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    The Perfect Mini PCIe WiFi and Bluetooth Combo card for Notebooks

    in The Archive

    Posted

    Hi,

    1. Dont remove the battery (sorry jake, but you will break it)
    2. Remove the black strip, its just a simple 2x connector, nothing to worrie about
    3. Remove the antennas
    4. Remove the screws
    5. Replace the cards and do everything in reverse

    Once you are back into OSX and have installed the kexts via EDP you will notice that bluetooth is a pain in the *beeep* .. i am still working on stabilizing it, works perfect on other machines but on ours it have some bugs... wifi will work great.

    e6230 with i5 and hd4000

    in The Archive

    Posted

    Hey, in order to get native speedstep, sleep etc. you will need to get a dsdt and soft patch job made.

    Dinesh offer that as a free(in free time) (or) paid service.. In another thread, head over there and you will be up and running in no time

    Mac on D830

    in The Archive

    Posted

    Question: Have you installed EDP or are you just using the bootpack ? - if booting takes a long time i can image its because your kernel cache havent been generated

    Goverments and cooperations

    in Leon's blog

    Posted

    Found this on facebook.. just had to repost :)


    SOCIALISM
    You have 2 cows.
    You give one to your neighbour

    COMMUNISM
    You have 2 cows.
    The State takes both and gives you some milk

    FASCISM
    You have 2 cows.
    The State takes both and sells you some milk

    NAZISM
    You have 2 cows.
    The State takes both and shoots you

    BUREAUCRATISM
    You have 2 cows.
    The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then
    throws the milk away

    TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
    You have two cows.
    You sell one and buy a bull.
    Your herd multiplies, and the economy
    grows.
    You sell them and retire on the income

    ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (VENTURE) CAPITALISM
    You have two cows.
    You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by
    your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
    The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
    The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
    The public then buys your bull.

    SURREALISM
    You have two giraffes.
    The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

    AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
    You have two cows.
    You sell one, and force the other to
    produce the milk of four cows.
    Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why
    the cow has dropped dead.

    A GREEK CORPORATION
    You have two cows. You borrow lots of euros to build barns, milking sheds, hay stores, feed sheds,
    dairies, cold stores, abattoir, cheese unit and packing sheds.
    You still only have two cows.

    A FRENCH CORPORATION
    You have two cows.
    You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three
    cows.

    A JAPANESE CORPORATION
    You have two cows.
    You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce
    twenty times the milk.
    You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and
    market it worldwide.

    AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
    You have two cows,
    but you don't know where they are.
    You decide to have lunch.

    A SWISS CORPORATION
    You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
    You charge the owners for storing them.

    A CHINESE CORPORATION
    You have two cows.
    You have 300 people milking them.
    You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
    You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

    AN INDIAN CORPORATION
    You have two cows.
    You worship them.

    A BRITISH CORPORATION
    You have two cows.
    Both are mad.

    AN IRAQI CORPORATION
    Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
    You tell them that you have none.
    No-one believes you, so they bomb the ** out of you and invade your country.
    You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.

    AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
    You have two cows.
    Business seems pretty good.
    You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

    A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
    You have two cows.
    The one on the left looks very attractive...
     

    AirVideo client for Windows and OSX

    in Leon's blog

    Posted

    One of the nicest pieces of software i have seen around is the AirVideo server - it allows you to stream most video content from your "server" to any I-device/Android.

    .. but what if you want to stream it to say a Windows or Mac machine ?

    I will try here to collect some of the great resources that i found.


    Server and Ipad/Iphone apps: http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html
    Linux server: https://github.com/rubiojr/airvideo-server-ui and another https://launchpad.net/~rubiojr/+archive/airvideo
    Qnap server: http://forum.qnap.com/viewforum.php?f=234


    Windows:
    The orginal site that i found it on was in japanese - bit hard to read: http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/knight2kjp/
    If anyone have a better link for the above please share:

    Mirror: AirVideoClient_win32_20121114.zip


    Very basic interface but gets the job done.
     


    Mac version:
    Original link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6713110/MacAirVideoClient/Site/Home.html

    Mirror: Mac AirVideo Client.zip

    Awesome interface - very advanced stuff but generally works really good.

    Documention: Adding a new model to EDP

    in The Archive

    Posted


    While this info is not for the average user - it might help a bit to shed some light on how model info is stored in EDP.

    There is certain steps you need to follow to add a new model to EDP  (and understand)


    1. Create model folder
    2. Add the model build data to the modelinfo file
    3. Commit to SVN, Request BPG update and update mysql


    Step 1) - Creating a model folder
    The model folder contains all the raw data (dsdt, ssdt, plists, kexts etc.) for the specific model, a typical layout looks like this

     


    The Modelname is defined by __ (eg. Dell_Latitude_D430) - you have to use the exact structure with 3 _ to make sure BPG picks it up right

    <model name>
 - Common (Contains common plists, chameleon, kernel, dsdt and ssdt used under all OS)
    Extensions (Contains common kexts used under all OS)
 - sl
    Extensions
 - lion
    Extensions
 - ml
    Extensions

    Basically, the OS folders overwrites the common folders, meaning, if you have a certain kexts, plist or dsdt that is needed for that OS only, it will overwrite anything you have under common .. smart, huh? :)

    The above folder structure should be created under "model-data" in the SVN server



    Step 2) - Add the model build data to the modelinfo file
    The modelinfo is essentially a multidim. php array that acts as a configuration file for the models under that brand and type.
    Example: modelinfo.samsung.laptop.inc.php holds information about Samsung laptops.

    Looking inside the file you will find a structure like this:

    Note:
    We should allways try and use as many of the "common" kexts as we can, since it makes maintenance easier - also, dont add a any kexts to the AudioDB if they just work for that model - eg. a patched AppleHDA might as well go in the model-data folder instead.

    array( 	name => "Samsung_np_900x3c", (model name from step 1)
        desc 		=> "Samsung NP900 X3C", (Full name of the model)
        nullcpu 	=> "no", (Do you need NullCPUManagement.kext?)
        sleepEnabler 	=> "no", (Do you need sleepenabler.kext for sleep?)                     		
        ps2pack 	=> "9", (This is an ID from ps2db.inc.php, count starting by 0)
        emulatedST 	=> "no", (Do you want to use emulated speedstep aka voodoopstate)                     		
        tscsync 	=> "no", (Do you need VoodooTSCSync.kext ?)                    		
        batteryKext	=> "3", (This is an ID from batterydb.inc.php, count starting by 0, "no" for nothing
        loadIOATAFamily	=> "no", (Do you need to load IOAtaFamily.kext ?)
        loadNatit	=> "no", (Do you need natit.kext ?)
        useACPIfix	=> "yes", (Do you want to load a AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 10.6.7 ?)
        patchCPU	=> "yes", (Do you want on-the-fly patching of AppleIntelPowerManagement.kext ?)
        patchAHCIml     => "no",  (Patches IOAHCIBlockStorage on systems that get "Waiting for root device")    		                    		
            ethernet	=> "8", (This is an ID from ethernetdb.inc.php, count starting by 0, "no" for nothing
        wifikext	=> "0", (This is an ID from wifidb.inc.php, count starting by 0, "no" for nothing
        audiopack	=> "2", (This is an ID from audiodb.inc.php, count starting by 0, "no" for nothing)                       		                      		
        supports_sl	=> "no", (Does this model support Snow Leopard ?)
        supports_lion	=> "yes", (Does this model support Lion ?)
        supports_ml	=> "yes", (Does this mode support Mountain Lion ?)                    		 
        customCham 	=> "no", (Have you bundled a different version of chameleon ?)                     		
        customKernel 	=> "no" (Have you bundled a custom kernel ?)                     		 
),

     

    You will need to copy/paste an existing model to the BOTTOM of the file but before the last

     

     

    );
?>

     

     

    3) Commit to SVN, Request BPG update and update mysql

    The hard part is now done, all you have to do now is:

     1. Commit your new model to SVN
     2. Contact Leon and have him update BPG (Boot Pack Generator)
     3. Talk to mick have the model compat. db updated

     

    [WWAN] - Dell DW 5540 and 5550 driver for Windows

    in Leon's blog

    Posted

    Hi,

    While we offcourse run a OSX site here - one have to test Windows 8 also :)

    In this case i am running Windows 8 on my Dell Latitude e6230 wich comes with a DW5550 mobile broadband card.

    However, none of dells standard drivers wanted to install - classic :(

    So, i extracted the drivers and did a manual install.

    I have attached the drivers here... The installation is very basic, just go into Device manager, select the DW5550 card, update the driver and select the one from the package below.


    Enjoy!

    Files:
    Drivers for DW5550.rar

    Dell WWAN 5540.rar

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