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Macisgr3at
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I have a more recent XPS 410 bought this past May that has the same infamous NIC as is mentioned here as not working, and when I install Leopard it installs ok, but I get caught in the Welcome Screen loop which others have said is caused by ethernet.

 

Is there a workaround for this yet, or am I going to have to wait until someone creates a driver?

 

(I'm dual-booting with XP, so not sure turning off the NIC in BIOS is such a good idea).

 

Thanks for any ideas...

 

I have an XPS410 as well, this is what I did to get it to work

 

On the black screen at startup (i believe when you f8 right?) i typed "Graphics Mode"="640x480x32"

 

Type it just like that quotes and everything, it will look bad but then just restart and it should be better.

 

Hope this helps!

phunkysai
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I have an XPS410 as well, this is what I did to get it to work

 

On the black screen at startup (i believe when you f8 right?) i typed "Graphics Mode"="640x480x32"

 

Type it just like that quotes and everything, it will look bad but then just restart and it should be better.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Amazingly enough, this worked for me, LOL (after all the other {censored} I tried, LOL). Now I'm into Leopard finally! w00t! I only got an error that said "Setup Assistance cannot run with your monitor" or some such, which was fine with me since I was trying to bypass it anyway!

 

OK, now how do I get a driver for my graphics card (nvidia 8600 GTS) and my sound (sigmatel)? I'm assuming I won't be able to connect to the internet until someone creates a driver for the intel 82566DC NIC?

 

you guys are awesome!

phunkysai
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Alrighty, an update on my end, in case someone has the same pain I do...

 

I just got my nVidia 8600 GTS to work! Now I have full native res on my monitor (1680 x 1050).

 

I first tried Punk92's nvidia installer v1.9, but when I rebooted got a black screen and couldn't figure out how to get past it or revert to the old drivers, so reinstalled.

 

Next I tried johnniecarcinogen's v.31 nvidia installer found here, and it worked perfectly!

 

I then tried the AppleHDA hack for my audio for the SigmaTel 9227, but it didn't work. I'll update if I have any success.

Macisgr3at
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how do i edit the .plist ? I just purchased a new NIC (D-Link DGE 530T) and installed the proper files, but i have to edit the .plist to get it functioning properly...

 

All the info is listed here can someone please take a look at it and see what i have left to do?

 

Thanks for all the help! I almost have this beast running great!

phunkysai
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how do i edit the .plist ? I just purchased a new NIC (D-Link DGE 530T) and installed the proper files, but i have to edit the .plist to get it functioning properly...All the info is listed here can someone please take a look at it and see what i have left to do? Thanks for all the help! I almost have this beast running great!
I'm about to buy a new NIC as well for this very purpose, so I'd like to know this as well if anyone knows...
Alrighty, an update on my end, in case someone has the same pain I do...I just got my nVidia 8600 GTS to work! Now I have full native res on my monitor (1680 x 1050).I first tried Punk92's nvidia installer v1.9, but when I rebooted got a black screen and couldn't figure out how to get past it or revert to the old drivers, so reinstalled.Next I tried johnniecarcinogen's v.31 nvidia installer found here, and it worked perfectly!I then tried the AppleHDA hack for my audio for the SigmaTel 9227, but it didn't work. I'll update if I have any success.
UPDATE NUMBER 2:For my SigmaTel 9227 onboard sound, someone mentioned earlier in this thread that Taruga had an installer, and boy did it work perfectly: STAC9227_0x83847618Installer.zip

 

Now I'm going out tomorrow and seeing if I can find one of the network cards mentioned here to add to my machine, and i'll be in business!

phunkysai
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I'm about to buy a new NIC as well for this very purpose, so I'd like to know this as well if anyone knows...UPDATE NUMBER 2:For my SigmaTel 9227 onboard sound, someone mentioned earlier in this thread that Taruga had an installer, and boy did it work perfectly: STAC9227_0x83847618Installer.zip

 

Now I'm going out tomorrow and seeing if I can find one of the network cards mentioned here to add to my machine, and i'll be in business!

 

I am fully up and running now! I went out to Staples and bought a Netgear PCI ethernet adapter that I noticed had the Realtek RTL8139D chip on it that other people said worked out of the box. I plugged that sucker into my machine, disabled onboard ethernet via BIOS, booted into OSX, and TADA! Leopard automagically discovered my card!

 

Just thought I'd share! Thanks for everyone's help and discussion on this board - it certainly helped!

Ikahrus
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I don't know if this is the right thread to be asking about this problem but I've tried other places and had no help or found anything related but;

 

My system like's hanging for 30-40 or so seconds during boot, seemingly due to IOKitWaitQuiet() and InterfaceNamer. This brings my total boot time to around 50 seconds... it could even be a minute. The hanging during boot didn't bother me at first but in all honestly it has become a pain in the arse, especially when I know I could be getting around 10 second boot times without this problem.

 

I have had a look around here and other forums for a solution for my problem, but I have surprisingly found nothing. Now either I have missed any related topics or there just isn't any(?!).

 

If anyone could put me in the right direction and link me to any known topics or even tell me how to correct this I would greatly appreciate it.

 

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frantisheq
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I don't know if this is the right thread to be asking about this problem but I've tried other places and had no help or found anything related but;

 

My system like's hanging for 30-40 or so seconds during boot, seemingly due to IOKitWaitQuiet() and InterfaceNamer. This brings my total boot time to around 50 seconds... it could even be a minute. The hanging during boot didn't bother me at first but in all honestly it has become a pain in the arse, especially when I know I could be getting around 10 second boot times without this problem.

 

I have had a look around here and other forums for a solution for my problem, but I have surprisingly found nothing. Now either I have missed any related topics or there just isn't any(?!).

 

If anyone could put me in the right direction and link me to any known topics or even tell me how to correct this I would greatly appreciate it.

this happens to me only if i turn off AHCI mode in BIOS. don't forget to rebuild kext cache if you enable it

frantisheq
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Thanks for the quick reply, I never expected one so soon...Anyway. This may sound ridiculous but there is not option to enable AHCI in Bios. I'm using Dell Bios 2.5.3. So I'm slightly confused.

sorry my bad

Drives->SATA Operation->Raid ON

 

but maybe you'll need these kexts. i deleted originals first

Archive.zip

BrandonG
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Hi everyone. I've been reading the posts in this forum, and it appears that many of you have been able to successfully setup OS X Leopard on your Dell 410. I got through the entire setup and am stuck at the grey Apple logo screen. I have not been able to find a way to get past this. I installed Kalyway 10.5.1 intel SSE2 and SSE3 Only. I was following the Lifehacker guide to setting this up, but during the setup when you Customize the setup, I saw an option for SSE2_System - the guide said not to check it, so I didn't. Could that be part of my problem?

 

I used a brand new SATA 300 Western Digital drive for this experiment, and formatted it according to the guide, and selected MBR.

 

If I have to reinstall, I also need to figure out how to get my machine to boot from the CD again, because it won't do it now.

 

DELL DXP061

BIOS 2.4.2 03/30/07

 

I'm going to work on this tonight, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Brandon

frantisheq
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Hi everyone. I've been reading the posts in this forum, and it appears that many of you have been able to successfully setup OS X Leopard on your Dell 410. I got through the entire setup and am stuck at the grey Apple logo screen.

 

try to delete AppleEFIRuntime.kext. And make sure it won't recreate itself :D god i hate that kext

BrandonG
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Here's a question I haven't seen answered yet:

 

I know everyone is trying to get Leopard to work on your Dell PC, but are you all ACTUALLY SWITCHING? In essence, are you moving all of your files and apps over to the Mac and using that as your primary, day-to-day OS, or are you simply playing with it and still dual booting with XP or Vista (or Ubuntu, etc.)?

 

For those that are dual booting, what bootloader are you using, and how do you set it up? I have Vista on one hard drive, and OS X Leopard on a separate drive. Can I use a bootloader to select which HD to boot from?

 

Thanks,

Brandon

frantisheq
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Here's a question I haven't seen answered yet:

 

I know everyone is trying to get Leopard to work on your Dell PC, but are you all ACTUALLY SWITCHING? In essence, are you moving all of your files and apps over to the Mac and using that as your primary, day-to-day OS, or are you simply playing with it and still dual booting with XP or Vista (or Ubuntu, etc.)?

 

For those that are dual booting, what bootloader are you using, and how do you set it up? I have Vista on one hard drive, and OS X Leopard on a separate drive. Can I use a bootloader to select which HD to boot from?

 

Thanks,

Brandon

yep i'm using only Mac OS. if i wan't to play with some other system i just use parallels or vmware if it's 64 bit.

and i was using bootloader installed with PC EFI for dual booting.

 

EDIT: anyone tried windows server 2008 paravirtualization? because i did in trial RC and it looked like a really bad joke to me compared to standard vmware/parallels/KVM virtualization. i'm talking about the speed. and what's with paravirtualization for mac from parallels? any news?

BrandonG
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I bought the Linksys USB200M today, but I can't figure out how to get it setup. When I boot into Leopard, the lights on the device light up, but I don't see how to set it up in the Network settings in Leopard's System Preferences. I tried a driver from http://www.sustworks.com/site/news_usb_ethernet.html, but that didn't work (lights didn't even light up).

 

Thanks in advance,

Brandon

frantisheq
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I bought the Linksys USB200M today, but I can't figure out how to get it setup. When I boot into Leopard, the lights on the device light up, but I don't see how to set it up in the Network settings in Leopard's System Preferences. I tried a driver from http://www.sustworks.com/site/news_usb_ethernet.html, but that didn't work (lights didn't even light up).

 

Thanks in advance,

Brandon

try to

sudo -s

cd /System/Library/Extensions

kextload -t driver_name.kext

 

to see if it can load

phunkysai
phunkysai
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Here's a question I haven't seen answered yet:

 

I know everyone is trying to get Leopard to work on your Dell PC, but are you all ACTUALLY SWITCHING? In essence, are you moving all of your files and apps over to the Mac and using that as your primary, day-to-day OS, or are you simply playing with it and still dual booting with XP or Vista (or Ubuntu, etc.)?

 

For those that are dual booting, what bootloader are you using, and how do you set it up? I have Vista on one hard drive, and OS X Leopard on a separate drive. Can I use a bootloader to select which HD to boot from?

 

Thanks,

Brandon

 

I dual-boot XP and Leopard, but I spend most of time in Leopard and only boot into XP to play games really.

 

I use Acronis OS bootloader to switch between the two.

BrandonG
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Still trying to resolve the USB200M ethernet adapter problem.

 

I just booted my machine which is definitely connected to a live ethernet connection. In the Console messages after I booted, I didn't see anything in there about AppleUSBEthernet. Here are the senders and messages:

 

com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist

com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight

com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight

org.ntp.ntpd[33] Error : nodename nor servname provided, or not known

com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[96]) Exited: Terminated

 

If there is anything in there that means anything to you and might point to a problem, please explain what I need to do to fix the problem. My goal is to get my machine (which is working great except I can't get on my LAN or internet) online tonight.

 

Thanks in advance,

Brandon

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