I tried it because I've not had the Dell card work correctly with Kismac and the Airport Extreme driver option. I thought that if the system reported it as a proper Airport card, Kismac's drivers might work correctly.


Just because you can't see the reason, doesn't mean there isn't one.

Thanks again!

1st why are you trying with kismac, while built in drivers support bcm 43xx drivers! (unless if your dell wifi is not 43xx?)

2nd airport fix is not fixing card's provider, rather device id fix to identify more bcm43xx chips. As mentioned some scripts to fix the airport card show up as bluetooth! What the script does is to add the ids into the info.plist, not change the manufacturer of the card...

3rd what do you think airport is? supersonic apple device? it is just a name for the wireless interface. By naming it "Third party card" or "Apple" named card, you dont change the fact that it is still built-in wireless network interface card! Why people are so obsessed with things they dont even understand what it is... It still shows up as airport card just the manufacturer is third party rather than apple branded.

4th are you telling me off that i dont understand the crap you are talking about?

"Just because you can't see the reason, doesn't mean there isn't one"
this is because you dont understand what you are doing, and you dont know how to report problem properly!

people mess up their system all the time knowingly or not knowingly and complain that things doesnt work.
when they dont even know what they are talking about or what they have done, it makes it even worse because you dont even know what to report or how to report!

If you got a correct dell card, it should have worked, however, you dont even explain what card you have, what model, what device id etc... Plust you even went for kismac which most likely created even more mess in your system by now... do you know why people were trying to use kismac for? more importantly do you know what model/chip dell card do you have?

if so, you can start giving information, rather than spitting out some crap as if you know what you are doing...

Hey man, I never said I knew what I was doing, I told you *why* I was trying it.

Look at every post I've made, always a thank you, always gracious and tried to help others if I could, you've done a genius job and we all know it, *removed a bit, as I really don't want to start an argument*

Again, thanks for all your time and effort, you've made this Samsung one of the best laptops I've owned, but you've really got to chill out a little.

--just adding a little info, which I admit I should have elaborated on first post--
I'm using the Mysticus C* OSX 10.5.6 install from Demonoid. I have a Dell 1390 wifi card, which has worked beautifully with the OS from first install.

I know exactly what Kismac is, having used it for about 4 years now. I use it for network intrusion/penetration testing and collecting/mapping SSIDs and APs in conjunction with a USB GPS device. I upload these to wigle.net, and am currently sitting around 134th place, worldwide.

So yes, I know what Kismac is. I know it also won't mess up a system even more by just running it, as all it will do is create a prefs file.

Kismac does not load the Apple Airport Extreme driver correctly. Kismac's driver is not labelled as a BCMXX card, just plain old Apple Extreme Card, hence thinking that it's relying on a system string to identify the cards. I'm fairly sure when I had OS X installed on my Asus 701 EEE that Kismac worked fine with the same Dell 1390 card, because it was recognised as an original Apple Extreme Card.

Maybe with this bit of information it is important that the card string is identified correctly for Kismac, and if so, it's worth getting the .pkg to work properly. Can anyone who has a Dell card showing up as an Apple Airport Extreme card verify that Kismac works ok?

And no, I don't think the Apple Extreme card is some kind of super sonic device. That was quite funny

I don't want to fall out with you Mysticus, or anyone on the forum, so hopefully this bit of info will go some way to explaining why I tried the airport .pkg,

cheers
mud

well i m still fine, just annoyed being told off for something you dont even understand.

simple is that you didnt report problem rather mentioned it shows up as third party, which is not a problem since most people's card showing up as third party but still airport and working just fine, many people mentioned from the beginning of this topic about 1490 or 1500 series cards, and people are still buying older chips... also, when people say things doesnt work, doesnt help with solving problems! it just drives people crazy...

"i tried the solution, it doesnt work" what doesnt work? what chip does your card have (simple windows boot, checking device manager, to see wireless cards details would be more helpful) but no, reporting something that is not even a problem, just pisses me (i dont know others) off usually...

as far as i m concerned with the usage and current state of the nc10, there is no major problem from doing most of the things at the moment. People are only stuck with the more smaller details that are not even problems at all (better to say natural as we are not using a real mac!)

Agree 100%

Hi Guys,

just for the record I'd like to state that Camdenblokehere is an absolute gentleman and a scholar and a fine judge of women and wine.

Hi Mysticus C*,
unfortunately, the two fixes dont seem to work on my machine. anyway, thanks for your efforts. it's really no big deal if i cant turn off bluetooth.. the machine is working beautifully.

I'm not sure if it would work. I looked around in the directory of the Parallels installer and I found a small program called "cpu_check". Upon execution it gives out information about your CPU and if it is suitable for virtualisation. It recognises the Intel CPU but since it does not have HW virtualisation it states that the CPU is not able to run Parallels. It seems like Parallels was built without support for SW virtualisation... Again, I've not tried yet to install Parallels so it may run despite the disccouraging output from that tool.

I installed virtualbox (http://www.virtualbox.org) which installed fine and I was able to successfully install Windows XP in a virtual machine. Windows did also boot up but keeps freezing (completely) randomly when surfing the web via IE or trying to run Google Chrome. So that's not a viable solution unfortunatley :-/

I wouldn't use Windows very often - but since converting my NC10 to OS X has rid me of any Windows installation in the household (media server is runnning Linux) I have to to things like update my phone firmware in the office...

Cheers, much appreciated. Thank you for your praise. Hope you received the PM I sent... there's been a slight problem...


Andy.

i have been reading along this thread quite a time.

thx for the great work mysticus!

@tiomo1981:
found this:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=95210
maybe it helps you. haven't tested it yet.

tutti: can you try -v -f boot at start?

i may be wrong, and may need to change the installer for once more, because of the funny behaviour of the kextcache watching mechanism in leo. I didnt make the caches to be deleted, therefore it may be not be getting effective after restart because leo first uses kextcaches for quick boot, and if it is not updated, it will not load new changes sometimes i overlook at problems maybe it complicates simple tasks... it should have updated the caches since we are editing the driver, anyways, i will add the kextcache removal to the current fixes and therefore it should work for all... hopefully, in the meantime, people who have applied fixes, please boot using -v -f (this will ensure reloading all the drivers!)

how?

at boot screen counter when you choose your os x partition, press f8, and it brings selection window, and over there using arrow keys, bring the selection to your current osx partition, and type
-v -f
and than press enter you will see bunch of text flying, and hopefully this should solve the problems!


NOTE: I have now added the fixed bluetooth and airport fixes with cache removal and therefore it will ensure to reload new edited drivers upon restart!

Thanks for the link. Looks like that won't work for version 4. I might try it anyway if VMware fusion doesn't work. That's my next step, try to make Windows XP run under VMware fusion.

BTW, while Windows was running under virtualbox I found the speed to be acceptable. Quite remarkable for such a low-powered system like the NC10.

I installed Shades which lets me control brightness - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23370

The trick is that I can't reach the level of brightness possible on power when running on battery. Anyone else seeing that? I usually run a less bright screen on battery but it's nice to have the option to go higher. In windows I usually have it set to around 3 bars and I can't get past what looks like 2 in os x mode.

Shades doesn't change your brightness, although it looks like that. It's only changing the brightness/contrast of the colors. So it looks like the brightness of the backlit is changing but for real only the colors are getting darker at the same backlit-level. That's why you won't reach full brightness on battery as there's not more backlit available.

alright so what's the trick here? When I run the scripts for brightness it basically freezes either Quicksilver or the Script Editor. I can't get this working ... ;(

This has really nothing to do with shades. Shades isn't able to change the backlight level, neither on a mac or a hackintosh. It just reduces the color gammut an makes white to gray and gray to black and so on.

Sorry, but you will have to explain a bit more about your issue to get some help.

I want to change the brightness of my display. If I boot unpluggd, the battery mode seems to limit the level it can achieve. When plugged in, the boot up brightness is considerably higher. I've got no way to make any adjustments. As noted earlier, when I run the quicksilver trigger or even just use the script editor try and make adjustments it locks up the application and there's no change.

OK, you didn't tell me anything new. Please tell what you've already tried. Go to BikeTown and download the installation guide from mysticus, everything is explained HOW TO GET BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT WORK.

There are some points you have to look at, like the correct pci id, chud and so on. How should anybody help you if you explain nothing about your current config? Please also read the last 10 pages of this thread, there are many hints to get brightness work.

I've read and followed the installation guide. I was unsuccessful a few times getting a keychain request to initiate but it eventually did and I added my creds. Now though when I use my key to adjust brightness I see the icon pop up and then there's a very long delay (over a minute) until the beachball stops spinning and then nothing ...

install
chud package from nc10 files section first
and
brightness icon update

after that follow the guide to make scripts work...

if you dont install chud, scripts wont work!

installed CHUD, rebooted ... deleted my password for brightness control from the keychain. I've just re-installed the brightness package and deleted and re-added the triggers in Quicksilver.

Pressing Windows + Down I see the new icon, but it's hanging there ... no prompt for password, no change in brightness.

I can report success. I'm posting this reply to my own post using Google Chrome under Windows XP. VMware Fusion works very well on the NC10. Speed is nothing great but acceptable if you just need to boot windows once in a while.

do you have one of the patched framebuffer drivers (this is the first step in order for the scripts to work, patched fb driver allows brightness controll manually) or you are just using your own version of mixture of drivers?

also what version of distro are you using? bcoz you are very new user and i dont wanna be pissed at you for not providing any information and wasting people's time bcoz of using everything you grabbed from here and there, and asking for help for your own mixture of soup...

the very reason i made this topic to unite people to use similar packages and files in order to cut down errors and debugging user errors, if you dont have any experience, and still using some other distro other than nc10 osx, it will be a huge pain in the a$$ for anyone who tries to help you... the reason is that you may have completely messedup your system with so many different packages and files installed by the distro you are using or your own mess...

i still provide seperate files and packages for people with knowledge/experience that they know what they are doing... unfortunatelly i dont like to debug other distro users' errors bcoz of so many factors involved in these processes...

so once again, i m just warning you! provide all the information about what you have in your system, and what additional stuffs have u done, without making people to ask you one at a time, provide them all!!!

else you will start getting some harsh words, because my patience is running out at people just coming up to topic and not reading anything and jumping to last page to stat wasting space and not providing any information but asking question...

I sincerely appreciate both your patience and help!

I'm using your iso file which was for 10.5.5 and I updated my system to 10.5.6. The system is the stock NC10 though I've updated the RAM to 2GB and have the drive partitioned a bit differently. I have 4 partitions - Win7, XP, OSX and an open one which is where the ISO was loading from ...

No special drivers other than your stuff from bike town.

Did you use Mysticus' update package or did you do a regular OS X update?

I used software update ... guess that was incorrect?

it worked!! thanks a lot Mysticus C*!

That's no problem, but after that you need to apply the NC10 10.5.6 Driver Package or if you prefer you can also use the older one.

thanks mysticus, you are the best! install worked great although my sound has stopped working atm, ah well i'm sure it'll be back!

thanks for all your hard work

I originally installed superhais latest voodoopower, but it made my machine unstable - random crashes and audio stuttering. I've now gone back to its previous incarnation, GenericCPUPowerManagement, dated mid December and that seems to work fine - no crashes so far.

[Edit]

Actually... just had a couple of kernel panics, so think that GCPUPM is also flawed.

confirmed and re-applied the update ... still freezing on brightness commands. argh .... seems to be the one thing I can't get going and of course the one I want the most!

the only good advice i can give you is get the latest 10.5.6 iso if you dont have jas 10.5.4 iso,

if you jas 10.5.4 iso, grab the ppf, and apply, you will get 10.5.6....

and reinstall evertyhing, bcoz i m most definetely sure you messed up some other things as well in your system, everyone else seems to get it work but you...

jifop: i m not sure why you lost your sound, but guess, you didnt enable speaker in sound settings yet bcoz by default it is set to headphone which is not working rite now... anyways, real sound solution hopefully coming this weekend as per dense explained!

camden: mate, dont bother using pm drivers, using bluetooth off, and brightness control gives 5.5-6 hours battery life... so no trouble in there, although good to have pm, however having constant trouble doesnt worth it...

DOH!!! thanks mysticus, again thanks for all your hard work!

cheers mate. I've pretty much given up now... the perfectionist side of me would just like to get it working!

hi everyone.
I'll keep it short; I will be getting my NC10 in the mail in a few days, along with 2GB of ram and a new wifi card.
It will be my first time experimenting with OSX86, I'm looking forward to it.

But words cannot describe how hard it was to get my hands on a NC10 10.5.6 ISO (even the PPF patch was impossible to find).

The only working link was a 20 part rar file hosted on Shragle.
I decided to save myself and others who were looking for the ISO the trouble.
I purchased a premium account on the site, downloaded the 20 files and got the ISO.

I will upload it to Demonoid, recompressed to get rid of the password.

I hope this will help everyone else who struggled.

The file is:
NC10_JaS.OSx86.10.5.6.Intel.SSE2.SSE3_Mysticus.iso
from the archive:
NC10Jax861056InE23_myst.partXX.rar

Before I upload it
I am worried about something: I checked the MD5 checksum of the above iso with this one
"MD5 of the new iso after ppf: 766E0A44E0E55CCCCB4942DBD3FC3D87"
from http://mysticus.titanous.com/update.html
Are they supposed to match? At the LAST file to download, firefox did not "end" the transfer when it was done (200mb of 200mb) and the speed of the download was frozen at ~100kb/s. I proceeded to extract the file with no error.

Anyway, I do to want to waste anyone's time by uploading a corrupt file, so if someone can indicate if these checksums were supposed to match, it would be much appreciated.

Please reply ASAP so I can sort these matters out and start seeding the torrent.


Thank You.

edit:
here is the MD5 of the ISO (I am currently redownloading all the .rars i foolishly deleted, just in case.)
ac37a67c09270b4c1aad43db9afdb9f9

looks like the original torrent for 10.5.6 is gone ... looking to download this one once you get it up!

yeah, i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have been able to extract anything if the archive was corrupt, but again, i don't want to waste anyone's time.
the faster i can get an answer about this the faster i can start seeding the ISO for other people.

md5 of the 10.5.6 iso is
766E0A44E0E55CCCCB4942DBD3FC3D87

it is not
ac37a67c09270b4c1aad43db9afdb9f9 !!!!

make sure you dont seed something corrupt!

That's exactly what I'm doing, thanks for clearing things up!
Will upload a torrent as soon as possible.
(After checking the MD5, of course)

Update:
Demonoid link: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1764...?rel=1232234868
Uncompressed ISO, that way anyone can help seed without needing to redownload it. Anyone who sees this message and has the NC10 10.5.6 ISO should help, it's very hard to find for people who don't have it yet.

To help seed, make a new folder called "NC10_JaS.OSx86.10.5.6.Mysticus" and place your NC10 10.5.6 ISO in that folder, make sure your iso is named "NC10_JaS.OSx86.10.5.6.Intel.SSE2.SSE3_Mysticus.iso". Download the torrent from demonoid and point it to the parent folder of "NC10_JaS.OSx86.10.5.6.Mysticus", it will check the data and start seeding. Thank you to anyone who helps!

Big thanks to Jas and Mysticus!
Can't wait to try this on my NC10

thanx for the link, but u should not have posted in public...

also you messed up the process as well, bcoz people will have to redownload everything, bcoz nothing will match to the original torrent either (people who were downloading the original torrrent which is cut off will be gone forever....) only people who downloaded and finished can join the seed wagon...

all this trouble to avoid investing 4,50 Euro for a machine that costs around 100 times more...

The torrent got taken down because archives with passwords are not permitted on demonoid.
"No passworded archives."-http://www.demonoid.com/faq.php"
I believe this is the best way to seed the file though.

If you like, I can seed in public as well, give me a minute, I will upload it there.
After some consideration, I have decided not to upload it to a public trakcer. Demonoid is very easy to get into. I believe people are more likely to seed back on demonoid then on THP or some other publi tracker. This is not something with a very high demand so I believe it is important people keep seeding. If someone disagrees with me feel free to upload the file to a public tracker if you want too.

I have a high upload rate, but am currently seeding around 600 transfers, so i will be uploading only at around ~70kb/s

Well I dont know if demonoid is a good idea either. I have the iso and would wanna upload, but at demonoid it sais "The registrations are closed" so I cant get to your side and probably also other people without an account on demonoid yet can get to the new torrent. This torrent is just for the selected group that is already member of demonoid and didnt download the torrent already when it was up before.

Good point. I assumed any tech-savvy person would have a demonoid account.
There's pros and cons.
Though I will invite anyone who wants to help seed to demonoid.

Here are 4 invitation codes, if you need more, please request.
I CAN NO LONGER GENERATE INVITATION CODES AT THE MOMENT
Register here: http://www.Demonoid.com/register.php?with_invite=1
1) 6orbl4hdcd9x3i2d2hjw8qfex5ny5ctjcszx
2) z8ma8xiihavel7dzwf9z8fxcgm09cgc7hefvqsr4d4m
3) c4k7kqe8ktwk1empmkm55rrdawbq5hgfhhl
4) 1kwjwfbi0ts5ms2zvfos5n2hoqokk2pg6x25
If you use this invite, please state what code you used so i may remove it/add a new one
Please, only use these invitations to help seed this torrent!
If you would like a demonoid account to download the torrent or just to have an account, PM me, I will be glad to hook you up with one.
Again, these invites are only for those who want to help seed.

There are currently about 25 people leeching it and I am the only seeder. If you have the ISO, please help me seed it.

Seems all codes are used already... I'd like to seed it, I'm on a fast 100Mbit connection...

/edit: Thanks freQk, happily seeding now

can you send me a pm witha an invitation code? thanks

I really messed up my system. I installed windows 7 over my system with xp and osx, 7 and xp ran fine, but I couldnt run osx anymore. When i choose the osx option there was a problem, it couldnt find the data. I figured that i better reinstall osx. However after formatting the osx partitions (in the osx installation) I realized that my partition with data was not in the list (I have one more NTFS partition with my movies etc), last time I installed osx this partition also had disappeared. I thought that I could maybe still save something and stopped the install. And thats the end. My NC10 does not load because the operating system is missing. I made a usb bootdisk, but all drives are invalid.

Should I reinstall everything? I can make a usb disk with xp and start that process. But I hoped that maybe somebody could help. If I can make a bootdisk usb that just starts the installation of osx again then I should be fine again (without my data partition), right?

If this already came up, I am really sorry. I read through the last 15 pages and some of the beginning pages also a while ago. Maybe my problem is already kinda off topic, but if anyone can help he will be on this forum. And at least it can be a warning for all N00bs like me to not stop the installation.

I used the latest jas from shraggle. Did everything for the reinstall following the guide upto the "licence agreement" except for some minor changes in partitioning settings.

Maybe this helps: I had a similar problem with an external harddrive, after installing W7 i couldn't locate it anymore. For some strange reason my drive letter was gone. With a partition manager i could see the partition, so i reassigned a drive letter. After that everything was ok.
But i have another problem, i downloaded the image (NC10_JaS.OSx86.10.5.6.Intel.SSE2.SSE3_Mysticus.iso) from 2 different locations and i checked the MD5 checksum. Both images appear to be the same but the checksum is wrong:
It should be:
766E0A44E0E55CCCCB4942DBD3FC3D87
but my images gave me this:
8DF704D7A51E812CE1B27857D63831CD
So is it possible there's a corrupted image floating around... ?

I've reinstalled the 10.5.6 installer (did not wipe first) updated the patches and find that brightness is still freezing ... ahh!! Also Keychain won't launch which is where I was hoping to kill any reference to the brightness password being saved from a previous round.

That should work. I have a ubuntu live usb stick and use gparted with that. Everything seems to still be there exactly as it was. But I dont see an option to reassign a drive letter. I can only format the drives. Could you tell me how to assign the drive letters without formatting?