madmatrixz3000 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 To make your Hackbook based on these intructions you will need: Sony VAIO NR-Series (Any of these will work since they have the same hardware other than the RAM and Processor Kalyway Install Disk - I used the 10.5.2 to get this working as it is the simplest and most stable at the time Internet access to this forum - I will be updating this so that we can get these systems to get constantly better. A license of OSX - Don't be illegal get a license USB mouse - To make track pad work will disable your pad at times so have this as a backup. A second moniter (this is only necessary if you want to have multi screen capibilities.) Okay so this is half a install guide for the Sony VAIO NR series and half a list for me to remember how I got stuff working. So I hope that this helps people to get some of this hardware working and I hope that you guys can help me a little to get some of these things working. Below the bolded text is the hardware as is read in the system prefs of Vista, I will soon make an edit that includes the hardware readout within OSx Video Card- Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family I know it is not fixed yet, but I'm able to not have to safe boot by cutting all the AppleIntel viedo kexts. Also for storage space I have deleted the ATIRadeon stuff. Although this gets me at a workable 1024x768 res, CI and QE are not working as well as shader, and multi-res selection. If anyone can help me with this I would be grateful. Sound Card- Realtek High Definition Sound Card My Highdef Realtek Intel sound card started working once I was able to get my graphics card working to get me out of safe mode. Network- None of this is working yet Wireless - Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection I have used the iwi installer however, I have found that my problem lies in the fact that OSx is unable to see my PCI card slot at this time to access the wifi card. So I think this hardware failure has to do with me switching to the MB Bios (I believe this to be the case as I am unable to access the About This Mac and sleep has stopped working all together so this is why I think I screwed up with the wrong BIOS), I will reinstall tommorrow and try a different BIOS. Ethernet- Marvell Yukon 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller Kalyway shows a driver installed, but I do not have any way to test this at this time, and I will be away from my house till thursday. BIOS and Power Management- Right now I am running as a Mac Pro, but my power manager is working I just installed the power manager in my Kalyway installer I tried a soft reinstall (did not wipe the HDD) and the "About this Mac" dialogue will not come up with the MB bios. Also sleep does not work, unfortunately I did not test this on the Mac Pro BIOS to see if this is a symptom or a recurring theme. Touchpad - Alps Pointing-device for VAIO I've got double finger scroll and tap click working as well as the trackpad with directions on this forum, but I am making a website/ftp on free webs so that you guys can everything in one place. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114228-request-for-help-making-a-hackbook/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmatrixz3000 Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 I used the iwi installer and the Network Settings GUI was not installed help please?Between a bad darwin BIOS setup and possible mini PCI failure, it is impossible for me to know if my wifi works Do not use the first MB BIOs on the Kalyway 10.5.2 disk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114228-request-for-help-making-a-hackbook/#findComment-809909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpw1966uk Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Hi, I've been trying to install from Kalyway 10.5.2 on my Vaio NR21 Z/S but with no luck (the plan is to install onto a USB hard drive so that when thats plugged in it boots from that rather than Vista on the internal hard drive). The 10.5.2 DVD I burned stops with a system configuration file '<long-path-and-filename>.plist' not found message, shows the boot: prompt and I the process won't go any further. Just wondered if you got this error at all or if you had to change any BIOS settings? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114228-request-for-help-making-a-hackbook/#findComment-822827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmatrixz3000 Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 I did not get this error, but I was installing to internal 90 GB Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114228-request-for-help-making-a-hackbook/#findComment-827406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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