Tried the ToH leopard last night. How nice to have an install go so smoothly!

I installed the PC EFI afterwards but I don't think I did it right as it totally hoses when trying to boot. I'm going to reinstall and try again.

I did not have a problem with it shutting down completely. The onboard NIC did not appear to work and neither did the PCI NIC I had in either! I had to find my old IONEtworking kext file and apply it in order to get onto the net. I have an Intel GB NIC. And my CPU was showing up as Core 2 Solo, when I know it's a Duo. What about you guys?

From some of the replies it sounds like you have your RAID set on or auto. When I first tried in 10.4.8 it would not work with that. If you are having problems turn it off. This also allows me to switch what HD to boot from in the BIOS.

Hopefully I can get this thing done today.

Thanks,
Drew

switched of raid to auto but still get waiting for root device.
is it due to my hdd's? have 3 in my 410 and 2 dvd rw units.

ok thnx will try after i made an image of my running vista in my raid.
can i add my other drives later in osx?
and i have a realtek nic somewhere here. put that in and disable the intenal nic?

Thanks, will try that.

When I installed before I was actually performing an upgrade. Right now I'm trying a fresh install and I get a blinking "-" after it reboots from the install. I think I need to make the partition bootable. Anyone know the commands/procedure?

Thanks,
Drew

pc efi v5.2? v6.0 is out!
Anyways, back to the topic. So I understand ToH works fine? You know you can always patch your own XPS 410 DVD with frantisheq modified BM patch...

Ok, as far as booting up I think I got it aquared away.

First, I followed the instructions here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844

and then (while still booted up on the install DVD) opened a terminal and ran /usr/misc/script.sh VOLUMENAMEHERE

it booted up after that!

Now I'm just realizing how much crap I had installed on there before

-drew

I tried installing pc_efi again (this time v6) and it still fails w/ the same behavior.

I copied dsmos.kext to /System/Library/Extensions, repaired permissions, copied the efi files to /iamefi, booted in single user mode and ran the script. When it reboot it comes up w/ the big grey power button of death.

Did you run it as disk0s1 or rdisk0s1?

Thanks,
Drew

eh, I hate upgrading kernels I will log on and try that before I install pc_efi again.

There seem to be a lot of versions, which one did you use? Also, is there a guide how to swap out the kernels? It's been awhile since I've had to do this....

Thanks,
Drew

Ok, I found out commands to update the Kernel and I now have pc_efi rolling. I'm downloading Apple updates right now.

I'm documenting my steps along the way for what *I* have to do. I will probably compile the steps into one post for others.

Thanks,
Drew

NOTE: These are instructions that I had to perform for my specific hardware configuration. Your needs may vary but this should be a good baseline to follow to install 10.5 on your XPS 410. Feel free to let me know about corrections and I'll edit.

10.5 clean install instructions. If you have a working installation already, COPY your existing Extentions folder. I had to use my previous IONEtworkingFamily.kext in order for my PCI NIC to function. Step 5 may not need to be done, the install may take care of this. If you get a blinking cursor after reboot, do Step 5.

Files to download:
kernel
dsmos
nvinject
pc_efi

Instructions:
1. Download/Install ToH RC2 10.5

2. Boot up w/ DVD

3. Run Disk Utilities, erase disk, may be easier to name it with no spaces (see step 5)

4. Set disk to "Active" with these instructions:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844

5. From a terminal run /usr/misc/script.sh INSERTVOLUMENAMEHERE (name used in step 3)

6. Install OS (remove printers and languages options)

7. Reboot

8. Download latest kernel from #10.5 on irc.osx86.hu (I used 9.0.0/speedstep sse3 kernel)

9. Unpack Kernel to Desktop

10. Rename file on Deksotp to mach_kernel

11. From a terminal type:

a. sudo su
b. cp /mach_kernel /mach_kernel_old
c. cp -f ~/Desktop/mach_kernel /
d. chown root:wheel /mach_kernel*
e. chmod 644 /mach_kernel*

12. Reboot here just to make sure the kernel works

13. Copy AppleSMBios.kext (located in pc_efi zip), dsmos.kext, NVinject.kext, and IONetworkingFamily.kext (from 10.4) to /System/Library/Extenstions

14. From a terminal, type:

a. sudo su
b. chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extenstions
c. chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extenstions
d. rm -rf /System/Library/Extentions.*
e. rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/Caches/
f. rm -rf /System/Library/Caches/

15. Reboot

16. Follow instructions for pc_efi

17. Update with official Apple patches

enjoy

The post for Taruga's Apple HDA Patcher is messed up.

A kind soul in #leopard hooked me up w/ a link to 1.16

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?biq0t8dxg6z

-drew

holy crap! o.0

hey guys.. long time no post.. sorry

I have been using uphuck 1.4i r3 for a month or so now.. i'm using it as an audio work station, running LOGIC STUDIO 8.. i'm using a belkin firewire pci card (agere chipset) and, which i have my TC Konnekt 24D audio interface connected to, and i am using a standard GeForce 7300GS graphics card (the 8600GTS that it came with won't work for obvious reasons)..

Firstly, logic is unbelieveable! i haven't used it properly for about a year and a half and i have forgotten how much it spanks cubase on MAC or PC.. from a cracked point of view i'm getting 2-4 times better performance under logic than under cubase in Vista - logic is serialed, very efficient, elegant and comes with brilliant bread and butter plugins, where as cubase needs a dongle emulator, jolts, is frustrating and has very bland and quite useless built in plugins..

..also vista is a bit of a nightmare for professional music and audio production.. plugins crash from time to time for no apparent reason and it took me weeks and weeks to get a stable-ish! platform.. Audio software requires different combinations of vista, XP emulation and administrator privaliges to be set (eveytime i see that f@cking privaliges dialogue, the screen goes grey and the PC demands my attention, i want to put my fist through the screen! - oh and it usually aks twice!!!).. osx + logic on the other hand is a lot more stable and more than anything a joy to use and took me about 3 hours to install and get fully functional!

Vista is a pile of SH!T!!!.. i am now faced with a full reinstall, as my TC audio interface has stopped working.. I tried to update the drivers and now my stupid PC won't recognise the TC.. believe me i have tried EVERYTHING.. Vista has a known bug with firewire and usb devices that once you remove a driver and then reinstall, it won't autodetect and in most cases won't allow a manual install.. in my case i get BSOD..

OSX on the other hand isn't perfect and does f@ck up, but when a full reinstall only take a couple of hours, i can just do it when i'm chilling..

MY ADVICE TO ANYONE WITH A PC WHO WANTS TO MAKE MUSIC:

- and this applies to people who own legitamate versions of cubase, sonar etc -

Get a QUAD CORE INTEL CPU w/4GB RAM, install uphuck, logic 8 and a whole bunch of UBs from either www.audionews.ru (torrent) or www.magesy.ws (rapidshare) and have fun. FORGET Vista and live with a few bugs and crashes in OSX - which i PROMISE you will be a LOT less serious than using legit Vista software..

WORKING:

LOGIC 8
Novation Remote SL ZERO (wicked control surface!!)
TC Konnekt 24D
Universal audio UAD-1 DSP accelerator card (pci version - did not expect this to work!)

PROBLEMS and LIMITATIONS:

I must point out that my logic hangs a couple of times a day - and usually recovers within a minute or so.. when it doesn't the machine will either display the 'grey screen of death' or reboot.. This problem i believe is limited to my particular setup, as i get similar symptoms in vista.. Under vista i get LOADS of audio dropouts with my TC and IRQ conflicts between it and my graphics card.. Everytime i hover over something and a halp dialogue appears, for example, the audio playback stutters.. According to TC, the AGERE chipset on my piece of sh!t firewire card is to blame and that TI (texas instruments) is far more reliable.. I've checked many forums and a lot of people have had the same problems and have switched to TI.. I'm gonna get a SIIG pcie card with a TI chipset in the next couple of days and will let you know..

But with these problems aside, OSX and a few crashes STILL beats Vista and its constant irritation hands down..

I hope this helps anyone wanting to produce music or audio..

P.S. Gonna try and get my NIC working with a kext from this forum.. will keep you posted..

The kext is not working for me. I don't even see the NIC listed in the Network Settings app. I did see it there on one of my previous installations, but it is not there.

How can I see the Device ID? I don't see this in System Profiler, perhaps there are some other driver mismatches between us?

Thanks,
Drew

just to let you know.. the NIC kext isn't working for me either..

Thanks Rob. So you're going to get Gigabit Ethernet? Great! Keep up the good work.

damn nice work dude! now i can rip out me realtek pci card and go onboard in my dimension 9200
still 2 bad only onboard sound works and no x-fi but hell, if nic works i have a fullyy running xps410/dimension 9200 with all hardware detected

bigdaddyrob2g: how did you get the dual boot? put osx and vista on seperate disks or partitions?

did you put a quad in a XPS 410 ?

if so, *woot* i'm going ot get one this weekend. i am worried aobut the power supply not being beefy enough with me geforce 7900gt.

I was wondering,

(A) Is the power source beefy enough for a 8800GT that I'm considering,

( Is the driver out yet for 8800GT,

© http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel...Core_2_Chipsets says that only the XYY chipsets have Quad support, where X=letter and Y=number.

I would like to add:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_104B&SUBSYS_01DB1028&REV_02&CC_020000
Or
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_104B&SUBSYS_01DB1028&REV_02&CC_0200.

Either way, the subsys is 01db1028, maybe each info.plist will have to be tweaked to accept? Also CC number dunno what it is...

That's Windows' output.

my PC (Dimension 9200) actually came with a Q6600 Core 2 QUAD CPU..

..sorry to get your hopes up if you can't use a QUAD!

BTW.. any news on the internal NIC? i'm reluctant to put any more semi compatible hardware in my just compatible hack ..and i'm busting to get rid of my sh!t vista ..all I use it for is surfing the web!

..oh and it came with a GeForce 8600GTS which looks like it uses quite a bit of juice..

Sh!t vista- Yes, thats definitely true
Internal NIC and half-compatible hardware- bigdaddyrob2g's gonna get out a new driver soon, I suggest you wait until he gets it out and the people who tested it post responses.

i think mine's the same.. from 'Hardware Ids' in vista device manager:

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_104B&SUBSYS_01DB1028&REV_02
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_104B&SUBSYS_01DB1028
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_104B&CC_020000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_104B&CC_0200

Can you pop the side off your rig and share the knowledge about what size power supply you have in there ?mine is a 375watt which i think is a bit small for a quad and a 7900gt.I bet yours at least has a 500watt'er. It sounds like you got a hell of a system.it's probably more Dell's bios than the chipset for quad support..holy {censored}, man. i'm so sorry for your loss. Keep fighting the good fight and maybe we'll someday have proper ethernet support. thanks.

the 375 watt psu is beefy enough!
and if you do not trust is you can replace it with any psu you like.
chassis can hold it.

this is my setup on that same psu, original 375 watt:

dimension 9200/xps 410

core 2 duo E6700 cpu
4x 1 gb pc 5300
2x 250 gb raid 0
1 320 gb
2x dvdrw
8800 GTX
X-Fi xtreme music
ageia physx card.
cardreader.

and still runs stable at 3.1 ghz overclock.
used a energy checker on the power and runs on 260 watt idl and 350 watt full use.

How do you overclock on a Dell? there's no option in the BIOS?
is there any utility available for OSX86?
thanks

I should want to overclock a Dell.... unfortunately there are people who say you can't.

THIS IS HOW:

Open up your XPS, find the PLL, write down the ID, check CPUFSB if it's supported, then you can software-overclock. The PLL, as far as I know, IS SUPPORTED, since Xenn0X said that he did. You won't be able to get drastic changes, as he said, he only got to 3.1, but that's still better than a E6850.

Oh yes, thanks Xenn0X, finally I can get a 8800GT in peace of mind.

Are the 8800GT drivers out yet?

Oh yes, bigdaddyrob2g talked about how his ethernet driver's coming out today. I urge you to visit this topic as much as you can.

EDITED TO ADD CONTENT:

slave-zeo, in a post about a year ago you talked about making a dd image. Would you be so kind as to make it? I really need to get Tiger working alongside Leopard.

suprisingly I have a 375 watt power supply.. looks like you're going shopping this weekend!

..btw how would i go about overclocking my cpu?

..and what's going on with the NIC!!!?? - i now can't browse with audio in vista!

Bad in what sense?

I have a XPS 420 but seems its the same network chipset.

I have grabbed the latest AppleIntel8255x sources from Darwin (18.0.80), compiled it fine and added my device IDs.
(Permissions, kext caches etc too)

Still can't seem to get it to work. Here is some output from dmesg: (The tulip driver is the temporarily added pci ethernet card)


Seems to be an eeprom reading issue, any ideas?

So where's Rob's network kext?

For the look of the source code seems very unprovable that the 2855x driver could work with the 28566 NIC with a simple ID change, the error happens in the very beginning of the initialization process, because of this I'm very interested to see how was possible for bigdaddyrob to get it working.

If anyone is interested the source code for the FreeBDS driver for this NIC is available, maybe one of the developers here could take a look on it ad have a driver using the FreeBSD and the Apple source code.

It's a shame that this NIC is not working yet, a lot of the 965 based boards use it. I own a DP965LT and is the only part not working yet.

i have tried using the the forcedeth driver install in terminal and it did not work. i have an nvidia nforce3 10/100 ethernet chipset when i did install it the entire computer froze and i could only move my mouse. any help would be very nice.

i don't have any experience editing kexts, but why does it say '82557', when the onboard NICs are '82566's?

82566 not 82556.
And it RECOGNIZES it as a 82557, that's how ID editing works I think,

1) match ID. =>
2) find a device
YES | NO
Go to | Go to
3a | 3b

3)a. display i____eeprom
b. display as 82557

"i82557eeprom" is a text string hard coded in the 8255x kext code this is in the i82557eeprom.cpp file of the source code. So, given that the matching is forced adding the ID in the 8255x kext family there are not any explicit reference to 8256x NICS.

fair enough..

..well if u guys need any testing just lemme know..

How do I find the Hardware ID of things that are not loading?

Thanks,
Drew

Hey guys....

I have an HP m8120n (you dont need to know this...but uh...for reference)

I have the same 82566dc intel gigabit card and am anxious to find out if anybody has anything on it.

Thanks.

Great!

If only I knew how to do this...I would be working at it too

..just keep this topic on the front page

...hope all is going well with the NIC stuff..

LOL

BTW iATKOS is gonna really be released. It's finished, but the uploader needs to receive the iso on a DVD first so that he can convert to iso and then upload as torrent.

Let us hope that the NIC will follow, except in a shorter time.

This is worse than waiting for Christmas!

that's great. I am looking for the solution for my network card 82566DC.
I will try on my leopard.

thanks.

It does not work on my Leopard Is there anyone make it works on Leopard?
Here what i did:
- Download kext file AppleIntel82566.mkext (link:http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=18159).
- Then copy to /System/Library/Extensions/
- Correct permission
- Delete /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
- Reboot my Leopard

Leopard does not recognize 82566DC onboard ethernet

Currently, i am using PCI 3COM network card 10/100, should i remove it out of my workstation in order to recognize on board ethernet card by Leopard?

Please help me.
Thank you very much.

ummmmm, all of us already said that it doesn't work.

No offense, of course.

Every time I see a new post I get my hopes up...

Same here. But there IS a way to determine if bigdaddyrob2g posted it.

Satisfies two criteria:

1) In the forum page it should say who posted most recently and WHEN (which leads to number 2)
2) bigdaddyrob2g always posts at 5-6 EASTERN TIME. Make sure your time conversion skills are put to use if you see he posted some other time.

Just some info. I don't know why he gets up at 3 (he lives in Utah) but to each man his own, I guess!

Well I will be awaiting for the network fix! Then I will be set!

RELEASE COMING. HOLD TIGHT.
It's true! bigdaddyrob2g is releasing it. He already sent a PM to me, asking whether I want to beta-test it or not! So hold tight. He has one beta-tester so far though, if you want to beta-test contact him!