Isn't it nice when new hardware comes out with the same model number as older hardware? Sort of reminds me of the early days of Linux wifi; or even the present state of Linux wifi in some cases.
A freind of mine decides to get a Netbook and asks me for some recommendations for hardware that will work well a a Mac. I tell him that the MSI Wind U09/U100 and Samsung NC10 are nice machines and pretty easy to load up. So he goes onto Amazon and preordrrs this brand new version of the MSI Wind.
So... first it will not load anything off of the Samsung external USB DVD burner that he bought. Nor will it reliably load off of any of my external DVD drives, nor off of my USB flash drive. You can imagine how much time I wasted figuring all of this out. Well, I finally break down and put together an external PATA/USB setup and load iDeneb 1.4 (10.5.6) onto it with the MSI Wind settings.
So I now have this drive and it is all ready to go. or not. It does boot and give me the text of a boot, but that's it. I end up having to wipe out everything AppleIntel* from the Extensions folder. That lets me boot to 800x600. Anyone who knows the author of osx86tools, please let him know that he needsa to redesign the interface sao that those with only 600 pixels of height can get to the bottom buttons.
So not I can boot to 800x600 without any drivers. I load up a recent version of the GMA950 drivers and then I am able to boot into 1024x600. No QE/CI - not even with osx86tools. I hunted around and found a link that gave me an even newer 950 driver and I loaded up a few packages with kext helper and finally I have QE/CI.
The package in question may be found at http://www.apple-macademia.co.uk/GMA950stuff.zip
Wireless was pretty easy, but there should be a big sticker somewhere stating that wireless is off by default and you have to press Fn/F11 to turn it on. Talk about wasting time! sheesh!
Be careful upgrading this one to 10.5.7. Even using the iDeneb updater I ended up having to wipe all of the Apple Intel kexts and reloadung them all again.
The real pain here seems to be the Genesys Logic Inc. 1.08 webcam (05e3:0505). It almost works, but not quite. That is the last thing I have to do. So close, yet so far...
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