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    Install Express card

    in The Archive

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    You can place/copy/move the kext to /System/Library/Extensions or /Library/Extensions, then repair permissions and rebuild the cache. On next reboot, the kext will load and your card should be working as you expect.

     

    To repair permissions, open up Terminal and enter the following commands:

    sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions (or /Library/Extensions)
sudo chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions (or /Library/Extensions)

    To rebuild the cache, enter the following commands:

    sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions (or /Library/Extensions)
sudo kextcache -Boot -U /

    SL on HP Compaq Mini Q10

    in The Archive

    Posted

    GPU confirmed as Intel GMA3150 (ven:dev id = 8086:a011). Only framebuffer support (i.e. limited resolution switching) is available but no full graphics acceleration. Not worth spending time on this old and low-end platform as a partial-only Hackintosh.

    (Solved) New to hackintosh need help with Lenovo Thinkpad X201

    in The Archive

    Posted

    At the risk of stating the obvious, are you sure there is not a wireless service on/off switch somewhere on the laptop that would be in the "off" position? Or maybe all wireless services are disabled in BIOS. Bluetooth and wireless are handled very differently from a "kext perspective" and do not usually die together unless controlled by a switch. Unless it's a combo card and it dies of course...

    How to clone HDD Yosemite

    in The Archive

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    I guess you only cloned the OS X partition, not the boot partition (the EFI partition if you want...). It's a simple matter of reinstalling your bootloader on the cloned disk. Otherwise, use a tool that will clone actual physical sectors of your HDD.

     

    Plenty of topics and posts on the cloning matter on the forum, use the search facility.

    SL on HP Compaq Mini Q10

    in The Archive

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    GMA3150 is unsupported under OS X, so no graphics acceleration no matter what. It's quite a significant burden on a low-end netbook such as this one. You can always check out the GPU id in your System Profiler to confirm your model but Atom N455 is Pineview generation and, indeed, those CPUs integrate GMA3150 graphics processor. You can't "change the kext with Intel GMA950" or pretend your GMA3150 is a GMA950 or GMA X3100 to that effect. It just does not work.

     

    If you want, try and install the lspci package to be able to list the hardware specs through Terminal command lspci -nn.

     

    All in all, it's a fairly poor platform for a partially-running Hackintosh.

    EM7305 WWAN module: does it work under El Capitan?

    in Modems/WWAN modules

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    Problem is undoubtedly due to the known issue of Apple having thoroughly modified the way USB ports are managed in El Capitan. I suggest you identify the technical details of all your USB ports through an IOReg extract from Yosemite, then adjust your DSDT and USB kexts in EC to try and ensure all your USB ports are detected and enabled. At the moment, it's not the case under 10.11, hence lack of WWAN module.

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    Vanilla and patched El Capitan kernels + patched AICPUPM kexts

    in OS X/macOS

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    Last update: 09/08/2016

     

    For those who need an extracted copy of El Capitan kernel to build their manual Chameleon/Enoch-based USB installers, here are copies of the various kernels that have come out so far (DP/DB versions excluded).

     

    I also include copies of the patched AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement kexts that are necessary on SandyBridge/IvyBridge CPUs.

     

    Patches courtesy of Pimentel and his tools as published at IM.

     

    Vanilla kernels for Core2Duo/Core2Quad, Arrandale and Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPUs:

     

    Patched kernels for Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake CPUs:

     

    Patched AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement kexts for Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPUs:

     

    NB: kernels go to /System/Library/Kernels as kernel; patched AICPUPM kext goes to /System/Library/Extensions

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    Toshiba Satellite L50D-B16T any good?

    in The Archive

    Posted

    Have a look at Insanelymac.com, they have a good section on AMD systems, especially kernels (AMD systems cannot run vanilla kernels). Last time I looked, good Yosemite support stopped at 10.10.4 and there was no available AMD kernel for EC, but that was a few months ago. Things may have evolved since.

    Dell Inspiron 3520 help (El Capitan)

    in The Archive

    Posted

    [...]

    • Bluetooth do not get disable(turn off button grey out) and always discoverable :(

    [...]

    You need to patch the Bluetooth kext in order to add your own BT device and get it supported. You'll then be able to enable/disable BT services from within OS X. Have a look at what was done for other BT devices, for instance here. It even works for integrated and supported BT chips of unsupported Intel wireless cards as stated here or here for instance.

    osx snow leopard 10.6.3 on packard bell

    in The Archive

    Posted

    You'll need the correct CPU for that, i.e. CoreDuo/Core2Duo (a Celeron would probably require a legacy kernel), but it seems this model is based on GMA 4500M graphics which means you'll never enjoy graphics support/acceleration; as such, it's kind of worthless. It does not look like a good platform to run OS X unfortunately.

    OLD Sony Vaio - can I install OSX on it?

    in The Archive

    Posted

    I can confirm Bronxteck's statements. Due to chipset/GPU, this old laptop will only support OS X in 32bit kernel mode so the upper limit is Lion 10.7.5. You may attempt ML with the special MLPF hack but it's kind of awkward and a little buggy anyway. Best to stick to a full vanilla installation.

     

    The GeForce 7400 should be supported by the standard nVidia kexts (NV40 architecture from memory) but getting full graphics acceleration may require a DSDT patch or an EFI string injection (more or less the same effect), indeed as per the Dell Latitude D620/D820.

     

    No Intel wireless card will be supported and would therefore have to be replaced by a supported model in order to enjoy wireless networking.

     

    Regarding an installation guide, I invite you to consult the myHack-based installation instructions found in the EDP->Documentation page.

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