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According to Jake Lo's guide ("Upgrading to Mojave" section), you have to use the "Hackintool" and a 19-step process to create a USBPorts kext for Mojave. Did you need to do this, or were you able to skip this step? I did not find a "USBPorts.kext" in your zip file...

OK, I am still using A11 BIOS, so that solution wouldn't work for me. But I did finally track down and solve the problem. It was a lengthy, painful detective process. On March 24th 2018, in this post, Jake posted his E6230 A11 BIOS bootpack. It contains an additional SSDT file: SSDT-PNLF.aml. This file is not referenced in the Sierra/HighSierra guide. But it is what I needed to add to my /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched in order to have my E6230 sleep when I close the lid.

I have the same problem with sleep closing the lid. Can you describe how you patched the DSDT file? By "original", do you mean the one in the boot pack linked in your first post? Thanks-

Yeah - I typically replace the SN, Board SN and SmUUID in SMBIOS with my own, to keep iMessage working properly. I did the same with your latest config.plist from this thread. I'm not sure what "Trust" means in the context of SMBIOS though - doubt it could have any effect on USB devices. Anyway, everything is working, so I definitely can recommend your boot files at the bottom of page 3 of this thread for the i5 6230. Thanks again-

Hmmm - I just ran the script as recommended. Didn't know to add the config file separately. I've attached it here- config.HSorig.zip

Yes - thanks Jake once again for your expert help. I tried for a while some troubleshooting steps to understand exactly why I had no webcam (as Bronxteck points out, it did not show up on any USB bus). You know, teach a man to fish and all... I first tried just replacing my kexts with yours (of course fixing permissions and re-building the cache) - no dice Then I tried kexts and your DSDT - still no webcam Then I tried opening yours and my config.plist side by side in Clover Confgurator and manually matching the settings - still couldn't get the webcam to work. Finally, I just edited your config.plist and dropped in my SN, BSN, and smUUID, and bingo - webcam works. I did attempt to very carefully match the kext patch info in Clover Configurator between yours and my config.plist, but could not get the webcam to show up using my config.plist. So if you know what it is in the clover config file that unlocks the USB for the camera, please let us know... Thanks again- Steve

Hi Jake, Same problem here - the webcam is not working on my E6230 following upgrade to High Sierra. I suspect it has something to do with how I interpret the instructions in Note (1) Step 2 of your High Sierra Guide. At any rate, I've attached my debug file. Thanks for any suggestions- debug_3824.zip

You can try the one in this post - worked for my e6430 under ElCap.

I have this V3 as well on my E6230. I tested R6B4 and everything works, but both trackpad and keyboard are non-functional following wake from sleep (luckily I could plug into dock and recover without hard shutdown). Currently using Release 5 which seems to work fine (two finger scroll, up-down, side-to-side) but no two-finger tap or multi-touch gestures. I have been installing these into EFI/CLOVER/Kexts/other; should I put them in L/E instead?

If you had been trying to use iMessage without a good SN/Board Serial in SMBIOS, you may need to clean out your config files.

step 3.8 of the instructions linked in the guide you used

To fix the screen artifacts you will need to first flash A03 BIOS and then back up to something <13, like A12. If you are booting UEFI, your system won't boot with A03 BIOS, but don't worry. Once you flash a newer BIOS after A03, you should be free of artifacts.

I should also mention this fixes the key mapping issue with the apostrophe/tilde key that plagued RehabMan's version. It's a small thing, but I'm used to using that key to cycle through windows in an application (command-`) or typing ~/ at the command line to go to my home directory...

I don't use the trackstick, so this is an improvement over the ApplePS2Controller that did not have trackpad scrolling. Had an initial KP, but rebooted and it seems to work fine now. Thanks Frosty-

On my E6430 I am currently using the PS2Controller kext from this post. You lose scrolling, but at least no more KPs. At the end of the thread there was another Voodoo kext posted yesterday that I have not yet tried...

Hi Hervé, Has there been any update on this issue? To avoid KPs, I am still running Dr Hurt's VoodooPS2 on my E6230 and ApplePS2 on my E6430. The Apple kext does not have scrolling, and Dr Hurt's kext does not map keys correctly when running a VNC session. So I would like to be able to move back to the latest version of VoodooPS2 if the issue has been diagnosed and solved... Thanks-

I'm assuming you are installing 10.11.4 - on my E6430 I needed to use this kext for the touchpad, as versions of VoodooPS2 gave me KPs. This replaces VoodooPS2Controller.kext in EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other

I updated my E6230 to 11.4 without following Jake's advice to update Clover at the same time (was at 3320). The update and re-boot went fine, but then after that I got the KP's. I fixed it by updating to Clover v3389. Did not need OsxAptioFixDrv2-64.efi. Note: when Clover updates, it tends to want to make a fresh directory in your root directory, instead of updating /EFI/CLOVER. I had to copy & replace all files except ACPI/, kext/, themes/, and config.plist to /EFI/CLOVER.

If you have a windows box, I've used rufus to create a bootable thumb drive for flashing BIOS.

That kext should be patched on the fly by Clover. Did you follow steps 28 and 29 carefully? Clover takes its instructions from the config.plist file in Jake's E6230.zip file. The contents of that file need to be placed in the Clover folder of the generic EFI folder at the top of the second post. Then you need to replace the EFI directory that the Clover installer created with Jake's.

If neither your track pad right button nor your mouse right button are working as right click... have you checked your mouse preferences?

I'm running windows 7 on a 2nd partition on a SSD in my E6230. The boot time seems pretty quick to me, but I've got nothing to compare it to as I don't run windows anywhere else...

Unfortunately, when you use OS X Disk Utility to format partitions as FAT, it will convert the disk from valid GPT to hybrid MBR. You will need to clear the hybrid MBR data before Windows will install. See this post. In the future, a better approach is to allow Disk Utility to format both partitions as OS X journaled. Then use the Windows installer to delete the 2nd OS X partition and install windows in the empty space.

The only real problem I ran into was after installing Windows 7. That installer puts its own files into the EFI partition, and I needed to re-instruct the BIOS to use Clover and not the Windows boot files. My OS X installation onto my E6230 following Jake's Guide went flawlessly. Are you having difficulty booting from the USB? If that's the case, based on your error snippet I would try 2 things: 1) re-download the ElCapitan - I've had instances when my downloaded .dmg has been incomplete 2) re-create the USB, paying very close attention to steps 11-19; here there are multiple levels of disk images, and it is very easy to get yourself confused.

Yes - it's possible. You need to defrag and then run the Disk Management tool to try and reclaim empty space - there is an example here. Depending on your disk size and how Windows10 installs, this may not leave you with very much space for OS X however. Given that you just wiped the drive a couple weeks ago, I would recommend backing up your files and starting from a clean drive. That way you could move to UEFI boot/Clover. Install ElCapitan first using Jake's guide, partitioning the drive into your OS X and Windows partitions in step 2.7. Then install Windows. I followed this method to get Win7 alongside ElCapitan on my 6230 and it went relatively smoothly. The only trick is to go into the Dell BIOS following the Windows install and re-select CloverEFI.X64 for booting.