**This post is outdated. Use this guide to install Snow Leopard**
(At the time of writing, 10.5.4 is the latest version of Mac OS X)
I’ve done it, and I absolutely love it for more reasons than one. Now I’m going to show you how it’s done so you too can have your own Inspiron 1525 HackBook Pro. First, let’s look at the specs and see what we’re dealing with. I bought this laptop at Best Buy about a week ago now for $499.99. It was either on a fast sale or priced incorrectly because now the identical model with the same SKU and Best Buy # is showing up for $649.99 — same color and everything. You snooze, you lose.
On the outside is a rather unattractive and hard to keep clean jet black lid with silver trim. I’d say the only good thing about the exterior is the Dell logo. Opening it up reveals a very sexy, modern silver design, perfect key placement, a really attractive touchpad that looks like it’s built right into the case — very nice indeed. Touch senor media buttons with a nice blue light finish off a well-designed interior with a very modern feel. This thing was well thought out on the inside. One of the best I’ve seen from Dell.
Under the hood boasts a little bit older processor technology with a 533MHz FSB — Intel Pentium Dual Core. This is very similar to the new Celeron Dual Cores but don’t let it confuse you with the Pentium D — this CPU is actually rather nice. Although using the Pentium name, the Pentium Dual Core is based on the Core technology you’re already familar with on your Core Duo and Core2 Duo Macs. While the battery doesn’t last quite as long as a similar Core2 Duo (Centrino), this 1.87GHz packs a punch and unlike all you other dual core users, I don’t have to boot with cpus=1 — that’s right! This HackBook Pro is using both cores and it’s putting out some power with Mac OS X.
Let’s go over the fine details:
- Dell Inspiron 1525
- (Best Buy Model: I1525-121B / SKU: 8878002)
- Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.87 GHz
- 15.4″ Glossy XGA HD Widescreen LCD (1280 x 800)
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (Like MacBook, MacBook Air!)
- 2 GB DDR2 Memory (Up To 4 GB!)
- 160 GB SATA Hard Drive (5200 RPM)
- Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW w/ Label Support
- 16x4x16 DVD+RW; 8x4x16 DVD-RW; 40x24x40 CD-RW
- Built-in 10/100 Ethernet, 56K Dial-up Modem, Dell 1395 Wi-Fi
- USB 2.0, Firewire, ExpressCard/54, Lithium-ion Battery, Card Reader, etc.
There are a couple things I’m going to end up doing to this laptop over time, including upgrading to a larger, faster SATA hard drive and maxing out the 4 GB supported memory. A few really attractive points of this system is not in the hardware, but in the drivers and support for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.4). The wireless card is recognized and used as AirPort and the battery management works. Those are two huge pluses for those of you who have “half-supported” laptops running jury-rigged applications to connect to your wireless network or preserve your battery life. Oh, and did I mention that you don’t need ANY graphics drivers? That’s right, this model is fully supported with Quartz Extreme and Core Image!
Of course, getting your new Inspiron to run just like mine is going to take a bit of work, including downloading the ususal files from the usual places like a certain bay of thieves or the little green monster, but once you’ve burned everything to a single layer DVD, you’ll be up and running in under an hour! I highly suggest to any “noobs” that you don’t attempt to dual boot just yet. Let’s start with a full hard drive, no partitions, no “bull.”
1] Start by doing some downloading on a working computer that is connected to the Internet. You’re going to need a DVD burner, a fast Internet connection, and some Googling skills to find everything you need. Lucky for you, I’m going to provide all the difficult stuff to find — the drivers and hacks that are going to give your laptop the extras you need. First, download “Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 Kalyway” (AMD/Intel) installation DVD. It should be around 3 to 4 GB. Next, download the “Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 Kalyway Combo Update” which should be around 500 to 600 MB. Go ahead and burn the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD to a Disc using Disk Utility if you’re already on a Mac, or PowerISO if you’re on Windows. If you use Windows a lot, PowerISO is one of those few programs I’d actually purchase. It’s that good. I suggest burning everything at 8X or slower to ensure it’s 100%.
2] Insert your newly burned 10.5.2 Kalyway Installation DVD into your laptop and boot from it. I assume you still have Windows Vista pre-loaded, which is fine. We’re going to delete all that crap. It’s going to take a while for the installation screen to load and you’re going to be flooded with a ton of text lines, even some errors, as the DVD probes and pokes around your hardware. Once the screen loads, you’ll notice your keyboard and touchpad instantly work out of the box. The first thing you want to do is click on Tools in the menu bar and select Disk Utility. Once this loads (give it a minute), select your hard drive (160.0 GB ….) by clicking on it, and then click on the Erase tab. Select “Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for Volume Format and for Name type “Macintosh HD” then click “Erase …” Give it a few minutes to rid all instances of Bill Gates and you’ll see your new “Macintosh HD” appear. Once that has completed, exit out of Disk Utility and continue the installation by going through the on-screen instructions. You may want to click “Customize” before you go through actually installing Mac OS X as Kalyway has included a lot of extras that might appeal to you. Be careful not to select the wrong items, like things that don’t pretain to your hardware or you’re going to end up screwing yourself later. I got you covered, don’t I? After your installation is complete, it’s going to reboot your computer.
3] This is where the fun begins! Take out your installation disc and reboot. When you get to the Darwin boot loader screen, hit F8 to enter some boot flags. Type -v -f and hit enter. After a ton of scrolling text, your screen will black out as if it’s asleep. Don’t panic! You want your computer to sleep. When you see the screen go black and activity slow down on your CPU light, unplug your inspiron from the power cable and close the lid. Come back to it in about 15 minutes when it has fallen asleep and wake it up by moving your finger around on the touchpad. Welcome to the post-installation. Go ahead and opt out of transfering files from another Mac, and also select that you don’t have an Internet connection. Keep clicking and you’ll be asked to enter your personal information. Keep clicking! You’ll soon be presented with the desktop — sexy, huh? Now there’s something you need to do ASAP or else you’ll be waiting for this computer to fall asleep every time you reboot.
4] Before you start drooling and examining your Mac-powered laptop, click on the Apple and go to System Prefernces. Click on “Expose & Spaces” and then click the “Expose” button. On one of the Active Screen Corners select “Sleep Display.” I chose the lower left-hand corner. Go ahead and exit out of that and reboot. When the screen goes blank, move your finger down towards the corner you selected. It may take a few imaginary strokes since you can’t see the mouse pointer. After a few tries you’ll master it and your screen will appear — ta da. Now, one thing I did notice that few people report (Maybe it’s just me?), with the “sleep trick” being used, sometimes the desktop icons become unclickable or hidden. Although this is a pain in the ass, it only takes a moment. After you boot up and do the sleep trick with the touchpad, go ahead and log out of your user account and log back in. This ensures everything’s 100% with your session. The only downside to the sleep trick is it requires you to leave Auto Login going. There’s a work around for this to put the display to sleep at the Login screen but I’m not going to go there yet.
UPDATE! Want this sleep trick to happen automatically and be able to see the Login screen? Click here!
5] Now it’s time to pop in your other DVD — the Combo Update. Go ahead and drag it all to the desktop and install it. Before we get busy with it, let’s make a copy of our current kernel for safe keeping in case you fuck something up. Open up Terminal (use Spotlight if you’re not sure where to find it) and type sudo su - to get a root session. Root is like the Administrator account on Microsoft Windows. If you screw up as root, you’re done. After su’ing to root, type cp /mach_kernel /mach_kernel_bkup1052 to make a copy of your existing kernel that you can use to boot up with later if you need to. It’s always good to have a backup plan, right? Install the Combo Update but don’t reboot. It’s going to ask you to but keep that window open! With that window still visable, go ahead and install the kernel package. Once that has installed successfully, hit reboot on your other window and hang on for the ride.
6] Boom. Now you’re running Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard. But that’s not the latest version. Lucky for you, the next round of upgrades to get to 10.5.4 are going to come from Software Update. That’s right, directly from Apple like a real Mac! But not just yet. First, we have to get this laptop online. This is where I come in. Click on one of the links below to download my Inspiron 1525 Mac Drivers Pack. A lot of this stuff may/will work on other Inspiron models but I only guarantee it’ll work on my exact model (see above). Go ahead and grab my pack, although I only take credit for making all this stuff easily accessible, I didn’t create any of these tools, just modified them to work with this laptop (if applicable).
7] After you download and unzip the pack, take a look inside. Now open up a Terminal window and find the directory on your desktop, or where ever you downloaded the ZIP to. Go inside Broadcom-Script and type sudo su – ; chmod +x bcm43xx_enabler.sh ; ./bcm43xx_enabler.sh to run the installer. Don’t worry, I’ve added the correct values for our internal Dell 1395 Wi-Fi. Once that runs, close Terminal and open up Disk Utility. Repair disk permissions just in case and then reboot your computer. AirPort should appear on your menu bar and you’ll be able to find your wireless network and get online.
8] Go ahead and use Software Update to download everything. When you reboot, since you’re upgrading to 10.5.4, you’ll have to run the Broadcom-Script again like we did above. Once you’ve upgraded to 10.5.4 successfully and re-applied the Wi-Fi drivers, fixed permissions, etc., connect back to your wireless network. Now it’s time to get audio working. Use my supplied 1525 Codec file and fire up crazy green frog (AppleHDAPatcher_v1.16). Drag the 1525_Codec.txt file into the window and let it work its magic. Repair permissions again just to be safe and reboot. Now you’ll notice sound works and you don’t have to keep re-applying the Broadcom-Script patch.
9] At this point I assume you’ve learned enough or done enough reading elsewhere to know how to install kexts. Unzip PowerManagement_137_1.bundle.tar.gz and install the PowerManagement.bundle. Repair permissions, delete kext cache and all that fun stuff. Now reboot again. You should see your battery meter come to life on your menu bar. Keep the settings set to ‘Custom’ if you want it to continue to function. I set mine to Percentage.
10] If you’re like me, you want to be able to “tap” the touchpad to click, and scroll with a finger, etc. For this we use the install.sh script inside of ApplePS2Trackpad. Once that’s up and running, go into System Preferences and you’ll find a Trackpad tab within the Keyboard & Mouse window. Play around with the settings. Sometimes you may have to set it to what appears to be really low (slow) in order to get the speed just right. It’s a little funky, but you’ll find a setting that you can enjoy. Scrolling is a bit more than hit and miss as it doesn’t work REALLY well but it’s still useful to some. I’ve disabled it.
There are some loose ends, but I’m going to leave that up to you. The wired (Ethernet) will work using a quick patch that you can find by searching the InsanelyMac forums. Sleep will wake up properly with a different kernel. You’re welcome to replace your Dock with a darker, more attractive theme like I have included in the Midnight Dock directory. I suggest saving my Drivers Pack and stashing it somewhere, for when the next upgrade to Mac OS X comes out, you may end up re-applying some things again.
All in all, it’s a lot cheaper than spending $1,000 on a MacBook, or even $2,000 on a MacBook Pro. And it’s a lot more fun! I would put my current Mac-powered Inspiron at around the level of a MacBook Air at a fraction of the cost (And a bit less “Airy” since it’s pretty heavy). Unlike you crazy mobile gurus, I don’t carry around a full-sized laptop like it’s Palm Pilot. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll respond within 24 hours in most cases. Good luck!
UPDATE!
Once you upgrade to 10.5.4, if you’re having issues getting the battery meter to display in your menu bar, you may be missing some files. Download my AppleACPIPlatform.kext, move yours somewhere safe as a backup (/System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext), pop mine in, repair permissions, kext cache, and all that fun stuff (Or use Kext Helper), reboot and check out your Energy settings in System Preferences now. Boom!
UPDATE!
Need S3 (Hibernation) Sleep on 10.5.4? Tired of putting your HackBook Pro to bed, only to find out it won’t wake up? Open Terminal and type sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 hibernatefile /dev/null then click Apple, Sleep. Wait for it to snooze and the fan to turn off. Now lightly hit your power button and it should crank back up, find your wireless network again, etc. If it doesn’t hold after a reboot, throw it in /etc/rc.common (Or /etc/rc.local if you’ve found that to work). Report your success here!
April 3rd, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Can someone help me with the wifi part, i don’t understand how to install it. Thanks!
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:27 PM
Hello,
I did everything in the tutorial, but when I got to the screen with the apple a loading circle appeared and after 3-4 minutes the screen went black. Does anyone know what the problem is?
April 3rd, 2010 at 6:29 PM
Eric- First, please do not double post the same issue; your issues will eventually be addressed. Second, actually follow the guide you are commenting on. Steps 3 and 4 will point you in the right direction. Then, follow this guide to completely remedy the issue.
John Paul- Just follow the included directions. If you do not understand them, post back and I will be able to help you further.
Mariah- You can just press Enter for all of the steps as all the default options should be fine. Try running the script twice, repair permissions with Disk Utility, and then booting with -f.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:35 PM
@Alain Use gparted (if you have it, if not download it from the gparted website, google it, and burn the iso to a disc) to mark the drive containing chameleon as boot. Follow these steps:
1. Insert gparted disc and boot off of it
2. Gparted (the application on the disc) will open up, right click on the partition that has chameleon on it and press manage flags.
3. Check the box next to “boot” in the window that comes up.
4. Press close and reboot your machine.
5. Everything should work. If you receive an error upon boot, return to gparted and follow the same process to set your windows 7 partition as boot so at least you can still use windows 7.
Joey
March 23rd, 2010 at 3:34 PM
Hey, you’re tutorial is brilliant and it totally works for me – I now have a Hackintosh! But, I can’t detect anything input via USB, I have to install a kext called IOUSBFamily.kext or VoodooUSBHCI.kext with OSX68Tools and reboot for them to be detected. But when I shut down my Hackintosh or re-boot it, the USB’s can’t be detected anymore. Help me out, please?
March 23rd, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Try installing either of the two kexts with Kext Helper b7, run a kext cache rebuild (from Kext Helper b7), repair permissions, and then reboot. This should remedy the issue.
March 19th, 2010 at 11:52 PM
So, I’ve completed this tutorial before, and everything went fine. However, I had to reinstall because I messed up the installation of snow leopard. Unfortunately this time I haven’t been able to get past step 5. I tried installing the combo update then the kernel, but I didn’t know if I was supposed to install Vanilla, Modbin, or both. So I tried Vanilla. When I rebooted I ended up getting stuck at the spinning wheel under the apple logo during the boot. I had made a back up of my old kernel, unfortunately I didn’t know how to reinstall my it. So I tried reinstalling the whole OS, however I didn’t format the drive first and I found that I was able to boot up again. I’m assuming that it just repaired the OS instead of reinstalling it.
Anyway, I tried installing the combo update again, except this time with the modbin kernel. Same result as before. Repaired it again and tried a third time. This time with both. Same result, again.
So,what am I doing wrong? How do I fix it? And how do I restore my old kernel if it happens again?
March 20th, 2010 at 1:17 AM
Try installing Leopard with a more recent disc such as iPC 10.5.6 PPF5. Be sure to use these options when installing, and then follow this post to get all your hardware working in OS X.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:56 AM
Dude i need your help! So i was dual booting Windows Vista and Mac and I was using Chameleon Boot Loader to choose. My brother gave me his Windows 7 and so i just thought i could install that and be fine. Now it just primarily boots into 7 and the chameleon boot loader doesn’t come up anymore. I tried to mark the Macintosh HD as active in Windows 7 but it wont let me. What should I do?! i dont want to have to reinstall everything again :/
March 8th, 2010 at 8:32 AM
Thank you for replying Thomas, i did a little messing around with it last night (all night) haha. Anyway, i was able to do a software update to 10.5.8, honeslty i have no idea how i did it. it kind of just worked.
I was able to load the Broadcom Wireless thru the “customize install” with the install disk and then with your script after the update to 10.5.8. note Safari would not open.. it would bounce once then do nothing. I was able to make a FireFox.DMG and burn it to a disk from my other computer and that solved that problem.
I’m now wondering how to get Snow Leopard running, is it just another install disk or will i have to do all this hard work over again?
Or is it even worth it?
March 8th, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Snow Leopard is a bit tedious at first, but then is extremely simple to maintain (much simpler than Leopard). As for it being worth it, I would say so, but that’s solely my opinion. You can find a complete step-by-step by guide on installing Snow Leopard here.
March 7th, 2010 at 4:50 PM
“With that window still visable, go ahead and install the kernel package”
There is 2 Check boxes in the kernel package, neither of them are checked. do they both need to be checked? maybe the first and not the second? or maybe none of them at all?
Please help me out with this! I am clear on everything else but i’m stuck on this part!
Thank you!
March 7th, 2010 at 5:42 PM
It’s been a while since I’ve installed the kernel package, and I’m in Windows right now. What are the two options you are presented with?
March 5th, 2010 at 5:17 AM
Dude the battery life is a lot better now! I found the login options in system preference and that worked out. Thanks for your help! I read a lot of your posts tonight lol
March 5th, 2010 at 1:08 PM
Awesome! Speed stepping is a great feature as it allows your processor to use less power when their is less load on it. Let me know if you have anymore issues.
March 5th, 2010 at 4:32 AM
Thanks! got it. I’m going to see how long it will last now. Also is it possible for the mac login screen to come on when i turn my computer on? My computer starts up then does its thing with going black for a split second then turns the screen on again then just loads up my desktop without having to login and enter my password and stuff.
March 4th, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Which kext is it?? The link you gave me redirected to a list of these kexts. http://www.superhai.com/darwin.html which one is it??
March 4th, 2010 at 9:51 PM
Sorry, didn’t realize he didn’t allow direct links. You want “VoodooPower Kext” under “Leopard edition (32 bit) Not updated anymore.”
March 4th, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Thanks a lot bro it works now :D I have one more question. My battery life seems to be depreciating at a higher rate now that its running Mac os. I’m not quite sure why because I was pushing almost 2 hours on Windows and now it barely gets 1 hour.
March 4th, 2010 at 4:10 PM
It could be due to Speed Stepping (or lack there of). You can enable Speed Stepping through this kext.
March 4th, 2010 at 1:22 PM
Hey Thomas, Im running Mac Os x 10.5.8 on my dell inspiron 1525 perfectly. The only problem that I’m having is that it wont wake back up from going to sleep. I would have to do a hard shut down every time. Also i was wondering if there was a fix for the HDMI Port?
March 4th, 2010 at 1:26 PM
Try the sleep fix in step 7 of the 10.5.8 update guide. As for HDMI, there is currently no fix.
February 28th, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Thanx Thomas, makes sense. Will try snow today, see how it goes. Thanx for the attention again. :)
February 28th, 2010 at 3:27 PM
No problem! Let me know how it goes.
February 27th, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Hi Thomas! Hope your well. I contacted you on installing the IPC when i got in touch with back in August last year. I was just able to get the install done and am now on 10.5.6. I followed the install guide on the macyourpc website, i got a little thing to ask man, after some hours of working it shuts down all by it self, it happens at least 4x a day now. I don’t have a battery meeter working nor any battery options on my syspreferences, i tried the voodoo kext with the GenericCPU power management control thing and it doesn’t work, i think it is battery related because when i use programs that take a lot of resources it shuts down on a blink of an eye. Got any idea on what to do? Or maybe i should go to Snow? I have this version working with everything except svideo and hdmi, sd card works, volume and play btns work, side scrooling and full trackpad working, this is why i haven’t yet gotten my self into Snow yet, in you’r opion do you think i should try snow?
February 28th, 2010 at 1:07 AM
For obvious reasons, I can’t provide support for an issue cause by a guide on another site. I do however recommend Snow Leopard. You can find a guide on installing it here.
February 19th, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Thank you so much!
The keyboard and trackpad issues were fixed, and I was even able to get WiFi working by selecting the broadcom drivers from the install options. I got sound working by using Richard’s guide from the page you linked and I even got the PowerManagement.bundle working too.
I might try and get bluetooth working next.
Thanks again Thomas, I couldn’t have done it without you.
February 18th, 2010 at 8:00 AM
I downloaded and installed iPC 10.5.6 and after the restart after installation completed I booted with -f. Let it go to sleep, but when I came back it said I had no keyboard and the trackpad didn’t work either.
My laptop really doesn’t like OSx86. :(
February 18th, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Reinstall iPC with these install options and the keyboard/trackpad issue should be fixed.
February 17th, 2010 at 7:01 PM
Alright cool thanks for that Thomas.
Just quickly though, I format the HDD as GUID, not MBR. Right?
February 17th, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Either MBR or GUID are fine.
February 17th, 2010 at 8:48 AM
I have a Sigmatel 9205 and according to the Dell support site my wireless card is the same as yours.
1 JR356 CRD,WRLES,MCRD,DW1395,4312BG
1 JU795 Dell(TM) Wireless 1395 802.11g 54Mbps Wireless Mini Card
Unfortunately booting with -v -f did not fix the problem. The broadcom script installs but doesn’t work after reboot and the audio codec does not install with the other program.
I might try and reinstall Kalyway 10.5.2 and see if I have better luck.
February 17th, 2010 at 1:13 PM
If reinstalling Leopard, I suggest iPC 10.5.6 PPF5. It will install 10.5.6, which boasts some big upgrades from the much older 10.5.2. You can then of course follow your various Upgrade guides to upgrade up to 10.5.8. Regardless, try following this guide on getting your Audio working and this link to the broadcom script. Intructions for the script are included in the download. After installing, reboot with -f and report back how it goes. For more drivers/kexts, check out the Master Drivers Guide
February 17th, 2010 at 3:46 AM
OK so I saw the link you posted to Raj and noticed that it had a simplified explanation on how to install the Broadcom-Script in Terminal and I followed it and got it to successfully install, however after repairing disk permissions in Disk Utility and restarting, Airport still does not show up.
I couldn’t get the sound to install with the AppleHDApatcher program either. I dragged the file on to the green frog and nothing happened.
Also the PowerManagement.bundle installed but didn’t work after I restarted either.
What is going on?
Thanks.
February 17th, 2010 at 6:55 AM
The first step I would recommend is booting with -v – f and seeing if either of those things suddenly start working. Next, you can find out which Wireless card you have by going to support.dell.com and reviewing your System Configuation based on your Service Tag (Just so you know what to look for, mine was listed as “Card, Wireless, Minicard, DW1395 4312BG”). For sound: Boot into the BIOS and go down to System->Device Info. You will see Audio Controller: Sigmatel _____. Report back what number it says after the word Sigmatel.
February 17th, 2010 at 2:42 AM
Hi,
I have been trying to install the Broadcom-Script on my Dell Inspiron 1525 and Kext Helper says that it appears to be fine and to reboot. I have tried just rebooting as well as repairing permissions after installing it and then rebooting and neither works.
How can I tell if I have the same network card as you? And if I don’t have the same card, can I get wifi to work another way? Cheers.
I’m running Kalyway 10.5.2 and don’t intend on updating as the Snow Leopard install has already failed on me numerous times (I followed your updated tutorial, but the install fails every time right near the end). I’ll be happy if I can get 10.5.2 to work properly though, as I’ve been running it on my Desktop PC for almost 2 years and it’s been running fine.
Thanks.
February 16th, 2010 at 7:55 PM
Tom,
Use kexthelper and run the iomassstorage.kext before you cloe and repair permissions tag and cache rebuild
February 16th, 2010 at 7:51 PM
I am running osx 10.5.2 on my hack book it works perfect now. Sound, headphone jacks, ad DVD play great. But I would like to run software update?????? Will it ruin all the work I have done to go from this to 10.5.8
February 16th, 2010 at 5:15 AM
Everything is fine, but USB flash drive won’t pick up.
It displays in the system profiler as ‘u3 Cruzer Micro’ but doesn’t come up on desktop or in where the drives are.
Suggestions?
February 16th, 2010 at 3:24 PM
Does the USB drive work on other computers? Also, are you able to use any other USB drives with your laptop to see if they work?
February 11th, 2010 at 1:14 AM
I have my hackbook up and running but the dvd player will not work video plays very choppy
what can I do?
February 11th, 2010 at 1:29 AM
Which version of OS X are you running? Also, are QE/CI supported?
January 24th, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Can you get kalyway without law trouble???
January 24th, 2010 at 4:19 PM
I’ve yet to hear of anyone having “law trouble” when getting an OS X distro such as Kalyway, so I would say it’s safe.
January 19th, 2010 at 1:49 PM
Hey guys, I’m running my new HBK. It’ awesome. If you’re having trouble getting audio and wifi to work, then there is a different driver pack with INSTALLERS for everything. No terminal, no thing. One click, and you have wifi.
January 18th, 2010 at 7:55 PM
I’m running Windows 7 at the moment, before I try once again to install OS X Leopard. I’m having trouble with the AppleHDA. I run it after installing the broadcon-script patch, as I did the first time, before the HDD died, but I get a kernel panic when I try to load the AppleHDA after rebooting. I’m running a Dell Inspiron 1525, with a Dell 1395 Wi-Fi Mini Card and Sigmatel Audio 92xx card. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:57 AM
For audio, try out this updated guide.
January 8th, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Thank you so much for this guide! I had a quick question. i am running 10.5.6 on a Dell XPS M1530. Everything is running perfectly fine but WIFI and Sound. I currently have the Dell 1395 mini pci card and also my sound card is Sigmatel 92HD. I tried step 7 and patched files but still no luck. Can someone please help me? is it not suppose to work with my build or is there anything i am missing? thank you so much for your help in advance!!
January 10th, 2010 at 1:53 AM
Raj- For the WiFi, download this. As for the sound card, check out insanelymac.com for the appropriate drivers as the drivers in this guide don’t work for your card.
January 8th, 2010 at 4:00 AM
Thanks Thomas,
Step 7 of the referenced guide did resolve the sleep and wakeup issue. I wonder if I can be helped in resolving the sleep issue at the boot time. I mean, when it boots, i have to keep the autologin on and have sleep corner setup so that I could wake it up by dragging mouse in that area. I read in the guide at http://www.dailyblogged.com/883/adding-a-dsdtaml-to-older-installs/ and I already had DSDT patch installed, so I used it to getnerate the DSDT file which it generated and placed on the root folder. But, it did not show the login screen (ofcourse I disabled autologin for this) and i still have to use the sleep corner to wake up its display.
Any help or pointer in this regard, will be really appreciable!
January 7th, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Hi,
I tried the following command for sleep issue as mentioned in the above article, but laptop never goes to sleep, although display immediately goes blank, but fan and system never goes to sleep.
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 hibernatefile /dev/null
I am using Dell inspiron 1525 with mac version 10.5.8.
Any assistance to make sleep and wakeup will really be appreciated!
January 7th, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Following step 7 of this guide should fix your issue.
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:53 PM
hello again, sorry for the double post… i didnt see an edit. i just wanted to add that right before the screen goes black, the screen flashes light blue like it wants to go to the install screen.
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:50 PM
hello, everyone. i have a dell inspiron 1525 exactly like the one in the tutorial, i got ipc 10.5.6. i put it in and typed -v. darwin goes through its thing and then the screen goes blank… i think ok ill wait, so i wait 20 minutes and nothing. i even tried the sleep trick even though thats used further in the tutorial… any help would be very appreciated thanks
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Hi guys,
just would like to inform you that we can get 100% genuine Apple Airport with our Dell 1525 by rebranding the internal Broadcom WiFi device.
Just follow the guide by prasys and make sure to use the subp id 0×004e as described in the guide.
http://prasys.co.cc/2009/12/rebranding-broadcom-802-11abgn-cards-as-airport/#more-2366
Yay!
December 9th, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Romulo Says:
1. December 2009 at 12:50 AM
Hey guys
so, the usb ports are not working when I plug any usb device when the notebook is on, but if I turn it off and then plug a pendrive (for example), it’s enabled when the OS is loaded…
I use 10.5.3 Kalyway by now
Does anyone know how to fix it?!
Thanks in advance
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PROBLEM SOLVED
I reinstalled the kext IOPCIFamily with the app OSX86Tools (I dunno why but it didn’t work with KextHelper), corrected permissions… rebooted. Voilà !
I wanna point that the error message about PCGenUSBEHCI is still on, but I don’t have any problem with USB devices anymore.
\m/
December 9th, 2009 at 9:52 AM
after awake from sleep i saw post-installation, but only half screen :( so i can’t do anything… i think i need to change my screen options… but how can i do it? (i using dell 1525)
December 1st, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Hey guys
so, the usb ports are not working when I plug any usb device when the notebook is on, but if I turn it off and then plug a pendrive (for example), it’s enabled when the OS is loaded…
I use 10.5.3 Kalyway by now
Does anyone know how to fix it?!
Thanks in advance
November 25th, 2009 at 11:25 PM
I have an Inspiron 1525 with a core 2 duo. the problem im having is that every time i try to update to 10.5.3 after i install the update and the kernel they both dont start Ive tried both types of kernels for the update the vanilla and the other type what can i do
November 6th, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Anyone else noticed xvid tv shows run choppy on their 1525′s? I swear DVD’s work fine, but I guess HD show rips are too much for our little laptops. I’m running 10.5.8. FYI.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Hi All,
I need help i have dell 1525 notebook and i have installed MAC OS. Everything was seemed to be good but as i reboot my pc,then mac loading screen and after that screen goes black i have tried all the things as mentioned above like unplugged pc close lid and come after it still black i did all the things can any one help me ????
November 5th, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Press Fn+Esc and it should wake up.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:21 AM
On the outside is a rather unattractive and hard to keep clean jet black lid with silver trim. I’d say the only good thing about the exterior is the Dell logo.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:07 AM
Another quickie, will the airport patch not work on .2? I am having issues getting the update downloaded so far, and i followed instructions to the t with no luck.
thanks
October 15th, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Airport will work fine on any version of Leopard. If you run the patch and it didn’t work, run it again. If at that point it still doesn’t work, verify that you have a Dell 1395 WiFi card.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:25 PM
On the drivers, My proc. differs from yours. I have the celeron, will this cause issues?
October 14th, 2009 at 10:58 PM
No, this shouldn’t change anything.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Excellent guide, I can’t wait to use it when I figure it out.
I’m currently on my Dell 1525 but I can’t get the computer to boot from the DVD. I have burned the files to a DVD using PowerISO and the burner within Vista and still no luck. Can someone help me on this?
Harrison
September 30th, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Ian- Let me know how it goes
Harrison- You should only be burning one file to the DVD and that file should be an iso file. You are correct in using PowerISO although I recommend IMGBurn. It’s free and it works great.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:40 PM
I’m downloading iPC 10.5.6 right now so we’ll see how it goes… will report back.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Okay, I’ve got everything working up until I try to update over the web.
I’ve got my wifi working just fine, and everything seems to download okay. I click some buttons and the updates begin to install. after a few minutes though there’s a kernel panic. So what am i doing wrong?
when I ran the updates earlier that I had burned to a disk I chose the kernel option thing that DIDDN’T say vanilla. is that the problem?
September 28th, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Is it possible to upgrade to Snow Leopard after following these instructions?
September 28th, 2009 at 10:11 PM
You will be able to install Snow Leopard using this guide but you will not be able to update to it. In other words, a clean install is required.
September 20th, 2009 at 4:59 AM
Hey, When I installed the kexts, and rebooted my DVD Drive doesn’t work anymore! Any help is appreciated, Thanks
September 19th, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Hi, i’ve just installed osx but when I upgraded it to 01.5.8 the keypad and keyboard doesn’t work! Please help, thanks
September 10th, 2009 at 2:19 AM
I have working sleep on 10.5.2! CBFed upgrading, and X-plane and Office 08 work fine – thats all i need. Anyway, during the install, select “SleepKernel”, and then it’ll work. The only downside is that you have to be on battery power to sleep it and wake it up.
September 10th, 2009 at 6:27 AM
You can always install the much more stable mach_kernel, use a dsdt.aml from this guide, and press Fn+Esc the first time you boot to wake the screen. The dsdt.aml will automatically do it for you every other time. On the other hand, why not try out Snow Leopard?