TheOriginalThee

Thanks guys. I appreciate the help. There is no recognised onboard nic so I cant run the edp yet. I'll try the bootpack. Is it possible to run that after the installation or does it have to be done at the end of the install? Reason I ask is because it is already installed again with no nic. Can I just add the extra folder from the bootpack to the USB stick and point it to the MyHack on the OS drive to add it?

Hi everyone. I'll give you some background on me first. I am an Infrastructure Engineer who about 2 years ago, built myself an OSX SL Dell Mini 9 (10.6.7) which I still use today. I have now started to build a Dell Latitude D830 (Intel graphics) with Lion 10.7.4 and initially had somewhat of a success the first attempt. My problem lay in that I didn't read the instructions clearly as I'd been flicking between websites to get instructions. Saying that, I formatted an 8GB usb stick and install the generic MyHack onto it. Using this i was able to get Lion running on my D830. Although the problem was there was only 1024x768 display and no network card showing up so i couldn't run the EDP post installation tool as it fails - no network connection! I also realised there was a bootpac for the D830 which you should replace with the generic "extra" folder on the MyHack usb stick (i think that is correct). I tried the options in MyHack to get this working but still no network card so i wiped the HDD and really carefully followed the instructions to the letter. This is where it all went a bit frustrating for me. No amount of try's have allowed me to get it to install. I get a black screen just after i get to where you can select the OSX tools or install the OS. So, now i am back to using the generic MyHack prepared USB stick and it is slow but seems to be working again. Im already on the installing part of the procedure with 19 minutes remaining. My question to the group is, how do i get the nic driver onto the D830 after the OS install is complete so i can do the post install EDP? I still haven't fully got my head around the drivers component of the whole hackintosh so any advice on what to do to tie off the loose ends would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!