martinlbb Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 First of all, thanks for this usefull howto (Although i didn't switch yet to Lion!, I prefer SL) Like everybody, I was worried about native Wi-Fi support on Toshiba L500 series. Genuine Wi-Fi chip (RTL8191SE) don't seems to be supported yet. Then, I swap cards, and installed an Atheros AR5008. Unfortunately, Bios silently discarded my card (whitelist), and unpowered it. I had two options, cover pin20 of my card (to ignore power/unpower signal) OR extract/modify BIOS whitelist. I did the second option and it work pretty well now! For tech guys, withelist is located in BIOSCOD02.ROM, between offset 49F0 and 4A20. By the way, here is the complete whitelist for Toshiba L500 series, this could be usefull to change your wificard without trouble... And good news, some Atheros cards are listed 168C:002A (Atheros AR928X) 168C:002B (Atheros AR9285) 8086:4235 (Intel WiFi Link 5300) 8086:4232 (Intel WiFi Link 5100) 8086:423C (Intel WiFi Link 5150) 10EC:8199 (Realtek 8187SE) 10EC:8192 (Realtek 8192SE) 10EC:8172 (Realtek 8191SE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartie77 Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 First of all, thanks for this usefull howto (Although i didn't switch yet to Lion!, I prefer SL) Like everybody, I was worried about native Wi-Fi support on Toshiba L500 series. Genuine Wi-Fi chip (RTL8191SE) don't seems to be supported yet. Then, I swap cards, and installed an Atheros AR5008. Unfortunately, Bios silently discarded my card (whitelist), and unpowered it. I had two options, cover pin20 of my card (to ignore power/unpower signal) OR extract/modify BIOS whitelist. I did the second option and it work pretty well now! For tech guys, withelist is located in BIOSCOD02.ROM, between offset 49F0 and 4A20. By the way, here is the complete whitelist for Toshiba L500 series, this could be usefull to change your wificard without trouble... And good news, some Atheros cards are listed 168C:002A (Atheros AR928X) 168C:002B (Atheros AR9285) 8086:4235 (Intel WiFi Link 5300) 8086:4232 (Intel WiFi Link 5100) 8086:423C (Intel WiFi Link 5150) 10EC:8199 (Realtek 8187SE) 10EC:8192 (Realtek 8192SE) 10EC:8172 (Realtek 8191SE) thanks, useful infos. btw : Ralink have updated their official usb-dongle drivers to support Lion now. No need anymore for 3rd party connection utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
criverock Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 hi smartie! I've updated to 10.7.2 using the new ati kexts you posted, but I have gray screen at the boot. What it could be? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
criverock Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 I've managed to fix the gray screen. Now webcam is not working anymore (after the update). Do you think a rollback to previous kext is suitable? in that case which is the kext? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
criverock Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Please smartie, can you give me some hints about how to make the vga port to work? I simply have a black screen, no recognition. What could be the reason? Do you know how can I solve it? Thanks a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeah im karl Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I have installed all the ati kext things and i just hang on a grey screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartie77 Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) @ALL : please do not misuse this part of the forum as a discussion board; for I have not the time to answer questions here; It is only a Guide and I will ONLY keep topic 1 on page 1 up to date for new OS X versions, new kexts or new methods . I know it might sound "rude" but it simply is : If my kexts are working for your Graphics then fine, if not you simply need different ones or hexedit yourself ones ( also for VGA,HDMI etc output or if your frame buffer is not "Ati,Shrike" ) . This forum has tons of knowledge for how to make hardware working, including these patching methods. It is not simple, but then again I needed also to learn all this things for my Laptop ( CI/QE never worked until Snow 10.6.7 and only until I did these patching stuff.. ) Remember : my graphic kexts will ONLY work if yours is exactly my card : Device ID 9480 with Shrike Framebuffer and LVDS output.. ) The other kexts like Trackpad,Sound and so on will work naturally on a lot of different hardware too, but Graphics is special. Thank you Edited January 20, 2012 by smartie77 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Village_Idiot Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 i just want to thank you for this guide, it helped me a lot in my quest to install OsX in my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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