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For audio, try the VoodooHDA (more stable) kext in the EDP menu, not the one listed for the D620.

For Wireless, if you have an Intel card, it won't work, you need a Broadcom (Dell-branded) model. Easily found on a famous bidding web site and for a few $/€ only...

If you have Chameleon wizard installed, double click on your /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist file and uncheck the USBBusFix as a test. Then save and reboot. Can't say that it'll improve boot time, but worth a shot if you're game.

Well, not sure, I think it's required and boot will fail if FakeSMC kext cannot be found. I'm doing more tests on that point...

It's back to normal this morning, may be Gremlins during the updates of last night...

There were some work on EDP yesterday. Which revision are you on?

Since updating from rev410 to 415 last night, I see some minor differences, but nothing like what you experience.

It might not be related at all, but I noticed some slow boot when USBBusFix was set to Yes. The context was a bit specific though, so it may not apply to this SSD case at all...

When I was testing EDP 3 for Snow Leopard, I was using an external USB IDE HDD. If USBBusFix was selected in /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist, booting off the USB HDD took ages. It would hold for over 2mins past the initial Chameleon wait scroll bar, then I would get a default grey Apple background (neither the OSXL logo, nor the shiny Apple logo) and boot activity would resume.

After unsetting USBBusFix, booting off the USB HDD was back to normal: no extended delay after Chameleon wait scroll bar, OSXL logo during boot process and a total boot time of approximately 1min.

Yes, that's what I meant by /E/E, sorry. I'm on Lion 10.7.4 and I have that IntelCPUMonitor kext there. Maybe it's different on another version, but I don't know what you have.

Please note that since I updated my EDP to rev 415 last night, my CPU readings have gone tits up again. The difference I notice in /E/E is that I now have a FakeSMC kext there, a kext I did not seem to have with rev 410.

When I take that FakeSMC kext out of /E/E, T° readings are back to normal.

Hi Leon, there's seems to be a bug within the latest updated version which renders EDP download unsuccessful when you run the svn command... Looks like a path issue.

The best is to obtain the CPU T Junction value off the Intel web site (values differ between CPU families) and the edit the Tjmax value in /E/E/IntelCPUMonitor.kext.

Eg: http://ark.intel.com/products/29761/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-T7500-(4M-Cache-2_20-GHz-800-MHz-FSB)

Just did it on my T7500-based D630 (Tjmax=100) and the iStats goodies now report proper T° readings: idling in the low 40s°C and up to 70s°C on high load (similar readings in Win7).

Hi, what system? What specs?

Ok, but getting hold of EDP 1.9.2 is not straighforward any more.

I followed the EDP3 documented process to re-install SL (up to 10.6.8) on external USB drive and it worked smoothly and without hiccups for my D620+D630. To me, the latest method is totally "kosher" for SL too.

EDP3 supports Snow Leopard, so it's sort of "universal" now.

Sure, our Latitude laptops are ageing machines by now, but you can get a T7200 or T7400 for about $20...

Good stuff. I have to try Lion on my Vostro 200S again. I was able to set it up with SL last year, but that was with a legacy kernel (ModCD method oblige), had no sound, no wifi (unsupported D-Link card) and I found no kext to support the ATI X1300 Pro 256Mb graphics card. This brings things to a different light now.

Do you know the motherboard model in the 755? It's a revised Foxconn G33M in the Vostro 200, identical to the Inspiron 530, for which there might be a DSDT table somewhere.

Well, I'm on a dual boot HDD with Win7/Lion. No problem in Win7, I can use BT.

The D630 is also my work computer for which I use a separate HDD with XP. And that's where the problem was: in XP, I always disable the BT radio when I'm not using it. You were absolutely right about the F/W flash because I enabled the radio in XP, shutdown the laptop, rebooted on my Lion HDD and bingo! Bluetooth here we go and without any changes to the BIOS settings.

'knew it had to be something stupid. I now have the same LED behavior as experienced on my Inspiron 6000 (for which BT worked from day 1): with BT enabled, the Wifi LED stays off all the time under Mac OS.

On closer look, it's a 360 adapter, it's written on it :$ Just need to find out why it doesn't work properly under SL or Lion...

Yes, as I said, the procedure listed above should be considered obsolete now.

From now on, you should follow the details listed in the E.D.P section of the site: http://www.osxlatitude.com/edp/ It's got everything: step-by-step guidelines, boot packs to download, EDP installation shell, etc, etc.

Ok, well, I think we can conclude that your USB key/HDD preparation is not good. Can you try with another device?

Assuming you have a good/genuine OS X image, you should obtain a good fully bootable installation media with myHack once you add your model-specific /Extra contents at the end of the process.

No messing around with kexts or anything else at that stage, so I'm a bit curious as to your remark about the SleepEnabler kext...

3.0, 3.1 <_ don worry let just say it edp3.>

The download listed in the EDP pages is for the tiny shell script which, when run, will download the latest EDP version. It doesn't really matter to us whether it's a 3.0 or a 3.1 version (that's more for those clever cookies who develop and maintain the tool), it's sort of transparent to us.

A new feature of these last few days is that when you re-run your EDP tool command, it checks if an update is available and you can choose option 5 to update if you wish. You may notice that 3digit revision n°, which is currently at 410.

7hours! There's something very wrong with your USB device!

Which stage were you at when you got this KP? Was it a reboot post EDP installation?

So, its 32bit only then, until you swap it out...

Ok, I have a MT362 BT adapter in the D630 and although it's detected, it won't work: can be detected and cannot detect anything.

I have a BT adapter in my Inspiron 6000 under Leopard and that works perfectly (I think I had actually removed it from the D620 a couple of years ago). I don't have that old banger with me at the moment, so cannot check the model.

Are there any models that are fully supported on the D620/D630 under Snow Leopard & Lion?

Pity this does not work on the D620. If you enable Wake on USB, the D620 won't go to sleep at all (or it does, only to wake up immediately).

The driver for putting the computer to sleep. Install it.

Excellent, congrats! I see you have an SSD drive. How long does it take fast to boot into Lion?

Intel graphics or nVIDIA? It's not the same bootpack for both, so make sure you're using the correct one...