Warstrong Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 So I'm sitting here with this beat up Sony Vaio "PCG-V505DX" laptop. The internal hard drive failed a while back so nobody cares what I do with the system as long as I don't physically bust it Anyway, I installed Kalyway 10.5.1 last night into this morning (got no sleep anticipating it). I probably won't use this system anyways (probably give it to the family if they feel like buying an internal hard drive for it), so I am not stressing over it much. I just find it frustrating that there is no sound and even my wireless wifi adapter (WL-167G) that is made for OSX on real macs is telling me through System Preferences that it has a self-assigned IP address and can't connnect, even though I've got the latest driver and app and the app says that it's connected to the WEP-encrypted network just fine. I'm thinking that a big part of these problems could be because the bios doesn't support booting from a usb hdd. I have to use the install disk, type "mach_kernel -v rd=disk2s1" at the prompt, and it loads stuff from the dvd and then eventually starts loading off the usb hdd. I know that disconnecting and reconnecting the wifi adapter is usually a way to get the device recognized correctly but no matter what I do (even disconnecting and reconnecting multiple times during boot up), System Preferences keeps telling me that it is assigning its own IP address. I hope I don't have the networking problem with my good pc that will hopefully work with this new external I'm using now for this specs are: 1.4MHz Intel Centrino (Pentium right?) 1.4GHz (I think it's caramel, the earliest version. I think that means it has SSE2, which I chose a package for during install. 512MB RAM ATi Mobility Radeon 9200 (QE/CI isn't supported) external is 250GB sorry it's so long, I always do that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztidhavok Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 for the sound issue, you need to search the forums for a tutorial or post that has the audio kext for your sound card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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