks could create a bootpack (revised DSDT) that supports WSXGA+ 1680x1050 (Lion), pretty please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 2, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 2, 2013 Look at the DSDT/SSDT patching thread below and follow the process. Dinesh might be able to help you there when he has time; if you want it quick, don't hesitate to make him a little donation. https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1945-dsdtssdt-patching/ There used to be a trick on the D630 that could work around the black screen issue if you had the wrong DSDT, but I only used that as a beginner and with Snow Leopard + ModCD. Basically, the trick was to boot with an external display hooked to the laptop and on which you force display using Fn+F8 at startup. Upon boot completion and at activation of OS X desktop, the display would return to built-in LCD. Give that a go, you never know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 6, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 6, 2013 did you try the bootpacl Dell Latitude D830, Intel x3100 graphics card (1920x1200 model) that should be for high resolution screen you might have to edit the org.chameleon.Boot.plist and put your proper resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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