osx86 on thinkpad x61

[penguinator]

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the uphuck 1.3 DVD installed successfully (using the non-SpeedStep SSE3 kernel) on my new Santa Rosa-based Thinkpad X61 (had to change SATA to 'compatibility' mode in the BIOS, but no other problems).

 

Still, I'm curious to see if I can get a few other things working:

 

1) Wired networking. System uses an Intel 82566MM 1GB network chipset. I tried modifying the PCI Device list in the AppleIntel8255X.kext but without luck (I assume you just concatenate device ID and vendor ID together, in this case 1049 and 8086 respectively).

 

2) Wireless networking. System uses an Intel 3945ABG wireless card. I've tried the driver from iwidarwin, and I do get a new network port recognized in System Preferences. unfortunately, the networkSelector app, while it allows me to turn the card on and off, does not actually see any wireless networks. I'm assuming 'G' based networks should work too, right?

 

3) Sound. The SoundMax sound card seems to begin loading the kext during boot but fails:

AppleHDA.kext failed to load: unable to locate 'layout-id' property.

 

At any rate, good job by everyone involved, and if anybody happens to have any suggestions for these 3 items, please do make them!

 

Thanks.

[qzl722]

I will install mac os x on T61 soon,but now i do not get my thinkpad yer ,maybe on Aug.

[inksdk]

What's the installation options you used for your x61 (e.g. what are the patches and drivers you selected)? I tried to install osx86 (uphuck 10.4.9 1.3) a few days ago, I could boot up the installation cd and complete the installation process, but no matter what kind of options I selected, the machine will freeze at the osx boot screen within 30 second after the reboot, showing a "stop sign" like icon in the middle of the apple boot screen.

 

Thanks!

[penguinator]

What you're seeing is a kernel panic. I had it too, the first time I installed. I changed a couple things the second time, and one of them must have done the trick:

 

1) Change the SATA mode in the BIOS from AHCI to Compatibility

2) Used the 32 bit Intel SSE3 kernel (the older one from March).

3) Included the loginwindow patch.

 

Otherwise, I didn't add any drivers.

 

Since yesterday, I've tried both the Azalia driver (for sound) and the modified Intel 8255X driver (Intel Pro/100) for networking. I've also tried the PM driver for power management. None of these seems to have worked. No sound, no networking, no SD card reader, no PCMCIA slot.

 

I'll try a bit more experimenting though, and again, if anybody has tips, please do make them.

[inksdk]

Thanks for your quick response! Have you tried any of the Intel ICH8 chipset drivers ? X61 is using the ICH8 mobile chipset, but uphuck 10.4.9 only provides drivers for ICH8, ICH8-R, ICH7 chipsets. Does one of the provided ICH dirvers work for ICH8 mobile ?

[penguinator]

Looks like I installed the ICH8 and ICH8R extensions too. I don't know which one made the difference.

[inksdk]

Some of the progresses I made since the last post -

 

1. I successfully installed uphuck 10.4.9 1.3 on my x61. I changed the BIOS SATA setting to compatible mode, selected Intel SSE-1 kernel, loginwindow patch, and Intel GMA 950 video driver.

 

2. After installation, there was a "HFS+ Paritition Error" during reboot, it can be fixed easily by using the vista boot CD "diskpart" approach described in this forum. Then I added a MacOS entry for Vista Boot Loader.

 

3. MacOS X rebooted successfully. Since my X61 uses an Atheros abg Wireless card (i.e. Thinkpad Wireless abg), I followed instructions in this forum to let the built-in Apple Airport Express driver to support this wireless card. However, the SoundMax AD1984 sound card and the integrated Intel 10/100/1000 wired network adapter still didn't work even after following instructions suggested in this forum.

 

4. Then I upgraded the OS to 10.4.10 (including the kernel), The new OS supports Intel ICH8 Mobile by default, so I can set the BIOS configuration back to "AHCI" now. It should improve the hard drive performance for both vista and osx.

 

5. The Intel GMA 965 integrated video card can run in 1024x768 32 bit color mode, but the CE/QI features can not be turned on. The suspend function is not working either.

 

6. In summary, for my x61, the onboard SATA interface is fully supported now, so does the built-in Thinkpad abg wireless adapter. The built-in sound card and the wired network adaptor are not working. The CE/QI functions of the graphics adapter can not be enable either.

 

7. Overall the whole installation is highly usable. I believe methods for supporting the sound card and the video card should come out in one or two months.

[penguinator]

Glad to hear that the install went through and you got wireless working. I suspect audio will take a while longer. I'm considering replacing the Intel card in my system if I can find a cheap Atheros one.

 

My tinkering has yielded no success on any of these issues, do I'll just be waiting and hoping 10.4.11 does the truck.

 

(For me, wireless and power management are the key items to get working. The rest is gravy.)

[scampi01@hotmail.com]

I also have and IBM Thinkpad but it is a T61. It uses the Intel 82566MM but I can not get the ethernet working at all. I have tried the IONetworkingFamily.kext and the AppleIntel8255x.kext. I have even tried to edit the info.plis to reflect the 10498086 but no go.