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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.

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.

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: Vanilla_kernel_10.11.1.zip (Darwin 15.0.0) Vanilla_kernel_10.11.2.zip (Darwin 15.2.0) Vanilla_kernel_10.11.3.zip (Darwin 15.3.0) Vanilla_kernel_10.11.4.zip (Darwin 15.4.0) Vanilla_kernel_10.11.5.zip (Darwin 15.5.0) Vanilla_kernel_10.11.6.zip (Darwin 15.6.0) Patched kernels for Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake CPUs: Haswell_kernel_10.11.1.zip (Darwin 15.0.0) Haswell_kernel_10.11.2.zip (Darwin 15.2.0) Haswell_kernel_10.11.3.zip (Darwin 15.3.0) Haswell_kernel_10.11.4.zip (Darwin 15.4.0) Haswell_kernel_10.11.5.zip (Darwin 15.5.0) Haswell_kernel_10.11.6.zip (Darwin 15.6.0) Patched AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement kexts for Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPUs: Patched_AICPUPM_10.10.1.zip Patched_AICPUPM_10.11.2.zip Patched_AICPUPM_10.11.3.zip Patched_AICPUPM_10.11.4.zip Patched_AICPUPM_10.11.5.zip Patched_AICPUPM_10.11.6.zip NB: kernels go to /System/Library/Kernels as kernel; patched AICPUPM kext goes to /System/Library/Extensions

Yup, me thinks Atom CPU needs atom kernel or, I guess, legacy/AMD kernel such as Nawcom's...

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.

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.

For wireless cards...

If video performance is not up to speed, you probably need to tune AGPM (AppleGraphicsPowerManagement). See here (includes tested and verified settings for NVS 160M on E6400).

@ssprod: rather than offer your Clover folder + necessary kexts by PM, why don't you post them directly in this thread or as an add-on to a guide? Don't be shy to share.

A supported CPU is indeed normally properly detected. At least on a good vanilla installation.

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/8281-e6220-bios-settings/

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.

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7807-nvidia-gpu-performance-tuning-with-agpm/

Those files are of course reusable from Yos to EC.

Or this E6420 guide... All necessary files included in the pack.

You may not have any GPU power management.

i5-2520M is supported. You can grab the associated SSDT in my E6220 guide.

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.

BCM5722D is available in all D630/D830 packs posted on the forum or in the bootpacks repository. There are several versions which work differently in 64bit-only OS X versions, so make sure to use the latest version available. Look at my D630 El Capitan thread in the R&D section for instance.

Afaik, installing or running OS X on PC hardware has never killed a motherboard! You'd have to run on seriously incorrect settings to damage the underlying hardware, like incorrect power management leading to sustained/prolonged overheating or something to that effect.

Check your hibernation mode in Terminal with command: sudo pmset -g Make sure to disable hibernation as it's a prerequisite to get sleep & wake to work Ok on a Hackintosh. If you have a sleepimage file in /var/vm, delete it: sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage For additional tranquility, you may even set your sleep image to null device so that no file ever exists and prevents wake/reboot: sudo pmset hibernatefile /dev/null

Like most Intel CPUs since Sandy Bridge, power management is not entirely natively obtained, it requires the generation of a CPU-specific SSDT. Improved power management and boost mode management can then be enjoyed. You don't need NullCPUPM with a Haswell CPU, just the kernel patch. Your poor 3D performance will be due to lack of suitable GPU power management.

Let's keep this thread to its's own topic please: DSDT fix.

+1 You should be Ok running SL or Lion in 32bit mode but you probably won't have any graphics support from ML. It's old hardware...

Yes, it would be most useful to load this 3rd party kext and rebuild the cache.