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I just installed this on my Precision M4300(=D830) with 10.7.2. It's great and it no longer hangs occasionally on voodoohda loading! I put it in /Extra Extensions,which appears to override /s/l/e. It survived the update to 10.7.3 via combo update. Thanks a lot for this. My Precision M4300 is now a great Lion machine. With SSD it is pretty fast. The only thing I am not yet happy about is the touchpad. Should I use voodoops2 or appleps2? Which version? Thx Hugo

Update: Truesuite 5.0.0.27 works great!

Finally I have my fingerprint reader operational again on my M4300 running Lion. It was fine in Snow Leopard with protector suite. Current software from the Authentec website is Truesuite 5.0.0.27. It works great with my M4300's reader. Previous versions do not work under Lion. Please also update biometric info on OSXLatitude home page. Thanks.

I am going to try it now on my Precision m4300. Thanks for this info.

Did anyone manage to get their Dell fingerprint reader to work in Lion? The ProtectorSuite.dmg on this site as well as the TrueSuite 2.0.186 work a bit but do not integrate themselves into Lion's login screen. They worked fine on Snow Leopard. The app recognizes the reader and lets you enroll fingerprints but they are not used in login or password dialogs. The new version 5 beta on Authentec's site supports Lion and integrates into the login screen, but does not recognize the fingerprint reader hardware. I contacted Authentec support and they replied it is a known issue. Currently in the Truesuite 5 beta, only new Eikon/EikonToGo fingerprint readers (with TCD50 biometric coprocessor) are supported. Older versions (with TCD42) should be supported in the next release. The new release is due in 2012. So for now I cannot log in with fingerprint reader unless someone figures out a trick to make the older versions work in Lion or put the driver for the older fp readers into the new software.

I have my M4300 up and running with Lion. Unfortunately, 50% of the time it gets stuck during boot, on the grey screen with spinning wheel. Verbose bootup is soo much slower and I have not figured out which kext is causing the issue. Also my fingerprint reader does not work yet. The ProtectorSuite.dmg on this site as well as the TrueSuite 2.0.186 work a bit but do not integrate themselves into Lion's login screen. They worked fine on Snow Leopard. The app recognizes the reader and lets you enroll fingerprints but they are not used in login or password dialogs. The new version 5 beta on Authentec's site supports Lion and integrates into the login screen, but does not recognize the fingerprint reader hardware. I contacted Authentec support and they replied it is a known issue. Currently in the Truesuite 5 beta, only new Eikon/EikonToGo fingerprint readers (with TCD50 biometric coprocessor) are supported. Older versions (with TCD42) should be supported in the next release. The new release is due in 2012. So for now I cannot log in with fingerprint reader unless someone figures out a trick to make the older versions work in Lion or put the driver for the older fp readers into the new software. The best course of action I guess is to wait.

@benny77, thanks for the instructions. Some feedback I have is that I do not think it is enough to just restore the Lion Golden Master dmg to a USB stick. I only started having luck when I followed instructions listed elsewhere, which involve finding the basesystem.dmg, restoring it, deleting the Packages link and copying the Packages folder to the USB stick. Then I installed Chameleon and /Extra, and everything worked. Remaining issue I have is with sleep: it wakes up but then shows a busy cursor permanently. I did not use Chameleon 2.0 rc5 but the latest Chameleon 2.1svn. Might this affect sleep and wakeup capabilities of the Hackintosh M4300? Also for Snow Leopard I posted a DSDT to insanelymac.com that made sleep work without sleepenabler. I am going to try to see if I can get Lion to work with this DSDT and no sleepenabler. Also benny77, in your instructions could you indicate what options you chose during Chameleon install? How well does sleep work for you? Both from closing and reopening lid and explicitly calling sleep. Thanks for everybody's help.

Could you specify what Chameleon version to use for this? I have an Dell Latitude M4300 with 1680x1050 screen Quadro FX 360M and 6GB of RAM. Its CPU is a T9300 2.5GHz. I always get the "Unable to find a driver for this platform: ACPI [blah-blah] in IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1504" kernel panic before Lion install, just booting the install stick. Also I am not using a partition but trying to use a USB stick of 16GB. That should be fine, too. I cannot get this to work. Thanks for your help. Should the install stick be MBR or GUID partitioned?