OSX on DELL Vostro 3450 / Inspiron N4110 / XPS L702x UEFI Clover

[Zprood]

@TW, my internal sdcard id is :

device-id: 312

vendor-id:3034

[TimeWalker75a]

So it's apparently the same. Need more reports...

[k3nsanova]

this is like my complete noob moment...

to get the wifi working natively, do i need to break the computer open and install it?

if so, what is the recommended wifi card model?

 

[TimeWalker75a]

this is like my complete noob moment...

to get the wifi working natively, do i need to break the computer open and install it?

if so, what is the recommended wifi card model?

The cards is seated on the daughterboard, it's a supplemental board that is attached to the motherboard and is located in the upper right side of the laptop where Ethernet port and USB3.0 ports are (these belong to daughterboard, actually). To get there you will need to remove the keyboard, then the entire palmrest plate and only then you'd be able to swap the module. Sadly, that's how Dell made it .. Vostro 3350 has a special compartment that holds the module and user has easy access to it, 14" models are ridiculous in terms of getting apart. To clean the fan you have to strip it down to the last screw.

 

This guides supports only Dell DW1702 (generic name Atheros AR5B195) and AzureWave AW-NB290H (generic name Broadcom BCM943225HMB). 

Out of these two go for Broadcom one because bluetooth does not required additional quirky kexts to get working .. it just works out of the box, wi-fi link speed with this card can go as high as 150 Mbit in OSX, while Atheros supports only 65 Mbit. These cards only work in 2.4GHz frequency band, as bluetooth uses same frequency you may see a little or sometimes dramatic interference of the two signals because antennae are the same, and there're only two uFL antennae sockets on the cards, so you can't opt for a dedicated antennae lead for bluetooth and pass it somewhere else. Both cards only meet Bluetooth 3.0 specification.

 

If you want to go premium and you have a 5GHz capable router that can handle AC draft (not necessary though, N is enough for the card) you can go ahead an purchase an AzureWave AW-CE123H (generic name BCM94352HMB). Recently Skvo has unlocked 5GHz band for non-US countries using a kext patch. This card supports up to 500Mbit link speed and supports Bluetooth 4.0 (low energy). There's one caveat with bluetooth though - it will also require a kext to get working, but it's not a huge deal. Here you won't be getting any interference between bluetooth and wi-fi if your router has 5GHz capability. 

[k3nsanova]

The cards is seated on the daughterboard, it's a supplemental board that is attached to the motherboard and is located in the upper right side of the laptop where Ethernet port and USB3.0 ports are (these belong to daughterboard, actually). To get there you will need to remove the keyboard, then the entire palmrest plate and only then you'd be able to swap the module. Sadly, that's how Dell made it .. Vostro 3350 has a special compartment that holds the module and user has easy access to it, 14" models are ridiculous in terms of getting apart. To clean the fan you have to strip it down to the last screw.

 

This guides supports only Dell DW1702 (generic name Atheros AR5B195) and AzureWave AW-NB290H (generic name Broadcom BCM943225HMB). 

Out of these two go for Broadcom one because bluetooth does not required additional quirky kexts to get working .. it just works out of the box, wi-fi link speed with this card can go as high as 150 Mbit in OSX, while Atheros supports only 65 Mbit. These cards only work in 2.4GHz frequency band, as bluetooth uses same frequency you may see a little or sometimes dramatic interference of the two signals because antennae are the same, and there're only two uFL antennae sockets on the cards, so you can't opt for a dedicated antennae lead for bluetooth and pass it somewhere else. Both cards only meet Bluetooth 3.0 specification.

 

If you want to go premium and you have a 5GHz capable router that can handle AC draft (not necessary though, N is enough for the card) you can go ahead an purchase an AzureWave AW-CE123H (generic name BCM94352HMB). Recently Skvo has unlocked 5GHz band for non-US countries using a kext patch. This card supports up to 500Mbit link speed and supports Bluetooth 4.0 (low energy). There's one caveat with bluetooth though - it will also require a kext to get working, but it's not a huge deal. Here you won't be getting any interference between bluetooth and wi-fi if your router has 5GHz capability. 

thanks for the detailed explanation

why does dell have to screw everybody over with their laptop designs 

and last question

is it ok to update to 10.9.2 now? 

[TimeWalker75a]

Because they expect you to pay them again in two years max when your warranty expires and your laptop goes kaput due to being clogged with dust and overheating because dell puts dry dog {censored} and silicon pads on their hetsinks instead of proper premium thermal paste.

 

Yeah, shouldn't break a thing.. except maybe audio after sleep, if you haven't updated codec commander. But even then you can just run the SCT OSX Support Package and it'll be good.

[Zprood]

Actually my laptop is out of warranty in April, even though i have mod some parts of it, but nothing is concerned.

[TimeWalker75a]

Actually my laptop is out of warranty in April, even though i have mod some parts of it, but nothing is concerned.

You is you, give this to some random teenage girl who would spend most of her day laying in bed with it or a household maid who would never dare to take it apart to clean or repaste it and it will die in exactly two ears time if not sooner. Mine has been sent in for repairs 5 times in 1.5 years..  and neither of the problems were caused by me, but faulty components.

[Zprood]

You is you, give this to some random teenage girl who would spend most of her day laying in bed with it or a household maid who would never dare to take it apart to clean or repaste it and it will die in exactly two ears time if not sooner. Mine has been sent in for repairs 5 times in 1.5 years.. and neither of the problems were caused by me, but faulty components.

I admit that, for some reasons people don't take the risk to mod laptop like break the internal devices, but i know this risk, the most worst is damage bios, and i only break the plastic cover then replace a backlight keyboard, so it's accepted risk for.

Warming tips, it has high risk to do that, so let's be clear for this, and we don't have responsibility for this damage of your hardware.

Thanks for the message.

[seth_reaver]

Hi, I have a Dell 14r (N4110) and after updating to 10.9.2 it seems to have broken a few things. I still can't get my USB 3 working, and the patch you guys showed in the picture didn't resolve that. Also, I have noticed that after updating to 10.9.2, my webcam seems to have broke as well. Any ideas?

[TimeWalker75a]

Have you installed the package ?

More details are needed - what is your USB 3.0 chip, what has worked previously to enable it? Your web cam probably is the same as the rest of web cams (what is the model identifier here too?). Use iGlasses demo to properly initialize it in the apps you use..

Providing general *things broke* information doesn't help a bit.

[seth_reaver]

Have you installed the package ?

More details are needed - what is your USB 3.0 chip, what has worked previously to enable it? Your web cam probably is the same as the rest of web cams (what is the model identifier here too?). Use iGlasses demo to properly initialize it in the apps you use..

Providing general *things broke* information doesn't help a bit.

I installed the original package before I updated to 10.9.2, and everything worked fine. After updating, I installed the updated package, and that fixed the sound issue with sleep, but the other things still didn't work. According to the Dell site and my service tag, Renesas 2.1.27.0/ Fresco 3.4.6.0, A04 is given for the Chipset drivers. Ill try your new installer package, and report back ASAP. 

 

Edit: Well, the USB 3.0 worked, but it made my Atheros AR5B195 card not be detected anymore. What I am going to do is do a full reinstall with that new installer package and report back.

[Zprood]

re-install can't solve a issue totally, u need to know where it happens, such as the which way u use before upgrade dsdt or modify a kext, then u will find the answer. Also it will be useful if u post all hardware details of your laptop.

[seth_reaver]

Ok, quick update. I re-installed Mavericks by scratch, no problems. I then ran the installer,

Motherboard -> Intel,

Daughterboard -> Renesas/Fresco,

Wireless->(Left Blank),

Disable Hibernation,

System Profiler -> Dell Inspirion N4110,

Applications -> All

 

After this finished I rebooted, and Clover booted into Mavericks fine, I had wireless and USB 3.0 was working.

This was on 10.9.1

 

I update to 10.9.2, and wireless was still working, sound was working, USB 3.0 was working, but my LCD brightness wasn't changing.

So I ran the Dell installer again, Deselecting everything except Daughterboard -> Renesas/Fresco and Motherboard -> Intel.

 

I rebooted, and lone and behold, my brightness worked, but my wireless card was not being detected.

 

I figure its either from me installing it twice, or 10.9.2 being a pain in the behind.

I tore apart the PKG file and saw the brightness Kext, so I was wondering if that will fix the brightness without making me run the installer again.

[TimeWalker75a]

It deletes dupes no matter how many times you install. How did you get wireless in 10.9.1 if you never chose a wireless card from the installer, so no additional ssdt was installed?

[seth_reaver]

I forgot to mention that I copied my SSDT from the earlier Dell Package you had on here before the installer. I put that in the clover patched spot and my wireless worked. After I reran the package on 10.9.2 and lost wireless, I tried to put the old SSDT's back. No dice.

[TimeWalker75a]

Also deselecting everything made it delete every other ssdt except fan control and you added wireless ssdt, removing all the injections + pnlf device, so there's no way it could have worked.

You made a mess from ssdt and they all conflicted with each other, so its your own fault.

[seth_reaver]

So, If I install 10.9.1 again, run the installer, should I use the SSDT that worked from the old package, or should I select one of the wireless options.

[TimeWalker75a]

Let me be clear:

- Selecting a daugherboard is mandatory because it installs NIC kexts and SSDT with all the necessary injections

- Selecting a wireless card is mandatory (your AR5B195 is a generic name for branded DELL DW1702) - it installs kexts and SSDT to allow wireless card to work

The rest is supplemental.

 

When you start installing the package it:

- removes your CLOVER folder completely from EFI partition, making backup of ACPI/patched and your config.plist

- removes all the kernel extensions it will reinstall from System/Library/Extensions and makes a backup of those you had

 

When it has finished installing it:

- compiles all the SSDT tables you have selected in the Custom Installation window

- puts the files in respective places 

- retains serial numbers in your config.plist on EFI system partition

[seth_reaver]

So I did a fresh install, and selected everything to match my specs INCLUDING the Dell Wireless. I still have wireless, but its really slow and seems to drop connection.

 

Its making updating a pain in the butt.

[TimeWalker75a]

Try changing device Id in ssdt-3 from ,30 to ,2a for every buffer. There are two separate drivers for this type of card chat can attach to ,2b device id modules.

[juliomota]

@TW What about hdmi audio support on AMD boards (Vostro) and sleep support?

For the hdmi, I tried injecting the IGPU _DSM using the kext DeviceMergeNub and it was successfully, the IORegistryExplorer showed all the injections, but still no audio. Editing the ssdt table with IGPU _DSM isn't possible, as it doesn't compile successfully. About sleep, no success.

 

Also, my camera IDs are new to you, Product ID: 0x280a and Vendor ID: 0x1bcf.

[TimeWalker75a]

You don't need to inject anything supplemental, Clover does everything needed for HDMI audio when you use Graphics>Inject>Intel=Yes. You can't edit DSM on IGPU because there's an OEM method with that name already in ACPI namespace for that device. For sleep to work EHCI power resource reallocation is required, FOWM calls have to be suppressed and your DSDT memory addressation has to match that of BIOS with respective version. Use the installer and you won't have problems. Camera ID is indeed a new one, but its not really crucial, because we only use it to change the name of how it appears in system profiler. Will add to customperipheral.

There are some people here with AMD, including Zprood, who don't have these issues.

 

Edit:

Your camera is the same as mine - Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_FHD 1bcf-280a. So it's already in the kext.. 

[juliomota]

I used the installer (great work, by the way), so there's a new EFI folder with new clover, ssdt's, etc, and still hdmi and sleep issues.

The ssdt table I was editing is the oem one, but because decompilation/recompilation issues there are errors in the code that I don't know how to handle.

[TimeWalker75a]

And you shouldn't really handle them.

Post a copy of IORegistry for reference and Clover boot log (either go to Console > Library/Logs/CloverEFI or do sudo bdmesg > ~/Destop/log.txt).