Dell Inspiron 1520 and Snow Leopard 10.6

All works flaw­lessy (audio (use voodoohda), touch­pad and key­board (use voodoops2),  SD card (search post installer pack­age)), eth­er­net, blue­tooth (if you turn on on win­dows it will stay on after the reboot/shutdown and you’ll be able to use it on mac) except for:

  1. the Intel WIFI AGN4965: fol­low http://projectcamphor.mercurysquad.com/ cause they will be release soon a driver
  2. Exter­nal Mon­i­tor (i’m using natit kext): for now i have not found a way to connect

Note 1: if your dis­tro starts in native 64bit mode eth­er­net wont work (Broad­com 440x dri­vers) cause the dri­vers ar com­piled only for 32bit, the other dri­vers will works flawlessy.

Note 2: if you use osx86tool or kex­thelper you will have many boot­ing prob­lems and errors, this is due to the fact that Snow uses a dif­fer­ent kext cache file, down­load “kext util­ity” lat­est ver­sion, it’s Snow com­pabible. So use osx86 or kex­thelper , and after them use kext utilty.

NOTE: if Installer CRASH try to DISABLE INTEL SPEEDSTEP from your BIOS!

September 17th, 2009 in Mac OS, Tips | tags: , , , ,

Comments (9)

janusSeptember 30th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

could you point us in the direc­tion of how you man­aged this. So far i keep get­ting a ker­nal panic on the first boot.

Thanks

Janus

Andrea LeganzaSeptember 30th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Dis­able from the bios INTEL SPEEDSTEP option, in my case it’s the cul­prit of boot crashes; after the instal­la­tion you can reen­able it.

MemphysSeptember 30th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

Hi! I’ve installed SL suc­ces­fully, every­thing works except the broad­com 440x. Sorry i didn’t describe it accu­rately… it works.. but if I going to down­load some­thing or I do some­thing that needs big traf­fic and net­work usage the con­nec­tion will be dropped. Any idea ?

bitoyOctober 9th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

does your open qe and ci work? does shut down work also? thanks

Andrea LeganzaOctober 9th, 2009 at 2:55 pm

All the accel­er­a­tions work.

Shut­down no, as for Leop­ard, but i keep always turned on (at least two week on with­out shut­down) so isn’t so impor­tant in my case.

AmjadNovember 6th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

Hi How did you install this? I have a 1720, same hard­ware as 1520 but with a big­ger screen. Iam get­ting Ker­nel panin on boot. Thanks.

Andrea LeganzaNovember 7th, 2009 at 11:55 am

Dis­able INTEL SPEEDSTEP in the bios before booting.

MichalDecember 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 am

I’m using that method http://macyourpc.com/2009/09/13/mac-os-x-10–6-snow-leopard-retail-install-boot-132-method/ and I can install it but after I cre­ate account and install all kext I reboot and it stops… How did you install your copy of SL? (I have Dell 1520 with gma950)

Andrea LeganzaDecember 4th, 2009 at 1:40 am

Michal you should check the log to under­stand where is the prob­lem, try start­ing with ver­bose mode (-v –x or only –v).

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