DELL Vostro 3700 / 3xxx ( i5, Nvidia 330M ) OSX86 Snow 10.6.3

[piyokos]

i've been using os x on my 3700 (i5-430m, 330M) for a day now and i'm preety impressed! i played some mac portal on it and it was crazy fast. touchpad works great unlike most other hackintosh laptops, has two finger vert/horiz scrolling, i love that especially. you really need at least 10.6.4 for stable support however. your system may not even be functional enough to apply the update without pulling the drive and applying it with another mac.

 

working: video acceleration, sound, bluetooth, trackpad w/ gestures and two finger scrolling, webcam, onboard ethernet, firewire, usb, battery status monitoring, media/sound control bar above keyboard

 

not working: wireless, brightness control, sound volume cannot be adjusted, no sleep apparently?

 

i bought the retail cds for the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method but in the end i just ended up using the "snowleo" 10.6 distro on tpb to make my life easier.

 

i pulled the hard drive from the vostro, connected it to a running mac and ran the OSInstall package on the external drive (aka installed OS X without having to boot the install CDs). on that distro i took chameleon RC4 10.5, VoodooBattery, VoodooHDA, DSDT patcher, and the typical FakeSMC, NullCPU, PlatformUUID, HaltRestart.

 

after the install completed i ran each individual mac os x update (NOT combos), so 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, on that external drive. that gives it native compatibility for the i5 and 330m without {censored}ery.

 

i removed AppleHPET.kext. then i ran [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], but i only took two packages from that, the "Voodoo PS/2 controller with trackpad support" and USBFamilyMOD 2.0 (i don't think you need usbfamilymod, try it without it first).

 

install DellBluetoothHCI.1.2.pkg

 

you also wanna install "MACam" but i forgot where i got this.

 

then i went to /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Trackpad.prefPane/Contents/Info.plist and deleted the vendor ID line.

 

i installed PFIX on the machine i was "borrowing" to prepare the drive and ran it on the external disk to make sure everything was cleared up.

 

then i threw it in the vostro and it booted fine the first time.

 

the 3700 may or may not have usb issues. you can try running DSDT patcher and specifying the dsdt.aml in chameleon to fix the problems if you encounter them. as i already said, ditch AppleHPET.kext. otherwise you may get random KPs, the touchpad and/or usb may randomly not work, or the touchpad might lag with a usb device inserted, etc.

 

i did not follow these instructions, but rather i screwed around with it and the above should reproduce the steps i took to get this working.

[runoff]

Maybe someone can create good working image for vostro 3700?

[piyokos]

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[carlos228]

thank you so much!

 

will try it the next days ..

I currently run 10.6.3, 10.6.4 is there - updating o.k. before or better stay at 10.6.3 what do you mean ?

[carlos228]

I tried to update to 10.6.4 today ( downloaded combo ).

update & restart works but I lost network connection partially: I still can access the internet but I can´t access my local network (!), p.e. my other mac on 192.168.0.20 :

 

Connection Failed / There was an error connecting to the server ...

 

I guess It´ s just a small thing, I still get vnc connection (screen sharing) to my other machines and I still can access the laptop from my other machine.

 

PrefPane/Network still shows good ( IP, Subnet 255.255.255.0 , Router 192.168.0.1 , all there ).

 

Tried to install SnowR1000.app ( Realtek1000 kext from kexts.com ) but no change.

 

Looking for a solution, If I find one I´ll post, otherwise I go back 10.6.3

[piyokos]

VoodooHDA isn't detecting the input audio properly, it gets strange pulsing static from both line ins. I'm going to try pulling the pin configs from Windows or Linux and seeing if I can get native support going in AppleHDA. There may be other kexts out there that support this card in full, but I haven't found them. For now, attached is the dumplog from VoodooHDA as it currently detects the (broken) setup on my machine.

vostro3700_audiodump.txt

[piyokos]

i posted a thread on the voodoohda board with diagnostic information for our audio. be sure to register there and voice your support/bump the thread so hopefully someone can help us out!

 

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,1452.0.html

 

as for now I am still working on the audio and a native applehda solution if that does not pan out.

 

a solution to the sleep issue may be to simply enable deep sleep, which is slower but more reliable. my machine does turn off properly after dsdt patching however.

 

the lack of brightness control may be related to the fact that mac os x does not detect the card as a 330M - it's labeled "unknown", so OS X probably is not enabling the correct features. acceleration works fine though, especially the new steam games, portal, and team fortress 2.

 

the display looks much better after careful calibration with "expert" mode, by the way. just take your time with it, and it looks much less washed out once youre done.

 

the stock wireless can possibly be made to work with the pin 20 taping trick

[piyokos]

Does your HDA/DSDT fix line-in and the microphone?

 

Also, I haven't experienced any VoodooHDA/PS2 KPs except at boot, which usually occurs after updating the kext cache or an unclean shutdown. Restarting always fixes it but it's a very dirty hack, so good riddance.

 

Can you provide your copies of ApplePS2controller, and ACPIPS2Nubs? Do those kexts, plus HDAIDT.kext, load with the 64-bit kernel?

 

What BIOS version are you running? Do you have AppleHPET.kext installed and working?

 

I'll have a chance to install this all later today, but this'll help me with some other issues I've been having.

 

Restart works on my machine, but shutdown hangs with a black screen. Sleep hangs with a black screen as well. This is with a patched DSDT. I don't fully understand DSDT though, aside from some AGP enabling mods I did on my old desktop, so I'm useless here. Maybe the sleep fixes can be hijacked from the Vaio thread. Good luck on speedstep too.

[piyokos]

my 3700 has a different codec (287143429), i had to assemble and tweak new verbs and options by hand for your package or applehda would simply refuse to load. it took a while but speakers, headphones, and microphone are all working finally with native applehda, tested in 64-bit. i want to soon release a version to fix onboard-mic volume control as well as mic-in since i've got a good idea what's wrong. as for now, the package is attached, and i'll let this idiotic readme i made explain the rest:

 

Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
IDT 92HD81B1X5 
CODEC: 287143429
TESTED ON: VOSTRO 3700 [A01 BIOS]
KNOWN BUGS: ONBOARD MICROPHONE VOLUME CONTROL BUSTED, MIC IN BUSTED

	  _												  
	 | \												  
	_|  \______________________________________		   
   - ______  BY	________________		  \_`,		 
 -(_______  MINIHACK  -= AND -=	  PIYOKOS	 )		
		  `--------=============----------------`   
					-   -		   DROP THESE HERE WORDS
 INSTRUCTIONS:	   -   -	 UNDER THE LINE: "Name (_ADR, 0x001C0000)"
		`   . .  -  -		IN YO DSDT! THEN INSTALL THE VANILLA 10.6.2
		 .*`V O.*;`*,`.,	 APPLEHDA.KEXT AND HDAIDT.KEXT ENABLER	   
		  `, ,`S.*T.*. *	INCLUDED IN THE ZIP -> REBUILD CACHE -> REBOOT.
______________*  * ` ^R *O_____________________________GODSPEED________________
===============================================================================


Device (HDEF)
		 {
			 Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
			 Name (_PRW, Package (0x02)
			 {
				 0x15, 
				 0x05
			 })
			 Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
			 {
				 Store (Package (0x08)
					 {
						 "codec-id", 
						 Buffer (0x04)
						 {
							 0x57, 0x61, 0x1D, 0x11
						 }, 

						 "layout-id", 
						 Buffer (0x04)
						 {
							 0x37, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00
						 }, 

						 "device-type", 
						 Buffer (0x0F)
						 {
							 "IDT 92HD81B1X5"
						 }, 

						 "PinConfigurations", 
						 Buffer (0xA0)
						 {
							 /* 0000 */	0x00, 0xA7, 0x1C, 0x20, 0x00, 0xA7, 0x1D, 0x10, 
							 /* 0008 */	0x00, 0xA7, 0x1E, 0xA1, 0x00, 0xA7, 0x1F, 0x01, 
							 /* 0010 */	0x00, 0xB7, 0x1C, 0x10, 0x00, 0xB7, 0x1D, 0x10, 
							 /* 0018 */	0x00, 0xB7, 0x1E, 0x21, 0x00, 0xB7, 0x1F, 0x01, 
							 /* 0020 */	0x00, 0xD7, 0x1C, 0x30, 0x00, 0xD7, 0x1D, 0x00, 
							 /* 0028 */	0x00, 0xD7, 0x1E, 0x17, 0x00, 0xD7, 0x1F, 0x90, 
							 /* 0030 */	0x00, 0xE7, 0x1C, 0xF0, 0x00, 0xE7, 0x1D, 0x00, 
							 /* 0038 */	0x00, 0xE7, 0x1E, 0x00, 0x00, 0xE7, 0x1F, 0x40, 
							 /* 0040 */	0x00, 0xF7, 0x1C, 0x40, 0x00, 0xF7, 0x1D, 0x00, 
							 /* 0048 */	0x00, 0xF7, 0x1E, 0x00, 0x00, 0xF7, 0x1F, 0x40, 
							 /* 0050 */	0x01, 0x07, 0x1C, 0x50, 0x01, 0x07, 0x1D, 0x00, 
							 /* 0058 */	0x01, 0x07, 0x1E, 0x00, 0x01, 0x07, 0x1F, 0x40, 
							 /* 0060 */	0x01, 0x17, 0x1C, 0x60, 0x01, 0x17, 0x1D, 0x00, 
							 /* 0068 */	0x01, 0x17, 0x1E, 0xA3, 0x01, 0x17, 0x1F, 0xD0, 
							 /* 0070 */	0x01, 0xF7, 0x1C, 0x70, 0x01, 0xF7, 0x1D, 0x00, 
							 /* 0078 */	0x01, 0xF7, 0x1E, 0x00, 0x01, 0xF7, 0x1F, 0x40, 
							 /* 0080 */	0x02, 0x07, 0x1C, 0x80, 0x02, 0x07, 0x1D, 0x00, 
							 /* 0088 */	0x02, 0x07, 0x1E, 0x00, 0x02, 0x07, 0x1F, 0x40
						 }
					 }, Local0)
				 DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
				 Return (Local0)
			 }
		 }


===============================================================================
THESE KEXTS NEED A DTGP METHOD IN ORDER TO FUNCTION. PLACE THIS BEFORE ANY OTHER 
METHODS IF IT ISN'T ALREADY THERE. 
===============================================================================


Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
 {
	 If (LEqual (Arg0, Buffer (0x10)
			 {
				 /* 0000 */	0xC6, 0xB7, 0xB5, 0xA0, 0x18, 0x13, 0x1C, 0x44, 
				 /* 0008 */	0xB0, 0xC9, 0xFE, 0x69, 0x5E, 0xAF, 0x94, 0x9B
			 }))
	 {
		 If (LEqual (Arg1, One))
		 {
			 If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
			 {
				 Store (Buffer (One)
					 {
						 0x03
					 }, Arg4)
				 Return (One)
			 }

			 If (LEqual (Arg2, One))
			 {
				 Return (One)
			 }
		 }
	 }

	 Store (Buffer (One)
		 {
			 0x00
		 }, Arg4)
	 Return (Zero)
 }

vostro3700__IDT__287143429_kextpack.zip

[carlos228]

short update:

 

I am back on 10.6.3 now because of this network problem.

 

I get the Trackpad pref-pane and tapping working using the 10.5.6 Synaptics Trackpad Enabler :-)

(see attachment)

 

Sound: Install of piyokos´ VoodooHDA_with_volume_control_fix_vostro_3700.kext.zip works well.

10.5.6_Synaptics_Trackpad_Enabler.pkg.zip

[piyokos]

I had some issues with the networking when I booted Linux just once on it, I think there are some issues with the driver to be sure. Try this: do a full shutdown, unplug your laptop, pull the battery, pull the ethernet, wait 30 seconds, reattach.

[piyokos]

did some more dsdt work, looking into sleep/shutdown as well as my suspicion that the dsdt code related to the wlan/bt switch is buggy, but the card is otherwise supported. i have finals the next few days however so i will not be back till friday.

[carlos228]

I tried HDMI on a Panasonic Full HD plasma today, picture works beautiful (dual / extended screen ) but no sound transfer. You can also hotplug the HDMI cable, OSX adapts the settings realtime.

[iotos]

Hello

 

This is the first time I post here. I'm currently looking for a new laptop, and I'm interested in the Vostro 3300 with i5 and Nvidia 310M. But, since I have to work very frequently on CAD software systems, I'd like to have quite a good graphics card (especially for OpenGL, which is the common language for professionnal 3D software systems).

 

On some other laptops, Dell proposes a ATI HD5470, which results in Cinebench 11.5 are 9.84 for OpenGL. I've been said that the Nvidia Drivers were better than ATI drivers for OpenGL. It seems to be real, since your results are far better (15.6 fps) .

 

I just would like to know if you tested Cinebench OpenGL before installing Snow, so that I could compare the results with a common OS basis.

 

Thank you. (and please, forgive my bad English)

[carlos228]

I checked it right now for you .. but it´s the vostro 3700 with 330M card, don´t know how close the performance of the 310 is.

sys = 10.6.3 with all the tweaks up to now, its around 15 - 15.5 fps. 32bit or 64bit makes no difference.

 

Render (i5 M430) = 1.86

 

Do you know the pendant to this card for a desktop PC ?

[piyokos]

to anyone reading this thread and to iotos, here's what i think of the vostro 3300/3400/3500/3700 verses the macbook pro in a quick low effort high content post:

 

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=453045&doc2=444750 - that's my vostro 3700 17", with a 330m and i5-430m, up against a macbook pro 6,2 15" with an m330 256MB and presumably an i5-520/540m.

 

there are a few caveats here. the dell has superior hdd speed because the 3700 come with 7200rpm drives as a base option - this makes a BIG difference in almost every respect. the macbook pro runs 10.6.3, mine runs 10.6.4, which is known to have issues that slow video performance, and i have 64-bit force enabled, os x does not do this yet. also, xbench isn't very good! the video card is loaded properly but not recognized as a 330m, this may or may not impact performance. i tested portal and team fortress 2 and it worked flawlessly, and very fast.

 

i have not encountered any stability issues when the system is running, i've been up for two days now and i usually have at least 15 apps open at once (upgrading to 8GB soon ). startup issues got resolved with the native drivers.

 

the dell will run you about $900 ($822 + native wifi + os x), the macbook pro will run you $1800. the dell is also 17". minihack can tell you more about the smaller 3-series 310M models but they are all the same thing just scaled i think.

 

as of now, the hackintosh vostro 3500/3700 is best used as a desk dweller. it can be carted around, but you cannot use sleep, and without speedstep the cpu consumes way more power. the dell does not come with secondary intel HD graphics. the vostro screen is cheaper - i personally think ANY antiglare screen is better then {censored} glossy - but the macbook pro screen is better quality. it's lightyears ahead of the {censored} dell used to churn out though. the touchpad on the dell is also lightyears ahead of old dell {censored}, it's very close to 6,2 mbp quality but the tracking is more on par with an older macbook. the keyboard feels just as good though.

 

the vostro line has vastly improved over the years and the 3-series is very study and much closer to mac quality then, say, my old pile of {censored} vostro 1500, but i'll give it to you straight here, the macbook pro has it's advantages, especially in portability. however as a system just for basic desk duty and limited transport the vostro offered way more value and a chance to do some hacking.

 

as a hackintosh it's a better choice then most other full size laptops since dells are usually consistent and widely used, acer/vaio/asus/toshiba all have many models constantly changing, and they are of inconsistent quality.

[iotos]

@carlos228

 

Thanks a lot !

 

You're right, I got a little bit confused with all those serial numbers ... (maybe I should better go to bed ...) But in fact, when I compare the results of 330M and 310M in DirectX benchmarks (3DMark), it seems that 310M is about 1.8 times less powerful than 330M... 15.5fps/1.8=8.6... and I found 8.48fps on a chinese forum... So, everything seems to make sense... and it seems that 310M must be less powerful than the ATI HD5470 (9.84fps)...

 

Do you know the pendant to this card for a desktop PC ?

 

I'm not very well informed about graphics cards. You can check on http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForc...0M.22437.0.html : good website, with a huge number of cards for laptops.

 

For desktop cards, you have some tests here http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2010-ga...1.1.0,2131.html (or here http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards,1.html)

 

In fact, laptop's cards remain far less powerful than desktop's cards, and for the same price, a desktop PC is more powerful. Your card (which is quite powerful for a laptop) ranks 6470 at 3DMark06, and the least powerful of the Tomshardware.com list ranks 8825... and costs only 100€...

 

 

@piyokos

 

Thanks for all these informations.

[piyokos]

minihack you are right about this dsdt. it's very different from most existing dell DSDTs, for example i am trying to go through the USB functions looking for something holding the suspend/shutdown back, and everything is renamed and has a slightly different layout, its very annoying. this needs to be commented up and traced through so we can actually understand whats going on. if anyone else is working on the dsdt i'd love like to sit down for a few hours on skype and plow through it (skype = piyokos) chat or voice, comment it up in gdocs so fixes are easier, i just wanna get this working in full.

 

some {censored} though: there are two methods which return values based on a bunch of if statements and presumably unsupported operating systems, which are referenced all over and change the behavior, it either returns one or two (?) which indicates two levels or support or anything greater which indicates an unsupported OS. i want to neutralize these statements but its difficult to identify what dummy return values should take their place or if it should be ripped out altogether.

 

the wlan switch does not trigger any acpi events (debugged in linux, not mac though), and apparently power control with pcie is a tough point in OSX, not sure if that's the problem, and it may still be a DSDT issue but its also notable that the 4353 is just a rebranded 43224 which OS X should support native. i can get the extensions to load without any modification but no card appears.

 

edit: also if anyone is interested, attached is a super alpha probably useless fixed dsdt based on the audio enabler i put out before, with a number of major changes applied, it does not appear to make a difference on my system though.

dsdt_audio_1.3.aml.zip

[Mårten]

It's amazing, gone for a month and to see the energy and all the amazing work put down to this.

 

As for my self I haven't had time to work with since I got home, to many people wants to see you (parents you know).

 

But now back to topic, I noticed that Dell had put out the service manuall on the web for the 3700, didn't check the 3500 or 3300, will do that soon... But here is the link for the 3700, and I also disassemble my to see what card reader chip mine had, as the 3700 can have two different ones.

 

Vostro 3700 has Realtek RTS5138 Card Reader or Ricoh CardReader R5U230

Vostro 3500 only has Realtek RTS5138 Card Reader

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/syst...00/en/index.htm

http://hotfile.com/dl/50479391/c38af33/SM_EN.zip.html as it was to big to upload here.

 

But there is no WWLAN spare mini PCI-e in the 3700 to bad.

 

Just noticed that there is a special 10.6.4 update for the new Mac Mini it has HDMI maybe this has the audio driver for the Nvidia, worth looking in to.

 

\\Mårten

[Bobuu]

Hello everybody !

 

I've read all this topic, but I still didn't succed to get SL on my Vostro 3700 (core i5 520m/ Nvidia 330m)

I'm used to Hackintosh with my P55 motherboard, core i7 and Ati card.

But with this Vostro I begin to be crazy !

 

With "[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (supported) + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]" I just had an underscore blinking (so the boot doesn't work)

I added "Iportable bootfix" to solve this but after the EFI screen I get stuck when the retail is loading. `

There is :

"EBIOS read error : controller or device error

Block 0x41 Sector 0 "

On several lines...

I have to say that I copied my DVD retail on a 10GB partition on a hard drive, via USB because my DVD drive doesn't read the double layers DVD.

 

What can I do to avoid the "EBIOS read error " I assume this is because I use a hard drive ?

 

 

Any help would be great !

 

Thank you !

[Mårten]

The message "EBIOS read error : controller or device error Block 0x41 Sector 0" usually means there is bad media, but check the bios settings for the SATA controller I have had some Dell's is deliverd where the SATA mode was Native/EIDE mode.

 

 

//Mårten

[Mårten]

Just got my BMC4322 from eBay, works out of the box (or bag). So the Dell DW 1520 is no good, will try the card in another laptop to see if it will work, guess not.

 

//Mårten

[Siou]

Hello everybody !

 

I've read all this topic, but I still didn't succed to get SL on my Vostro 3700 (core i5 520m/ Nvidia 330m)

I'm used to Hackintosh with my P55 motherboard, core i7 and Ati card.

But with this Vostro I begin to be crazy !

 

With "[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (supported) + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]" I just had an underscore blinking (so the boot doesn't work)

I added "Iportable bootfix" to solve this but after the EFI screen I get stuck when the retail is loading. `

There is :

"EBIOS read error : controller or device error

Block 0x41 Sector 0 "

On several lines...

I have to say that I copied my DVD retail on a 10GB partition on a hard drive, via USB because my DVD drive doesn't read the double layers DVD.

 

What can I do to avoid the "EBIOS read error " I assume this is because I use a hard drive ?

 

 

Any help would be great !

 

Thank you !

 

Hello it seems I have the same config than you.

DELL VOSTRO 3700 i5 520M

 

Here's my current of installing OS X on this platform :

with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], you have to take the '[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported", the 2 others don't work.

after changing the DVD with OS X 10,6,3, launch it with -x -v. No need of busratio, it's the same.

Change your langage, use Disk utility to partition , format and select your disk drive and here you are!..

 

BUT !!! (:-(( the pb are only beginning.

No support of USB but Ethernet's working (with an ethernet cable, not the WiFi) you can copy [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for exemple on ur drive and install it.

I had many blocking PB so that I have to re-install completely the vostro. (no keyboard and no possibility to connect an usb keyboard...:-(

Another time, i had a blanck screen with no possibility to do anything...

 

My clues are the followings :

If you have no DSDT, no chance to retrieve your USB port, so i'm looking for a DSDT file.

 

(I have a Hack too installed with the kakewalk method and working perfectly)

MiniHack suggest to reinstall via your hackintosh, did you try and does it work?

 

For my part, i gonna try to install via a dsdt file.

 

Keep in touch. Seems we can touch the goal (the graal?)

[aependleton]

This may be a stupid question, but I'm fairly new to dual booting and installing OS X on pcs. I have a Dell Vostro 3700, Windows 7 Pro, i7 Core.

 

Is there a step by step guide to installing OS X? Right now I have OS X installed on an external hard drive, but can't get the laptop to recognize the drive or boot from it.

 

Any help for the noob is appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[Siou]

This may be a stupid question, but I'm fairly new to dual booting and installing OS X on pcs. I have a Dell Vostro 3700, Windows 7 Pro, i7 Core.

 

Is there a step by step guide to installing OS X? Right now I have OS X installed on an external hard drive, but can't get the laptop to recognize the drive or boot from it.

 

Any help for the noob is appreciated.

 

Thanks!

 

As you can see it's not so easy...

My best config with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method is the following.

 

Once started with -x -v -f and OS X installed on the hard disk, apply [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] with theses options :

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Unsupported, USB V9.9.9, voodoo PS/2..., Kernel 10.3.1 et OS86 software.

The system reboots on HD, no USB, ans the network is lost :-(

FireWire is detected but no way to make it work and connect to any network... Grrr

 

I'm getting crazy with this DELL VOSTRO

I've tried the DSDT method but no reboot so I had to restore the first install from the Installation DVD.

 

If someone can help...

I think Priority is to find out how to make USB Ports working (or the network). Without USB ports, it's mandatory to use the DVD, and it's very long to write on a DVD-RW programs you need...

 

(excuse my "french" English...)