Samsung NC10 UK revision, Updates / Installation / Modding etc, stuff will be here Options

[mauritsz]

install it with bcm43xx network card, dont take it out, just make sure you choose NC10 option in customize window in installation part...

I did and get the NC10 text in the welcome screen but after after next reboot the apple logo hangs...

I,ve tried 4 times, i do now use your hash link to get the proper hash values, tnx!

[ Mysticus C*]

I did and get the NC10 text in the welcome screen but after after next reboot the apple logo hangs...

I,ve tried 4 times, i do now use your hash link to get the proper hash values, tnx!

let me clear it out again, some people miss it, in the install screen, you need to choose NC10 option, in order for your drivers to be installed correctly! you may have missed the option and installed plain osx without drivers!

[toc70]

I installed it for the first time last night and all went well. Some of the last screens were different from the tutorial, but i guessed the author had just imporved the install. I never needed the usb keyboard until i got to the screen "press key to the right of the left shift key" etc. Would i still need it for this part of the install? The reason i ask is, i borrowed the usb keyboard and have given it back. Now i want to re-install with smaller partitions.

Please advise,

Many thanks.
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I did the installation without external keyboard. Everything fine.
I don't remember exactly if I got the screen "press key..." to identify the keyboard... if I got it, I very likely typed the key on NC10's keyboard.
Bye.

md5 of the original jas is F7E82424D6EFB474950B361DB7840C91

md5 of the new 10.5.6 iso after ppf is 766E0A44E0E55CCCCB4942DBD3FC3D87

so you either have a damaged iso, or using a program that calculates wrong md5... google "AccuHash" this program calculates correctly... i tried many programs to figure out how wrong can it get

mauritsz: it may be a problem with your bios settings? and/or you didnt choose the nc10 package in the customize window, or it may be glitch with the network issue...? provide more information as what you have done, and wheter you changed your wifi or not, and wheter u checked your bios settings?

I checked the image with MacOSX's "md5" ("md5 <filename>" in Terminal) and I got exactly the numbers mentioned by Mysticus.
It's very likely that there are corrupted images floating around.

[blueheaven]

I'm on my way installing this beauty, but the third OSX3 partition is bothering me... i have the 2 partitions i created at the start of the guide. On the third is the image mounted to the DDMAC partition. Do i have to make that into the 3rd partition?

2nd i now have the Intel 5300 AGN PCIe WiFi card installed, i'm aware it's not recognized by OSX, but it has great speed. What is a similar (speedwise) card that i can install?



Ok i've got the boot problem, but pressing F4 doesn't do anything... any solutions, thanx
edit: hitting ESC gets me in the bios setup, that's all.

[ Mysticus C*]

I'm on my way installing this beauty, but the third OSX3 partition is bothering me... i have the 2 partitions i created at the start of the guide. On the third is the image mounted to the DDMAC partition. Do i have to make that into the 3rd partition?

2nd i now have the Intel 5300 AGN PCIe WiFi card installed, i'm aware it's not recognized by OSX, but it has great speed. What is a similar (speedwise) card that i can install?


Ok i've got the boot problem, but pressing F4 doesn't do anything... any solutions, thanx

wifi card suggestion is made in the first post of this topic, go for dell dw 1490...

for boot problem, you got to explain your problem clearly, saying i got boot problem doesnt mean anytg, what is happening, and what you see on the screen, and screen cap maybe more helpful

[blueheaven]

about the boot problem, first line, message:
"Operating System not found"
second line: a blinking cursor
That's all.
edit1: i plugged in my USB XP install stick, rebooted and to my surprise it booted into XP
edit2: i'm getting there (i think) i'll go to bed now and in a few hours i will be at it again, if it all will work i have the option to boot XP, VISTA or W7. And if i choose XP i have the option to boot XP or OSX

[freQk]

I ordered a dell dw 1390, is this less good then a 1490?

[ Mysticus C*]

I ordered a dell dw 1390, is this less good then a 1490?

1490 is a better choice, but money is yours..

[Smoothie_92]

Or why not a BCM4321 (Dell 1505) for 25$/17£. Got mine for 16£

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Broadcom-802-11n-300...p3286.m63.l1177

Cards badged as HP are usually much cheaper than the dell cards, but they still uses the same chip .

[DJKwai]

In case folks were interested, Dense posted a couple of screen shots (sort of) of the progress being made on the audio driver. You can see the post here: http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/hda-audio-so...t-t7626-40.html

Unfortunately, it looks like the voodoo team isn't quite done yet, but it is nice to see the progress they are making.

[jdenbrok]

I did as I said, installed osx again. After the install the computer did a reboot and only got boot1 missing. F4 didnt work anymore. But i used gparted to flag the windows drive at boot and it worked. Used testdisk to get my data drive back. °I think everything works now. And I am actually getting the feeling I am learning things

[bleu34]

To help the people to decide which wifi card they could select, I give you my personal experience on it.

I bought an Atheros 5008 card which works perfecty on my triple boot XP SP3 / Ubuntu 8.10 / OSX 10.5.6.
I selected a wifi N card since I have all my data stored on a NAS, I did not yet tested it in Wifi N (my router is on the way to home) but with wifi G is already working "out of the box". Only XP needs a driver.

For the one interested, I bought it on ebay to a seller named notebookelite. It cost me 28$ + 7$ for transport from Hong-Kong to France (In Euro it finally cost me 25€).
For info it's written Toshiba on this card.

I'm really happy since I lost to much time trying to tweak the samsung's card without success, here the problem was solved in 5 minutes (thanks to this guide for clean opening of the NC10).

Next step for me is to test the wifi N and to add a third antenna inside the NC10 if needed. Anyway I have to find this small antenna also... I saw another ebay shop were the guy was selling the same 5008 card + 3 antennas, but my order was already launched. So now I need to find this antenna.

And I would like to take the opportunity to thanks Mysticus for his great job !

[blueheaven]

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Next step for me is to test the wifi N and to add a third antenna inside the NC10 if needed. Anyway I have to find this small antenna also... I saw another ebay shop were the guy was selling the same 5008 card + 3 antennas, but my order was already launched. So now I need to find this antenna.

And I would like to take the opportunity to thanks Mysticus for his great job !

here you can find the antenna, i used it for my Intel 5300
edit: link working now...

[G4-Flo]

Well, today i found this thread about a marvell yukon network driver.
As I'm at work I can't test it out. Might this be a solution to get the LAN working?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=15700

I know, lan isn't really important to the most of us, but it would be for someone a "nice2have".

[freQk]

1490 is a better choice, but money is yours..

I thought it was all the same thing, why is 1390 less good?
I already ordered it...

[blueheaven]

@Mysticus C*, got it up and running now . Just like to say thanx for this awesome achievement. Absolute great guide you made for installing this. Thanx again for the time and effort you put in to this.
I'm gonna try and use my N95 BT to connect to the internet, so i don't have to buy that WiFi card, not so fast but it will do i guess...

[ninzeo]

Just managed to install the OS X 10.5.6. iso and it seems to work fine; great work Mysticus, thanks! I do have a few questions left:

- during the install(I installed the latest 10.5.6. iso at once) I didn't have to plugin external keyboard and mouse, is this already implemented in the 10.5.6.? Are all upgrades you hosted seperately(like the trackpad and keyboard plugins) already implemented in this 10.5.6.?

- Working in OS X now, I notice a strange inaccuracy of my mouse and trackpad. It seems to move very slow at first, which gives the feeling of a delay,(when slowly moving the mouse) and then accelerate way too fast. Anyone else experiencing this? Is there a solution? I experience this issue with both my trackpad and with an external BT mouse.

- When I tried to upgrade the brightness icons(with the package you provided), it keeps asking me for the OS X install CD (which I of course don't have). Is this normal and how can I workaround this and install updates like these?
Regarding the brightness: I also noticed that increasing or decreasing the brightness goes extremely slow. It takes a few seconds and then it pops up/down a level of brightness. Almost as if my CPU can't handle the command. No other things are running in the background, so this seemed very odd to me. Again, is this normal and is this issue fixed when installing the new brightness icons?

Thanks in advance!

[mauritsz]

let me clear it out again, some people miss it, in the install screen, you need choose NC10 option, in order for your drivers to be installed correctly! you may have missed the option and installed plain osx without drivers!

Oahhh, I thought the checkbox was allready filled with an - but now I see must be checked manually! Thank you very much for the help. I like the OS very much it even has a lot of my native language in dutch. I'm now looking for a MAC Usenet reader.
What a nice OS! I'm very happy with it, thanks for the hard work you did. I make a donation soon


By4now!

[freQk]

Oahhh, I thought the checkbox was allready filled with an - but now I see must be checked manually! Thank you very much for the help. I like the OS very much it even has a lot of my native language in dutch. I'm now looking for a MAC Usenet reader.
What a nice OS! I'm very happy with it, thanks for the hard work you did. I make a donation soon


By4now!

Unison, hands down.
http://www.panic.com/unison/

[ Mysticus C*]

djkwai: thanx for the info, we are all really looking forward to it, but i think the days are almost over it should be out really soon. well hopefuly...

freqk: read post#1286, i suggested 1490, and many times before, this is what i m using, and didnt have any single problem since the beginning... 1390 is older chipset 1490 is better improved overall in reception and other tech areas well people report success with other models as well so choice to make is depending on your research... but 1390 should work as well...

jdnbrok: i dont really know why it happened, and never heard anyone got this trouble either... may be a glitch or maybe something you have done in the process knowingly or not knowingly... but glad to hear you sorted it out.... good luck... good newbie is one that does not stuck with things in front of him, and not scared to try things on his own!

bleu34: are you sure atheros 5008 card is working OTB? i think you wrote something wrong there? bcoz nc10 comes with a variation of atheros 5008 card already... unless the support for 5008 added with 10.5.6 update which i didnt check it myself nor anyone else? anyone can confirm this?

g4-flo: it is a different marvel card mate. solution would be to write your own bsd port to osx, or watch this thread which slice is coming to some sort of results already... but not just yet...

blueheaven: also visit the nc10 files section to find bluetooth on/off fix

ninzeo: some drivers are added in the 10.5.6, and some fixes added seperately to nc10 files section later! I can suggest you to install, airport fix for more devices support, brightness icons, bluetooth fix for controling on/off anyime, trackpad fix for showing trackpad menu in the system preferences, uk keyboard layout if you have uk kb, old fb if you want mirroring option to work in osx, as the current latest one works with only desktop extension, and enabling mirroring jerks everything...

also brightness script control should not take very long after first launch (first time it detects the port used which takes a bit of time, but later it should not take more than 2-3 secs... well there are drawbacks in not having real macs

trackpad's weird aspect ratio is the most likely causes this strange behaviour, but dont think that disturbing. (X axis moves slower to compansate lenght -left-to-right-, as Y axis is much shorter and moves faster -up-and-down-)

mauritsz: good luck with your system, hope you can enjoy it now...