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Hi Everyone,

 

I'd like to open this topic for HP compaq nw8440 owner who successfully installed Kalyway 10.5.1 on this laptop.

 

He is my experience:

 

turning SATA drive, Dual CPU, I can install Kalyway - with/without the vanilla kernel, but without the ATI drivers available in custom installation.

 

I also managed the kalyway 10.5.2 (not right now) installation.

 

It boots without pb - no boot if I set Dual Core again in the bios.

 

I still have problems with embeded WIFI, LAN Card, and Audio (audio seems to be active in audio preferences, but no card is detected, and no sound goes out (even if I can activate/unactivate sound using the 3 bottons on the keyboard)

 

Any other tried on this laptop?

 

Let us know.

 

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  • 1 month later...

Yea I am just as far as you.

 

I could get the LAN working on 10.4.8 but not 10.5.2. It works great except for the LAN, Audio(never worked hard to install stuff), and Wifi(always broken).

 

So if someone could figure out why the LAN driver is broken in 10.5.2 that would be reeally nice :).

similiar with me (kalyway 10.5.2)

 

Core 2 Duo (T7600) is showing up flawlessly

Soundmax and Broadcom won´t work :)

 

 

Braynshock made the NIC working

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=47078

 

Grav3mind the audio

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=9232

 

also Catri got an older version running

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=38815&st=0

 

 

Good Luck :thumbsup_anim:

Yeah, pretty much everything else works for me except for:

 

1) Dual core, random lock up without cpus=1, sometimes can run with both core for a long time.

2) Graphics cannot do both monitor, but got 1680x1050 alright.

3) Won't wake up after sleep. (Vanilla 9.2.2)

 

NIC has to use that set MAC script

  • 2 months later...

Do you guys got a guide on how to get the onboard nic to work? iAtkos 2.0i

Breaking my head on it for a while now

 

Also how do you make sure he always boots in the correct resolution 1400x1050x32 without always having to enter the boot parameters?

 

Damn I must be a noob

  • 3 weeks later...

Hi,

 

Total newbie here!

 

Got Kalyway 10.5.2 installed (second time round with cpus=1) on my nw8440... dual booting with XP

 

Issues (known so far)

 

1 - Dual boot - Copied Chain0 to C: and altered boot.ini still boots to Leopard by default

2 - No Internet - Wifi & network card not functional

3 - Display - Graphics on resolution 1024x768

 

If someone can point me to a quick fix that would be much appreciated...

 

Meanwhile the reading continues...

 

Thanks

 

Freshy

  • 10 months later...
I know it's been a while and I'm resurrecting a zombie thread - but has anyone gotten 10.5.5+ to work properly on the NW8440? Specifically looking for WiFi, especially since it appears it's a Broadcom card...

 

 

i'm just trying now. istalled with iatkos v7 and no vga driver. my wifi is intel, and my ethernet is broadcom.

 

you can get an hp=branded broadcom wifi nic for about $20 to replace the intel card, and that will pass the bios whitelist.

 

there are links for kexts here:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...nject&st=40

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