f00kie Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 If someone has it running on the MacBookPro, any chance you can take a video and put it on YouTube or something? That would be awesome. Any video of that stunning machine would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 GOT IT! We now have drivers for the Broadcom BCM4311 WIFI Card. I remembered the dell E1705 used the core duo also and in turn probably had a PCI Express wifi card and I was right! http://tinyurl.com/jxqsn Thats a link to the driver download. Its 43megs and won't initially install. Once you extract the files you have to manually point the Network Device in the Device Manager at c:\dell\drivers\R115321\Drivers and it picks it up as a Dell Wireless 1490 card. Its now up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathur999 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Good job Airman Pika...Any thoughts on the X1600 mobility driver on the Acer site. Would that work? mathur999.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crypto1 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 why dont u guys chat on IRC ... much better then refreshing this page every second..... irc.macspeak.net #xponmac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsdb0 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 kickass ill try on mini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratus Fear Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I'm working on finding drivers for the Yukon ethernet. Might've got them, but since I'm not in the test group, I can't test them myself (doh!) hehe. Try them out. One claims to be an installer, and I think the smaller one is driver only. nonetheless, I'll link both from marvell's site. http://www.marvell.com/drivers/upload/Setu..._x32_v84923.zip http://www.marvell.com/drivers/upload/yk51x86_v84923.zip Just for the info, it's a PCI express Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torifile Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 This is very exciting. Any progress on the 20" iMac yet? I'm eager to try it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f00kie Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 The important thing here is that it seems to be possible to do anything now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drkstar Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Has anyone checked the Acer website in the support section for driver downloads. They have a lot of drivers for winXP for their Travelmate 8200 series. The series is almost identical to the MacbookPro ie. 945 chipset Core Duo T2500, WiFi a,b,g, bluetooth, ATI Mobility radeon X1600 with 256meg ram, USB2.0 Firewire, gigLan webcam etc... mathur999... Here is the link for the Acer Travelmate 8200 drivers: Acer 8200 Drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I'm working on finding drivers for the Yukon ethernet. Might've got them, but since I'm not in the test group, I can't test them myself (doh!) hehe.Try them out. One claims to be an installer, and I think the smaller one is driver only. nonetheless, I'll link both from marvell's site. http://www.marvell.com/drivers/upload/Setu..._x32_v84923.zip http://www.marvell.com/drivers/upload/yk51x86_v84923.zip Just for the info, it's a PCI express Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053. Yep thats them in the first link. I got those earlier and they work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratus Fear Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Oh really? I read this entire thread...guess I missed that you got em. oh well, I tried Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybeak Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Pika would you be able to sum up your progress at this time? (Or any other testers? Please?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveM Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 GOT IT! We now have drivers for the Broadcom BCM4311 WIFI Card. I remembered the dell E1705 used the core duo also and in turn probably had a PCI Express wifi card and I was right! http://tinyurl.com/jxqsn Thats a link to the driver download. Its 43megs and won't initially install. Once you extract the files you have to manually point the Network Device in the Device Manager at c:\dell\drivers\R115321\Drivers and it picks it up as a Dell Wireless 1490 card. Its now up and running. Does Windows Update work? Does it detect drivers/software for any of the unrecognized devices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathur999 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I just downloaded the Acer Video drivers for the Travelmate 8200 series. It has standard ATI X1600 mobility drivers for Win XP in the set.. Unfortuneately it is sitting on the mac partition of my MacBook Pro. Will have to wait until general release of Narf's stuff.... mathur999 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 OK Basic progress sofar. Windows is installed fine on my iMac 17" now. Only general windows glitch that I have sofar is that when I try to reboot the PC it freezes on "Windows is Shutting Down..." and I have to manually cycle the power to restart the machine (shutdown works fine though). Driver Wise I installed the Intel 945 chipset drivers without a hitch and Wireless and WIFI networking now work. From what I've read the 20" iMac needs some work still, the mac mini is also now working, and the macbook pro is also working. Appears the iMac and Macbook Pro are almost identicle in hardware config. The WIFI doesn't appear to be the same in the mac mini though so the drivers I posted don't work for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Pika, can you test out the Acer 8200 ATI Radeon driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybeak Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 OK Basic progress sofar. Windows is installed fine on my iMac 17" now. Only general windows glitch that I have sofar is that when I try to reboot the PC it freezes on "Windows is Shutting Down..." and I have to manually cycle the power to restart the machine (shutdown works fine though). Driver Wise I installed the Intel 945 chipset drivers without a hitch and Wireless and WIFI networking now work. From what I've read the 20" iMac needs some work still, the mac mini is also now working, and the macbook pro is also working. Appears the iMac and Macbook Pro are almost identicle in hardware config. The WIFI doesn't appear to be the same in the mac mini though so the drivers I posted don't work for that. Thank you SO much. I've waited all day to hear this. I really appreciate it. I'm off to bed. G'night everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 OK sofar the Acer X1600 drivers just lock up the imac on boot or during install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aiongiant Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 oh the contest page.... "Latest Update Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution. There are still many bugs to be worked out!" this is awesome...thanks to all! narf...blanka...everyone involved in getting windows xp on the intel macs! just another day till i get my macbook pro! perfect timing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac tosh Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Congratulations! narf and blanka Job well done thanks and enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstin Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac.S Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Great work guys! what about taking up a collection for clay? I guess I kind of almost think he should get something but not sure what. He definitely would have been second place. Guess that would go better on the onmac forum but I don't feel like registering Now to convince my boss to get me a mbp Isaac.S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcslayer Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Happy to knkow that no more joke or rumor. Willing to help with all my best. Good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torifile Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Is there an ETA on the release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typerlover Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Any comments on the relative difficulty of setting this up? Just wondering if it is as simple as following a released set of instructions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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