stuartmc

Thanks for all the help so far. Now have a problem with the wireless card, ordered what I thought was a 1490 but it seems to be a chinese copy. The genuine 1490 I have in the D630 works fine in the M4300 and is identified in the BIOS as Dell Wireless Card. The chinese copy is identified as a Broadcom in the BIOS but OSX doesn't see it. Is there a generic kext for this card and can someone gove me instructions on how to incorporate it. The card ID is BCM94311MCA GBP2 rev P2

10.8.2 gives the usual fail but after restart it is 10.8.2 Resolved the trackpad problem by switching off two finger scrolling. Someone suggested ANV-Slice to fix this but I am not sure what this will do and how to install it.

About this Mac produces an NVidia GeForce 8400M 256Mb if that helps. About to try the 10.8.2 update will let you know how I get on with that.

I have successfully installed it just using the D630 USB that I already had. It seems to be working with the exception of the touchpad which is giving a very inconsistent response. The LCD is a high res 1920 X 1200 but this is also working fine. I am waiting to replace the Intel wi-Fi with Broadcom which I had to do on the D630 already. When I ran EDP I also chose the D630. Can't understand why the M4300 wouldn't install. This time it starts without the USB plugged in, still get the startup disk error but it seems to work.

Well just used my D630 USB Stick and it has installed and is working without having to use USBfix so not sure what is going on. It will only start with the USB stick in. When I try to change startup disk I get the error "Building boot caches on boot helper partition failed" Thanks for all the help, beginning to think I should have just bought another D630 as that installed so easily.

Thanks for the tip tried but it still did the same thing. I have installed it fine on a D630 so the InstallESD should be fine. Are there any other settings in the BIOS I should check to make sure that it is ok. Also can anyone confirm which wireless card should work with the M4300

I am also having problem with M4300 and 10.8. Tried 10.7 as well and no better. With the verbose option on it just sits at the following [ PCI Configuration begin ] Has anyone else managed to install on M4300 without any problems. Thanks

DW1490 arrived this morning, installed in a breeze and now working on wi-fi. Thank you all for your help, well pleased with an OSX 10.8 dual core laptop for £175 all in. Now just need to sell my PowerPC Mac Mini.

Thanks have installed Double Command and just selected the British -PC keyboard layout to resolve the @ " swap. Now working. Sorry for the newb question but how do I find and install the ANV-Slice. Found an ANV-Slice Modified folder in the Extra folder on my Macitude. Is this the right one and what do I do to install it. Would be good to be able to use the two finger scrolling but only if it doesn't mess other things up.

Thanks again Seb. I had to switch the two finger scrolling off and now the trackpad works fine.

Thanks for the rapid response. Just ordered a DW1490 so hope it's easy to fit. Just a quick one my keyboard works fine even though the " and @ are reversed, didn't have to install anything additional to get it working. Trackpad is very slow to respond though USB mouse works fine. Do I just need to copy the extra Kexts into the extensions to get it to work?

Firstly thank you for the great guide. All installed according to guide, even 10.8.1 got unexpected error but worked anyway. Has anyone successfully got the Intel Wi-Fi working as my D630 has this card. If I go down the replcement route from ebay, what is best card and would I need to re-install from scratch or can I just swap the card and it will work? Thanks.