kemikal-aa Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 and i have OS X 10.4.4 running close to perfectly on it. I have the power meter working which can be found in other threads on here. I learned that you cannot install it to an external USB hard drive at all. But I have a couple issues i was lookin to get some help with. 1. when i close my laptop and reopen it the screen is black and doesnt come back on. 2. Cannot seem to get my wired Broadcom 440x nic to connect to the internet... It finds it but it wont connect through my linksys router. 3. Intel PRO/Wireless 3945A/B/G nic to be found at all. Would upgrading to a newer version help these issues or am i just kinda screwed on them? I really dont want to spend any money buying an usb wireless card. Any help would be vastly appreciated. Also I get sound with my M-Audio mobile pre but i cant get sound with the built-in SigmaTel sound card. any help there would be cool. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 1. when i close my laptop and reopen it the screen is black and doesnt come back on. Sleep is a problem with many laptops. There is no solution. 2. Cannot seem to get my wired Broadcom 440x nic to connect to the internet... It finds it but it wont connect through my linksys router. In the System Preferences -> Network, under your ethernet device, go to TCP/IP. At the Configure IPv4 popup: select Using DHCP with manual address. Then set the IP address manually in the range of what your router would issue. 3. Intel PRO/Wireless 3945A/B/G nic to be found at all. There is no solution for 3945. Some people buy a replacement mini-PCI-E card produced by Dell. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-189939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemikal-aa Posted September 17, 2006 Author Share Posted September 17, 2006 Ok i got the wired nic working. turns out windows xp does something that prevents the card from being used before xp starts... for those who are new like me the fix for this is to disable the wired and restart the computer... boot to XP and there you go. Thanks everyone. this is so much more tollerable than windows. excuse me type o there its boot to OSX and then it should work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-190299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemikal-aa Posted September 27, 2006 Author Share Posted September 27, 2006 Are there any plans to get a working driver for the intel 3945 wireless. I would love to do it myself but i dont know how. If someone even knows where i can find out how to compile the damn driver ill give it a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-196596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Are there any plans to get a working driver for the intel 3945 wireless. I would love to do it myself but i dont know how. If someone even knows where i can find out how to compile the damn driver ill give it a try. nope. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-196788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemikal-aa Posted September 27, 2006 Author Share Posted September 27, 2006 wow you are of no help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-196888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neonkoala Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 The alternative to disabling the NIC then booting to windows is to set the laptop to network boot before OS X and that activates the network card again and will continue to OS X when the network boot fails. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-196967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 wow you are of no help well i gave you a straight answer. No need to beat around the bush. There is no driver, and seeing as Macs wil never use that chipset doubt intel/mac will ever release one. As for compiling the driver...if it were that easy it would have been done. Someone would need to write a driver from the ground up to get it to work. so....as I said before "nope" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-197275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemikal-aa Posted September 28, 2006 Author Share Posted September 28, 2006 well then i guess i gotta do the one thing i hate, thats part ways with my money and buy a usb wireless. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-197293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 i had to do the same the belkin f5d7050 works good for me...just make sure its ver 2,3, or 4...not version 1...you can tell which version it is by the sticker near the upc(and thats the only way to tell) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-197295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemikal-aa Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 ill keep that in mind, thanx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-198014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemikal-aa Posted October 8, 2006 Author Share Posted October 8, 2006 just a little update and 1 final question. I finally have Internet on OS X 10.4.6. Thanks for the belkin suggestion it works great. I have AC97 SigmaTel HD audio built in here and i cant get it working. I have the AppleAC97Audio.kext file and ran some commands i found here and still nada. Does anyone have the sure fire, dead nuts solution to this??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27806-os-x-1044-issues-that-need-fixing/#findComment-204834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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