Installation Notes for HP 2000-2b89WM

[Chozen1278]

Greetings all!!!

 

I just wanted to take a moment to share my installation notes for this particular laptop.  Took me awhile to get it up and running with Yosemite 10.10.5 (and a LOT of googling and research), but I have what I consider to be a complete system with working wifi, bluetooth, audio, video, webcam, and more.  

 

As I said, this is just some notes I collected while I was going through the process.  While it isn't a complete guide, I will do my best to be as straightforward as possible so that, hopefully, you will spend less time Googling and more time enjoying your system.

 

Installation was done using Niresh's Yosemite with AMD & Intel  using mostly default options.

 

Specs for this laptop can be found here:  http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03478476

 

Wifi card is a Ralink RT5390, doesn't work.  I did not replace the card, I simply purchased this usb wifi dongle : Edimax EW-7811Un  from Amazon based on the information I found here : WikiDevi

 

Discovered that native OS X drivers are available for this USB wifi chipset.

 

This laptop also contains an Intel HD 3000 GPU.  Graphics performance was horrible under 10.10.1.  After three days of trying to figure it out, I was ready to try anything.  SO, I allowed the combo update to 10.10.5.  Rebooted, and found I had complete graphics acceleration. 512MB RAM showing, native kexts with full HDMI support.

 

Built-in Ethernet is Realtek.  Using the following kext: AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext .    Had to add BuiltinEthernet=Yes to chameleon boot plist.  Also using NVRAM 1.1.3

 

Bluetooth is also using a USB dongle from Best Buy: Insignia Bluetooth 4.0 USB working using native bluetooth kext just having to add the device I.D.  (thus, the magic pad and Apple wireless keyboard work flawlessly)

 

SMBios is set to Macbook 8,1 (thus, using latest voodoo battery, I get battery percentage working)

 

Audio works OTB

 

Here is how my boot plist is set up:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1366x768x32</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>debug=8 ahcidisk=1</string>

<key>Theme</key>

<string>DType</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>10</string>

        <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>

        <string>Yes</string>             

</dict>

</plist>

 

 

Webcam works OTB

 

That's all I can really think of right now.  It's around 5:30 in the morning on the East coast and I have been meaning to type this up and share.  I will clean this up and organize it more as I get the chance.  But, do feel free to ask any questions.  I honestly am not an expert on this but I did take the time to research and learn everything before I started and as I went along to get as close to a near flawless install as I could.  Still trying to get brightness control working without having to switch from chameleon to another boot loader.

 

Thanks for your time and patience.

 

 

 

 

[JeffB60]

I'm trying to do the same thing on an inherited 2b89wm now, with High Sierra, then Mojave (same progress with both so I'm sticking with Mojave).  I can't for the life of me get video acceleration to work, or the trackpad to work as a trackpad (works as a mouse).  I have to use 12,1 since 8,1 isn't supported for Mojave.  Are you still using this laptop?  Have you tried any of the upgrades?

[sapman]

I've gotten most things to work on my HP 2000 laptop running Mojave.  I have my smbios at 8,2 and in clover make sure to boot with -no_compat_check

 

For mouse/trackpad support I'm using VoodooPS2Controler.kext

For ethernet RTL8100.kext

 

To get video acceleration to work you need to install the graphics kexts from High Sierra. I also have Whatevergreen.kext and Lilu.kext installed as well. Attached are the kext files I am using

HP 2000 mojave.zip