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Well solved sort of for Sierra. Get heliport to load at boot time by pressing the alt key when clicking on it from the top right menu bar. Now the weird bit: no sign of the itlwm.kext having loaded because doing: sudo kextstat | grep -i itlwm.kext leads to a blank line. However inputting the ssid details in the Info.plist of the kext works like magic & after rebooting you get the Airport icon filled on the menu bar (it's a fake not really airport) & you really get connected to the Internet & LAN home network of your router. just fill this & reboot (exact name of your ssid & associated password): <key>WiFiConfig</key> <dict> <key>WiFi_1</key> <dict> <key>password</key> <string>zxyssdt112233</string> <key>ssid</key> <string>ssdt</string> It's kind of dirty manual cooking, but it works. For those like in my case where heliport & the kext do not behave.

On WiFi, for those who like little (or big) challenges & whose hobby like this one of mine is to get OSes work... In previous posts I noted that Airport could be successfully simulated in High Sierra & above using this project: AirportItlwm https://github.com/OpenIntelWireless/itlwm/releases However this didn't work for Sierra though, but it is claimed that Itlwm.kext would enable WiFI, but for that one needs a helper application called Heliport: Download Heliport https://github.com/OpenIntelWireless/HeliPort/releases/tag/v1.4.1 https://openintelwireless.github.io/HeliPort/Installation.html Well I couldn't make it work as for some reason the Itlwm.kext would not load. Of course one could use an external WiFi dongle just for Sierra, but then what's the use if one gets a perfect Airport using High Sierra. As I said just a challenge or if one insists on using Sierra on Dell Latitude E5550.

Maybe, I'm on Sierra for my MacBook Air mid 2011 6,2 Mojave, High Sierra, Yosem, ElCapitan... I use SSD's. High Sierra & Catalina on macmini7,1 but I use thunderbolt 2.0 running Windows 11. Fooling around with OSes is a hobby to me, I enjoyed using Chrome OS on different laptops, PCs, etc... I rarely use anything but Windows 10 & 11 nowadays as I got all my software on Windows & have an Office 365 subscription. PS: I also have an old macmini3,1 which is supposed to only run ElCapitan tops, & with the hack I use High Sierra on it, it's also my favorite box to run Tails on. At one stage I managed to install Windows 10 on it, it ran decently, but then I broke it with Paragon software & couldn't be bothered to reinstall it as too much work for bootcamp which is limited to Windows 7 officially on that Mac.

Works also for Sierra somewhat, will go into kernel panic though, but can get in using -x safe mode. Reports full QE/CI for graphics Intel HD5500 in safe mode. I found a way to solve this by using some kexts in the 10.12 Clover kexts folder, this from another user who solved for Sierra: links; https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/322034-guide-dell-latitude-e5440-macos-sierra/ his Clover EFI here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/174mrMtUcb1eqTG1Ag4Lr9yqmdHlsLz_o/view?usp=sharing by doing so I get everything working bar Airport (kext AirportItlwm_v2.2.0_stable_Mojave.kext.zip simulating Airport doesn't work for Sierra, but worls for Mojave & High Sierra) there is another project to get WiFi with a similar kext Itlwm, it goes as far as recognizing the integrated network card but does not activate the hardware) maybe it needs some extra input. Might attach the corresponding Clover EFI folder for Sierra later for those interested who have an OSX Latitude E5550 they want to run Sierra on, though High Sierra or Mojave are better, I did this only because I had a USB 3.0 stick with Sierra installed, it's just a hobby for me.

Thanks Mr Jake Lo, I will disable it back. PS. I do not think it is wise to remove this extra entry that identifies the NVidia's chip in config.plist (even if we disable it): <key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)</key> <dict> <key>hda-gfx</key> <string>onboard-1</string> </dict>

Some extra notes: I wanted to see what happens if I remove the kernel flag nv_disable=1 & remove from the ACPI the disable Nvidia GPU patch graciously provided by Jake Lo: The result is not destructive & just gets the NVidia GPU detected & listed in the system profiler: This is why an extra entry for it was needed in config Properties section: <key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)</key> <dict> <key>hda-gfx</key> <string>onboard-1</string> </dict> It's sad we cannot make use of NVidia CUDAS even in High Sierra as the NVidia GPU does not get activated even there.

I must thank Unicorn for settings from here (link given by Jake Lo, also thanks); https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/16263-latitude-e5550-clover-opencore-efi-for-catalinabig-sur/ I used the Properties section settings for config.plist in my clover boot efi which worked for everything else but no QE/CI graphics. I copied over the cloverx64.file only from Unicorn clover, but left the bootx64.efi bootloader which works for me v5102. Finally there is a Quirks section which I don't understand at all, initially I didn't paste it over to my config.plist. Then I was curious & tried it, it does not damage anything but I wonder what it does or improves, the quirks settings comes from opencore but was incorporated later into clover. These are notes for myself about what I did to have a fully functional hackintosh on Dell Latitude E5550 with OS X High Sierra & Mojave (that is except for trackpad scrolling & gestures). config.plist.solved+quirks.zip

11 & 28 are there, & the audio works, with 11 only sometimes HDMI appear on its own, sometimes analog & sometimes both. With 11 & 28 both HDMI & analog audio appear reliably, so unless it stops working I keep them both. Also the bootloader is "hybrid" it uses cloverx64.efi later version but bootx64 is for Clover 5102. If I use bootx64 boot aligned version with Clover version it will not boot. It's cooking but it works for my setup with full QE/CI. Trackpad: SkyrillHD kext does not help, still no gestures, just move, point, right click, no selection ability either, there might be no solution for this trackpad. I will make do with an ordinary mouse or Apple external trackpad when/if I use this laptop with Mac OS.

I removed all kexts from /L/E & /S/L/E that can be run exclusively from Clover ../Other/kexts. but sometimes when I have different versions of OS X to test I do as needed per case. I need to delete all the kexts I added for trackpad & try SkyrillHD separately. In config.plist there is both injection for HDMI & layout id 11

Neither Rehabman's nor Slice's nor acidanthera 's voodooPS2Controller worked for me, I put it in L/E, now will try in the Clover kexts folder but I doubt it will work either. For the audio my settings gets both analog & hdmi sound, so I will only touch this if later I try hdmi & there is an issue, though I'm not interested in using with this laptop an external HDMI monitor, I might test it if I am bored later. & that's a noper, trackpad not cracked yet... anyways I have an Apple magic trackpad & it works perfectly. I am going o try these suggestions in here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/rm7ma0/fixed_trackpad_dell_latitude_5480/?rdt=42093

Well, never perfect, trackpad no longer supports scrolling so I have to use a USB mouse for that, it can point, & has right/left click but no 2-finger scrolling. Checking Rehabman drivers for trackpad/touchpad here: https://code.google.com/archive/p/os-x-voodoo-ps2-controller/downloads from https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller

Finally, I have graphics acceleration thanks to the resource given by Jake Lo. I have no exact idea which this worked because the Clover configurator (v5.26) initially complained with red flash icons, but the cooking I used worked, I call it cooking because for me it is mostly trial & error. So I used the combination which already worked for everything apart from QE/CI acceleration. Then injected the Properties for the video. Ticked some extra bits which Herve disapproves of, Replaced the old CLOVERX64.efi with the new one from the resource I got, & it worked. To make sure I am including here the config.plist that works as attached. I will copy & paste some relevant bits showing the outcome. I removed the Airport hack, maybe it helped, I will put it back. It seems I lost ethernet also, but it's easy to fix even using an ethernet usb dongle. Here from Hakintool: & System Profiler: & ioreg which now shows the correct framebuffer to input, attached. config.plist.zip Dell-E5550.ioreg.zip

Thanks Mr Jake Lo, Health & calm permitting, I will try those. I might also clone on SSD a vanilla Catalina working on a real Mac macmini7,1 & try Clover & OpenCore on it as there is more work on Catalina & forward than older High Sierra, Mojave. Thanks to you all for support. Stay Safe.

As I linked up I'm not the only one. I also tried pre-OC merge Clover v5119, it does not recognise apfs fusion drive, I have hfs Mojave too, it will choke at boot up. The apfs version is as vanilla as it can be as I updated it through the Mac OS Recovery Drive. The only thing extra is getting patches to run them on MacBook Air 4,2 (mid 2011), they both run perfectly well. The apfs one runs perfectly on macmini7,1 so acts as vanilla. I am tired, I got everything working bar graphics, I will use the laptop for other OSes, time to have fun with Chrome OS (Tails, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Windows 10, 8.1, 11 all work perfectly well oob). Thanks & sorry for wasting your time, I might come back to it later on insanelymac where I have put 2 threads there. Chameleon was easier to handle for me up to Sierra. Be Safe. theNabster

Hi Jake, I didn't move any FakePCI* to /L/E/ Hi Herve, Clover v5155 brings me to square -1: It gives me usual graphical menu, only shows what is on the drive that has the EFI it's installed on, (I have two drives or more; USB3 & eSATA attached with several versions of OS X, Sierra, High Sierra, etc) when I select the only option it shows which is obviously Mojave all I get is a blank screen. I tried to run config.plist by the latest configurator & saved it to boot, same thing, again I tried re-install Clover with standard options over what I installed already (please note I installed the first instance on a blank EFI partition, then added kexts & ACPI patches & overwrote config.plist). no go... as I said earlier, I experimented with Clover before & the only one that worked for me was version 5102. I note that you used I think a lower version for your setup 509x I think. Don't forget this is a 2019 laptop, so quite old, I had the same problem with Motherboard Asus P8H67-M LE High Sierra & Mojave which was solved working 100%. I will try to reinstall again without the config.plist & see if it will boot but I strongly doubt it. Clover v5155 does not work for me, I get a blank screen no matter what I try. Will search to see if there is a solution but I remember on my work for a custom made PC I built with motherboard Asus P8H67-M LE, the best Clover was v5102. Yes it is documented here after 5120 black screen for Clover... https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader/issues/269