Tengokuu

We are working on it... the issue is that the crew member with this system has been inactive for a while so we can't do any tests.

 

Am I able to test? I have another hard drive with Lion on it that's just there.

Dear tengokuu,

 

What's the worst? I'll say this "Use At Your Own Risk" Personaly, i prefer not to mess with my hardware's vanilla bios or firmware. I'm too concerned that i'll accidently brick it with my adventurism.

 

However, if you are interested. We have a guide in the osxlatitude.com. Have a look at it.

 

Cheers!

 

Eh. I'll just leave it as is. I'd probably mess something up myself, maybe I'll try rebranding on my D820 as a little test subject, see if I can actually get the hang of it, but I'm not gonna' do it right now with my abilities of stupidity. c:

I don't quite understand the rebranding process, infact, looks kinda' intimidating. What's the worst that could happen?

So, I'm not getting the best Wi-Fi speeds because my E6400 doesn't want to use Wireless N for some reason. As you can see here, when connected, it only uses Wireless-G

 

 

When I'm in System Profiler (Information), under Wi-Fi, my network IS listed as a Wireless N network:

 

 

So yeah, don't know whats up. It also does this with other networks in my area that uses Wireless N, Windows 7 can use N without any problem on the same network, so it isn't a configuration problem.

Welcome to OSXLatitude, trust me, this site is great. Don't think I would have a working HackBook without it. I also live in Florida!

I'm in dafob's shoes as well. Getting the same issues he's getting. I guess I'll wait until someone gets the installer up and going.

So I managed to install 10.7.4 easily on my Latitude E6400. Looking at other guides on OSXLatitude about using Terminal and all of that good stuff, that intimidated me (because I'm such a noob.)

 

Since nobody has managed to post anything about it. Here's my silly noob proof guide to do it. Might be useful later on

 

1. Get the 10.7.4 or 10.7.5 update combo from Apple.

 

2. Also download the AppleACPIPIatform.kext from here

 

3. Mount the update combo DMG, install it normally.

 

4. DON'T reboot. Right click on the Installer on the dock, press the option key *or for OSXLatituder's, your Windows key*, and force quit the installer.

 

5. Get Finder on your top bar, click go, and click Go to Folder, and on the pop up window, type in /System/Library/Extensions/

 

6. Find AppleACPIPlatform.kext inside that folder, and DELETE it.

 

7. Get the AppleACPIPlatform.kext we got earlier, and place it in /System/Library/Extensions/

 

*You might get a message about it not being installed properly, ignore it.*

 

8. Get myHack from here

 

9. Open myHack, input your password, and choose myFix.

 

10. On the next window, choose your / drive, and the next window will ask if you want to run it in full or quick. Choose full.

 

11. Wait for it to finish.

 

12. Go get some coffee or something, its going to take a while...

 

13. When it's finished, reboot your machine.

 

14. When you're on the boot loader screen, type in the following flags. -v -f

 

15. Done!

 

Tried to be as detailed as possible, but thats it. No terminal, no USB drives, nothing!

 

Also, if you were using EDP, make sure that you do a new build.

I am currently testing Mountain Lion on my E6500 which is quite similar, E6400 should be fine for Mountain Lion

 

Can I use your Extras folder to give it a try?

Just wondering if the Latitude E6400 is capable of running OSX Mountain Lion.

My E6400 is having a weird issue with Audio, like, if something loud is playing, you begin hearing this obnoxious crackling. It's something wrong with OSX, anyone know how to fix this?

Is there anything else we could try JawhnL5? I did another clean install.

Edit: Thought I just fixed it. Nevermind.

Dear tengoku,

 

Just some ideas to your problem. Can you check your bios and see what your settings for keybooard and mouse is? Maybe there are several options there. Let me know. If possible set to ps2 only.

 

Cheers!

 

My Latitude runs BIOS revision A32. Under the settings I've found two things.

 

Parallel Port: *which was at first on ECP* the options were...

 

Disabled

AT

PS/2

ECP

 

I set that to PS/2

 

and I found Mouse/Touchpad: *Touchpad-PS/2 was selected first* the options under it are...

 

Serial Mouse

PS/2 Mouse

Touchpad-PS/2

 

I also set that to PS/2 Mouse

I've tried every PS/2 driver available in EDP 3. All giving me the same problem.

Keyboard and Trackpad just locked up again.

Trying this right now, I'll report results in a few.

I just did a fresh new install of OSX Lion if that helps.

I dont get it. How am I practically the only E6400 user getting this problem?

do you have ps2nub.kext in e/e?

 

Well. I do have AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext if that's what you're talking about.

It locked up again.

Okay, did a new build, did the moving, repaired permissions, and just rebooted. Now I just wait until it possibly freezes again...?

Option 1 if using 32bit OS and Option 5 if using 64bit OS.

 

Cheers!

 

When I copied over the ApplePS2Controller.kext over to S/L/E, I got the System extension cannot be used message. Should this be happening?

What you can try to do is use the ApplePS2Controller.kext in EDP 3. Once you have done a new build in EDP with the ApplePS2Controller.kext, exit out of EDP and go to /Extra/Extensions on your hard drive. Then copy the ApplePS2Controller.kext from Extra/Extensions to /System/Library/Extensions. Once you have done that, repair permissions and then reboot your machine and get back to us w/ results.

 

Cheers!

 

Kinda confused, should I use Option 1 or Option 5 for the PS/2 controller?

Trying this now, will be back in a couple of minutes.

I'll give this a try and report back results in a bit.

 

I did it, but a couple minutes later the keyboard and mouse stopped working again.