D830 Mavericks Install

[rjjd]

Hi Herve I am very curious how the installation goes with you . I am still struggling with my D830 and booting from the hard drive. Looking forward to see in detailed handout to make mavericks works for me also

To overcome the problem of the broadcom wireless card i bought in China over the good old internet  an usb wireless stick  works perfectly on ML and Mavericks

Greets..

[Hervé]

Danelly, check if it's available at the root of your USB installer to copy if from there. If not, I'll try to upload it here for you once I get home. I would not reboot meantime...

[welp]

Herve-

I have the mach_kernel and dragged it to my desktop. I was able to get it off the installer as you noted.

I cant drag it to the root of the drive cause it says " The item"mach_kernel" cant be replcaced because it's invisble.

Have you see that before.

[welp]

I figured it out. I had to unhide all the files.

 

In terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

 

Found that the mach_kernel file was in there.

 

Here is a copy of my Chameleon boot plist (in /Extra). Does this look correct?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
 <key>GenerateCStates</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
 <key>GeneratePStates</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
 <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
 <key>Kernel</key>
 <string>mach_kernel</string>
 <key>Kernel Flags</key>
 <string></string>
 <key>PciRoot</key>
 <string>1</string>
 <key>SystemType</key>
 <string>2</string>
 <key>Theme</key>
 <string>Default</string>
 <key>Timeout</key>
 <string>2</string>
 <key>arch</key>
 <string>i386</string>
 <key>UseKernelCache</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>
 

[Hervé]

You can't boot Mavericks with arch=i386 !!! That means 32bit kernel mode. Remove it or boot with option arch=x86_64 and you should be good to go. You can then edit your Chameleon boot plist.

[welp]

I am sure its somewhere in the forum, but how do I unlock the file to edit?

 

Also, do I just remove that line and save?

[Bronxteck]

use chameleon wizard app.

[Hervé]

So, did you manage to boot into Mavericks?

 

For your wireless, open up a Terminal window and type the lspci -nn command to display all your hardware specs and paste the result here.

[welp]

Yes I was able to boot.. Thanks for the help on that one.

 

Herve- I tried following your guide on getting the wifi to work, I see the wifi icon on my task bar, but if i click it, the mouse shows busy.

I have done the terminal server stuff as well. Any ideas.

Last login: Mon Oct 28 09:14:23 on console
Dans-MacBook-Pro:~ Dan$ lspci -nn
pcilib: 0000:01:00.0 64-bit device address ignored.
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2a01] (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:2849] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:2828] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 135M] [10de:042b] (rev a1)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge [1217:7135] (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) [1217:00f7] (rev 02)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1673] (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 02)

[Hervé]

Broadcom BCM4311 [14e4:4311] corresponds to a DW1390 and that is supported OOB with SL, L, ML or Mavericks. What guide of mine are you referring to here? You should be able to connect to your wireless network without any particular action other than select the desired network (and maybe specify a security key if required).