TreyM

I managed to get native speedstep working using MBP 6,2 and removing DropSSDT=yes and ssdt.aml, but I am unsure if turbo is working. As far as I can see, I'm getting 7 pstates x7 - x14. My CPU runs from 980MHz to 1.96GHz according to HWMonitor app. I have no way of checking to see if turbo ever kicks in, because the Intel Power Gadget for mac only works on Gen 2 and above.

MSRDumper and AppleIntelCpuPowerManagementInfo.kext don't work because they apparently don't support the Gen 1 CPUs.

Is there any other possible way to verify that turbo works or not?

Here are the files extracted. I am unsure what to do with them. Would it be much trouble to walk me through the patching process?

Ok, well here is the attempt with DropSSDT=yes and removing GeneratePStates and CStates.

MBP 8,2 SMBIOS and fakesmc set to MBP 8,2 SMC version.

Read HFS+ file: [hd(0,2)/Extra/DSDT.aml] 47484 bytes.
Read HFS+ file: [hd(0,2)/Extra/SSDT.aml] 713 bytes.
ACPI table not found: SSDT-1.aml
FADT: changing PM_Profile from 0x00 to 0x02
FADT: ACPI Restart Fix applied!
FADT: Using custom DSDT!
RSDT: Added 1 SSDT table(s)
FADT: ACPI Restart Fix applied!
FADT: Using custom DSDT!
Added 1 SSDT table(s) into XSDT

Only 1 insertion now... this is really odd...

Bump?

Read HFS+ file: [hd(0,2)/Extra/SSDT.aml] 713 bytes.
ACPI table not found: SSDT-1.aml
FADT: changing PM_Profile from 0x00 to 0x02
FADT: ACPI Restart Fix applied!
Found ACPI CPU: CPU0
Found ACPI CPU: CPU1
Found ACPI CPU: CPU2
Found ACPI CPU: CPU3
Found ACPI CPU: CPU4
Found ACPI CPU: CPU5
Found ACPI CPU: CPU6
Found ACPI CPU: CPU7
P-States: min 0x7, max 0x9
SSDT with CPU P-States generated successfully
RSDT: Added 2 SSDT table(s)
FADT: ACPI Restart Fix applied!
Added 2 SSDT table(s) into XSDT

cat /var/log/system.log | grep "AICPUPMI:"

Jun 21 12:32:10 localhost kernel[0]: AICPUPMI: CPU P-States [ ]

/Users/trey/Desktop/MSRDumper.kext failed to load - (ipc/mig) server died; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).

m17x-r2-speedstep.zip

I changed nothing from what EDP 1.9.2 placed on my system. So what ever the issue is, is either related to an EDP kext or lack of one... Idunno.

And also, I have had this problem on more than one D630 when trying to use an Atheros based airport card.

Mods, you may want to move and sticky this thread.

If you have an older copy of the 10.6.8 Combo DMG that you downloaded before March 23rd, 2012, the Apple certificate has expired and it will not install. You will need to redownload the combo from Apple again. They have updated the certificates.

You could try using EFI Studio to add the NIC as an EFI string in com.chameleon.boot.plist (< lol I think that's the name) I had to do this a few days ago on a Dell Optiplex 755 SFF to get the Appstore to work.

Well, what do you know? I just installed a random non-apple Broadcom 4312 I had laying around and it's working. Nice to have native Airport again. But this Atheros based true airport issue DOES need to be looked into. It's really odd that a real MBP Airport card would cause these issues. :/

None. I get kernel panics on one other true airport card as well. AR5BXB6 WTF? It says the back trace is related to BCM4322.kext or something. WTF? This is an atheros card. Ugh I cannot figure out for the life of me why it's not loading the OSX drivers for these cards.

Ah thanks for the heads up. Doubt I'll dual boot. I'll just stick with SL. (Just installed SL on an Optiplex 755 last night.)

I will def try it for SL if Lion doesn't work out. At some point today, I'm gonna try doing a fresh Lion install. Hopefully Lion plays nice with Logic Pro 9. *crossing fingers*

Isn't that for a base station? This is an internal wlan card. This is happening on SL 10.6.8

The airport card is an Atheros5006EX with ID 168c. I am stumped as to why this is happening. I was previously using another true Apple card that was N capable and it worked fine as it should, being a vanilla card. Any ideas?

Fantastic! Glad to hear this worked for you.

I had this issue on an older Acer laptop of mine. It turned out the audio drivers were set to 192khz! Set it to 48 or 41khz at 16 bit if yours defaulted to 192 like mine did. It may help alleviate the crackles.

Command + Shift + U should open the utilities folder. (Audio MIDI settings)

Did the pstatemenu dev make a typo? Why does the conservative governor seem to run better than on demand? It's as if they're labeled incorrectly?

Does edp automatically install a modded broadcom kext? I have no need of a modified kext since my wifi card came out of a MBP. I would like to use the normal system kext for my wifi since Leopard recognizes it out of the box on another hacintosh. Will this work? Or would I have to do an en0-en1 swap?

Good call Andy, that is much simpler than my method.

Download Parted Magic and burn it to disc (It's a linux live distro) once it boots up, open gparted (partition editor) it will scan your hard drive/s right click on the OSX partition click "manage flags" select "boot" see if that works.

If you still can't see chameleon, you'll need to reinstall it (the bootloader) using a usb stick or something.