macbrush

Not sure if that's related to your problem, but I was in similar situation, and have been researching for a few days. Then I finally realised though I am using TP-Link 4800 PCIe WiFi card for my network connection on my Gigabyte z77 board, I had to enabled the built-in ethernet which I needed to install AtherosL1Ethernet.kext and EthernetBuiltin=yes in org.chameleon.Boot.plist in order to make dictation willing to load.

I realised that's something to do with network since I saw assistantd connected to Apple's server, and then disconnect immediately without starting assistant_service which it normally does. So I thought its something to do with verifying my machine or some sort, since I have already patched my hack to make iMessage and App Store works, it must be something else. The only thing I could think of was since my smbios set my Mac as a desktop, so it might be looking for an ethernet's MAC address for verification, so I bite the bullet and made the hack recognise the ethernet. Finally it works perfectly.

Hope this helps someone.

I used to have exactly the same motherboard, with RD6870 graphic card. It was running 10.8.1(2? don't remember, upgraded 2 weeks ago) and the magic pad was working flawlessly. My setup was very simple, basically just Chameleon bootloader with ElliottForceLegacyRTC.kext, FakeSMC.kext and DSDT.aml. I think the only editing required was GraphicEnabler=Yes.

So unless somehow you've replaced or edited more kexts than it is needed, I don't see how it would mess up the magic pad. Have you tried another bluetooth dongle?

berny_, on 18 December 2012 - 01:53 PM, said:

I use a real Mac to set up the hard drive, so it was much simpler.

CPU: i7 3770
MB: Gigabyte Z77-DS3H
Graphic: AMD RD 6870 2GB/nVidia GTx 680
I/O: Generic Firewire card w/ NEC chipset, Sil 3132 ESATA card, TP-Link 4800 WiFI card

1. Setup the MB, most of the stuff can be left default except the follow.
Set SATA mode to AHCI
Set everything to Legacy OpRom priority (I didn't bother to set up UEFI boot)
Set XHCI mode to Auto
Set XHCI and EHCI hands off to Auto
Set VT Enabled (I run Parallels a lot)
Set VT-d Disabled (Hopefully we can have it on soon)

2. Install Mountain Lion onto the target hard drive in a real Mac

3. Run Chameleon to install the bootloader into the target drive, I used 2.1svn-r2030

4. In /Extra which Chameleon just created, you should see org.chameleon.Boot.plist, edit it to you liking, mine looks like the following:


<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>darkwake=0 -v</string>
        <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
        <string>No</string>
        <key>GeneratePStates</key>
        <string>Yes</string>
        <key>GenerateCStates</key>
        <string>Yes</string>
<key>PCIRootUID</key>
<string>0</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>3</string>
</dict>

The only thing to watch out for is that if you use RD6870, GraphicsEnabler should set to Yes; and set to No for GTx680.

5. From ###### package, install the following to your /Extra/Extensions/
smbit.plist for MacPro3,1
ElliottForceLegacyRTC.kext
FakeSMC.kext

You may also install ACPISensors.kext and IntelCPUMonitor.kext to /Extra/Extensions/ if you wish to monitor your CPU.

6. Repair permissions on your target drive.

7. Take out the drive, and yak it into your hackintosh.

and DONE!

You may notice Chameleon run through every kexts TWICE in BIOS speed, which take a long time (in today's boot up standard). You can overcome that by using kernel flag UseKernelCache=Yes provided you move all the kexts in /Extra/Extensions to /System/Library/Extensions/ You don't need to build the kernel cache as long as you're running in 10.8.2, the OS will rebuild it for you, just make sure the permissions are correct before you move them.

chown -R 0:0 /Extra/Extensions/*
chmod -R 755 /Extra/Extensions/*
cp -Rpf /Extra/Extensions/* /System/Library/Extensions/ (I like keeping a copy of everything in /E/E, if you don't want them, use "mv" instead of "cp -Rpf")

That's all for me, I hope this could help you if you have similar hardware configurations, and also a real Mac.

Cheers
Kenneth

I would honestly just get a GB Z77-DS3H, TB-Link 4800 WiFi card, and a generic USB Bluetooth dongle. That way, I know everything would just work.

I guess I will have to answer my own question. First of all, I apologise since it wasn't really a OS X problem nor BIOS. It was the 8 pin 12V somehow wasn't connected properly. The sitting looked fine, even have power on the firewire devices, but somehow it didn't supply any power to the PCI cards. I had to re-sit it a couple of times to get it working.