Leon

No, a zipped version of /Extra and any kexts you have added to sle

Add the whole folder so i can have a look.

Great progress - and yes - you are allowed to discuss almost everything here you want.. we are no tonycrap or IM..

Would you mind posting your "extra" folder ?

imessage can be tricky as hell.. but there is a few guides around that could help.

I have the x201s myself but havent been experimenting with yos yet

Yesterday I finally got around to dual-booting my MacBook, with a nice fresh copy of Windows 7. Everything was great, except for a laggy download of the Windows Support Software. So, earlier today, I got around to installing the drivers. It turns out, my old MacBook didn't support BootCampx64. I then did a quick search on how to fix this issue. 

I came up with a number of answers, but this is an answer aimed at people who were in my situation which is:

• I could not right click on the BootCampx64.msi file, because of the missing drivers.
• Or if I could right click, then changing the properties of BootCampx64.msi resulted in not having the required elevated access privileges.

My solution (done from within Windows, obviously):

• Without the drivers installed, you can still right click on the BootCampx64.msi file by click it with 'Shift-F10' which apparently acts as an alternate right click.
• If you have the first step down, try opening the properties of the file, and change the compatibility to earlier versions of Windows.
• If that still doesn't work, then open the start menu. Then go to Programs » Accessories » CMD, and hover over CMD.
• Press Shift-F10, or right click if you are able, on CMD (the Windows Command Prompt).
• Select the option in the drop-down menu, 'Run as Administrator.'
• Then open CMD and get a shell window.
• Now, when you open CMD, you should be running it as C:Windowssystem32.
• At the Command Prompt, type in cd /d C:
• You should now have C: at the far left of the prompt.
• Type in cd Users. Then type in dir.
• Find your username, and then type in cd username, e.g. cd John Smith
• Continue the dir, cd process until you come into the directory in which the BootCampx64.msi is. (You may have dragged the WindowsSupport folder onto the desktop, or someplace else).
• After you have reached the directory, simply type in BootCampx64.msi.
• The program should start.
• All of the drivers should start installing. You probably won't be able to move your mouse if you have a trackpad, as I do, because the Apple Trackpad driver is one of the last to be installed.

If it seems like the process is taking a while, be patient. 

Sources: 

This earlier hint, this Apple forum thread, and this very helpful article. 

Something like that yes..

Hi,

Lately i have been messing with Elementary OS, its a quite nice linux distro that unlike most others works and acts alot more like OSX.

Anyway - tip of the day - howto enable Elementary Tweaks on the latest beta of Freya

Original link: http://www.reddit.com/r/elementaryos/comments/2cv41d/installingelementarytweaksonfreya/

Install Tweaks

Anyone had luck with Yosemite on the Lenovo's yet ?

Right, so next step is to get it to work under Linux (Ubuntu or rather Elementary OS) .. any suggestions ?

Honestly.. i dont know.. but it seems to be the solution in this case atleast.

Logically.. it would be more cool to have it working as a WWAN device.. on the other hand.. using the watcher does give quite alot of info.

Links:

• Info: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/hardware/?action=h_view&model_id=1210
• Mode switch (Windows): http://www.szelins.com/download/usermanual/H685_MC7710_from_DIP_to_QMI.pdf

Following is my research notes on the mc7710

First of all - i figured out that the card operates either in QMI or DIP (Direct IP) mode - To identify what mode your card is in check the ProductID under sysinfo.

0x68A2 = QMI
0x68a3 = DIP

This seems to have alot of inpact on wether you can use it under osx/linux or not - under windows - logically... both work - mine is in QMI,

There is a guide here for howto change it - but i havent had much luck with it yet: http://www.szelins.com/download/usermanual/H685_MC7710_from_DIP_to_QMI.pdf

My progress on the different OS:

OSX 10.9.4:

• Patched Cellphonehelper.kext makes it show up in the topbar, but says "PIN LOCKED" when i click on it (the sim card is not locked)
• Sierrawatcher: Card _MUST_ be in direct ip mode (DIP) or it wont work.. i'm pretty sure it will enable 4G/LTE also.
  Use this watcher software: Generic_Mac_Watcher_B3563.mpkg.zip

Tried to patch the different plists and while card gets detected its unable to connect - dies with error "unable to comm. with modem"

Linux:
Not detected

Windows:
Works perfect using Sierrawatcher software

Update:
Switching modes from QMI to DIP worked by using another machine solves the problem and it now works as a DIP device in OSX using the watcher software.

 

Hey, could you please upload the pictures from your first thread to osxl.
Thank you.

Since its still a rather new card i would think its a driver issue - and by that try and track down the people behind the driver and ask them.

Weirdly enough.. it started working after a bunch of reboots.. gonna do a bit of performance tests before i start experimenting with the mc7110 instead

Ok, it seems like its the installer that needs to be updated - i have asked mick to update it and re-upload... 

WTF.. i thought i fixed that.. can you send me a screen shot ?

Hi,

When i try to connect i get:
 

Wed Jun 18 22:51:12 2014 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!

Wed Jun 18 22:51:12 2014 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!

Wed Jun 18 22:51:13 2014 : Initializing phone: ATE0V1&F&D2&C1S0=0

Wed Jun 18 22:51:13 2014 : Initializing PDP context: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.telenor.se"

Wed Jun 18 22:51:13 2014 : Dialing: ATD*99***1#

Wed Jun 18 22:51:13 2014 : Waiting for connection

Wed Jun 18 22:51:13 2014 : No carrier.

Wed Jun 18 22:51:13 2014 : CCLExit: -6021 (No carrier.)

Wed Jun 18 22:51:13 2014 : Connect script failed

 

The STA driver does not work good with all cards.

To remove the STA driver, look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2123176

In other words.. try: sudo apt-get purge broadcom-sta

Awesome work guys/girls - and welcome to OSXL.

Would love to see your take on the laptop version.

Awesome, thanx mate.. i have added it to the main thread

BIOS i am not so worried about.. for the x201 we have a patched bios to whitelist that.. it will be quite slow to get past bios but the card will work.
The x201s only comes with one antenna for WWAN, so i have wired in an antenna mine manually... adding one more shouldent be the biggest problem

I dont really care that much about the price.. have you found any 4G/LTE that might work with osx ?

Awesome.. just ordered one..

Another question.. all these are HSPA+ .. have you seen any real 4g/LTE cards ?

Hi,

Overtime your installation will be filled with stuff that you test.. some of it you might not use anymore or you just want to trim it.

Cleaning out in automatic starting things can also help you speed up your system boot time and generel run time.

1) The autostart is usually not in the User-Autostart-Items, but you should check them anyway:

Open the System-Preferences > Users > Select your user > Start-Objects

Check if there is something started you want to deactivate and do so if.

2) Normally the start of apache is handled by the launchd-service: You can either change this manually, or with the help of a old little tool named "Lingon". To do it manually, you need to find the launchd-folders:

~/Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/LaunchDaemons

/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons

/System/Library/LaunchAgents
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons

There you'll find .plist-files, that define when and what to start. To remove a object from auto-start use launchctl on the terminal to remove it from the actual launchd and then simply delete the file.

user$ launchctl unload *filename.plist*

Make sure you do not delete the wrong files! This may lead to a fatal situation on your machine. Btw: The .plist-Files can be read with BBEdit, TextWrangler or the PropertyList Editor from the Apple Developer-Tools.

Hi,

I have cleaned up in this topic - moved all the good posts into the main post - thank you everyone for your contributions.

One question - somebody mentioned a bios update v. 1.40 (we currently use 1.22) with whitelist and SLIC.

Also mentioned on this link: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/20223-Remove-whitelist-check-add-ID-s-to-break-hardware-restrictions-mod-requests/page293

However the file is no longer for download.. anyone got a copy ? (file: Lenovo ThinkPad X201_1.40-(6quj18us)_lenovo21_WList.rar)

 

Hi,

ExpressCards is a neat way of extending your laptop with new functionality - in this case we are going to have a look at USB 3.0 - my test machine is a Lenovo x201s running Mavericks 10.9.3

The Sunix USB 3.0 ExpressCard

The card is automatically detected - however you will need to install a kext to get it to work.

GenericUSBXHCI.kext - Download: GenericUSBXHCI.kext.zip

So lets look at performance using a external USB 3.0 disk - 7200rpm.

USB 2.0 Performance:


USB 3.0 Performance: