What works: Standard PCMCIA card modem with pre installed Farallon driver, Sony USB Floppy Drive, an ancient IDE external hard disk in an enclosure, Canon Ip4000r Printer, Bluetooth, Sound and Wireless after putting some tape on pin 13 of the Mini PCI card to disable the Acer's Launch Control of the BCM4318 wireless card.
Install Methods summary: Used iPC 10.5.6, Vanilla kernel + applied patches ppf 1-5 to iso from iPC website. You must apply the patches to the iso in order to get all the drivers so that your computer will work, i.e the keyboard and mouse does not work by default. (I did not select a kernel in setup, so it chose the default vanilla kernal, which works. Vodoo and XNU kernels seemed to work, but require furhter testing). Everything else worked fine during install. I did not select a kernel because the setup then uses the vanilla kernal which is not listed. I also did not select a video driver, even though GMAX3100 is compatible, the startup screen would not load when i had this driver installed.
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What doesn't workThe tap for left-click on Touch Pad, you have to click the left-click button. Sleep Mode doesn't wake, you have to force shutdown after. At which point it won't boot Mac OS X without reinserting Rebel EFI, once you boot the partition from Rebel EFI disk (it won't have drivers so you'll need an external mouse to restart) you restart and it will boot without Rebel EFI disk with drivers. For Sound I used the VoodooHDA but everytime I boot I can hear the microphone input, and I have to turn it off manually every boot. The biggest thing that doesn't work is the WiFi! I can only access the internet by attaching an ethernet cable or tethering my jailbroken iPhone with TetherMe.
wifi- Not working on intel 3945 internal wifi card - since I don't want to open up the case to install the working 1390 card-So, I use a belkin f5d7050 v4000 usb wifi with the ZDA21 mac usb driver- Please be patient with driver as it is slow to respond when setting up wep encrpyted AP .
OSx86 Distribution: iPC 10.5.6 PPF5 (upgraded successfully to 10.5.7 without any hiccups)Kernel: VanillaCPU: Intel Centrino Duo RAM: 1 GiB (mine has 2GiB) DDR2Chipset: Intel 945GM/Intel ICH7 family (use the ICHx family drivers)Audio: Conexant Hidef (Mic and Headphones don't work)Video: NVIDIA Geforce Go 7400 (128 MB; use NVDarwin 128 MB)Ethernet: Intel VPro 100 LAN Wireless: Intel 3945abg (not functional but detected after installing the beta drivers; the LED works; wireless networks are not found and connections cannot be made)
ON REBOOT, press "F8" key at Darwin prompt, then type "-f" (no quotes, of course)The intel 2200b/g works if you use the Network Selector utility that is installed the Applications folder with iPC 10.5.6 however, while the utility/driver does make the card function properly (nicely done), make note that it DOES NOT support any wireless encryption (No WEP, no WPA, No WPA2, etc)
OSx86 Distribution: iDeneb v1.4 10.5.6Kernel: 9.6.0 Vanilla (Intel/SSE3)CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU [email protected] Centrino 2 RAM: 3 GiB (mine has 4GiB) DDR2Chipset: Intel ICH9 familyAudio: IDT High-Definition Audio CODEC DriverVideo: NVIDIA Geforce GT130M (1 GB; use NVDarwin 1000 MB)Ethernet: Realtek PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC. Wireless: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100-5300(not functional.beta drivers)Webcam:HP WEBCAM USB HIGH SPEED BUS QUANTA COMPUTER INC V1.09. Installed drivers.
CPU: P7350 2.0ghz - both cores workRAM: 4GB DDR2 - all recognizedVideo: Nvidia 9300M GS - Fully works with resolution changes, QE and CI. Used 9000 series drivers v2 by aquamac. Then installed nvInstaller .52 and selected 512MB, NOT GO drivers.Intel Wifi 5100 AGN - Does not work. HP's BIOS whitelist prevents the wifi card being switched out with a compatible one unless the whitelist is hacked.Audio - Fully works. Internal and external speakers and microphone fully work.Internal mouse and keyboard - need PS2FixKeyboard.pkg to work if you are using a retail distribution. USB - Works.Bluetooth - Works.Webcam - Works.Chipset - Recognized.Speedstep - Works.Restart+Shutdown - Works.Ethernet - Works.Battery Management - Works.HDMI - Video works, but audio does not.Card Reader - Works.Sleep - Goes into sleep, but does not wake up.Validity Fingerprint Reader - Does not work.Brightness Controls - Do not work.Infrared Receiver - Does not work. Getting it all working: Follow this guide: [61]So far, this is turning out to make a great Macbook. If you can live without Wifi, edit the BIOS whitelist or card ID to work, or buy a working USB wifi dongle, then this is an excellent laptop to consider buying .
-Video playback doesn't work due to constant stuttering. Not the occasional stutter, complete, no frame rate, no audio stuttering. I read a link that it may have to do with the AC97 audio driver. I haven't been able to find a fix. ** No problem with the above setting
FULLY WORKING SYSTEMI used iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal, used the Intel 950 video driver, Audio - checked Azalia Audio, Wifi (Atheros) full working -checked IO80211family.kext(10.4), PS2 Keyboard Fix, Power Management checked Clamshell Display Support & AppleACPIBatteryManagement - after install delete /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLPC.kext .
Video Fix:(found on thinkpads.com forum)1. Install the base system. When the system reboots, you'll need to stop it when it prompts for startup options.2. Start in single user mode, using -s3. mount -uw /4. rm -r /system/library/extensions/AppleIntelGMAX*.*5. exitYou'll start using the stock VGA drivers.Using 0SX86Tools (be sure to install), load the x3100 drivers from the site.Reboot and it worked .
Video (Intel GM965) is a bit tricky: The display works straight away during the installation but when booting from the hard disk, the screen won't work directly: you'll get white with black bars, which is due to the driver being unable to read EDID from the monitor, hence using a crap resolution.
Note 1 The video drivers built in work fine, installing anything from here WILL cause the system to sit on a black/blue screen. The internal display works at the correct resolution and external displays are detected and can be configured to native resolutions. DO NOT MIRROR THE DISPLAYS (this causes corruption on both screens and I couldn't resolve it without a reload)Note 2 If you install this you will need to choose 'internal speakers' from the audio settings in System settings. Better kexts are provided hereNote 3 To make the wireless work you will need to edit the 'info.plist' in '/System/Library/Extensions/RTL8187Bt.kext/Contents' and replace the string '33161' with '33175' Alternatively replace the kext with this one. Once that is done use the Realtek wireless utility to connect to a wireless access point.Note 4 Download and install these kexts
Used distro IPC 10.5.6. When I first booted into the install disk, I picked the 9.5.0 Voodoo kernel, no video nor VGA drivers, LegacyAppleIntelPIIXATA Chipset Driver, AC97 Audio driver, PCGenRTL8139 Ethernet driver, no wireless driver, Voodoo power, ACPI fix, CPUS=1 fix, Seatbelt.kext 10.5.5 (so image mounting doesn't cause kernel panic), Shutdown/Restart fix, PS/2 keyboard fix, PS/2 mouse fix, patch DSDT, AppleSMBIOS-27 Rev3 Macbook.
Then you you can finish the install process. Once this is done connect an external monitor. Then use Kext Helper to reinstall all the GMAX3100 files in the /driver directory and reboot.You will see the wallpaper on the external monitor but not the dock or menus.1. with external monitor connected, click anywhere in external monitor to ensure finder is selected2. press shift-alt-a3. type "sys"4. press alt-o5. type "displays"6. hit enter7. at this point you should get the window to change resolutions8. click gather windows9. set both internal and external monitors to correct resolutions (if 1280x800, set to 1280x768 first - use SwitchResX when all is working to get proper [email protected])10. click on Arrangement in the display props to change the external monitor to be the primary monitor by dragging the menu bar to external monitor. 2ff7e9595c
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