if the network doesnt work (no working wifi or no lan) time machine does not work... it is nothing to do with usb... time machine is somehow connected to network frameworks... so no network (or patched network driver) = no timemachine

Time Machine appears to use the MAC address of the active network connection to uniquely identify its backups. No active network = broken time machine.

Great work by the way Mysticus, got an NC10 for Christmas and have your 10.5.6 running on it now. Will make a donation asap.

Andy.

Hi, Thanks for the installation disc.
In return I'd like to contribute to this thread. I installed OSX via Ubuntu instead of Windows. Here's what I did.

First create 2 partitions with GParted (Gnome Partition Manager). One for OSX (20 GiB) and one for the DVD image. (5 GiB)

Next was following these instructions:
I found them here: http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/installing-f...inux-t6488.html

- Set ID of the partition to Darwin-Boot
sudo fdisk /dev/sda
repeat for both partitions:
options: t #PARTITIONNUMBER
Use id: AF
(Check this with option p)

- Format partitions:
sudo mkfs.hfsplus /dev/#PARTITIONNUMBER. you'll need to install the hfs packages of your distro beforehand.

- Copy ISO to DVD partition:
mount the installer iso as "installer" directory (sudo mount -t hfsplus -o loop installer.iso installer)
mount the installation partition (sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/partition install_partition)
sudo cp -a installer/* install_partition

- Edit GRUB to boot your ISO.
add boot_v9 to your grub menu (download http://www.mediafire.com/?rdonkiqyzlz , put in /boot, rename the file to boot_v9)
append this to /boot/grub/menu.lst:
title Mac OSX Leopard
kernel /boot/boot_v9
boot

- Reboot and press escape to enter the GRUB menu and select Mac OSX Leopard
When seeing the (2nd) timer press F8, select het ISO partition and enter at the prompt: rd=disk0s?, where ? is the number of your ISO partition.

The OSX installer shoudl now load correctly.

I hope I remembered all correctly, otherwise just ask around.

Good luck!

Mysticus I notcied sometimes when you do the FN +f6 mute sometimes it never unmutes its like the speaker driver drops... so then you have to restart to get sound back (i even went to sound options after the sound dropped) and picked speakers. its not a big deal I just know not to do fn +f6 it doesnt happen all the time but it hapens often enough to notice it.

i know what causes the issue (sort of) i may fix it, but i m not sure if i can do it nowadays... as i m kind of busy with family...

if voodoohda does not come out soon, i ll fix it by the end of the week probably...

camden: sure mate, enjoy...

tibod: thanx for linux way of install... i m sure some people may be interested in an alternative way... but not many people are too familiar with linux anyways enjoy....

Hey buddy don't worry you enjoy the fam...everything is good on my end. fix it when you have time.
perhaps though you can tell me how to hack a game civilization iv so that it doesnt require a certain rez otherwise it fails on startup...
pain in my ass.

i dont play games on osx machines mate, but i can only speculate... using additional monitor (only extended desktop)

connect additional monitor (dont mirror it, bcoz mirror is not working, only extended desktop to additional monitor...)
set your other monitor as primary...
at higher resolution, in the other monitor should let you start the game i suppose...
next thing to do is, change resolution to 800x600 (if it allows resolution change in game menus),
save and quit
change primary monitor back to built in lcd,
disconnect other monitor
start the game (i m just speculating that game allows resolution change)
game should start in 800x600 (which the internal monitor should support)
now you can change back to 1024x600 and save it...?

if resolution change and save in external monitor does not work, you can try the fake resolution method, but i dont remember where i read the method... it was a long time ago, dont remember which section it was in...

some people like G4-flo missed the remote-disc function
its very easy to enable it and use your PC's or MAC DVD Drive through your working wlan:
1. Open Terminal (it's in Utilities, or just type 'Terminal' into Spotlight)
2. Type this code:


Remote Disc Howto

I just installed a wifi card with the Broadcom 4311 chipset. It actually works fine (using it while typing this) but my network status shows the following:



As you can see, the wifi card names itself 'Bluetooth PAN' and doesn't show signal strength in the menu bar. After reboot/logout my settings are gone. Any clue? I read the last 20 pages again but couldn't find anything similar...

Other than this, the NC10 'MacBook nano' rocks!

can you try to remove the interface using + - buttons underneath the port name screen and reboot... to see wheter if it will get the same name or will fix it self?

it is really funny must be a glitch i guess..

I fiddled with that, without succes. I can use the + button to add a device named 'Airport' but as soon as I want to activate it, it disappears and 'Bluetooth PAN' comes up.

I'll try to find similar problems with the 4311 chipset...

well just remove the bluetooth pan, and restart, to let it find interface by itself... dont add it yourself...

see if it works... also what is the name of your 4311 chip brand card? dell? netgear? or noname other brand?

It's a Dell DW1490 with Broadcom BCM4311KFBG chipset. I tried to delete Bluetooth Pan, but the minus-symbol is blanked out so I can't delete it...

[update]

Fixed! Thanks to this thread; the script by mcsmart did the trick. I'm a happy camper

first of all, thanks Mysticus for your hard work. I finally asked my friend to download your distro and put it on my nc10 dual booting with msiwindosx (lol osxes dual boot)

I found a few differences between your distro and msiwindosx, some are good while other minor things are missing in your release.
1. no need to use your "usb_fix 1.3" to fix usb issue as in msiwindosx.
2. Executive Bit was required to enable in order to boot nc10_jas (msiwindosx doesn't need this)
3. Touchpad setting is not presented in Preference (msiwindosx lets me adjust sensitivity and Tapping on touchpad as a click)
4. last but not least, your release has the latest version (10.5.6)

What is Executive Bit? what does it do?
Is it possible to borrow files from msiwindosx to enable the touchpad settings? I really like to be able to tap on it as a click.

Overall, I am really satisfy with your distro. It works great OTB.

yeah oddly enough thats what i did... and you are right the mirror doesnt work not sure how to turn that off now...LOL
i am giving up on civ iv read a lot of people havoing similar trouble in pc acer one same thing they couldnt figure it out either....I thought it would be a simple edit the ini file

@Mysticus

@mbato

i have downloaded the 10.5.6 NC10 Iso from shragle using the linklist at biketown. But there is no part20!  Can you upload this file (about 50 Mbyte) at shragle or rs?

thank you very much

Same Here! Spent half of yesterday downloading these files from Shragle, only to find the last part missing. Please help.

YC

Tip for people struggling to find trackpad settings :

When I was trying to get the trackpad settings to appear in preferences i found that when I removed a prefpane from the second line (where the trackpad settings should be) that the trackpad prefpane took it's place, almost like the line was full so trackpad would be hidden, instead of making a new line of panes.

So if you are struggling to see the trackpad prefpane, check in the view menu along the top when in system preferences as this should show all prefpanes available.

Is this the same part20 that was in the rar file available on demonoid? If so, I have it and can probably put it somewhere for you?

for the shragle links, i m asking the person to send me the correct links... sorry guys for inconvenience, i have not done those links myself...

camden: i think it is the same links same person made the shragle as well...

Hi, m8. All the .rar files we downloaded from Shragle have this format: "NC10Jax861056InE23_Myst.partXX.rar" (where XX is the file number). So if the file you have is named "NC10Jax861056InE23_Myst.part20.rar" then it is definitely the one we need. I guess mbato may have forgotten to upload that part to Shragle, or maybe forgot to include the link to the last part in the download list on Bike Town.

Anyway, if you can upload this last rar file to rapidshare and post the link, you would be a star!

Many thanks regardless,

YC

Installed and working great - used the 10.5.6 version from Demonoid.

Wasn't prepared to fiddle with wifi so swapped for DW1390 and it was picked up immediately by OSX.

Thank you for all your work Mysticus - do appreciate it.

Try this...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/19366/NC10Jax86...Myst.part20.rar


Good luck!

Great work, thanx.
but i'm try to install, and after the reboot - no boot loader. but partition is activ.
sorry for bad english

start the nc10
press F4
press ESC
restart
press F2 to go to bios, and set the EDB (execute disable bit) enabled
save and quit
and it should work...

Hello all,

no replies from me recently, on holiday in Spain. The NC10 has been excellent, I have just *one* problem with what's supposed to be working. The trackpad control panel in System Preferences isn't showing up/appearing/working. I tried the package linked to on the 1st post, but no joy.

Other than that, looking forward to the headphones working, and all is excellent.

Thanks again Mysticus C*

OK! but after screen with apple a have Cyclic reboot.

press f2 at start go to bios!!!!!!!!!!!
set your EDB setting to ENABLE!!!!
Save and QUIT!!!!!!

see the pdf guide page #1!!!!!!

mudzilla: see the post#1 go to bike town, check samsung nc10 files section, and than find/get the trackpad (if u didnt finger anything) or trackpad full (if you did finger and break some drivers

all others: missing shragle link

Had same problem with Cyclic reboot. This worked for me:


Boot using "-s" flag then type ->

/sbin/mount -uw /

passwd root <- Type any password you want

touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

reboot

@Mysticus
I really had the same problem I did enable EDB but hat cyclic booting and I wasn´t able
to see the Welcom screen. (I have the German NC10).
Above solution then made it.

oh, i'm sorry.
thanx.

That did the trick. That was the missing file indeed. Thank you so much camdenbloke!

i just want to say that i installed an original apple airport card from my core duo macbook pro. it is working beatifully not only in macosx but also in windows xp and ubuntu. no drivers necessary!

edit: time machine is now working beautifully

I'm sorry!!

The missing part 20 is now online @ Bike Town

Hi everyone,

I've been using 10.5.6 on my nc 10 for a couple of days now and everything's working fine, however I've noticed two things..


first is the 4:3 ratio on the trackpad.. (mentioned before.. maybe someone knows how to fix this? maybe it's just some setting in a plist... I don't know, tried to figure out but... nah)

and second is: the thing's using an "Intel GMA950 (IGP) max.384MB shared memory"- at least that's what mine says (white/german revision). In OSX system profiler tells me I've got a total of 64mb of vram... I know windows xp was able to use the full 384mb and I think with the msi-iso system profiler said 384MB of vram (might be wrong though)


Any suggestions?

Cheers,
iXXn

link list updated... with the missing piece...

Hello Mysticus C*, and thanks a lot for all the the great job you did (I have been original you see ?ahah)

The 10.5.6 is working very well, it's amazing .

As required I give my feedbacks and issues I have. I saw some known issues so I ll put the answers I understood and you'll not have to confirm it if it's true.

1- When the computer is going to sleep mode and I wake my NC10 up, all USB devices is disconnected and connected back 1 second later, but I have the disconnected device error. I didn't read any tips to fix it, maybe I read the topic too fast.

2- Bluetooth can't be turned off because it's directly put in an USB port, how to turn it off after all ?

3- Touchpad for scrolling and so on , doesn't work. I saw a driver is coming soon or we can download a software in order to do that, is that true ?

4- I'm not connected to Wifi because I still have the original card however the Wifi status led is still on. Is the wifi really on or just the led is not fonctionnal ?

5- I have done as told in the tutorial a Samsung partition on my HDD of 4 GB, now MAC OS X is installed can I format it but get more spaces ?


I haven't seen any others issues for the moment . But thanks a lot for the great job, I hope i didn't bother you with my questions.

Thank you

See you soon

Hi iXXn,

it seems to be normal that system profiler shows only 64mb of your vram. As I've been told, it does on some real macs using the same chipset, too.

Ratio of the trackpad: Everybody here might have the same issue, but it's a minor issue I think we can live with. Search the forum for solutions on synaptics trackpads, that could help, but please don't ask, I didn't try it.

run for cover

The FN+F9 key is a mapped windows hardware switch which can turn the power
to the wireless card on and off in windows only.

So yes if the led is on, then your wireless card is on and consuming power.

The fact that it does not show in osx is purely a driver issue.

Since there is no way to turn off the card in osx presently i have set my
bios setting for wireless to remember last state, that way if i turn it off
with the FN+F9 in windows, it remains off when i boot into osx.

This does also mean it remains off when you next boot into windows
until you press the FN+F9 to turn it on again.

Regards

Niteman1969

I've got a problem where the clock on the OS X side is several hours different than the XP side. When I set the clock on the OS X side, then the XP clock is off. Anyone know how to fix?

Niteman,
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I bricked it during the 10.5.5 upgrade. So after much time and frustration, I figured something out: Because the 10.5.6 is a combo update, you can totally SKIP the 10.5.5 upgrade and fix completely. Instead, on a hunch, I just installed the 10.5.6 combo, and then did Mysticus' NC10 10.5.6 fix (plus the track pad and brightness controls) - and it worked!

Finally, I have a stupid question (total noob, really): I installed the CHUD package, but really, I'm not sure what to do with it. Do I have to do something special to get it to do the switch? Or by installing it did I end up just putting the switch in?

Thanks.



abirch: just change your settings on both sides so that they set the clock via the internet. then, whenever you get on, it will fix itself.

however, the clock stays consistent as long as you don't switch between each OS (e.g., when I just continue using OSX, the clock is fine). I'm not sure why this all happens, but this is a really small price to pay for having the dual boot, imho.

Hi Guys,

Just thought I would add my feedback.

My NC10 White/UK has been running the Mysticus ISO edition for a few days now and it's fabulous!

It had a reboot cycle when I installed but I read the instructions and updated the BIOS to the correct settings before looking like an idiot on the forum!

The Dell 1390 wifi card works great!

Dead stable all as expected, the Quicksilver triggers are great.

Headphone switching and the LAN are the only outstanding issues and I know the LAN is awaiting a Yukon chipset driver (if possible who knows).

We are waiting for a script from the Mighty Mysticus to sort headphone switching? I personally think you need to have a break for a week or so

Great work - have the netbook I've always wanted now!

Charlie

Thanks for the tip about the Wifi status pal it's nice . I stay tuned on the evolution of the OSX

Just curious: what battery time do you guys get with OS X on the NC10?

With the original Windows XP running, I managed to squeeze between 6 and 7 hours off a fully charged battery. Now with OS X, it seems that the processor is always at full throttle and I get between 4 and 5 hours of work till OS X gives a low-battery warning. Also, the fan keeps spinning longer and more often than with Windows XP. Maybe the power management still needs some tweaking?

Other than this and the trackpad, I'm totally impressed by the NC10~OS-X~experience!

I found the same issue. I think fan in OS X is much louder than in XP. However I think autonomy is still around 6h - 6h30 for me so maybe it s just a feeling we have.

hey guys,

managed to get 10.5.6 usinh Nitemans method so im on 10.5.6 now.
Although, I understood the Quicksilver brightness method I messed it up accidently now when I click on triggers- It just load for ages and doesn't allow me to add new trigers. I forgot it loads with that circle thing and says something which I have forgot- I'll come back and edit this post with what it says later.

Anybody got a solution? I have uninstalled, re-installed and reset preferences.
I might just have to reinstall 10.5.4 and get to 10.5.6 again using the proper way to save time.
But theres a few things Im not understanding at it so if somebody could explain as simple as possible to this newb Id be very happy.

n.b I have= JaS.OSx86.10.5.4.Client.Server.Intel.SSE2.SSE3.iso
-which I patched using the first ever ppf for the NC10
using DDMAC.exe method

1) do I have to update my pathced iso to 10.5.5 first, then upgrade it to 10.5.6?

Below, is what i think i am supposed to do- please correct me if i am wrong.
note: I dont have a rapidshare premium and don't own any cards (student), I don't want to download a new iso as my connection is so throttled and I have read pretty much from the beginning of the thread but you never know may have missed someting out :/

1)you log onto your Leopard partition the one you have installed
2)you open root of that partition and place the 10.5.4 (patched) and the 10.5.6 combo update.
3)I run the dvd upgrade the one Myst have given and I select the option 1 which copies the necessary update files to a temp. folder in the root.
4)step two myst. says there are 6 sub-options- I only see two? the one for the ISO which i wont need since i use DDMAC and the last one for DDMAC which I select.
5)choose step 3 which deletes folder from step one.
6)and if I have done all this, what do I do?
- do I re-install the DDMAC partition or will this still be 10.5.4?
-or will it load the apple terminal and run a few scripts- updating my current leopard partition to 10.5.6?

look forward to your answers guys
and wish everyone a happy new-years eve

Don't ask me how, but after 3 days on the torrent, every part is reporting CRC differences. Also, part 20 reports an incorrect password, even though it's using '4all' like the rest. (And I tried downloading that part separately via the links posted) Before I ditch all these files could someone run an "md5sum NC10Jax861056InE23_Myst.*.rar" and post it for me? It's just hard to believe all 20 are fried here..

some people grabbed the torrent already and didnt have any issue, your system have the issue due to broken download or some other reasons... try the http method instead of torrent...

@ abirch

The clock-offset is totally normal, you will also get it if you use windows via bootcamp on original apple hardware.. it's due to different interpretation of the system/bios clock that windows & osx show different times. As a workaround you could set both of the clocks to synchronize time via internet.. this way the clock should always tell the right time.


@ Marijnr / Falergi

Power Management is not working at all at this time, so the netbook will allways run on full throttle in osx. That's the reason why the fan is continiously blowing. As you will know there is no original apple-atom hardware so that's why there's still no solution for Power Management on this new chipset.

Cheers,
iXXn

I still seem to be getting very near the 6hr mark as the machine
starts with a lower brightness setting on battery since installing
the apple 10.56 update and Mysticus C*'s 10.5.6 upgade patch pack.

So very impressed with it so far.

Regards

Niteman1969