Tidus Johnson Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 Hello everybody! I tell you, the smug feelings i get thinking about Mac fanboys when running Mac OS on a PC Laptop are great! I've installed 10.4.6 on my Advent 7002 testbed laptop, of the following spec: Pentium 4 1.8 GHz CPU (400MHz FSB) 512MB SD-RAM DDR (2x256) 11.2GB Hitachi hard drive (i know, i need a bigger one...but, this one's doing well, i've installed tons of apps, and still seem to have loads of space! Mac OS X seems so much more space efficient compared to Windows!) 16MB ATi Mobility M6 graphics Intel i845 Springdale chipset RealTek 8139 Ethernet I'm in the middle of d/l'ing 10.4.9, but in the meantime, i need help with a little problem. The onboard Ethernet works great, but i need to get this baby wireless. I have a KCORP KLG-520 PCMCIA WLAN card, and i can't seem to find drivers for it, apart from the OrangeWare Wireless Driver 3.3, which is paid for, and the trial doesn't work. It creates a configuration icon in System Preferences, but i get the message: "Preferences Error" "You cannot open Wireless Configuration preferences pane on this computer. Contact the developer of this software for a newer version." OK, that explains the error! But why can't it run? It IS the latest version! I may be answering my own question here, but is it because this is a hacked Mac? Is there any other driver that will work with the Atheros chipset? A free one, hopefully! I was going to pay the $15 fee if it worked, it isn't really much, because then you seem to get free upgrades. Other than that, my Mac experience is going really well. One other question: My graphics don't seem to have a driver, because the Screensaver preferences, and the Chess game both bomb out, and my Display in System Profiler shows as a "VGA Compatible Controller", with 128MB RAM! The Vendor shows as "ATI (0x01002) I installed the ATI Mobility support on installation, but is there any other things i can do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus Johnson Posted June 23, 2007 Author Share Posted June 23, 2007 Hello everybody! I tell you, the smug feelings i get thinking about Mac fanboys when running Mac OS on a PC Laptop are great! I've installed 10.4.6 on my Advent 7002 testbed laptop, of the following spec: Pentium 4 1.8 GHz CPU (400MHz FSB) 512MB SD-RAM DDR (2x256) 11.2GB Hitachi hard drive (i know, i need a bigger one...but, this one's doing well, i've installed tons of apps, and still seem to have loads of space! Mac OS X seems so much more space efficient compared to Windows!) 16MB ATi Mobility M6 graphics Intel i845 Springdale chipset RealTek 8139 Ethernet I'm in the middle of d/l'ing 10.4.9, but in the meantime, i need help with a little problem. The onboard Ethernet works great, but i need to get this baby wireless. I have a KCORP KLG-520 PCMCIA WLAN card, and i can't seem to find drivers for it, apart from the OrangeWare Wireless Driver 3.3, which is paid for, and the trial doesn't work. It creates a configuration icon in System Preferences, but i get the message: "Preferences Error" "You cannot open Wireless Configuration preferences pane on this computer. Contact the developer of this software for a newer version." OK, that explains the error! But why can't it run? It IS the latest version! I may be answering my own question here, but is it because this is a hacked Mac? Is there any other driver that will work with the Atheros chipset? A free one, hopefully! I was going to pay the $15 fee if it worked, it isn't really much, because then you seem to get free upgrades. Other than that, my Mac experience is going really well. One other question: My graphics don't seem to have a driver, because the Screensaver preferences, and the Chess game both bomb out, and my Display in System Profiler shows as a "VGA Compatible Controller", with 128MB RAM! The Vendor shows as "ATI (0x01002) I installed the ATI Mobility support on installation, but is there any other things i can do? An update: I managed to get 10.4.8 running on this hunk o' junk, after several tries, even then, it didn't last long. I wiped the drive, installed 10.4.8, finished, rebooted, this is the JaS release, with a Semthex kernel (apparently Semthex is a liar, from what i've been reading, so it's probably a JaS kernel, or one of Kiko's, or netkas's ). Upon reboot, it got to the Apple screen, the HD ground away for a bit, then something weird happened....the screen froze, a black horizontal bar appeared, as though the GPU had locked up and out, then the screen disintegrated to white.....after this....nothing. I re-attempted with different options each time, and finally got it going this afternoon. Once it was running, i applied the JaS 10.4.9 patch...now it just flashes the Apple screen for half a second, and reboots, constantly. I give up on the AdventMac. I'll either keep it as a 10.4.6 or 10.4.7 testbed....10.4.8/9 is going on my wife's Dell Inspiron 5150, the nVIDIA GeForce Go5200 graphics are better supported, from the configs i've seen on the x86 project wiki. Either that, or i'll get a real Mac. I really want to help with this project, but have only limited C++ knowledge, and slightly better REALbasic/Visual Basic knowledge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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