ks73417 Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Specs: Latitude E5420 Laptop Integrated webcam with single digital microphone Internal Backlit Dual Pointing English Keyboard Processor: Intel Core i7-2620M processor (2.70 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.40 GHz) 8X DVD +/- RW Drive 14.0 inch HD (1600x900) Wide View Anti-Glare LED with Premium Panel 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (2 DIMMs) 320 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM) Dell Wireless 375 Bluetooth Module Dual Pointing Touchpad and Trackstick Dell 1530 802.11 b/g/n wireless card Broadcom Ethernet (14e4:1681) Installation: Installed Snow Leopard first using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and 10.6.3 Retail DVD Prepared a USB Installer using xMove and Lion Retail DMG image mounted. Installed Chimera 1.5.3 to the USB, copy the attached Extra folder to the root of the USB Boot from the USB and install (Used the MBR Patch to modify USB so that can install to MBR) May need a USB Mouse and Keyboard during install/ initial setup. Boot from the USB Installer copy the Extra folder, install Chimera 1.5.4 , Run Kext Wizard Post-install: Replaced wireless with Azureware AR5B95 Half Mini from eBay ($4.50) and used the attached Kext and wireless works without any problem. Use the attached Kext for Ethernet, may need to set the Mac Address manually to get the ip address. Use something like this (change accordingly for your Mac Address) : sudo ifconfig en0 ether b8:ac:6f:c8:e9:e3 For battery, use the attached Kext. did have to Delete /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterface.plist and reboot to get App Store and Face Time working. Now some screenshots: Extra.zip Battery_Lion.zip WIFI_AR9285.zip BCM5722D.kext.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_in_2k Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Looks good. I'm going to attempt this on my Dell Vostro 3550 i7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob88 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Hi ks73417, Does the below spec good for Lion? Latitude E5420! Intel Core i5-2520M (2.5GHz, 3M cache) High Definition Audio Codec Intel HD Graphics 3000 with Express Card Slot Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet Broadcom Wireless 1530 Dell Wireless 375 Bluetooth Module Integrated FHD(2MP) Webcam with Digital Microphone Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veeper Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Looks good. I'm going to attempt this on my Dell Vostro 3550 i7. Keep us posted. The E6420 is a QM67 chipset, not sure about the E5420, but the Vostro is HM67 chipset. Hopefully this won't make too much of a difference for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_in_2k Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Keep us posted. The E6420 is a QM67 chipset, not sure about the E5420, but the Vostro is HM67 chipset. Hopefully this won't make too much of a difference for you.Ah, didn't realize that, thanks for the info. I'll give it a go this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ks73417 Posted September 13, 2011 Author Share Posted September 13, 2011 Hi ks73417, Does the below spec good for Lion? Latitude E5420! Intel Core i5-2520M (2.5GHz, 3M cache) High Definition Audio Codec Intel HD Graphics 3000 with Express Card Slot Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet Broadcom Wireless 1530 Dell Wireless 375 Bluetooth Module Integrated FHD(2MP) Webcam with Digital Microphone Thanks. Should be fine. I did have Mald0n create me a DSDT, he is just awesome. I did, however, had to add the "DualLink" edit to the DSDT, else I will get a black screen on my Laptop screen. Here is what I added the following below the line " Name (_ADR, 0x00020000) " under "Device (VID) " , used DSDTSE to edit and complie and video works with full 1600x900 resolution. Don't know about QE/CI though. But, YouTube videos just play fine. Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x02) { "AAPL00,DualLink", Buffer (0x04) { 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } Other than that I did change the Wifi card as mentioned in my orginal post. That card,btw, works by default in Windows 7. Let me know if you need help with Dual/Triple boot with Windows 7/XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chan chua Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Hello, I bought a Dell Latitude E5420 with this configuration : Intel core i5 -2410(2.3GHz) 8GB DDR3 RAM, 320G HDD SATA Intel® HD Graphics HD 3000 14" HD WLED True-Life (1366x768) Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet and Dell Wireless 1501 Firstly, I tried many times to install as instructed : - Boot from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] - Install the SL 10.6 retail DVD But I always get this error message during the setup : "The installer could not copy the necessary support files". I also restored the DVD to the hard disk partition but it does not change. Later, I get iATKOS L1 DVD and install perfectly on my Dell. After reboot, I had to type boot options : -f -s -v to get into the Lion system. With this, I have sound, webcam and keyboard functions. The wired/wireless, video card and power management do not work. If I run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 4.0.3 with some options like : o [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Install o System Utilities o Drivers & Bootloaders Bootloaders • Chimera v1.5.4 Sound • Voodoo HDA 2.7.2 o Mac BookPro 8,1 o Osx86 Software o Extension Migration Tool then I will get the video with its resolutions (1366x768) but I lost sound. It stop at that even i tried many other options in [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] or get other kexts from internet. Could you please help me how to make this laptop installed with latest Mac OS X Lion. Thanks for all your help !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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