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Hey everyone,

 

About a year ago, I posted a thread with a guide for the F series - times have changed (rather drastically), and for the sake of saving your time (along with solving a few "WTF?!" questions), I've made a list of kexts that work and solve lots of problems.

 

A good starting point is the Mammoth Boot CD sourced from his Vaio F11 thread. I would have gladly continued that thread, but so many things have changed and Mammoth is no longer updating the 1st post to it.

 

Why? It's a great source for files. If you mount the CD, go to Installation/Extra and all of these things will work great on your Chameleon USB boot stick (if you're using one), or a CD, or your hard drive.. or whatever.

 

Go to the very bottom of this post for the latest DSDT that works really well, thanks Funky Frank. :)

 

This Atheros driver works great (no need for patched kernel), but in 10.6.8 you'll need to make sure you have the latest SMBios.plist first (below). Thanks VaKo.

 

I've attached copies of the latest smbios and org.chameleon.boot.plist files I'm using (org.chameleon.boot.plist replaced com.apple.boot.plist in your Extra folder) Install those to your USB boot stick (or your Extra folder) before using the wifi driver or you will have a nasty time in 10.6.8. Nuff said ;)

 

Newest FakeSMC goodies are here. I'm currently using the kexts from Release_10.6_rev493.zip :)

 

Hope this helps you guys somewhat!

 

Be sure to visit the DSDT thread for the awesome new developments that continue to make the F series ever so slightly more useful in OS X :)

 

 

Edit (8/8/11): I forgot to mention this, but you'll need these. if you're using 10.6.8 (or Lion, I assume):

http://prasys.info/legacy_kexts_by_nawcom.zip

(from http://prasys.info/)

smbiosandchameleonbootlist.zip

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The internal display issue is one that has an entire thread dedicated to the issue (several actually!) - you can actually use any mode supported by the bootloader (1280x1024 and 1280x800 for example). That still sucks, but it's better than nothing. As far as I know, the HDMI/VGA ports support QE/CI on any resolution, although that may take some tweaking (take a look at the DSDT thread for details).

 

Ethernet and audio? There was a recent post about a combined ethernet+audio fix.... I have yet to actually get that to work! Audio yes, and I'm not the only one I know of that has kernel panics more often when using voodoohda.

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Hey everyone,

 

Edit (8/8/11): I forgot to mention this, but you'll need these. if you're using 10.6.8 (or Lion, I assume):

http://prasys.info/legacy_kexts_by_nawcom.zip

(from http://prasys.info/)

 

Could you post a better link. I get the following when selected link for the legacy kexts:

 

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