Raaschou Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Hi. I've succesfully installed Mac OS X (8F1099) in a dual-boot (with WinXP Pro SP2) configuration on my Acer TravelMate 8104... But I'm having trouble with getting most of my hardware working: - network (Broadcom BCM57xx) - wireless (Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG) - graphics (ATi Radeon X700 128MB) - modem (Agere Systems HDA) - sound (RealTek WDM) Does anyone have a sollution to, how I may getting any of it working? Mac OS has not detected any of it... The most urgent is the networking (ethernet or wireless), because I cannot connect to the internet otherwise... But it'll be nice to have the graphics working also (I'm currently using 1280x1024x32, but the native resolution of the display is 1680x1050x32). Another question: Would I gain anything by upgrading to 8F1111 (performance-/stability-/application-wise)? I've heard of both succeses and f*** ups... My hardware configuration: CPU: Pentium M 2 GHz, 2 MB cache RAM: 2 GB Chipset: Intel 915E HDD: 100 GB I hope somebody can help me... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raaschou Posted December 7, 2005 Author Share Posted December 7, 2005 About networking... Does somebody know, if this USB-to-ethernet adapter i supported in Mac OS X: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage...oduct_Id=104991 I read somewhere that it is, but can somebody confirm this? This would (to some ekstent) solve my networking problem... I would just need a USB-to-wireless adapter (supported by OS X), then it would be perfect! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/#findComment-35006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 You can get most of your info from Forum/Search. Somewhat working wireless thread: (Ralink and Broadcom/Airport) http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...160entry35016 List of working Ralink wireless: http://ralink.rapla.net/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/#findComment-35048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenotself Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Hello, I too have a Travelmate 8104WLMi. I have successfully installed OS X 10.4.5 using the patched 10.4.4 Install DVD. I have OS X installed on a USB 60GB hard drive. I got the Broadcom BCM57xx working by patching the IONetworking.kext file using instructions on this forum. You have to hex edit the Broadcom5701.kext (forget the exact name) file in the position the forum instructs you, and then the ethernet appears and works great. I have not gotten the Realtek audio (0880) working yet though even after changing the Info.plist in AppleAzaliaController.kext or the AppleHDAController.kext. Other people have reported success there but not me. I have not even come close to getting the built in Intel wireless 2915ABG working, and from what I know nobody else has either. I have not gotten the ATI Radeon x700 working either, despite patching the ATIRadeon9700.kext file for 5663 1002. The graphics still loaded but I had a lot of issues and it still did not properly recognize the card. There are instructions in the forum for looking for 3D 60 5B 00 00 in ATIRadeon5700.kext and changing it to 3D 53 56 00 00 in 2 places, and then changing 5B601002 in the Info.plis to 56531002 but no dice for me. I was thinking of starting a thread just for the Travelmate 8104 and listing every attempt I make to get each part working. That way I can go into more detail. Here are the parts you are interested in ATI x700 5653/1002 -> Intel Controller 2591/8086 Realtek 860 0880/10ec -> Intel Controller 2668/8086 Intel Wireless 2915abg 4223/8086 -> Intel Controller 2448/8086 If you have any luck, please let me know. There are so many suggestions in these forums each for different versions of OS X that I'm sure I must have missed things, tried the wrong things, or screwed up along the way. You should be able to get the Ethernet running easily though as I did. I can email you my IONetworking.kext if it helps! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/#findComment-68640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenotself Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 FYI, you can change the resolution to 1400x1050x32 (I have not tried any others) by changing apple.Boot.plist to add <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1400x1050x32</string> Forgive me for not being very specific, I don't have any of this stuff in front of me anymore so it's all from memory. More detailed instructions are in this forum. BTW I actually may have gotte CI & QE working for the x700 and not realized it because I was expecting the resolutions to appear in Displays and because they didn't I assumed that hexediting the ATIRadeon9700.kext had failed. I'm going to do it again and report if I have any success with greater resolutions as I'm now using MousePose and the mouse issues I had might go away. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/#findComment-68720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenotself Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Ok I can confirm that you can get CI and QE working on the x700 by doing the following: 1) Backup your ATIRadeon9700.kext (from /System/Library/Extensions) 2) Copy ATIRadeon9700.kext to your desktop. Delete the one in Extensions (you'll need to Authenticate) 3) Open ATIRadeon9700.kext and in Contents/MacOS edit ATIRadeon9700 4) Do a find and replace in HexEditor for 3d 60 5b 00 00 and replace it with 3d 53 56 00 00 (it will find 2 occurances) 5) Save the file 6) Edit Info.plist. Change 5B601002 to 56531002. 7) Copy the new ATIRadeon9700.kext back into /Extensions. You will need to Authenticate. 8) Reset permissions for the new kext. I think you can run the following: chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions 9) Reload kextcache kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions 10) Reboot. This enabled CI and QE but I can still only get a max resolution of 1400x1050 and in this mode I get a lot of weird boxes where my mouse is and I sometimes get really screwwy lines when I scroll. Since 1400x1050 can be acheived without doing all of this and is more stable, I really recommend keeping the default drivers unless QE & CI help for some game that I'm not playing. Cheers! BTW I also have a D-Link DWL-G122 and heard it would work with the Ralink drivers. Unfortunately this was not the case... I even tried editing RL2500USBWirelessNetworking.kext to add the proper device id and vendor id with no luck. Oh well... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/#findComment-68735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raaschou Posted March 5, 2006 Author Share Posted March 5, 2006 Thanks for the reply... I've also made the Broadcom work, and I'm also using the 1400x1050 resolution... I've tried made the Audio working, using instructions in this forum (I guess the same ones you tried), and no dice for me either... It'll be great, if you post any progress, I'll do the same! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/#findComment-69137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenotself Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Sounds like a deal, although I think I've tried everything I can. I might get a USB audio and/or USB wireless to tide me over, although really until the x700 is properly supported (if ever) I can't really see OS X being useable for me... sadly.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/#findComment-69534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhonny Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Just share, I also use Travelmate 8104wlmi Status : OS : Mac OS X 10.4.5 (DVD Universal (AMD,SSE2,SSE3) Installer) Display : ATI Radeon Mobility x700 (not working) max Display Resolution = 1400x1050x32 Sound : Realtek HD Audio (working) Network : - Broadcom built-in (working as en0) - change binary with hex editor - Intel Pro Wireless 2915 (not working) Firewire (working) USB (working) Card Reader (not working) Bluetooth (Not Working) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5528-issues-with-hardware-not-working/#findComment-129248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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