Hi all,
i've seen a lot on the asus p5k board but not much on this one wich seems to be at least as good.
There's a quick howto atthe bottom of the page

Specs

GA-G33M-DS2R
Intel® G33 + ICH9R Chipset

1. Supports Intel® Core™ 2 multi-core and upcoming 45nm processors
2. Dual Channel DDR2 800 for outstanding system performance
3. Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 (Intel GMA 3100)
4. Integrated SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function
5. Features high speed Gigabit Ethernet and IEEE1394
6. Integrated ALC889A 8-Channel High Definition audio


BIOS settings

-SATA must be in AHCI mode ----> not necessarely nowthanks to DUNE see the last edit
-SATA must also be in native mode
--> if you don't do these two steps nor the dvd neither the HD will boot.

-you have to disable the max cpuid value limit

Installation

EDIT:I use kalyway 10.5.1 dvd, kalyway resetter to make the folders and all back to default and i also updated to 10.5.2 manually without problems using this guide (in french but the code is understandable): http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry623714
I tried to install only with the toh release.
EDIT: i tried toh, brazilmac, iatkos and kalyway and i choose kalyway because it's really simple and stable.
So plug the DVD in and wait for it to install the same way as the other osx86 releases.
After reboot just let the dvd in the drive and don't press any key, otherwise you'll get the "still waiting for root device" message.
EDIT: I installed the pcEFI thing (v4) and it works!!! But i followed this guide: http://www.digitmemo.com/articles/734/howt...-in-hackintosh/
and after patching with the usb key, i got an enless reboot sad.gif ...
Anyway booting with the kernel flag after hitting F8 at boot: mach_kernel.patched made my install bootable. I upgraded to 10.5.1 and IT WORKED, i have a fully working 10.5.1 install and the vanilla kernel thanks to netkas and his efi.

Out of the Box
IDE, 6 SATA ports (AHCI), LAN, Firewire

Graphics
If you intend to use the onboard graphics, you'll only get the vesa mode, 1024X768 noQE-CI and there's nothing to do... maybe some genius will get it to work or maybe it will work with the new EFI thing.
I used an albatron 7300 LE and i get full QE, CI with NVinject for leopard.

Networking
I didn't test the onboard LAN but it's reported to work under system preferences
I use an atheros pci w-LAN wich works perfectly with the modified IOnetworkingfamily.kext from JAS 10.4.8 and some ID adds in plist.
EDIT: see my sig i use i broadcom card wich works out of the box

Audio
audio ALC889a is fully working with this patch: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry436207
copy the tho kexts in /System/Library/Extensions/
then
remove the azaliaaudio.kext (some people reported that it wouldn't work without this) and
sudo chmod -R 775 /System/Library/Extensions/*
sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/*
and remove the Extensions.kextcache
You get stereo out, mic, line in and even spdif out, Credit goes to taruga and his awesome AppleHDApatcher

ICH9 Support
If you don't want to use the AHCI mode you can use these kexts:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&id=16559 from this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...62111&st=20 Credits to allsop and podarok.
Copy the IOATAFamily.kext into /System/Library/Extensions/ and AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext in
/System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/

Then you can remove the AHCI mode in BIOS. The problem is that you will loose SATA 5 and 6 and maybe 3 and 4 i did not try those.
By the way i didn't notice any difference in terms of performances with or without ahci, it just takes 3 more seconds to boot for the AHCI bios.

Booting problems
EDIT: now it's useless with kalyway
As i said before, you'll need the dvd in the drive to boot your HD.
It's a known issue and there are multiple solutions to get it boot.
I used this:

I booted from the TOH install dvd then:
cd /usr/misc/
then
./script.sh

And i did it about 8 times!!!
The first time i did it only once and it wasn't bootable at all, so don't hesitate. I also got some errors but it worked anyway.


Remaining issues
EDIT: now boots quick and my Q6600 is not recognized as quad core but activity monitor sees the 4 cores even shutdown and restart is ok with the fix inclueded in the install dvd and an option in bios changed from instant off to 4 seconds delay.
- It takes quite a lot of time to boot (25secs).
- System profiler reports my E4300 core2duo as Core 2 solo but activity monitor sees 2 core so i don't care. it seems that i depends on the kernel. Some also say that it's related to smbios.kext but i tries about 5 of them and none worked. Maybe i'll try another kernel.
- It also takes quite a lot of time to shutdown (20secs).
- I tried to overclock it but no way, i seems to work but i get kernel panics... it's really strange since a lot of people seem to overclock it easily, but i don't think they did it on a hackintosh. I finally overclocked easyly my E4300 @2,3ghz

BUT IT'S REALLY STABLE, it's on since 2 days and is really really quick!!!

EDIT:
With the kalyway install, you can remove the AHCI in bios, but if you use more than 2g of ram, you'll get some kernel panics.
Go get the kext from here: thread and follow the little tuto.
You'll get all 6 sata ports working in native mode and maybe like me a increase in disk speed (xbench disk tests from 64 to 69), boot time will also be reduced.


Befor all choose the bios options listed above (especially ahci otherwise, it won't install).
1- Download and install te kalyway dvd and select the vanilla kernel and acpi fix in the customize install menu, don't forget to choose the right boot patch.
2- backup the appleacpiplatform.kext (located in system/library/extensions/)
3- Download and install the kalyway 10.5.2 update and the vanilla kernels package.
4- Use kext helper (in your application folder) and drag all the kexts you need (all the ones from alc889.zip linked before, the backuped appleacpiplatform) onto it and click install. Then remove the extensions.mkext manually (it's located in system/library/)

Here it is, you should be done and everything is working sound ethernet 6 sata ports ide(only if you have less than 2gb ram if you have more, you'll get kernel panics using it) firewire reboot shutdown and so on.
If you want to get rid of ahci, you can grab the DUNE kexts here and install them using kexthelper, don't forget to remove AppleViaAta kext: his thread and tuto is here. Then reboot and remove the ahci setting. If you have two HD, you'll have to set the right one to be the first boot device.

Hope this is easy enough

I overclock my 6300 to 3.01ghz (430 fsb) I use efi v4. With modded kernel I bootup in about 10 secs but shutdown is about 30 secs since upgraded to 10.5.1 (had to replace kernel to get it to shutdown etc ok)

Great!
Can you explain me the settings you use in bios to get this overclock?

2thysm00
If U tell me PCI id`s for all SATA channels i`ll do the patch for support all channels on GA-G33M-DS2R

No problems but how can i know those id's? Hope i don't need windows... maybe from one of the screens at boot or from the bios?

2 thysm00
U have to get IORegistryExplorer from Apple Xcode tools (version 2.5 for tiger and version 3.0 for Leo)

May be I`ll write some how-to in feature 8)))

OK, i'll try this tonight and post results.

Ok so i hope this is what you need... I took screenshots because i was unsure. Tell me if you need something else.

My overclocking problems were issues of the Toh kernel i think, i got panics everytime i booted but now i'm ok , E4300@2.16 ghz!!!

To podarok: Do you think this will increase my disk performances, in xbench i get very poor ones?

Hey all. just a quick question about ICH9. I plan on buying a motherboard that is capable of RAID5 in leopard and has gigabit ethernet. what are the advantages to having ICH9 running under Leopard OSx86, as aposed to AHCI?

thanx in advance,

jordn

Is there a step-by-step for the ToH install for this board? I boot to the DVD after setting the SATA to AHCI and native mode in the BIOS. I get the "still waiting for root device" error. What am I missing?

This is really strange, all you have to do is put the dvd in... Is your hard drive ide or sata? and the dvd drive? You can also try to reset bios settings and then set sata to ahci. You also can try without the native mode.
Mayebe the last possibility is that you dvd was burned too fast and has errors in it. I remember i got this with one of the first releases of tiger.
Hope this helps.

To Podarok: do you have any news/problems with the id's i gave you? Is the patch working? if you need testers, i'm there!
And the jordn question is interesting: "what are the advantages to having ICH9 running under Leopard OSx86, as posed to AHCI? "

Both drives are SATA. I'm sure it has to do with the BIOS settings so I'll fool with those, but I'll get a fresh ToH copy just in case.

I didn't mean to grab a fresh copy but only to burn it again at a low speed, but maybe you don't have the iso...

Oh, okay. I'll burn it at low speed and report back.

Oh i forgot to ask something. What is the model on the geekbench test using the efi patch? i get g33m-DS2. Some say that you have to get hackintosh or mac pro. Is it the same for you?

I have same G33 Chipset but with no luck...
i am getting these at -v mode



I used every leopard dvd (ToH, Flat image, Brazil) released to date, even Tiger..but same error as above.
my bios setting FOR SATA WD hdd is AHCI,
while other IDE drive to which i am trying to install is as mater, while in slave is creative dvd RW.(I even tried other way arround but result is same)


My specs are:
Mobo = intel DG33FB (ON board graphic and sound)
Processor Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2331 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
HDD WD 200GB Sata (native mode as IDE) and seagate 80GB hdd At IDE Slot as master, slaving creative dvd writer.
O.S = Window XP Pro


Any help will be highly appericiated.

I'm running ToH release with EFI 5.2 and the 10.5.1 update, stock kernel. Works great, I have Adobe CS3, Quark, Parallels, iWork all running fine.
I am using this mobo with an E2180 @ 2.8ghz, sata hd, 7300Gt and 2gb (450mhz) ram. Xbench of 175 inc HD tests.

There are two niggly issues though.

I have Orange icons for my sata drives, I don't really want to just replace the icon, how can I make it realise it is an internal drive?

Also it seems to take a while to boot as mentioned in the guide, 20-30 seconds. When I first installed it the boot was maybe 10 secs. How can I find the slowdown? do we all have this issue?

Cheers

It simply shows that your drives are sata... If you don't want this, try the ICH9 patch from podarok listed above but you'll loose 4 sata plugs. He's making a better ich9 driver right now but i'm still waiting.

I still have it and almost everyone had the same issues, and i also got the first boot really quick. Check this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=71317&st=0

do the pci dump using ioreg ( from my signature )

I attached my dump. Keep us updated! And is there a thread where we can follow your progresses?

Hi.
I canot get working PCI slots on board. OsX canot find PCI-wLAN cards! Pls help! Whats U do to make it working? 

What you say is really strange... I didn't do anything to make them work... I have a pci airport card and it worked without doing anything. I suggest you to reset your bios setting maybe you've disabled something. Optimized defaults and enabling ahci works well. Maybe it's not a pci problem but a wireless card problem. The wireless drivers are not the same in tiger and leopard. If you got it to work under tiger try using the same kexts. If you didn't, maybe that's the point What are your card model and ids?

Did someone find a driver for oboard LAN? it is not working for me.

best
lion

gma 3100 not working, iatkos

first, thysm00 thanks, for the how to,
did try kalyway also, ended up with iatkos, got sleep working, 7300gs in it,
the ahci bugs me too, the latest bios, adds a lower multiplier for memory,
1.8 to 2.8ghz possible, right now, just tired of playing with bios,... 2ghz,...

gma 3100, well, my 7300gs came with a fan, if the gma 3100 would work,
I could get it, fanless ,.... quiet is king,.... I am at 86W , with 4 discs, 3 in sleep,
sleep / wake works for now, and is a big green thing for me, (first noise, 2nd power consumption,..)
for sound I use, a usb dongle, gigabit works, could not figure out keyboard driver s 510 logitech,
got the apple alu one, so far so good,
shutdown, restart problem,.... changed the PSU, seams better now,
stock fan, mostly off, but chipsets , especially with OC /overclock get hot,
thinking, to get better chipset coolers /heatsinks
sata hotplug, not working,... since I got a load of discs, would love hotplug working,
thinking an sata card pci-e, 4 ports, with esata ,... could do the trick, just don't know wich one,
that would also give more ports for dvd burners, for backup /ripping,
DVD , eject hickups, reboot needed,... LG drive, seam to be especially bad with OC, anybody noticed ?

last thing,... once perfected, think it be nice, to have an image file of the whole install,
that way it be lock and load,..... what you think, would you like that, bolt on motherboard,
restore image (ccc) aka 20min, done playing, back to work ?

did Gigabit LAN work for you right out the box?

gigabit lan iatkos, without patches,

think, that's how I installed it, works reliable,
for workaround, realtek pci card, or ralink usb wifi,

sag mal bescheid, wennste noch probleme hast,

I also got lan working out of the box without patching with every version i tested (brazilmac toh kalyway and iatkos, i use kalyway now).

@rschultz101 : for the noise problem i choose my 7300 card fanless for 40 euros, you can also find cheaper ones off ebay. There's one thing i don't understand, why are u using a usb dongle for sound? the alc889 soundcard works perfectly, even spdif out front pannel mic ... are working great!
I also had the shutdown restart problems and there's a fix on the kalyway install dvd and it's working great you can maybe extract the package from th ekalyway disc.

Apart from the ahci mode, everything is working really good on this board, and yes hotplug doesn't work and it really wouldbe great!

And for your image file i think it'be great but i'm not sure i would work because of the booting issues but i'll try. Anyway i'm doing quite the same, i have 2nd hd that i plug in and boot from , then i copy (ccc) it to the first disk and i works. If you make such an image, tell me how you get it to make it bootable, ireally am intersted

Hallo,

i am an happy GA-G33M user! It is a beautiful mobo for Leo..


I have only two problem:
1) When i wake from sleep, my usb port does not function...
2) When i shutdown, sometimes power led and fan of pc remains switched on..

My software config is:
Installation from Toh Leo 10.5.0 RC2
PC_EFI_v8
Kernel 9.1 from 10.5.1 Kalywai

All kext are from Toh, except default AppleACPIPlatform.kext from Kaly.
Which drivers must replace to solve my problem?

I must add dsmos.kext if i use patched kernel?
And AppleSMBios.kext, witch version?

I know are that critical driver..

Thanks!
And excuse me for "maccheron" English!

actually there is a little problem with the gigabit lan. it does not work with Bonjour. I apply this update and now Bonjour works great and I can access my mt-daapd server. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=80396

Hi all,
I would like to buy this motherboard, and I would ask one question:

- Is it possible connect a DVD at the IDE connector (with the boot function) and the HD SATA at the SATA plug how for the my other MoBo (ASRock 1333-D677) ?

I don't want buy another DVD with SATA interface, but use only IDE, and use the SATA plug for the HD.

If it's possible, are which the BIOS settings?

Thanks in advance and best regards.

Andrea

Everything's working, just look at the first post. Just set your sata mode as ahci.

no AHCI , -> sata native ICH9 , all sata ports?

top page, found the link,....

but said, some of the sata ports won't work after that ?
can anybody confirm,... ?

right now need all the sata ports,....
down the road, thinking, getting a 4 port card, that might also enable hot-plug esata,..

Does anyone know if this guide will work with a Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H mobo? It's very similar to the GA-G33M-DS2R but has HDMI.

GA-G33M-S2H
GA-G33M-DS2R

I'm looking to build an HTPC and trying to find a great motherboard that will work with OSx86. The closest match I've found to the S2H is the DS2R. I don't want to risk buying the S2H and find that it doesn't work so if no one's attempted it, I might err on the side of caution and just get DS2R and go HDMI-less.

I have this board with 3gigs ram, 2 SATA drives, one USB drive, 1 IDE DVD Writer. I have the sata settings to not be at ahci and the ide dvd installed perfectly. The main reason for not using ahci for me was the delay in booting and while xp installed fine with ahci settings vista never did. I have never been able to get sleep to work. Might that be related to the ahci thing?

The GMA 3100 graphics don't work other than in the one setting as noted. LAN works great. The patch for Bonjour did not work for me.

I put in an ATI HD 2600 Pro card with 256megs and I get all kinds of settings but oddly enough no QE support (but ci support). I am not sure what is happening here. The Get Info is

----------------------
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro:

Chipset Model: ATI,RadeonHD2600
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9589
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B2250F-207
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.207
Displays:
SyncMaster:
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Software
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Not Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected

-------

My Samsung monitor now sleeps after I put in the Ati card. Moreover, I can run Fusion with my XP install on the other hard drive (ie there is boot camp support). That is really wierd.


So, any ideas on how to get Sleep working? What about QE? The instructions for that are all over the map. I will probably return the Ati and get a GeFore 7300GT which seems easier to deal with. I have used the Triakis drivers and inserted the id 0x95891002 into the Info.plist . That doesn't work. The best would be to get GMA 3100 working (:

If I try to power off (not restart) the computer I get a kernel panic - this didn't happen with no Ati .

In short:

1- How to get sleep working.
2- How to get QE working (or maybe it is and the Get Info is wrong? Odd that ci is there but not QE.
3- Boot Camp works with XP on one SATA drive and OSX on the other using Fusion.

ls

@boltdozer: For the hdmi thing i really don't know...

@lstep: I use a 7300 nvidia card and sleep is working well and not related to the ahci sata mode since i tried with and without it. And i've seen a lot of people who get problems with the ati cards so i suggest you to get a nvidia one, they support everything inclueded dual display rotation and so on... And you won't get the X3100 to work since it's completely different from the gma950 and that no apple computer uses it.

hi, i have the same board, but i cant even boot into bios because this board seems 2 have a problem with my apple keyboard!
what should i do, buy a new one for pc?? (usb or ps2)

No don't, just try to reset your bios (clear cmos), i use an apple keyboard (the newest one) and i used to use the old one (white one) and both are working flawlessly. I also use a mighty mouse that came with my macbook so there's no problem with the apple keyboard. Or maybe you can update you bios after borrowing a keyboard from one of your friend.

Just one thing did you try to hit F1 at boot? i had an error the first time i booted with this motherboard. But it's not keyboard related but floppy related and there's an option in bios to change that.

Another thing i updated to 10.5.2 with vanilla kernel with this board and everything is working flawlessly. The only issue is reboot shutdown wich does not work anymore. i'll try to find out why and update the guide.

I also have this board, here is my build now with 10.5.2, it is now running a core 2 quad at 3.4 gigs and with the 8800 GTX flashed to Quadro FX 5600 is blisteringly fast, over 300 score in x bench now. Absolutely everything works perfectly except one thing and that is shutdown. Occasionally, it will shut down properly, but more often than not, I am left with the fans running and have to manually shutdown. Anyone have an answer to this?


My Build

I'm editing the Guide right now and adding some info. I get it to shutdown properly most of the time but sometimes not and i also get the fans spinning and the light on in the front of my G5 case... I just added an option in the bios and changed instant off to 4 seconds or something like that.
Your hackintoshes are crazy man, you must have spent a lot of money and time into building this, when i builded mine in my G5 case, i wanted to make something like yours, but when i just finished pluging the motherboard i felt tired and didn't take care of the rest... Anyway wouaou!!!! you're a great computer builder!!!

Well I took your advice and got a PNY-7300GT. What a relief. It works great (ci and qe). Intel has released source code for the 3100 so you never know, but for now I am very happy with the 7300GT.

I finally managed to clone the 10.5.2 drive to a larger drive using HDClone (I had tried Acronis, Ghost, Paragon, TM, CCCloner, ...all to no avail (Ghost worked going to a smaller drive). The problem is related to making the drive bootable and this means installing the EFI stuff, which for me seems mysterious. I have an external 120gig e-sata drive that I first try things on. If they work then I can now move things to my internal 320gig drive with OSX. XP lives on an internal 160gig drive and Fusion boots that. The only problem with HDClone is that it takes 6 hours as it does things via copying sectors. Nice program for something free.

Now to deal with sleep! Thank's for the advice.

ls

PS: Is there a wireless G PCI card that works reliably? My RaLink USB wireless is quite unreliable so I have to use the built in LAN. Am trying to get rid of wires so...Whoops, just saw your mini-pci. Will that work in the tiny pci slot or does it require a full pci slot? The Gigabyte board has this small slot which is mean for an addon to the 3100 graphics. Am not sure what mini-pci is....

Good to see that the 7300 works better For me, sleep is also working.
For your cloning things, i don't really understand what you're trying to do... but under osx there re carbon copy cloner and super duper which can handle that in about 30 minuts depending on the size of your hd...

As for the wifi, you have to get mini pci like mine, it's recognized without any hack at first boot. The mini pci is the laptop format so you'll need a mini pci to pci adapter like this: http://cgi.ebay.fr/Adaptateur-Mini-PCI-ver...7QQcmdZViewItem
or this which is a lot cheper:
http://cgi.ebay.fr/Mini-PCI-to-PCI-Adapter...1QQcmdZViewItem
But maybe you can find a wireless pci wich works without this, but i tried and did not find any...

Well sleep is now working fine:) The 7300 seems to have had a positive effect all around. As for the cloning. If you use Carbon Copy Cloner (great program) you won't get a bootable hard drive. I use that program on my Mac's all the time and it's very fast as you note. What I am trying to do with the cloning is to have a bootable hard drive that I can try new things on. When they work I can then use them on my "production" install. Basically, I don't know how to recover from a situation which messes up an install. It seems to me I'd have to install the EFI and then restore the hard drive from carbon copy cloner, but I don't know enough about efi to make things work.

There is supposed to be a wireless PCI card which works out of the box. I bought it and installed it. The problem is the OSX PC doesn't see any PCI cards at all (it's as though it doesn't support PCI) and so I can't install a driver. The card is supposed to just use the Airport drivers. Did you have to do anything to get PCI cards recognized? No Intel Mac's ship with PCI slots so perhaps Leopard stopped supporting them?

Odd...Perhaps I'll try installing OSX 10.4.10 . It's no big deal as ethernet works great. but it's puzzling.

ls

Hi thysm00, which patch have you run in Kalyway 10.5.1 DVD to fix reboot/shutdown problem? I tried your "instant off delay to 4 sec" method but still doesn't help.....

@lstep: I had the same as you for cloning my hds for the same purpose: testing in order not to break everything at every update. SO just make a fresh install like i did on another hd and apply the few patches needed (you can also copy all the extensions folder from your working install, it should install everything) then use the migration assistant to copy all of your data.

I always wondered if installing kalyway on a disk and then using carbon copy would work. But i know that if you make a carbon copy of your install and boot with the install dvd in without pressing any key, it should boot well.

@SkyZ:When you install kaly and select custom install, you'll see in the first category the vanilla kernel and acpi fix, this is the patch. If you use the 10.5.2 update (i did the manual one), BEFORE updating, remember to keep a copy of all your kexts. Because you'll have to copy some of them back: the alc889 ones, the appleacpiplatform.kext and also the smbios.kext. I tried another smbios posted on a forum supposed to display better informations about the hardware and the only thing it did was making boot time even longer (i had the sign you get when you forget to put sata in ahci mode but it boted after 2 minutes).

Thks thysm00~~~ I think the problem is the vanilla appleacpiplatform.kext from 10.5.2 combo upgrade package (I upgrade the system manually too), I don't have a chance to test it yet, but will definitely replace it with Netkas reboot fix copy of appleacpiplatform.kext and let you guys know how it goes.

I can claim that Netkas reboot fix copy of appleacpiplatform.kext solve the problem (no need to do the delay 4 sec thing).

Hmm...could you then restore a hard drive by booting from the install DVD and make use of either TM and/or Carbon Copy Cloner? For example you could carbon copy to another hard drive, boot off the DVD and then restore that copy to the original (which would still have the EFI)...or would the EFI part be erased? It's all a mystery.

Unfortunately I upgraded to 10.5.2 using the Galyway upgrade and did not save appleacpiplatform.kext and smbios.kext from my 10.5.1 install. Consequently sleep no longer works. Is there an easy way of getting them back? Perhaps they are hiding on the 10.5.1 install DVD? I'd rather not have to go through everything again. I finally have my cheap USB Zio wireless running flawlessly:) I'd go the mini-pcie to pci+ broadcom route but these things are really hard to find over here .

ls

Is this a new fix from netkas? Or still the same as the 10.5.1 fix?




There's one way to avoid you to get your kexts back: get the ones i'll pm you tonight
As for the time machine trick, i think it won't work since the problem is the boot fix. If you make a usual carbon copy, it can boot but only with the dvd inserted (and don't press any key) and the HD set to 1st boot device of course. I think time machine would do the same job as carbon copy cloner. I know there's a way to make any partition bootable: see here: http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=209. But i still prefer to install a brand new os and use the migration assistant and copy my extensions back
As for the wifi, ebay was the onlyway for me

Date of the file is 25/12/07, so I assume the kext is the same one.