kevwil Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 (edited) I have *almost* the same hardware setup as the Lifehacker install, but not quite. Gigabyte EP45-UD3P rev 1.6 bios FB Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 65nm 95W G.Skill DDR2-1066 4X2GB CL5-5-5-15 EVGA NVidia 8600GT 256MB Western Digital 500GB WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 Philips SPD2513P DVD Writer Broadcom 43xx 802.11a/b/g PCI card (Belkin) What I need to get working is that last item - the wireless. My home is set up in a way where I can't get wired ethernet to the hackintosh box. I NEED that wireless to work. As I was going through the install, I forgot to run the extra install package after booting into the HD install. A weird thing kept happening. If I boot from the flash drive into the HD install, It would have good video resolution and sound would work but no wireless would be recognized. If I would boot directly into the HD install with "-v" boot arguments, I would see the wireless driver loaded and recognized before it would hang on loading the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement kernel extension. Something about the tweaks from that Lifehacker/stella install package has disabled recognition of that wireless device. I successfully used iATKOS v7 in this box before deciding to upgrade the MB & RAM, because my old board (P35 Neo-f, MS-7360) would only recognize one CPU core. With that Leopard install, I had working wireless. Now, I'm excited to have all four cores and twice the RAM and Snow Leopard, but I'm dead without wireless. I'm pretty much a newbie at this, don't fully understand the Darwin kernel and .kext drivers and such, but I'm an old Gentoo Linux user and have compiled my own Linux kernel hundreds of times. I probably know just enough to cause trouble. What can I do? Why won't SL recognize this hardware? PLEASE PLEASE HELP! Edited October 18, 2009 by kevwil Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192623-lifehacker-install-almost-works-but-no-wireless/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevwil Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Can anyone help? Am I missing something obvious? Have I insulted everyone somehow? Please help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192623-lifehacker-install-almost-works-but-no-wireless/#findComment-1307484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermitizer Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Can anyone help? Am I missing something obvious? Have I insulted everyone somehow? Please help! lol. relax. i'm a total noob and no pretty much nothing, but maybe take a look at this: http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/17087638...atible-hardware stell's the guy who did the magic installer for the lifehacker build...he'd be the guy to ask...but i think there's already a topic about this build you should post to... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192623-lifehacker-install-almost-works-but-no-wireless/#findComment-1307506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevwil Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Thanks for the reply! Thanks for the link. I'm not 100% sure what model wifi card I have, but I know it works in Leopard and I know Snow Leopard recognized it on boot up before installing Stella's package for this motherboard. I wish I understood what that package did, so that I or someone could try to track down what is preventing the wifi card from being recognized anymore. I started this thread because the main thread is very clear about THIS EXACT HARDWARE PROFILE ONLY type of thing, and I have a different DVDROM, CPU, RAM maker, and HD. ... I'm not 100% sure what model wifi card I have, .... I opened my box and pulled out the card. Belkin F5D7000 Wifi card (Broadcom BCM4306KFB chip) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192623-lifehacker-install-almost-works-but-no-wireless/#findComment-1308130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevwil Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 I just found http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=51725 and tried that. I see the extension loaded, but device was identified so the extension doesn't do anything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192623-lifehacker-install-almost-works-but-no-wireless/#findComment-1308272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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