How To: Mac OS X 10.5.4 for the Eee PC 901 & 1000H

Couple of things…

Haven’t tried it yet because
1. My msiwindosx86 install does 903 in Geekbench without tuning.
2. Like your install everything in msiwindosx86 install works except sound, ethernet, function keys.

Questions:
1. There’s no way of turning speedstep back on in Bios of 1000h as far as I know.
2. Do the function keys work?

As I’ve noted in the past, using the MSIWindowsOSX86 distribution is problematic, because it may impede fixing the audio issue. I would suggest people not install any distribution that adds Azalia or other drivers that will complicate things. Also, our process leaves you with a fully up-to-date release, with all updates installed.

So, if you haven’t spent hours trying to get Mac OS X on your Eee PC already, you should really follow this guide… it’s faster and has less problems.

Now, onto your questions.

To turn SpeedStep back on in the BIOS, go to Advanced > CPU Settings, as instructed in the guide.

As with any non-Apple keyboard, the Eee PC’s keyboard function keys do not work for controlling sound, wireless, etc. It would be very difficult to enable such functionality, as the keyboard is PS2-based.

You can, however, redirect the F-keys to provide the same functionality as their commands represent on the keyboard. Or, you can use Apple’s default F-key commands (F8 for Spaces, F9-F11 for Expose, F12 for Dashboard, etc).

You mean “Max CPUID Value Limit [disabled/enabled]” = Enable/disable Speedstep? Because that’s the only option in CPU settings.

I’ve tried to redirect the function keys but there’s no Brightness option, only a Contrast option and that doesn’t help.

Anyway… thanks

Putting this comment where it belongs:

I noticed you’re using a vanilla kernel in the install, so you should be able to set up an initrd-based install and bypass any need for downloading hacked DVD’s and such – a standard Leopard DVD could then be used. See here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=113288.

thx for the how to! does the card reader and usb port funktion normaly?

Before I switch over from my current distro, can someone tell me if the following works:
1) Brightness controls
2) Hyperthreading

Thanks!
gary

The system will boot with Hyperthreading enabled (using this guide). However, I don’t suggest using it.

Mac OS X is not very optimized currently for Hyperthreading. No Mac system sold has used HT, and as such, applications which are multi-threaded expect each core to perform similarly. Setting up HT in Leopard could actually cause a performance decrease.

However, more testing needs to be done with HT on and off to see if that theory truly holds.

P.S. No, brightness control is not available.

As to the other questions… Yes, USB 2.0 fully works, as does the SD memory card slot.

For Attaboy, you should update your BIOS (preferably with the fixed one linked in this guide). SpeedStep is clearly listed as an option (it’s the third one in CPU Configuration).

Joshua, yes a standard Leopard install disc could be used. However, the iDeneb disc makes things easier to follow for newer users, and there isn’t any significant benefit from using a standard disc.

Will the wi-fi be activated every time the computer boots up? or do we need to go in to the utility to activate every time?

If that’s the case, will it be possible to use pop-in a dell 1505 wifi mini PCI-E card instead so it will recognize as a regular airport?

Hi,

Great to see some excellent progress with OSX on the 1000H. I have a question though. Is the webcam recognised in iChat and PhotoBooth?

Hey Mr X.

Many thanks for the guide.

I’ve flashed the bios with EeePC1000H0901 from BIOS.mod and I too don’t have the option for SpeedStep in Advanced>CPU Configuration.

They only option I have is for Max CPUID.

Any ideas?

I also have 8 Onboard devices and not 4. So which 4 need to be disabled?

Thanks again

Hi, if I wanted to keep XP on my C: drive and install OS X on another partition, say, like, E:, would that require other steps? I’m talking about having a multi-boot system.

Thanks

“there isn’t any significant benefit from using a standard disc.”

Except that you’re no longer even obliquely encouraging pirating OS X. Downloading that torrent means people don’t have to buy OS X at all. Using the initrd method requires a legally bought copy of OS X. Not to mention then we don’t need to download several gigabytes – just a very small iso that bootstraps things.

I may be wrong, but I also thought that this method would allow for standard OS X updates to be applied.

I would disagree about turning off Hyperthreading, there is a noticible decrease in performance with it off and reduces the geekbench score by 250 points!

To be clear Mr. X, as I know you are using a 901 and not the 1000H. This BIOS between each model is different. For whatever reason, ASUS has given minimal settings to adjust in the 1000H as compared to the 901. For instance, SpeedStep is not an option for adjustment in the 1000H…. yet. We will continue to hope that ASUS will rectify this shortcoming in a future BIOS update.

not to sound like an ***, but everyone else has already got this running except sound, ethernet (without the guide) although i thank you for your progress

Hey guys, anyone installed on a 901? After reading the post below that one, I’m less interested about getting a 901 since I want a machine that runs OS X – the Wind does it nicely for instance. So I was wondering what are people’s feeling about X on 901: usable? Or just an exploit to show off to your friends?

If you’re going to use the 901, it works fine (audio-aside)… but be sure to do the BIOS update.

The main problem is disk space. Mac OS X will fill up the 8 GB SSD, leaving you with the 4 GB SSD (and that’s assuming you wipe Windows off).

My advice would be to go with the 1000H. The Wind is only a better choice if you’re willing to swap out the Wi-Fi card.

Digitallysick, we never intended for the guide to be the first to get OS X running on the Eee PC. We wrote this guide to be the easiest, and best guide out there. As they say, pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land.

I would say the Wind is still a better choice because it has audio out through the speakers (even though they are poor!) – if audio out through the speakers (and possibly internal mic) can be sorted on the 1000H, then I’d probably buy one in a heartbeat.

How about multi-touch touch pad? is it working on the 1000H? two fingers scrolling and two fingers right click?

Thanks, you guide is great!

Ok, i had leopard installed, but after installing the driver pack i can’t get it to restart. I get to the apple logo then it hangs, i have a spinning busy cursor right now, any ideas?

cool. I have everything set up and ready. I’m going to wait a few more days and see if you guys get sound working.

Well guys, I don’t really know what to think of this guide. Having previously installed the MSIWind distro with little problem, I find myself confused as to why the iDeneb distro is giving me so much grief. I have followed the guide step by step (well sort of, some things do not apply to the 1000H). After installing Paul’s driver pack and rebooting my computer, all is lost…. it just sits there with a blank expression. Somewhere along the line, something went awry, but I am not really sure where. I wanted to try this distro to see if anything was “improved” since the MSIWind version…. sadly I will never know. In my limited time playing with OSX I concluded I am really not that fond of the operating system. I guess I have spent far too many years in Windows and have become stubborn to change… oh well. I gave it a shot and back to Vista I go….

To Daniel, at the first boot screen (where it says press F8 for boot options), press the F8 key.

Then, type -v and press Enter.

This will enter you into Verbose Mode. At some point, the system should hang (assuming it is not starting up, as you describe). Post back with what the last few lines are displayed.

To Lerico, yes, the multi-touch pad works on both the Eee PC 901 and 1000H. They share the same trackpad.

So quick poll: has anyone successfully installed this on a 1000h? And does it work post-reboot? I assume that you need the modded Bios.

Thanks!

Another quick question – how small can you get Leopard, assuming you *only* install the base system? Is it even remotely possible to install this on the 4GB SSD directly, or is that a completely lost cause? How about an SD card (yes, I know it will be slow, but my 16GB SSD is busy doing other things).

I’m a little confused. Do I need to do the bios update if I’m running on a 1000h?

Or is it just for the 901?

You have to upgrade your 1000h with the modded bios. Don’t know about the 901.

I have Leopard weighing 2.8 for the System and 1.1 for the Library. And I’m including two extra languages – probably not very space hungry. I’ve disabled the Hibernate mode and remove the sleepfile, so I assume it would be difficult to make it much lighter.

(I’m talking 2.8 and 1.1 gig of course)

If you have a copy of the official Leopard Installer Disc, is it possible for you to create the custom iDeneb/Kalyway etc installer? My ISP prevents me from torrenting..

To clear up the BIOS, as noted in the guide, neither the 901 or the 1000H “needs” the BIOS update.

However, it’s strongly recommended for both. Otherwise, Mac OS X takes several minutes to fully boot. Once booted however, the system will run at full speed.

This is due to a bug in ASUS’s standard BIOS. ASUS has yet to fix it, hence the need for an unsupported BIOS update.

Well finally got around to installing this. Everything seems to work as expected so I now have an XP/OSX dual boot on my 1000h. Thanks for all the information!

Great work! How likely is ethernet support – funny hardware issue?

PS. When you say sound doesn’t work, are working speakers/headphone/in-built mic/mic port all the same level of difficulty in getting them to work? I guess a USB adapter is required in the interim…

They are selling the Eeepc 904 here for US385, which is a 900 with 80G hard drive (I think).
Is there any guide that teaches us how to install the OSX onto the 900? Thanks.

Has anyone made this work on the EEE 1000 (thats the plain 1000, not the 1000H)? I’ve got one and would really like to get os x running on it. I can’t find the bios update for it though, and when I try to boot of the CD it fails.

Ok, I managed to get the ideneb DVD to boot. I took out my SSD card and it was then able to boot. Perhaps the instructions should be updated to suggest that as a possible solution if you can’t boot.

I guess I spoke too soon. The install completed, but it won’t boot after that. The last message on the console is:

localhost configd[50]: Could not establish network configuration: Success!

hey, again I spoke too soon. It booted, it just took about 5 minutes.

I guess that is because of the bios.

Door_jam,

We strongly urge people to not buy an Eee PC 700, 701, 900, or 904. The Celeron M processor in these systems is incompatible with Mac OS X, due to a timing issue on CPUs slower than 1 GHz.

If you want an Eee PC, you should only select one with a CPU above 1 GHz. Currently, only Atom-based Eee PC systems meet this criterial, including the 901 and 1000 series.

Mr. X,

Thanks for your advice. I’ll then either stick with a 901/1000 series, or the MSI Wind.

By the way, I believe the Eeepc 1000H still has the teething issues of no sound, no wifi, & no ethernet.

Okay, I got this to install just fine on the SD card – no problems; just very slow (as expected). I did this so I could get my feet wet before blowing away my very working Ubuntu and Windows installs.

However, on first boot the Setup Assistant hangs after telling it not to migrate any user settings. After 30 seconds or so, it relaunches back to the beginning. Right now I’m trying to boot from the install DVD and use the terminal to manually create the necessary “.AppleSetupDone” file to skip the setup assistant, and then set a root password, just so I can get into the system.

There’s a Dothan Intel 900mhz 30gb hdd variant in Australia – anyone tested this method on it?

Update: Creating .AppleSetupDone and enabling the root account did the trick. Unfortunately after a few boots and getting things mostly set up, something decided to trash the partition table. Restarted, and then got ugly GPT errors on boot. Good thing it’s just an SD card, but it was a few hours of time. Oh well, tomorrow is another day. :)

I’ve had to reinstall again (I think X11 screwed up the touchpad), so I noticed that before you add the Kexts the brightness controls (fn F5/F6) actually work! However without the display kext, you are stuck at 800×600.

More progress (if anyone is interested). I think that disabling the webcam was causing the setup assistant to die (it wants to take a picture for your account icon). On my next install, enabled all four devices and things were fine.

Also, something is wrong with power management, as the Eee has no idea it has a battery, even after the driver installs in the guide. I only get the options applicable to a desktop model. My computer name is referencing a MacPro3,1 or an iMac7,1, so I’m guessing the utility that configured About This Mac did it incorrectly and identified the system as a desktop.

Pressing the power button does not bring up the “sleep/restart/shutdown” dialog. LCD brightness cannot be controlled. The webcam lights up in Photo Booth, but doesn’t actually show anything on screen. Sound and ethernet of course don’t work, and that wireless utility is an absolute abomination.

The good news – it boots (impressively quickly for being on an SD card!), graphics are indeed accelerated. Most stuff can likely be fixed over time, but anyone who thinks these OSx86 things are anything like a real Mac is sorely mistaken.

Some more detail on the install process would be useful. For instance, why are we installing Broadcom wireless in the main install, only to replace it with the (wretched) ralink stuff later? Similarly, why install the Intel GMA950 option in the installer if it will be replaced later on? What do all of those kext’s control, and why do we have brightness control before installing them and not after?

And if I should take this elsewhere, by all means let me know. :)

Hmmm – it also doesn’t seem to shut down fully. Restart is fine, but shutdown finishes (blank screen, all that), but doesn’t cut power. Seems very reminiscent of the problems Ubuntu had.

I think the MSI Wind is much more trouble free for OS X (guide at eeeasy.com)

Waking from sleep doesn’t fully work – anything that subsequently tries to access the disk fails (this may be because I’m running it on an SD card, not the internal SSD). Just more data points.

Another tip to save space – eliminate the “designable.nib” files which are completely unnecessary.

find / -depth -name ‘designable.nib’ -exec rm ‘{}’ \; -print

What are those files exactly?

They’re leftover files used by Interface Builder during development. The documentation for them explicitly says they aren’t supposed to be shipped with final builds. Well…

thanks for that great tut! can you please give me an advice, how to upgrade the bootloader? i first installed os x, then eeebuntu but can’t boot it now…

Sorry for the novice question, but I was wondering if there are any issues with flashing with the modified BIOS after already installing the new version 1005 BIOS.

Great Site!

I have a 901 and was wondering if anyone has tried installing Tiger instead of leopard so that it can fit on the 4GB SSD.

Joshua, do you have a novice guide for installing leopard or tiger on an SD card or USB Thumb drive? I know it might be slow but should be a good start if you just want to try it out first.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Actually, it Just Works, as much as OS X works on the Eee. Just format the card as described above, and install. You’ll have to manually select the card to boot from at startup (holding ESC), as I can’t quite get grub to multiboot it yet. Other than that, it works fine (if poky). I may swap out the wireless card for an Atheros from my MacBook Pro – but it only has 802.11g. =p

Hey Joe, check this out for your boot problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351

thanks for your help but i think you misunderstood me. i got 3 partitions: on the first one i installed os x and on the second one eeebuntu. i installed grub on the second partition and thought that would work well but it seems the os x bootloader can’t boot that partition.

joe

Okay, some more progress. I got the battery recognized (somehow hadn’t installed ACPIBattery.kext – but I installed all the others). However, that kext incorrectly shows that I have a 4200mAH battery, whereas the Eee 901 has a 6600mAH one (at least in the US). This thread (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=114105) is actively developing a new kext, and it works like a champ – highly recommended. Also, you may want to bundle a different SMBIOS kext, as the one you include is for desktop machines, not laptops. Try the MacBook one here (http://my.macdotnub.info/content/view/22/26/).

To summarize the issues I’ve seen (in my personal order of importance):
- Onboard Audio does not work (Realtek chipset, but an odd one)
- Onboard Ethernet does not work (Atheros chipset; has never been supported on OS X or OSX86, so little hope there).
- Issues with crappy onboard WiFi (RALink chipset – I’ve given up and installed an Atheros card from my MacBook Pro)
- Webcam recognized, but sends no images
- Shutdown fails to complete most of the time
- Trackpad goes wonky sometimes at boot; requires complete power down
- Power button doesn’t bring up the “power” dialog
- Waking from sleep does not work when booted from SD

This may not be of interest to anyone (as it’s only tangential to the Eee), but when I did swap out the card for a genuine Apple airport card, I ran into the problem described in this thread (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=70917). The solution posted there worked. I now have proper Airport connectivity, with full OS integration. As Apple and Jobs intended. :)

Still wondering if anyone has got any info about the effect of the 1005 BIOS and how this will effect osx86 installation. I rather prematurely installed it and am wondering if I can follow the guideline without the modded BIOS.
My other question is whether or not VGA works with this Leopard install.

Mr X,

Major thanks for the great tute. I was able to install the OS X (dual-boot with the OEM XP) into my 1000H with 160GB HDD and 2GB RAM — though initially with massive prob with the partition initialization (steps 5 & 6). As it turned out, in order to successfully select and mount a partition for the OS X installation, I created/initialized another active primary partition with id=af beforehand (I used the diskpart tool in XP). And then, going through your guide on to the Disk Utility in step 5, a MacOSX extended journalized partition is now selectable. I selected this partition then erased with MacOSX extended journalized option. Upon closing the Disk Utility, the partition was mounted and selected for installation.

I was able to install all the ktext patches as well as the wifi. The display was now set to 1024×600. Wifi is running satisfactorily (had to set radio off-on). I haven’t bothered with the battery stuff yet. I was also able to install and connect to a FujiDocuprint network-shared printer in the office.

Speed-performance-wise, it was more satisfactory for me. I was able to extend display to my 22″ LCD monitor at 1650×1050 res, with a full-screen display of an HD-MP4 video playback on the extended LCD monitor while exploring/browsing the internet on eeepc.

Major problem though:
1) Installing printer drivers for HP and Samsung CLP has error
2) Ditto with installation with MSOffice2004.

Help on this will be greatly appreciated.

ooops… the error in all about shared library ‘CarbonLib’

Carbon is one of the main API’s of Mac OS X, so this is similar in severity to part of Win32 just up and dying, or GTK on Linux. MacFixIt was just covering this issue – http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2008082507430635. In a nutshell, repair disk permissions. The only other suggestion is to reapply the latest OS update, which isn’t an option for a “hackintosh”.

is this method the same for windows vista?

…

Thanks! Will buy a 16GB soon. 8GB might not cut it. BTW has anyone tried OSX86 version of Tiger?

Hi,

Since I have installed OS X (Ideneb following maceee.com tutorial) on my eee 1000H I have noticed that the fan is often running, even if the CPU usage is very low. Usually the fan runs at probably full speed (it is noisy) during several min and then stops. As soon as I am using an application the fan keeps running (even if the application is 10% CPU). The laptop is never warm then I would like to change the fan settings.

Have you noticed this on yours? Do you know how to control the fan manually?

Thanks.

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Hello. I’m about to buy an EEE 1000H for college and I’m quite excited for it, but I want to dualboot XP and OSX.

It says in this article, “The Eee PC 901’s BIOS has a bug that slows down third-party operating systems. While the technical reasons are complicated, essentially the power management settings (ACPI) are incorrect inside the BIOS.
To fix this, we need to flash with a modified BIOS.”

That says that the 901’s BIOS has the issue, but not the 1000H. Does this mean that I should NOT flash the 1000H’s BIOS?

I have a good amount of computer experience, but I’m worried that I might mess it up. >.<

Anyone else getting the BSD root error when trying to boot the install? I have thoroughly searched so may forums and there does not seem to be any solution to this. It’s as if it the install won’t recognize either ssd to start install on. Either that or it just keeps rebooting from inital install without ever getting to the welcome screen. Anyone else having these problems? I’m on a new eeepc 901.

Hi everyone.

How big is the chance that the sound problem will ever be solved for the 901 in OSX? I’m really want a 901 but only with OSX ;), no sound is no go however…

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Sadly, the guy who created almost all of the OSX86 sound drivers (Taruga) disappeared a couple of months ago, and his wiki with all the resources disappeared earlier this month. Right now I’m not too hopeful on getting a sound driver for the Realtek ALC269, which is what is in the Eee 901. :(

Thanks for the great guide. I installed all the kext files except
AppleIntelGMA950.kext
AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext

These two file seem to hang the start up. I have installed one at a time and narrowed it down to these two. I know one is the video drive but what does the AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext do? Also my sound isn’t working / showing up. Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks

I use a USB Sound Card as a work around for the sound. Works great. Also, USB speakers like Logitech’s v10 also work. Costs around $5 here locally.

Built in Ethernet should be solved by using a USB LAN device as well. I’m still trying to get hold of one though so it’s untested as of now.

How can anyone say that USB sound and ethernet can be a substitute / workaround for the onboard devices? Than you get a notebook with al kinds of things attached to it, no sound over the speakers etc… Not very convenient if you’re in the train or so… I want to lay on the couch watching youtube movies etc. with sound from the speakers, not with a headphone plugged into a USB device ;)

Hello all,

Proud to report that I am posting this on my new eeepc hackintosh after following this guide, with a Geekbench score of 961 – my higher speed factor is probably a result of my WD SATA-300 7200 RPM 320 GB HDD and 2 GB of RAM.

This is nice and stable as it is, so keep up the good work and we’ll see sound and ethernet before long.

Why not using a bluetooth headset to listen to music and watching YouTube on the go? Hopefully sound works one day

hey guys, does youtube work for you? or flash videos in generale? for me it stops after a few seconds every time i try to play one…

Hi,

At first thanks for the tutorial, 10.5.4 works with the known issues: no sound, no brightness control.
Would be fine if the specialists could fix this ;-)

Another question: Office 2004 won’ t work because of a failure in the carbon lib.
Are there known issues to fix this?

Would be great if the eeePC wouldwork in the same way like my other “real” Mac’ s.

BTW: I have the German version of the 901, means no ZIF socket.
So I added an internal hard disk via USB. For that I used one of the 3 USB sockets. Means I only can use 2 of them for other things.

But OS X works really fine from the USB hard disk.

And sorry for my poor English …

Not too sure about the CarbonLib error as I’ve never run into it myself, but iDeneb has been updated from version 1 to 1.1, and one of the fixes is listed as “CarbonLib Fix”.

I happened to use iDeneb 1.1 instead of 1 while following this tutorial and have seen no problems so far.

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i am having trouble installing osx on the eee pc 1000h using the guide. if you could help me i would be sooooo grateful! when the guide says to disable all 4 onboard devices in the bios menu, which ones do you disable? i have 8 devices. i only left sound, usb usb 2.0, and webcam enabled. also, i didnt have 3 items to disable under system configuration in the bios. i only had one and it was already disabled. i went on to the installer. it looked like i formatted my two hard drives correctly although it only took a second which seemed weird. i have just been staring at the ideneb installer desktop for a while now after selecting my drive to install to. when i try to exit it says it is installing however i can see no progess. it looked like when i clicked install something popped up and went away real quickly although it says it is installing when i try to quit and my external drive is working like crazy. is it frozeo or is it normal not to see anything during this part. thanks soooooo much.

i got my installer log to come up. i think it is just reformatting my two 40gb drives. hopefull. i had a third partition listed but i think that is the buffer or something that i need to leave?? i didnt touch that partition because it was only like 30mb.

Brian:

“Thanks for the great guide. I installed all the kext files except
AppleIntelGMA950.kext
AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext

These two file seem to hang the start up. I have installed one at a time and narrowed it down to these two. I know one is the video drive but what does the AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext do? Also my sound isn’t working / showing up. Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks”

I have the exact same problem. I am using an EeePC 1000h. Help me please!!! I finally got this installed! I can deal with no sound but I need my graphics accelerated ASAP!!!

How can I remove those two kext files??? I have to boot in safe mode. :-(

I’d love to know what’s involved in the CarbonLib fix, as I’m pretty sure I have iDeneb 10.5.4 v1.0 installed. I just haven’t loaded any Carbon applications yet…

okay so i figured out my earlier problems…

graphics acceleration or software?? help!

wish i could help you. i have no idea what that even is. i think i have everything working except the usual sound and ethernet but i was wondering if i am actually supposed to have graphics acceleration with my 1000h. in my apple info it says i only have software acceleration. i have my max resolution and stuff but cant really even play youtube videos just on software. :-( is that how it is supposed to be?

Joshua:

The iDeneb folks have a patch out that will update iDeneb 1.0 to 1.1; two patches, rather. One is available to patch the DVD, and another is available as an update for people who already have 1.0 installed.

Found what I think is a bug with this procedure. I don’t know if it is specific to 1000H, to iDeneb, or to this procedure, or to my specific setup. I would appreciate feedback from people who have similar setups, as well as those who have setups based on other distros.

Mac OS X has global keyboard shortcuts like for screen capture and zoom, etc. They work fine after a fresh boot; however, after waking from sleep these shortcuts are no longer accepted. Standard application shortcuts, as well as the expose/spaces keys still work, but the global shortcuts won’t. It takes a reboot to get them back, and then only until the unit goes to sleep again. Whatever process is responsible for listening for these shortcuts is either crashing or not waking properly after sleep.

I will be cross posting this in the insanelymac forum as well to see what I can find.

Hello All

I’ve installed iDeneb using the given instructions on an eeepc 1000H, and apart from ethernet and sound, I cannot get the WiFi working, even with the drivers suggested. My device is found by the network utility, but the Ralink wireless assistant shows ‘Radio:OFF’ even when I turn it on in the utility.

Basically this part fails to work
“10) Connecting to a Wi-Fi network is a bit different. Instead of using the AirPort menu bar, go to your Applications folder. Launch the new utility located there, called WirelessUtilityCardbusPCI. From there, go to the Site Survey tab, and press Rescan. You should be able to chose your wireless network and connect to it, by double-clicking on the network you want to connect to.”

I can live without the sound for the time being, but the wireless is a different matter.

Any suggestions?

Please help me!!

I have an Eee PC 1000h.

I had trouble getting Wi-Fi to work also. I uninstalled it, restarted and tried again. It works now except configuring connections is definently not perfect. I have to press the button to turn it off and then back on everytime I shutdown or sleep my computer or if from a fresh boot.

I am having some other problems and I am hoping someone might be able to give me a hand with them.

First of all. I have my graphics stuff installed but I have no hardware acceleration. I have my driver installed but it is running purely on software and hence, I cannot play many movies or anything. Is this normal or should I have hardware acceleration for graphics. Any help with this would be much appreciated and I will help anyone else I can.

Secondly, I have noticed that several of my screen savers are not functional. Did my install just encounter a hiccup, or is that normal?? I only really have the screensaver with my name, and then the one with all the colors which works poorly since I have no graphic hardware acceleration.

Thanks!!

Dweeb,

Did you follow the procedure here to the letter? Sounds like you may not have properly installed the kexts for graphic hardware acceleration. I can confirm that my System Profiler says that Hardware Acceleration is being used, not Software Acceleration.

Now, in return, please answer my concern posted above regarding keyboard shortcuts. I want to know if this is happening with just me or with everyone. From a fresh boot, try to hit Ctrl+Command (alt on the eeepc)+ Shift+4. The pointer should become a crosshair to allow for a screen capture. Afterwards, make your computer sleep by closing it. Then open it again and try to use the same global shortcut. If it doesn’t work, then I know someone else has the problem and it may very well be a bug with sleep on the eeepc.

Snickers

Ctrl+Command (alt on the eeepc)+ Shift+4 is working for me. I tried it just now after I had put it to sleep and then again after waking. It turned into the cross-hair both times.

As for following the instruction to the tee there was one part that I did not, part 2.

2) When the BIOS menu appears, go to Advanced > CPU Configuration. Disable all three items in this sub-menu. Press Esc and scroll to the Boot tab. Re-arrange boot priority to have the desired drive boot listed first. Finally, Exit and Save Changes. Also, go to Onboard Devices in the BIOS and disable all four items (after we install Mac OS X fully, we will change these settings).

In my bios I had no 3 items under advanced cpu config to disable and i also did not have 4 onboard devices to disable. I had 8 and didn’t know which ones to disable. I did install the modded bios. I am using the eee pc 1000h like i said before. What did you do here??

Mr. X has never really made it clear despite lots of asking — the 1000H does not have the same bios options that the 901 does. As far as the cpu config, there is nothing for us to do there, as the only option provided for 1000H users is Max CPU ID, which disable nor enable should have any bearing on the install. This setting is usually only enabled when you have programs that do not know what hyperthreading is, like windows 98.

The devices to disable should be all but the two USB ones, since you need USB to install the OS via the external drive. I know the tutorial says to disable 4 devices, but the point is not how many devices but rather just to disable everything that may interfere with the install, and there just happens to be more in the 1000H.

Even so, the bios should not have any effect on your video settings. This would have to do more with the video kexts that are installed after install. I would probably reinstall these and reboot immediately after, to see if this fixes the problem.

Your news about the keystrokes is not good for me, it means that there is something specific to my system that is causing them to fail after sleep. May I hear from anyone else on this issue? I followed this tutorial exactly, but I used iDeneb 1.1 instead of 1.0, and I installed the two kexts that Joshua recommended over the ones that were originally suggested by the guide.

Hello Dweeb

In regards to accelerated graphics on the eeepc 1000H, I needed to install the following two drivers after installing the other kexts from the supplied link and rebooting.

AppleIntelGMA950.kext
AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext

Voila! Upon re-boot I had hardware accelerated graphics.

I still have no luck with the WiFi, have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but no luck….

Regards

chestnut:

First the obvious, did you remember to re-enable wireless in the bios after the install?

Second, I would also try power cycling the adapter itself. The native ASUS function keys for turning the radio on and off do not work… after OS X is loaded, due to the keyboard kexts that must be used. However, I’ve found that during the time where you have the gray apple screen while booting, the eeepc seems to respond to the function keys — i’m able to change screen brightness, for instance (but it is changed back to brightest as soon as OS X is done booting). My point is that perhaps you can try to use Fn-F2 during this time to see if maybe your wireless is off somehow.

Thirdly, I’d try to physically re-seat the card. On mine, I actually had a poorly connected antenna that wouldn’t pick up any signal, but after I found the problem my wifi was working strong.

Okay. As far as I know everything is working as good as it ever will (Until Audio and Ethernet Kext files are developed which I hope someone will.)

Basically I just started from square one again. I disabled all of my devices except the USB and USB 2.0 of course. I had no quickstep or whatever to disable of course since I have the 1000h. One thing that I did different was after the install when OS X is having you setup your “Mac” and asks if you want to transfer data, my computer would loop back to the beginning. I had to get around this with code I found here:

http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/osx-eee-1000h-t1920-20.html

I had to do this:

After reboot press F8 and type -s to go into single user mode.
Then type:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
passwd root

-enter password, confirm password, restart and login as root and whatever you set your password to.

After that I was able to get into my fresh install logged in as root.

I followed the rest of the guide without a hitch. One note about the wireless is that after I installed it the message saying new hardware had been detected popped up before restarting so I went there renamed it and hit apply to save my changes. After rebootting and a little patience it booted and everything workked. Of course everytime I use the wifi after boot I have to turn it off and then back on to initialize it for some reason although it is not awful to have to do that. i love os x on the eee. also I have graphic acceleration now! just needed to reinstall. also, my screensavers are working now. Hope this helps someone!

Hello Dweeb

I’ve had no luck with the Wifi and EEEPC 1000H. I’ve just verified the wireless as working with Ubuntu Hardy on a live USB stick.

I’m reinstalling as we speak, as a last resort.

Cheers

Fixed my problem too… iDeneb v1.1 didn’t have the ApplePS2Controller selectable under the “Fix” menu so I assumed all was well. I took the ApplePS2Controller from the iDeneb v1 DVD (it’s probably still on the 1.1 too but I don’t want to mount my copy of the image and change its md5)

Now I don’t lose my shortcuts after sleep.

Can anyone tell me if programs are installing correctly? Specifically Office 2008 and Lightroom 2.

snicker

Please tell me how to install ApplePS2Controller from the iDeneb v1 DVD? I have the same problem after 1.1

ok, here is where I am at with the wireless on my 1000H. I installed Kalyway 10.5.2, upgraded to 10.5.4 (as opposed to iDeneb v.1.1) and hey presto, my internal WLAN and Netgear USB 2.0 adaptor WG111v3 are detected and working :)

Hi, I’ve got an Eee PC 1000H, and I’ve just burned the iDeneb DVD. But when I tried to boot from the DVD I got a kernel panic, there was a multi-language message saying “You need to restart …blah blah” Am I the only one here to get this error? Anybody help!

Noel,

System/Installation/Packages/Patches/Fix/ApplePS2Controller.pkg on the DVD.

Has anyone else tried to install WoW? It looks like it is a PPC App. Apparently, I have a bad translate file (for the rosetta emulator.) I found a fix for this for the Kalyway distro but it does not seem to be working on mine unfortunately. Does anyone have a fix?

WoW is fully Intel native (if you’re seeing otherwise, something is wrong with your install), and as long as the lack of sound hardware doesn’t trip it up, it should run fine.

I tried to install WoW from my disc and it wont even respond. I did a bit of searching and apparently I have a bad rosetta ppc translation (emulation?) file or something. I dfound a possible fix but it is for Kalyway so I am not sure what to do. I am reinstalling the os right since that is how I fixed a bunch of my problems last time. I was just wondering if anyone has any more solid solutions. It isn’t that its WoW. It is that it is a PPC app. At least my Cd and the full client I downloaded for mac from blizzard are. My console output tells me that I have a problem with my tranlation file. I just want to know if others have this or maybe my install didnt complete 100% successfully or what. I will use Kalyway if me reinstall doesnt work. There is an actual fix for it then.

i just couldn’t find a universal installer anywhere so i just transferred the whole this over from my gfs macbook and it worked. i redid my install and it wasnt my translate file for sure.

eeepc 901. I’ve tried every combination to install this DVD but i just keep getting the install rebooting endlessly from the apple logo before I can even get to installing the OS. the Kalyway 1.05.2 worked for me however just wondering how other fellow 901 owners got the iDeneb version to work?

I’ve made an Automator Script to turn on and off the wifi. You can get it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/142835053/Turn_On_Wifi.zip.html

You need to have the WirelessUtilityCardbusPCI app in the dock for this to work. What it does is it clicks the app in the dock, switches to the Advanced tab and clicks off then toggles on and off the radio button. Afterwards it quits the app (don’t worry it still works even after you turn it off). You can edit it using Automator if you want.

To make this launch at startup, just unzip it, copy to Application folder and drag it to the dock. Then right click it and choose Open at Login. You can then drag it off the dock if you want but I think it’s handy to have it there.

Hope this helps and if anyone can figure out how to make this run when your pc wakes from sleep, share it here as well.

Ok so I have fixed my problem I was having with not been able to boot from the install disk. It can be caused from either a bad download or bad burn to DVD so I redownloaded and burnt to DVD. Success! I also didn’t turn off anything in the BIOS prior the install and it worked fine. One tip, if you find system profiler crashes everytime you try to open it, what works is turning off the ‘Max CPUID’ in the BIOS. Restart and enter system profiler and you can now see all your hardware specs.

First thank you for this tutorial.
i have try to edit the codec dump i took in EEExunbuntu for the sound, but still it isn’t supported by hdapatcher
Glenn, it is a really good idea this script, i was a bit tired of launching everytime the wlan tool. But i would like to know, how can i modify it (if you agree) to change the name of the application. Because i have wireless utility in the dock, but i renamed it as “wifi” so i guess the script won’t work unless i change the name it’s looking for in the script.

Okay. New challenge. Does anyone know how to ge the Eee PC to be the only monitor in use with an external monitor? I cannot get it to work because the Eee PC goes to sleep if you turn it on real quick and close the lid and because it does not wake up when you plug in a USB device.

@Kmikase, Just open it using Automator and you can delete or add tasks to the queue. Btw, you have to wait for it to work and it’s not instant. But at least no more pressing keys over and over. you can change the name as well, btw.

@dweeb, you might want to try and disable the clammshell kext. Dunno how though. Or maybe just wait for it to boot fully? Had this problem before with my Eee PC 701 and an external monitor and only solution was to wait until it fully booted before closing the lid

Ok thanks, i’m going to try it. But first i have to understand how automator works :)

So i can’t get this script working, and i don’t understand why. Because i recorded the steps in automator. So it is supposed to click in the dock, open the wireless utility, advanced, turn off, turn on, then cmd+Q. But when i launch the shortcut, i can see the mouse doing the actions, but nothing happens. For example, when the mouse goes to the dock, the wireless utility’s windows doesn’t show up, so it’s like the mouse is just moving alone on the screen. i don’t understand :’(

O guys, I finally got this working but i have changed the script. I used Glenn’s one to make it.
Now with this script you don’t need to have the wireless utility in you dock and you can leave the dock hidden (that was the problem before)
So this script launch the app, then do the same as glenn’s script.
You can put it anywhere (on the desktop, on the dock, in application) and if you want to load it at startup, go to your account option in system preferences, then choose open and add the application.
Here is the link (it works if you have left the original name of the application) : http://rapidshare.com/files/143097132/Wifi.app.zip.html

hey mr x. i’ve used your guide along with several other guides putting together bits and pieces to get my leopard running. i have a vista/leopard dual boot through kalyway distro rather than ideneb. i have looked everywhere and there is no sticky or page for a ‘how-to’ for vista/leopard dual boot SPECIFICALLY for the eee 1000H. perhaps i could write one and you could post it under the ‘how to’ of this page. just thought it’d make some lives easier :P email me and let me know.

[...] Here’s the instructions for installing OS X on an EeePC. [...]

the link he provides on how to install sends you back here?

find /Applications/ -depth -name ‘designable.nib’ -exec rm ‘{}’ \; -print
pmset -a hibernatemode 0
rm /var/vm/sleepimage
rm /var/vm/swap*

i use that commands to get more space…

my osx take 5,5gb

it’s posible to remove some things to make it feet into 3,75gb (main ssd of 901?)

or is possible to slit the osx? system one ssd library in other?

To get some free space back, you should download xslimmer. Then put all your applications folder in the app. It will remove useless files. I saved 1,5 Go with this.
Nothing new for the sound ?

only remove 200mb,

is not possible remove unused library ?

hey steven, can you send us a how to as well? I’d gladly repost it for you in a local hackintosh site here or maybe link to it. Thanks!

Kmikase, glad you made it work. The name of your application is different from mine though so maybe that needs to be changed when it gets downloaded.

I can confirm that if you go to amazon.com and search for “USB 2.0 External 5.1 Channel 3D Sound Card Adapter for PC Notebook Laptop” you will find a very cheap, working usb sound card. i just got mine and paid about 2.94$ for it. it rock. auto detects all the time although if i dont have it in before i turn my computer on i have to manually add volume control to my top panel. sounds aswesome! volume control works too. i got the clear green one.

[...] L’Eeepc acquistato da Scott aveva Windows Xp preinstallato ma lui ha installato una versione di Leopard scaricata utilizzando BitTorrent, utilizzando le istruzioni che troverete qui: installing OS X on an EeePC. [...]

What about the OQO model e2?

http://www.oqo.com

Thanks.

[...] tienes una guía completa (en inglés) de cómo instalar el Leopard en el ASUS Eee PC 901 y 1000. El proceso usa el iDeneb [...]

It’s weird, the script should work because i’ve done it with the original file name. If the wlan app is in the application folder it should be ok.
One question, when my laptop boots, it arrives in chameleon to select the osx, by default the partition where is OS X is selected. Is there a way to tell chameleon to select by default another partition (but keep booting on the osx partition, because if not i won’t have the chameleon booter anymore :) )

so does anyone have dual boot going on? either with vista/xp/ubuntu/etc… i have dual with vista but haven’t updated to the modified bios, hence i have to keep typing cpus=1 at start up to get leopard to boot properly. i haven’t updated to the modified bios because i want to know if it will affect the dual boot. thanks for any help. and glen how can i get ur contact as i wouldn’t wnt to post the how to as a comment here

Hi all,

Did you get super duper to work? I used kalyway disc and got to 10.5.4. Everything working on this tuturial seems to be working too with me but when trying to move the OS from 2nd SSD to 1st Super Super always stops with a error about not being able to get the target drive UUID.

Cheers,
rui

[...] На EeePC предустановлена Windows XP, но на него можно загрузить взломанный Leopard следую инструкции. [...]

Is “Mr. X” coming back? No posts since 8/21, and there are plenty of things that can be updated in this guide.

Couldn’t get to cloning my drive using SuperDuper! either from my initial install to another drive. It might not be making it boot properly since all the files are there but it just won’t boot.

this doesn’t work?

Delete AppleHDA.kext:

* In Terminal, type:
* sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
* sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
* sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

Edit AppleAzaliaAudio.kext:

* In Terminal, type: sudo pico /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/Info.plist
* Search for (use hotkey= ctrl + w):
IOHDAudioCodecVendorID
* change the string to:
0×10ec0269
* Exit pico
* sudo pico /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAzaliaController.kext/Contents/Info.plist
* Search for (use hotkey= ctrl + w):
IOPCIPrimaryMatch
* change the string to:
0×1043831a
* Exit pico

I got my audio adapter delivered and once its plugged into the usb port both the itunes and YouTube issue are resolved. You will notice both won’t play by standard which makes sense for itunes but was unsure why Youtube video’s wouldn’t play through safari. Seems they both depend on the eeepc having detected a form of audio out. Now to hope someone comes up with a fix to the default sound card inside the Eeepc! :)

Also having a 1.8″ hard drive installed makes a huge difference to the fluidness of the OS running. Currently have a 60gig drive installed using the spare zif adapter on the motherboard and have no stall issues whatsoever whilst playing around with the OS. I even got Spore installed and running fine! (Although all the settings are at the lowest it is still playable)

Did a reinstall for a friend and looks like you really do need to change the Bios in order for iDeneb to install properly. Otherwise you get the dreaded gray, power off device screen

Hey,
thanks for that great Tutorial. One question comes to my mind: Do I have to keep the installation DVD in the Drive, between “Having Installed” and the final Reboot? Read that anywhere, just wanted to have it approved.

@ofro:

Thanks for your help, but it doesn’t work.

re: Joshua,

Second the call for Mr. X to come back. This community is growing fast. Furthermore, I’d think this guide would be better served by a Wiki because it seems that we have more than enough active contributors trying to get stuff up and running.

If you have a 901 maybe you need to change your SSD

i have one 32GB MyDigitalSSD SLC PCI Express PCI-e SSD

Performance up to 47MB/sec (read) and 40MB/sec (write).

http://www.memoryc.com/storage/solidstatedisk.html?Interface_Type=PCI+Express

It’s perfect for MacOSX, SLC version are more fastet than MLC version

Anyone got a solution for the incomplete shutdown? Joshua experienced it now I have to on a new installation.

Shutting down inside Leopard doesn’t turn off the leds fully though everything else is off. Might it be the SMBIOS kext we both used? My Eee Box doesn’t have the same problem and I used the kext provided above instead of the MacBook kext for SMBIOS which Joshua recommended

Maybe we can jump into the wiki for leopard on the eee (forgot the name of the url)?

I will try some other kext then report the results.
Does anyone know how we can change the brightness of the screen ? There must be another way to do it than using Fn+ F6 or F7

Yes, I’m also getting shutdown issues on 1000H. Sometimes the shutdown is complete, with all LED’s off, other times they are still on. I’m currently trying to determine what is causing the occasional incomplete shutdown.

Odd, now shut down works. I put back the original SMBIOS kext. I also had a usb drive attached before so that might be an issue.

Another issue but probably on my end only. My Time Capsule does assign the DHCP automatically the correct IP to the Eee so it has to be manual DHCP. Might help some of the others having connection issues.

What sort of battery life with the 6-cell 1000h are yall getting with OSX?

I’m getting around 4 hours, like when it was on XP before

@Glenn : Thanks for the quick reply. Hmm. I would have thought it to be more. Is your 4hrs with brightness up, wifi on, etc?

Cant turn down brightness. Wifi is on etc. XP was the same, maybe even 5 hours. 4 hours is the normal rate for the 1000H, the Asus flyers over estimate the batt life a bit.

Brightness control workaround:

http://www.splasm.com/products/productbrightness.html

Tested and working on my 1000h with iDeneb 10.5.4 release.

Sweet!~

Edit to above post:

Shades works better. http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades

Allows for programming (cmd+f5 for dim, cmd+f6 for bright, etc). Installs in prefpane, has option for taskbar brightness meter or onscreen (can remove both). UNLIKE splasm program, works with calibration profile other than default.

Brightness Control:
I confirm that Shades is working fine. However I would like to map the shortcuts to increase / decrease brightness to Fn+f5/Fn+f6. Has anybody managed to use the Fn key on a 1000H with Ideneb?

Steven – I’ve got the modded bios on a 1000h and multi-boot works fine with XP and OSX. Installed XP then 10.5.4 and it is fine. also installed ubuntu to triple-boot and that’s fine too. Usual issues of sound and wireless still exist.

Also found that sometimes you need to disable and enable the wireless in the bios on first boot, otherwise the ralink util sometimes comes up with ‘no device’. Fine on resume after sleep though.

Hi guys,
i don’t know if i’m the only one but i’ve experienced several problems with Shades. The brightness level works great but when the app is launched it :

- dupplicates the shutdown, restart shortcuts in the apple menu
- creates a black square around the last desktop icon selected
- creates a black square around part of a window (like finder)
- slows down shutdown and reboot process.

So any one has experienced those issues ?
By the way how can I unistall this software ? i deleted it from the prefpane but it is still on the computer.
thanks

Kmikase:
I had exactly the same symptoms and it was due to the Universal Access settings. The default shortcut for VoiceOver is Alt+f5 and you have probably set up this one as a shortcut for decrease the brightness in Shades.
Disable the Voice Over (System Pref/Universal Access/VoiceOver Off) and disable the shortcut (System Pref/Keyboard And Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts/Turn VoiceOver on or off).

This should fix your issue.

Btw, if any of you used mine of Kmikase’s Automator scripts, you need to enable access for assistive devices in Universal Access in the System Pref. mitro’s comment reminded me about it just now.

I’m using Kmikase’s script now and it runs well.

I’ve edited the RealtekR1000.kext/Contents/Info.plist from the maceeedotcompatches and added 0×19691026 in IOPCIMatch.

After installing the kext my ethernet is “working” now (plugging in the cable will be recognized), but I can’t connect to other clients, maybe because the MAC address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

In /var/log/syslog I’ve found the message:
kernel[0]: rtl_r1000_nic_ext: Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I’ve tried to change the MAC address, but neither “sudo ifconfig en0 lladdr 00:11:22:33:44:55:66″ nor “sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55:66″ works.

hey thanks for the reply northern paul. lol i updated to the modified bios before reading ur comment anyways :P it works like a charm. the only problem i have now is regarding how to update my kalyway 10.5.1 to 10.5.4. i heard that boot time is increased significantly. my boot time is less than 45sec an di’d like to keep it that way. if the boot time is not affected can anyone point me in the right direction for how to update kalyway 10.5.1 to the latest version (perferably tried on an eee pc 901/1000 with a kalyway update). thanks in advance :)

I think you could probably update with the kalyway comboupdate 10.5.3. But i don’t know if you must install the 10.5.2 before
Or you can also download ideneb v1.1

I’ve bought a very small Link-Sys SL-8850 USB soundcard for 13 Euro today.

Audio input and output are working great!

[...] hackers have posted how-tos on hacking your own Mac NetBook. The first one uses an EeePC, and these hacking instructions to run OS X for $550, including hardware. The second one was performed on the UK version of the MSI [...]

lol well i took the plunge. for those with eee’s with kalyway looking to update with kalyway 10.5.3 updater combo it works. just follow instructions; don’t restart after installing updater. don’t install with new kernal. reboot. hit f8. type update -v. you’ll need to reinstall video drivers. other than it’s perfect ;)

[...] hackers have posted how-tos on hacking your own Mac NetBook. The first one uses an EeePC, and these hacking instructions to run OS X for $550, including hardware. The second one was performed on the UK version of the MSI [...]

hello everyone.

I made this installation on my eeepc 1000H and it works great !!

Everything’s ok but leopard don’t recognize my wifi chipset… but I installed the driver from the link in the tutorial.

Does someone hav an idea ? sorry for bad english, I’m french ^^

Sorry, i’m going to speak French for JooL.
Va sur le forum InsanelyMac dans la section français tu trouveras des explications pour le eeepc.

Ok guys, I don’t know what I did, but i have shutdown/restart/sleep working great. the only system changes i did were installing hda enabler. No idea if it is the reason.

@Kmikase:

Did I miss something? Do sound and ethernet work for you?

No sound and the ethernet ain’t working. I was just trying some Hda enabler and some other codec dump like the ALC 260 262 & 268.

Thanks a lot guys, I love my very new eeemac 1000H !!!!
Just waiting for an audio driver and I’ll be the world happiest eeeMac user :)

THXXXXX

Hi Brainlessrider,

Have you the wifi activated ? did you follow the tuto to activate wifi ?
I downloaded the driver for the wifi but It still doesn’t work, I’m so sad and angry !!

Do you have another link maybe to the good driver ?? thx in advance

JooL

Salut Jool bon on va se parler en francais :)

J’ai effectivement le wifi activé, j’ai suivi les instructions à la lettre et tout fonctionne, meme si le soft n’est pas parfait, au moins, on a une connection…

Si ca ne fonctionne pas chez toi, vérifie :
- que le wifi soit bien activé dans le bios.
- que tu disposes bien d’une connection ethernet dans le panneau de pref réseau (que tu devras parametrer si tu as un routeur)
- et que le logiciel WirelessUtility Cardbus (macintel) soit bien installé.

Si ces 3 éléments sont ok chez toi, ca doit juste etre un soucis de paramétrage :
Dans l’utilitaire “wirelessutility” va ds l’onglet “advanced” et tripote le bouton en bas à gauche jusqu’à ce que radio off soit affiché (en fait cela voudra dire qu’il fonctionne).
Ensuite tu vas dans l’onglet “Site Survey” et tu clic sur rescan jusqu’à ce que tu vois ta connection.
Tu la selectionnes et tu clic sur “Connect” ou “Add Profile” si tu veux sauvegarder cet état, et au bout de qq secondes, cela devrait fonctionner…..

Il faut juste penser a recliquer à chaque redemarrage mais bon…

Bon courage ;)

(je vais continuer en anglais pour les autres)
Joos, if you suceed to have “disconnected” then it is a good sign.
A very important point, for the first connection on your wireless network, your wireless router has to be in synchronised mode or your computer won’t detect it nor connect to it.At least it was like this with my Livebox

hi
i really dont have the 3 CPU options in my bios of my 1000H. even after flashing the modded BIOS. all i have is called ‘CPU control’, can turn it on or off.

well, i still installed like in your how to expecting speed loss due to not turning off HT, but i only get a kernel panic on the first boot after installing.

anyone can help?
i think im gonna try the msiwindosx86 tomorrow.
thank you anyway

hi again.

i got it to work, no welcome loop anymore. turned out the next step in the welcome screen were the settings of the network cards, since they were still deactivated, it didnt go furver. go to your bios and activate.

next step was installing wifi card. that didnt work like in your how to either. seems like theres a bigger difference between a 901 and a 1000H then i thought.
my 1000H is german and i bought it last week with newest BIOS preinstalled.

I’m with Alex….

“Hi, I’ve got an Eee PC 1000H, and I’ve just burned the iDeneb DVD. But when I tried to boot from the DVD I got a kernel panic, there was a multi-language message saying “You need to restart …blah blah” Am I the only one here to get this error? Anybody help!”

x2

Jeff, Alex

When kernel panic occurs, it’s likely you need reflash the bios. At least that was the solution in my experience. The newest bios mod works fine in my builds.

Thanks. I reflashed bios with modified bios and it got into the install!

[...] Macee.com, Cult of [...]

you shouldtn complain if you missed a step!

btw, im installin the 6th time now …

Hi,
when I start up my 1000H the only thing that appears is the First Time Wizard. Then it pretty much hangs. When I click “Don’t transfer any information” it just reloads. Don’t have any idea. Thanks to you all, hopefully you’ll find a solution.

Extract from http://eeepc-osx.wikispaces.com/901

Enter safe mode –s

Type:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
passwd root (enter a password)
reboot

Set a root password you will remember. After the reboot, go into system preferences and create your own user (make sure you select Administrator for user type). Log off, then log in as the new user. Go to Applications->Utilities->Directory Utility and click on the Edit menu. Select Disable root user.

@Gilette, Make sure you enable all devices in the BIOS. I found out that a disabled webcam makes the registration look indefinitely

Happy to say i’m up and running. Thanks for this guide!!!
Hopefully sound support will be coming soon.

Anybody else notice that their Wifi doesn’t come back to life when the machine comes back from sleep? I have to disable then enable the adapter to make it work. Is there a way to automate that?

Hey Jeff, check a few posts up for the automation using Automator. I’m not sure if you can make it trigger on waking up tho.

@Glenn: Thank you so much, will try out in a minute

i also have the problem with the wifi. that damn thing isnt recognized after waking the pc up. sometimes its also not recognized just right after the booting.

i do have to disable and enable in BIOS too …

thats pretty strange -.-

Yes, if you are using the suggested wireless utility when you wake from sleep you have to manually turn off and turn on the wireless again as when you first boot into OSX (unless there is an automation script to do this)

And with having to close the wireless utility before close down, I ended up purchasing an Apple compatible wireless mini-pci card for my 1000H which shows up as an Airport compatible device. Although this is an additional cost has made the experience so much better.

Cheers

For anyone that’s interested, getting the 1000h to dual boot with the original XP install is very easy. Use XP to nuke the 2nd partition (the one with nothing in it), recreate it as type af, mark it active, then follow the instructions here to install OSX. You then have to tweak the com.apple.Boot.plist file to show the boot menu with Darwin… it’s really that easy. Let me know if you need more details.

@Jeff,

I’m interested in how to dual boot. Could you send me a short guide? My email is the link in my name, thanks.

Glenn
aka Shinrai

What are people using to burn their iDeneb dvd? I’m using Toast Titanium and whenever I try to boot from it I get ”

Reboot or select proper boot device
or insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device and press a key

Any help would be great.

spoke too soon, tried disk utility instead and it’s working like a charm. thanks!

id like to dual boot too. dont know a thing about mac. i tried using the 132 bootloader and was able to install leopard on my desktop but it requires the darwin boot disk each time i turn on the pc. how do i make it start on its own. dont know a thing about ktexts too! unfortunately i cant find the right drivers for it.

dsideco@yahoo

@Milo:

I’ve burnt the DVD with Toast Titanium and it works.

Maybe a dumb question, but have you changed the boot order in the bios to boot from DVD?

I’ll write up a short guide to dual booting today and post it on my blog. It will refer to these instructions for installation of OSX as they are perfect ;)

Hi,
um I ran again in a problem. When I installed the drivers using kext, it hangs. I’ve done everything as told, but the 1000H won’t boot up again. Maybee you find a reason, thanks

hi gilette.

have you tried to install the .dmg package with kext? thats what ive done to kill the OS. needed to reinstall a 6th time^^

@Jeff, more details on how to dual boot with the original XP would be helpful if you’ve got time to provide them. Thanks.

Nice, thanks Jeff! Will wait for your guide then.

Glenn
aka Shinrai

@Gordon,

Yeah, that’s what I did. Also figured out that WiFi isn’t working. Can anyone assist me?Think WiFi would be veeeeery important. You can skip the drivers by simple starting in single user mode. Also figured out that Photobooth is not working. Hope to hear soon,
cheers

[...] Erfahrungsbericht zur Mac OS X Nutzung auf dem Eee PC 1000H (nach dieser Anleitung) findet sich [...]

Fudd,

Have you tried to enter the actuall mac address of the card. It’s not going to work I suspect unless hte mac address you enter is the one that’s built into the card. Data can’t find it’s way back to your machine if it’s not the same.

-GReg

I posted some dual boot instructions here:
http://jdcipher.blogspot.com/2008/09/dual-booting-asus-eee-pc-1000h.html

Please let me know if anything doesn’t make sense or I made any mistakes. I did this from memory.

Thanks Jeff. I’m waiting for my Eee to arrive, but I’ll be following your instructions. Any reason why you would skip step 6 from this post?

Hi everyone,

I’ve started a wiki to track our progress in fixing the problems on EeePC-OSX. No disrespect meant to Mr. X, but this comments system isn’t the best way for everyone to work together on getting everything to work. He made a terrific guide, but how can contributors make solutions to the problems that exist, especially when he hasn’t responded to us in quite a while?

I would like to invite everyone to come and join the Wiki. It’s mostly empty now with nothing but the introduction, but together we can flesh it out in no time at all.

[...] MacEee.com guide describes the patches that need to be [...]

Is it possible to write the contents of the Leopard disk image to a USB flash drive and boot the installer from that? I’d rather not go to the trouble of acquiring an external DVD drive for a one-time thing.

@GReg

I’ve booted with the Ubuntu EEE CD today to receive the real MAC address.

Then I’ve tried again to change the IP address with ifconfig but nothing happened. :(

I’ve tried the Attansic L1 driver now (changed IOPCIMatch in Info.plist to 0×10261969).

Now I’m getting the real MAC address and in the system configuration everything seems working (ethernet connected), but it doesn’t work: no http, no ping, nothing.

@Kesey – I skipped step 6 because for one, the option wasn’t even available when I looked, plus wanted to be able to dual boot and wasn’t sure the GUID partition table would allow that. In any case, the partition gets created under XP (following my instructions) and just formatted during the install using the Disk Utility’s “Erase” command.

Whats the big problem with dualboot?

the darwin bootloader gets installed if you use the denib release. so if you’ve got XP already on another partition u can choose OS after installation of leopard.

[...] of Leopard. If you’re interested in going down the same path you can get the instructions here, and you can read the cult of mac article about him here. Share and [...]

Do the bluetooth headphones solve the problem with youtube/flashvideo not playing properly (i.e. playing for 2 or 3 seconds then freezing)?

thanks

I think the bluetooth headset should solve the video’s problems. But i’m not sure. I’ve ordered one but i don’t have eeepc right now. Anyway i’ll try on another laptop when i’ll receive the headset

Hi
anyone got installation instructions for the 1000H on howto install graphics acceleration? Did that, and boooom, it won’t boot up properly anymore.

Hi
After installation, setting Country, Keyboard, Don’t transfers and again and again and again, I don´t understand :-(
My Asus is:
Asus EEE 1000H, firmware 1005 mod

Help me please

I can´t jumping the the “Welcome” (Country, Keyboard, blah blah ) message!!

Help me, please
My Subnotebook is a Asus EEE 1000h with Bios 1005 Mod.

Hello LeoArg, to get past the “Welcome” issue, use the below.

Extract from http://eeepc-osx.wikispaces.com/901

Enter safe mode –s (press F8 upon booting and enter the -s parameter, and press enter)

Type:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
passwd root (enter a password)
reboot

Set a root password you will remember. After the reboot, go into system preferences and create your own user (make sure you select Administrator for user type). Log off, then log in as the new user. Go to Applications->Utilities->Directory Utility and click on the Edit menu. Select Disable root user.

Thank you!
I have other problem! I can´t enter the BIOS!! Why?

hello i followed the guide exactly and installed all ktexts, but i cant get the resolution right? the only ones i have are 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768…all the way to 1600×1200, but no 1024×768. any ideas?

i mean no 1024×600.

Hi LeoArg

“Thank you!
I have other problem! I can´t enter the BIOS!! Why?”

Did you flash using the modified BIOS? On an EEEPC 1000H you should just have to push F2 upon switching on the machine to enter the BIOS. Try pushing F2 a few times during the boot up process

Cheers,

Guys just installed my new wireless card and tell you what its so good not having to reconnect everytime my eeepc awakes from sleep or restarts. $40 australian and worth every cent, took like 5 minutes to install into my 901; highly recommend this one mod.

@ Gilette : If you install the driver set in this tuto, it will work just fine.

@LeoArg : Keep trying pressing F2, you will reach it. And about the “Welcome issue”, it has been developped many many times in this tuto. You would have found it by reading the post :)

@kmikase:
Well, I tried to, but is there any specific order for them? Installed the AppleIntelGMA950 first, now it won’t boot. When I try in Single User Mode it works. How can I undo it?
Thank you

Thank you!! Its Ok :-)

@Fudd,

The L1 is not quite the same as the board that’s in our EEE Pc’s. I’m not sure what the difference is. There has been some discussion over at some of the linux sites.

Question:
Has anyone actually gotten the camera to work on a 901 under 10.5.4?

Mine lights up, but does not capture anything.

-GReg

G’day Coreyd

What model wireless card did you install into your 901?

Cheers

Hey chestnut,

Here’s a link to the ebay results for wireless cards. Its the HP Broadcom cards.

http://computers.listings.ebay.com.au:80/Accessories-Parts_Airport-Cards_W0QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQdfspZ1QQfbfmtZ1QQfposZ2010QQfromZR2QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ34QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQga10244Z10425QQsabfmtsZ2QQsacatZ130710QQsadisZ200QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsoZShowQ20ItemsQQsocmdZListingItemListQQsofocusZso

The only advice is when you install make sure the ac adapter and battery are out of your eeepc. Once installed and computer is on just go into network and hit the ‘assist me’ button to set up a location automatically then it should work a treat. Let me know if you have any probs.

Corey

Anybody going to try the 10.5.5 update? :)

Tried it… watch out. Details on my wiki.

http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com

@ snickers

Went to your site, a little baffled to find more information except whats on the home page. Could find no mention of updating to 10.5.5..

@ snickers

Scratch that mate just had to open my eyes a little more; too early in the morning. Great lil wiki will be contributing to this in hopes we can establish a more concrete community, well done.

has anyone tried to install rosetta stone? i am getting some weird carbon lib error when i try to launch the installer and it is bumming me out. after several attempts i finally got ideneb10.5.4 installed and running well a couple weeks ago. this is my first issue. does anyone have the carbon lib fix that is supposed to be in ideneb 1.1 for download?? i tried repairing disk permissions and it didnt help. thanks

this is the exact error i am getting when i open the installer.

oops. here is the link to the error (screen shot)

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn107/dervid1922/screen-capture.png

@dweeb

go to the ideneb website at http://ideneb.ihackintosh.net. You should be able to download the 1.1 update in a package/installer form.

Please contribute your findings by joining and publishing on the wiki I started, http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com. People seem to ask the same questions over and over, here and in several forums. Would be nice to put the answer down in just one place. ;)

Hello, thanks for the “How To”, it works really well.

I did a french version of the How To here :

http://www.bheller.com/InstallationOSX/installation_osx_eeepc.htm

Best !

Bruce,

Does the webcam works “chez toi”?!!!

r

Yes it does very well.

Is step #9 (Click Continue and then proceed with the installation) taking a really long time for anyone? Based on the console it seems like it’s checking the media. I’m using an old USB DVD drive, so maybe that’s the problem, but it’s been like 15-20 mins now and I’m wondering if I should reboot and give it another try.

Ok, posted that a min too soon. The installation is going. Step 9 takes a while because it verifies the disk.

I got iDeneb going on my 1000h but was frustrated with the wireless. My mac mini is my home media center, hardwired with ethernet, so pulled the Atheros card out of it and put it in the eeepc, works natively, and it’s a VERY easy swap.
Now that my HD is reformatted by mac disk util, I left a partition blank, can I reinstall XP on the blank partition with the restore disk?

Phal

@ dweeb

Did you actually run the iDeneb 1.1 update from iDeneb’s site? There is a carbon lib fix in the update that fixes the installer issue. When you launch the update dont tick any of the options as they are for drivers that are not relating to the eeepc however the essentials that update from that patch contains the carbon lib fix. I ran it and has fixed the issue you are having for me

Great guide, worked for me. I have a 1000h and am hapilly running os x as I type this. A few caveats that I noticed while installing. I couldn’t get the screen resolution to work correctly on my eee. I had to use an external application called switchresX to configure the letterbnox resolution. Os X would only list 1024×768. How have others resolved this issue?

Also I had to reinstall six times until I got the correct sequence of steps for my eee 1000h xp edition. I know I could have gotten more ram with linux but I couldn’t find one.

So here goes in hopes of helping people save time I wasted.

Once you finish installing be sure to turn the camera and card reader back on in your bios or the post install wizard will loop forever. Once installed apply all the kexts one by one except for the 2 graphics kexts, Reboot the machine before installing the 2 graphics kexts and install both of those at the same time, once again install them last. My machine wouldn’t reboot and I had to reinstall if I didn’t do it that way.

Wireless works but is kind of annoying. I have to turn the card’s radio off and on again every time I try to connect. That means at fresh boots and when the machine wakes from sleep.

The function keys don’t work, as with most people, but did work before I installed the kexts so hopefully that will be sorted soon.

How do you deal with such corse volume

lookingg forward to sound adjustment, I bought a cheap siig usb sound device that works but has terrible volume control, even the lowest setting is too loud. Has anyone else encountered this? How do you deal with such coarse sound controls? It is driving me nuts and can sometimes hurt my ears as I am stuck using headphones. Besides that the machine performs well, akthough I don’t think I am getting N nework speeds, I can’t even get vlc to play a video over a network share.

Hope this helps someone. I also hope sombody has a solution for the volume issue.

Happeee macing

Oh ya, has anyone gotten the Fn Backspace to work as delete? Not having a delete key is uber annoying. I would also like to remap my command key to the windows key and not the left alt key. Seem like that would make more sense. Please responde or send me an email. Once again great work on this release and howto

@James, the delete key is right above the backspace key. should work as normal. You can remap the modifier keys (alt, command, ctrl, etc) in the Keyboard prefs.

Thanks a lot for the instructions – after a few false starts I got this working on my new 1000h.

A few notes for people scanning through this:

- Use Disk Utility to burn the iDeneb ISO – I tried Toast initially and it kernel panicked the system when it booted.

- I didn’t disable any of the onboard components, and for some reason I only have one item under CPU configuration. My bios is version 1005 which apparently is the most recent version available. I disabled this before starting the install and it worked.

- Save yourself the hassle and download all of the items you’ll need from this post *before* you start the install. Then unpack everything and burn it to a CD / DVD. You’ll need all of this later, and because wifi won’t be working yet you’ll have to burn it to a disk at some point anyway.

What’s not working for me:

- Ethernet (no workaround yet)
- The internal speakers / headphone jack (you can use bluetooth or USB-based headphones)
- Brightness controls (try the freeware Shades, and definitely calibrate your screen using the System Preferences > Displays > Color > Calibrate feature)
- The trackpad is *very* sensitive and there’s no way to configure it as far as I know. Also, the trackpad is set to “click” when you touch it, which is kind of driving me nuts, and the Eee PC’s trackpad buttons are very stiff and craptacular. Luckily bluetooth mice (like the Mighty mouse) work just fine.

Oh, and if you’re want to keep the Windows partition but would really like to have a larger partition for Mac OS X, check out free personal version of EASEUS Partition Manager:

http://www.partition-tool.com/

I downloaded it yesterday and it was a cinch to shrink the windows partition down and enlarge the 2nd partition to 60G.

@James

my function keys work fine. Although I haven’t tried them since installing the ps2 fix…
Also, i ordered this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186035

I’ll let you know if it works well or not…

[...] I used the iDeneb disk for my installation and followed the instructions found on Maceee.com. [...]

@Jeff: I promise you: This USB sound card works! I bought the same, but paid 13 Euro (in Germany).

@neil:
>- The trackpad is *very* sensitive and there’s no way to configure it as far as I know.

I’ve changed the speed of the mouse to the lowest speed possible. This works for me. But if you connect a mouse then, the mouse speed is very (!) slow.

@ Coreyd

can i have the link to ideneb’s official site? i am having trouble finding the update.

Great job guys, a fine tutorial, followed to the letter and have no problems with my eee 1000h whatsoever apart from all the known issues. Has anyone managed to control fan speed? smc fancontrol wont work on mine. no fans installed. My fan is on constantly.. quite annoying I guess..also, i m having trouble after mapping keys with shades. It works a tread but wont recognize the keys i map to use for brightness control.

I swapped wireless cards with my mac mini. Charming..though not so easy since I am totally inexperienced.
Thanks again for all the hard work.

[...] I used the iDeneb disk for my installation and followed the instructions found on Maceee.com. [...]

yay!! thank you coreyd!! i found the website. rosetta stone works now!! :-)

@ dweeb

No worries mate, now just to get the fricken sound to work and I’ll at least be a happy camper. :)

I made the mistake of using the entire diskto install os x. I was wondering if there was a simple way to reclaim space so I could install another OS on the weee machine?

I wanted to install eeebuntu but I don’t really feel like trashin os x. will gparted let me re size os x? Also I made a disk image of my install using the installer dvd abd disk utility. Has anyone tested to see if these kinds of images work and can be redropped on the system? If so I would be glad to share a copy of mine via bitttorrent if it would save people the hassle of the install.

What do you think?

@james halper,

You can try resizing using Disk Utility. Didn’t have problems with it before. Gparted also works well, I use it too.

Unfortunately, disk imaging never worked for me; Acronis, SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner and Disk Utility never produced bootable disks for me. I’m going to try out Chameleon which makes disks bootable. Wish me luck!

@Glenn

Thanks, I am about to resize my os x install. Once I install linux on the new partition will grub be able to boot os x? Does that efi weirdness still come into play. I would assume it doesn’t as the system doesn’t use efi and the Ideneb guys already took care of that, I hope. Are there any caveats ot installing a second os after initially installing os x?

I don’t want to toast my os x install, it was a bit of a pain getting it on there and I don’ t feel like starting over.

Thanks

nope, you need to tweak it a bit. I used the guide here to make it show up in grub:

http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-dual-boot-ubuntu-gutsy-and-mac-osx-leopard-1051/2008/02/28

I also installed mac then ubuntu recently so this should work.

I am stuck already, When I first install I just created one huge 80 gig partition on my machine, so it is the mbr partition. Disk utility doesn’t want to resize it. Any chance I can use partition magic or something like that to resize this thing? Am I SOL? Do I need to reinstall os x?

One issue I’ve noticed that I could use some help with – when I go into the Displays system preferences the entire screen flashes white. It’s especially bad when I try to run the screen calibration utility – the screen flashes white and seems to jump between color profiles.

Any ideas? Should I reinstal the video kext(s) again?

I asked this before but I can’t find an answer. How do I set the reolution to 1024×600

I used switchresX but it is not a free program. This guide doesn’t seem to address this problem. I installed all the kext files but the 1024×600 resolution is not available to me in system preference

Ideas?

Hi
I installed ALL the kext files (and RealtekR1000.kext) but the “Network Ethernet ” is not available to me in system preference.
Brightness is full, too :-(

Help me please.

Having this wiki: http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com is a great idea, thanks, but it would be even better if people could join and add content.
Sharing information using these comments is very awkward.

Anyway, I found this guide to 10.5.5:
http://board.ihackintosh.net/index.php?showtopic=751

I think I’ll backup by extensions and give it a go! Anyone else feeling lucky?

OK, internal Audio doesn’t work, but does this install pick up a 3rd party USB audio device such as a Griffin iMic? If it does, it’ll work with my other audio adapters, I’m sure.

@Crunchy Steve: Yes, USB audio works just fine.

Success… I’m at 10.5.5. I followed the instructions at http://board.ihackintosh.net/index.php?showtopic=751 then reinstalled the AppleIntelGMA950.kext and AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext to get the display working at 1024×600 again.

D’oh, ignore me, Glenn answered my question a month ago, external sound devices work (of course they would!) Cheers.

[...] I used the iDeneb disk for my installation and followed the instructions found on Maceee.com. [...]

I just followed that guide to update to 10.5.5 and honestly find the OS runs so much slower. 10.5.4 was so smooth when using spaces and expose, now it jutters with any movement so wondering if anyone else who has done the update and found the same problems? Think I might go back to 10.5.4 till a proper patched update is released by iDeneb or Kalyway…

Hi guys,
I don’t have the eeepc right now but i can give you a hand to install the 10.5.5
First save your installation with time machine (just in case)

Download the update 10.5.5 from apple update but DO NOT INSTALL IT

Once downloaded,
open the terminal then write :

sudo -s
while sleep 1; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; done

don’t close the terminal and launch the update package.
When it is over don’t click on restart, go back in the terminal and then press ctrl+c then close the terminal.

Now you can reboot, you will have the apple screen for a while then the computer will reboot one more time.

Now you’re running 10.5.5 :)

But i you don’t do this with the terminal, you’ll get a kernel panic !!!

One more trick, you should add this kernel flag in your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist:

Kernel Flags
debug=0×100

This will help you it one day you have a kernel panic. It replaces the screen with the off button by fews line which says why there is a kernel panic.

Good luck mates.

bonne journée :)

I forgot to say that you might hav to reinstall the kext from the package given in this tutorial

Scratch my last comment. I am not sure what I did but I ended up reinstalling all the kexts and also the one from the 10.5.5 update thread and this fixed the issue of the os running slowly. Now I have a smooth running eeepcosx at 10.5.5!

I’m trying to install iDeneb on my 901, but I don’t know how to get over the welcome screen, where it says “Welcome in IDeneb 10.5.4 Intel/AMD” …but there is no button or anything to klick on to proceed?! (trackpad and keyboard are working)

pic: http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4872/19092008nq0.jpg

ok, solved the problem: booting with boot-option “Graphics Mode”=”800×600x32″ :)

Anyone have a suggestion for a key remapping solution that works with OSX and the 1000h? I’ve tried DoubleCommand and KeyRemap4Macbook but neither of them worked.

Fudd,

I was thinking, if you have the original wifi card in the 901, with the 3rd party drivers, they may be preventing you from getting Ethernet to work.

They seem to work by mapping the wifi card to eth0, that would in theory prevent anything else from talking to that port with data at least.

-GReg

@ GReg

I have installed a mac recognized wifi card however the ethernet still does not work. Under system preferences in network, if I want to add a new connection there is no option for ethernet because my eeepc cannot recognise the current one installed. Wouldn’t mind trying to work this one out as it would be handy to restore from a time machine backup considering how many times I break the OS by tinkering with it..

My eeepc is almost there man, almost the perfect micromac laptop

http://skitch.com/coreyd/sqf5/picture-1

I tried installing and I get the “You need to restart …” message. I have used the mod bios 1005. I’m using eee1000h In some occasions, if I press enter to run the DVD, it just keeps spinning with nothing showing. I waited for 15mins or so and it just keeps reading the DVD with an empty screen…

TIA…

Great news… that syba usb sound adapter works great. best $7 u can spend

Here’s a tip to get Flash video working without having to plug in a USB sound output: install the Soundflower audio routing extension:

Info:
http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower

Download:
http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/soundflower

This added two audio outputs to the OS’s sound output preference pane. Obviously this does nothing to FIX the sound issue, but this allows the system to at least play flash video without requiring you to plug in a USB output.

Maybe others will be interested in doing this aswell. I triple boot my eee 1000h with windows xp home ubuntu and os x.

It was a bit tricky to get all three os’s to work correctly so here are the steps I took. I created an eeebuntu usb stick using iso2stick utility under linux. I then booted my windows home only eee into linux using the stick. I chose install ubuntu option in the boot menu. I then used the installer partitioning tool to shrink windows to size and created 3 new partitions for os x linux and swap for linux.

Note os x installer only recognizes the first three partitions so you must install os x somewhere in there.

I then rebooted and followed this guide and got os x on my eee. Note once os x is installed windows will no longer boot. That is OK because installing linux will fix this.

when os x is fully installed reboot the machine from your usb stick and install eeebuntu. when configuring the boot loader choose the advanced button and point the boot loader to the mbr of the drive.

When you finish installing you will see 5 boot options.

ubuntu, ubuntu safe mode, ubuntu memory test, other os and windows home.

Other os is os x but it won’t boot yet.

Test to make certain windows is still working, then reboot into linux and edit /boot/grub/menu.1st

all you need to do then is edit the menu.1st file so that your other os line looks exactly like the windows line except pointing to the os x partition.

I set mine to boot os x by deafult but I have windows home and ubuntu there if I need them.

Hope other are having as much fun as I am with this sweet machine.

Cheers

Hello Coreyd

I have just performed the upgrade to 10.5.5 and after rebooting, the system details showed that quartz extreme was not enabled. To resolve this, you have to reinstall the AppleIntelGMA950.kext and AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext

After a reboot you will have graphics acceleration running on 10.5.5

Cheers

“Coreyd on September 19th, 2008, 1:43 am
I just followed that guide to update to 10.5.5 and honestly find the OS runs so much slower. 10.5.4 was so smooth when using spaces and expose, now it jutters with any movement so wondering if anyone else who has done the update and found the same problems? Think I might go back to 10.5.4 till a proper patched update is released by iDeneb or Kalyway”

hello everybody,

when starting with the bootdisk it takes some seconds an i get the message “you need to restart your computer. hold down the power button for serveral seconds…”

and then i am hanging in a loop :-(

Anybody know this problem?

Thanks & regards

@jogiwan

I believe you didn’t follow the first steps of the guide correctly.

Did you gp in to your bios, under advanced, CPU configuration you must disable “Max CPUID Value Limit”

Under Onboard Device Configuration you must disable

Onboard lan, audio cardreader camera wlan and bluetooth, before you start the installation. Once installation is fiished you shour reanable all this stuff except for lan and audio. If you don’t you won’t be able to finishe teh setup wizard after installation it will loop forever.

Also this comment system for elp is getting out of hand. This site is so popular that we need a real forum, and perhaps a wiki to better maintain the howto.

groups.google.com?

Suggestions?

maceee working, yay! Got a new problem, the fan is alway running on full power…is there any software etc. for saving power and slow down the fan?

@James Halper

A wiki was announced among the comments above on September 13. Use the link at my name, join up, spread the word.

snickers

Thos who have the problem with the Fan, her’s some app’s to control the fan in OS X.

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/qs.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=fan+control&srchArea=macosx%7Cmacosx-all&submit=Go

Regarding the OS X Eee PC wiki on ipis-osx.wikidot.com, I didn’t know that I needed to enable membership to allow people to join and write. You should all be able to apply now. See you all there!

snickers

@Fredrikth:

Did you manage to make these applications work? I have tried on my 1000H + iDeneb 10.5.4 with no luck. It is annoying because the fan is running way to fast even if the machine’s temperature is not so high (~ 50 degrees).

@snicker

Great wiki, thanks for setting that up. I think however at this stage in the game a forum where people could post questions and threads of discussions couuld be followed would be more useful. Using this comment section to have conversations is getting ridiculous. Can you install a forum software on your site? If not how do people feel about setting up a forum on google?

@James Halper

It is my site, but I only set it up at one of those free service sites, so I can’t really install software on it. Fortunately there seems to be a forum option on it, and I’m working on getting it set up now.

I agree that a forum is important, especially with guiding people over the same questions. But I do think that having the guide and the answers wikified is also better than making people sift through forum discussions. I would also argue that the wiki is more important, not less, since the guide published here isn’t technically a complete solution, and hence we need solid documentation to get the hackers in to fix things like sound, ethernet, screen brightness, etc. So we really do need both — forums for answering questions and moderators who write the solutions into the wiki for proper documentation.

See you at the wiki, have you signed up yet?

snickers
ipis-osx.wikidot.com

Woo forum’s up! Register and start posting questions and answers!

http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/start

I have the IMAC OS VERSION 10.5.4 and I also bought a printer ” a canon” I added ot to my computer successfully but I can’t seem to be able to print anything off of the computer….how come when im on a page from the internet that i want to print i don’t see the “PRINT” option???

have you test photoshop CS3?
In my eeepc 1000h 10.5.4 quit with an error

I change hd to an hitachi 7200rpm 100gb and 2gb of ram an my xbench score only 42.
please post ours score.

@ Roeder

Quote: I was able to extend display to my 22″ LCD monitor at 1650×1050 res, with a full-screen display of an HD-MP4 video playback on the extended LCD monitor while exploring/browsing the internet on eeepc.
Major problem though:
1) Installing printer drivers for HP and Samsung CLP has error
2) Ditto with installation with MSOffice2004.
End Quote

I tried with VGA cable to various displays – no success. THe second disdlay showed up in control panel though. Any ideas?

Can you explain problems with Office an Samsung? I have Office 2008 up and running, no probs. Am pleased to help out.

@ Chestnut
Could you tell us which wireless Mini pcie you’ve baught ?

[...] seguir las instrucciones apropiadas para Eee PC y MSI [...]

@Kmikase

I purchased a BroadCom BCM 94321MC 802.11n

Typing BCM94321MC into an eBay search will bring some up. Mine works a treat, and in my opinion a small but worthwhile purchase.

Cheers

Hey Chestnut
Thanks for the info about the card! What steps were involved in installing it? I know earlier you said it took 5 minutes. Thanks!

@Power Goh
To install the new wireless card, remove the battery and power cord. Unscrew access point underneath. The wireless PCI has 2x wires plugged onto it for the antenna, and 2x screws to secure it in place. I removed these 2x screws, lifted out old card, removed antenna wires then simply reversed the above procedure to install the new card (making sure it sits in its slot correctly).

It took me 5 mins max to perform this procedure,

Cheers

[...] Eee PC How To: Mac OS X 10.5.4 for the Eee PC 901 & 1000H [...]

And the wireless card worked out of the box or you had to change some stuff ? Because i was thinking to buy this one but for my M50Sv notebook to replace an intel 4965. And i’ve checked on insanely mac, and they seem to say that the 4321 has troubles to work. So is that true or it’s really easy to make it working ? (I’m using also ideneb on my M50Sv)
Thanks mate

I put an Apple airport extreme card (also based on the broadcom chip) into my 1000H and it works just fine, and can connect at up t0 300mbs as well, which is nice.

The only issue I’ve found is that if I reboot the machine, I need to boot into BIOS and save (not changing any options) for the machine to recognize the card. It’s annoying, but not the end of the world.

If anyone has a workaround or fix for this I’d be grateful!

If anyone is interested in buying one of these, you’ll need to look for the part Apple calls the “Apple AirPort Extreme Wireless Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro MA688Z/A (or /B)”/

@Kmikase

I had no issues on installing the BroadCom BCM 94321MC 802.11n. After installing, I booted into OSX. The Airport Extreme icon was showing in the task bar (outline with no bars in it), I simply right clicked on this and set up the network connection, which now comes up automatic on boot & from sleep

Cheers

Ok, thanks for your answer. I’ve ordered one from canada, i’ll tell you the results as soon as i get the card :)

hi there. i successfully got ideneb 10.5.4.v1.1 installed on my eee 1000h w/160gb hard ive, and have it dual booting into osx/xp.

However, i cannot get the wireless to work on the OSX side. Works fine in XP still, but even after installing/uninstalling/installing the ralink driver, nothing is showing up in my network prefs panel. The blue light for the wireless is on, but it doesnt seem to detetct it. All i have availaible in network prefs is bluetooth (which it wont let me disable).

I may have accidentally left wireless on while installing ideneb. My main question is, if i want to reinstall, how do i get back into BIOS to alter the settings? No matter what i do, i get darwin loading and cant access BIOS…

Any help is appreciated!

I revised the Tut, removed some errors and added Dual Boot Information for the 1000H version.The Tut here is for the eee 901.
Check it out, if you want avoid problems:
http://superdupernice.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/how-to-mac-os-x-1054-for-the-eee-pc-1000h-with-dual-boot-on-xp/

So i was able to get into the bios and reinstalled with all drivers off except USB, but i still cant see the wifi card… the RALINK app just says “no device” and system prefs/network doesnt detect a new connection… Its still just showing me bluetooth…

@unclemurray

my wireless does that too and i am using a different distro (kalyway 10.5.2 updated to 10.5.4). I was able to have it recognized a couple of times (in something like 10 boots) by toggling the fn+f2 while the apple boot screen is starting up but it is by no means consistent. i am installing the ideneb right now and will see if anything changes.

I also had problems with the modded display kexts causing only half the screen to be used after boot so that is why I am trying the different distro for maybe a cleaner install.

Thanks @pithed. Lemme know if you have any success… I ordered a broadcom card on ebay so in a week or so it may be a moot point, but curious why this wouldnt work for a few of us….

Hi,

Just to tell, that if you want that the wifi work each time you boot you must put in the BIOS SETUP, BOOT, in the BOOT CONFIGURATION and put Quick Boot : Enabled, Quiet Boot Disabled, And BOOT BOOSTER : Disabled.

With this configuration my WIFI work each time i boot …

@Pat

Thanks! you solution works for me.

Hi All,

Some help with screen resolution would be great. Have installed kalyway 10.5.2 on EeePC 1000H. Working well, just trying to fine tune screen resolution. Best resolution for screen is 1024×600. Does anyone know how to get this ? Cheers

901 with built in 3g

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/25/asus-takes-eee-pc-901-for-an-hsupa-data-ride/

Are Sound and Ethernet drivers available now?

PS: Will there be upgrade of EeePC 1000H with HSUPA ?

Here a user from The Netherlands. My problem is that nothing happens after using and configuring Disk Utility. I see the ‘Welcome’ and that’s it. What do I have to do to proceed with the installation? It even looks like the resolution of the screen is too low. I think there is more on the screen than I actually see. I have 901, 4/8 gb. SSD, 2 gb. ram. I try to install OSX on the 8 gb. SSD. Somebody to help me please?

boot with boot-option “Graphics Mode”=”800×600×32″ :)

‘boot with boot-option “Graphics Mode”=”800×600×32″’

Thanks, that was the trick!

Another question : The installation went perfect, but after the 1st boot the Setup Wizard startup, I choose the country and keyboard. After that I come in the ‘Do you already have a Mac?’ screen. I choose ‘Do not transfer my information now’, and click Continue. After a while I got a black screen with the coloured ball pointer.
And than I got the ‘Welcome’ screen again to choose the country. What am I doing wrong???

What you are doing wrong is that you haven’t read this topic !
It has been asked and answered sooooooo many times !!

(I don’t want to be rude, but it is because it is already hard to follow everything in this topic because of this kind of site, so asking always the same questions make it harder)

check Chestnut’s post from the 14th september…

@pat

Thank you! This solved my wifi issue on the 1000H 160gb!

I dont know of my 160gb came configured differently but some stuff just works.. For example, i can boot XP and mac without altering my boot plist… ( i altered the dual boot directions a bit… I didnt set the mac to be the boot partition until AFTER i installed OSX…)

Does anyone know of a way in osx to disable bluetooth? I have no option to turn it off… Would i just disable it in the BIOS?

@Peter
The Tut here ist for the 901. You have to enable the Usb device in Bios.
http://superdupernice.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/how-to-mac-os-x-1054-for-the-eee-pc-1000h-with-dual-boot-on-xp/

Hello guys, it all worked out. Thanks for your support!

Sorry quick follow-up question. Is anybody out there running a EeePc 1000H with Mac OS X and the screen resolution of 1024×600 ? If so how ? Cheers

Yes, works for me. I just did it like here ;)
http://superdupernice.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/how-to-mac-os-x-1054-for-the-eee-pc-1000h-with-dual-boot-on-xp/

I’ve ordered this item : http://cgi.ebay.fr/Slim-A2DP-Stereo-Bluetooth-Headphone-Headset-Black-New_W0QQitemZ270279557084QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item270279557084&_trkparms=72%3A1034|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

and i received it today. If you wanna have sound for the moment it is a great stuff.
After configurating the bluetooth on the laptop (setting the right bluetooth output, because one is in 8 Khz :s and the other one is in 44 Khz), it works like a charm.

Can i update the bios after the installation? or to i have to do it all over again?

My 1000h has the 1103 bios and wont let me downgrade to any previous version or the 1000h bios in the link at the top.
I also get the gray, power off device screen, no matter what I enable/disable in bios.

Have tried the idenbb 10.5.4 as well as the iatkos, toh 1.5.2 and kalway 10.5.2 (use this on this pc as well).

Any suggestions?

I am trying to do this on a 901 but I can’t figure out how to flash the bios. I have a 20GB Xandros preinstalled machine. I have the ROM file for the 901 by itself on a USB drive, and I changed the boot priority to USB drive, but it doesn’t alter the BIOS.

:(

I know NOTHING about bios but can follow instructions. How on earth do I get my computer to see the new BIOS and install it? Again, I am in LINUX not Windows so I can’t use the ASUS update tools, and when I google ‘bootable flash tools asus’ I get a bunch of nonsense that doesn’t seem to apply to the 901 let alone to Linux….HELP! I am leaving for a 6 week trip in 2 days and I need OS X on this computer.

No where seems to discuss flashing the BIOS with Xandros on an eee pc 901. One google search suggests hitting F2 + alt instead of F2 but if I do that, the OS simply starts up normally and doesn’t even get me into BIOS.

Just to say the the brightness issue has been partially fixed here – http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/asus-hotkeys – you can now adjust the brightness with the hotkeys however there is two issues:Firstly when you resume from sleep you have to it one of the brightness keys to turn the backlight on as it resumes off. Secondly the screen isn’t as bright as before – it seems to be the standard range of brightness you normally get (peaking about 63% of full brightness) this is the same in XP but can be changed to full brightness with eeectl. Not sure if this can be fixed, but I haven’t been able to pot on ipis forums… :(

Confirming that the above kext changes allows the brightness hotkeys to work – woo! I think there might be a way to hack the sleep issue by running a wake script that manually turns up the brightness. Will investigate.

@ rsm
Which file is the executable ?
Because i’ve been looking in system/library/extentions/appleintelintegratedframebuffer.kext and there are 3 files :
version.plist and info.plist and another appleintelintegratedframebuffer without extension.
I’ve opened it with hexedit but then what ??? nothing seems like 0×5DEC

Some things I figured out:

1.To flash the BIOS, rename the ROM file to whatever the name of your comp model is, in my case 901.ROM. Put it alone on a USB drive and insert it into your computer. Reboot, hit F2. Under the Boot tab of BIOS settings, change priority boot device to USB drive. Go to exit, select exit + save changes. This will cause the comp to reboot again, so as soon as you see it start up, HOLD DOWN alt + F2. This will go into EZ-FLASH and update your BIOS. Reboot, hit F2, double check that BIOS is working.

2. To prevent getting stuck in a loop during registration after installation, hit F2 when comp is booting up. Re-enable all 4 of the onboard devices under the Advanced tab, and re-enable SpeedStep in CPU. Then exit, save changes, and hit esc rapidly while comp reboots. Select the drive you installed your OS X on – in my case, it’s call SS-ASUS-PHYSON (if you select SM-ASUS-PHYSON, you boot back into Xandros). This will cause registration to go smoothly.

My wireless is finally working but keeps crashing…it COULD be my router bc I never use wireless with my desktop and can’t vouch for how well it works. It’s not been great on my iphone so it could well be the damn router. I get weird IP clashing error messages…

Hi all, does this tutorial also work foor eepc 701 ? i have installed leopard on t , it works fine , but i have no sound , wireless … .. , the drivers i found here seems not to works on it , is there an other way to make them work ?

thanks for all

@ Kmikase

That wiki page actually has the modded kext – click the ‘files’ link at the bottom of the page. I then installed it with kext helper.

My bad, i haven’t seen the “file” link on the page. I will test it, thanks Rsm

Like 901 will get HSUPA, Is a new version of 1000H going to get HSUPA ?
Then I will wait for new version.

Pls reply.

Hmmm after I successfully installed iDeneb 1.1, I tried to install the drivers. It told me to reboot, but when rebooting, I get stuck. On Verbose Mode, it says:
InterfaceNamer: no network interfaces, could not update platform UUID.

What should I do now?

Thanks to all those involved. Up and running very smoothly (with the added input of posters). Quite startled how well it runs under Leopard. Well worth the sacrifice of sound (though I do have some very poor USB headphones and can vouch that the audio does work this way).
Just a much, much better experience all round – mainly because it seems a lot snappier than XP for some reason.
Have installed Office 2008, which is working flawlessly. The standalone iDeneb patch fixes the CarbonLib error I was getting and that was reported by a few people. Shades and wifi are also good.
Basically, only ethernet and the audio issues remaining, with the latter the only one I’m bothered about.
Thanks again!

Hi Guys

I bought an eee pc 904. I note the comment above about incompitability with OSX. Anybody knows if it is at all possible to do it using any other way

Regards

I just got head phones working!! still no speakers though :(

Hi Nick E,

Please can you post your findings on the http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/ forum? It is a more convenient way to discuss about this.

Thanks!

Having said everything was working well, I do actually have the shut down problem with the LEDs staying on. Has anyone found a solution to this?

And Nick, do you mean you have USB/bluetooth headphones working or that you’re getting sound through the jack?

How can i get the display at 1024×600 again? After the installation of maceeedotcompatches i have a half screen 800*600.

I’m not using any USB/bluetooth headphones. I’m using the onboard output. Still not onboard speakers. see the link and you should be able to get it working too. I love my 1000h! I’m running XP Pro/OSX/Ubuntu Hardy. Good stuff

See the link it has the info

@Nick

The volume symbol appears in the bar (which disappears after restart), but I’m not getting any sound through the jack. What did you do to get it to work and what is your set up?

Nick,
which OS selection tool you use for three OS’s?

I use default windows boot.ini. It can load mac, xp pro(duh) and ubuntu. I have the boot.ini pointing to grub, xp and osx this way if i ever need to fix the mbr its easier

@The_Ghost

I had the same problem on my 1000h with only half-screen display, see the following link for solutions that worked: http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-91942/resolution-kexts

But i want to know why this display problem only happens for some people ?

@pithed
Thank’s mate for your help.
Sorry for my bad English.
I use iDeneb 1.3 1.5.5. All it’s working perfect. For the res problem i use switchresx util. When i install the ACPIBattery.kext i lost the icon of the battery from the menu bar so i remove it again. WiFi its working but after every restart i mast turn off and on again the radio option from the WirelessUtilityCardbus.
I have sound with bluetooth earphones and i am using a bluetooth mouse too.
Thank’s a lot maceee world for your tut.

PS: where can i find info about kext files?

@Nick,

I have the same issue as many others. I installed the AzaliaAudio pkg as well as the kext. after reboot the snd icon is availablbe but I don’t get anything from my line out jack. Little help?

Sound is definately a dealbreeaker and the main reason I am using windows on this machine. Any suggestions?

Here is a list of audio related kexts in my Extensions folder, could one of them be conflicting with the HDAenabler?

What have you got in your Extensions folder?

Apple02Audio.kext
AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
AppleFWAudio.kext
AppleOnboardAudio.kext
AppleUSBAudio.kext
AudioDeviceTreeUpdater.kext
AudioIPCDriver.kext
IOAudioFamily.kext
SM56KUSBAudioFamily.kext
VirtualAudioDriver.kext

Has anybody managed to install OSX ON eee pc 904

Thanks a lot

Deya

Did anyone happen to install the modded bios for the 1000H on the 901? The current modded bios version for the 901 is too old and you may not leave from suspend with other key than the power button.

Is it possible that the modded bios for the 1000H bricks the 901?

Thanks

I have the webcam identified but with black screen.

Anyound found a fix for this? webcam works in xandros.

I’m on eee pc 901 linux (4gb+16gb)

so i have the same problem as some other people but havent seen a solution anywhere. sometimes when i shut down my 1000h it doesnt turn off completely.–fan and leds still on. is there any kind of fix for this?

also, is there a standalone update for ideneb 1.3 10.5.5? i don’t want to reinstall the os, just update it.

thanks

Got the doubling up of restart/shutdown + black bordering etc. after closing the lid. Stays after restarting. This glitch is getting irritating. To be honest, I’ve been having problem after problem with things after an initially successful install. Has anybody actually got a stable installation with Office 2008 on their Eee 1000H?

Oh, and I just tested vga output without any joy. Has anybody got that to work and if so, how?

[...] einzig komplizierte an der Installation nach dieser Anleitung (eng.) ist, das der kleine kein optisches Laufwerk hat. Also musste ich im nächsten Computerfachmarkt [...]

Sorry to ask again. I am posting again as different people have different problems / solutions. My apologies again.
Is there any way to install Leopard or Tiger succesfuly on the eee pc 904.
Mine runs both XP & Vista with Office 2007 well. I was being greedy & wanted to explore migration to Mac by “Hackintoshing” the eee pc before actually buying a mac

Many thanks again

Deya

I have it working as well as anyone so far. Best idea so far was to pick up a Dell 1490 wireless card and replace the 1000h’s. It is recognized natively by OS X, and doesn’t require toggling on and off. Acts like a standard Airport card.

Anybody know how to disable tap to click on the touchpad??

How do you install the wireless card in the 1000h?? I don’t wanna break it. I have big clumsy hands. lol

It was really easy, Dweeb. Two screws hold the access cover in place on the bottom of the 1000h. RAM, HD and wireless are there.

Two screws hold the wireless card in place, and there are two antennas. It is a direct replacement, and they look very similar, so there’s no mistaking that you’ve got the right thing.

If you do it, make sure to NOT select any wireless card during install. It’s natively supported, so selecting a workaround will cause it to not work. You could probably just replace the stock broadcom kext if you’re doing this post-install of the OS,

Hey there,

first off all: a big Thank for this Guide. And next: i´m sorry about my bad english.

I´ve just installed Mac OS X (ideneb Version) on my little Eee 901 – on the SSD ist still Win XP working, i installed it for the first installation on an 8 GB SDHC-Card. Boots up in just 2 minutes – for the first times :-( Now here´s my problem:

I´ve tried the installation two times: At the first time i got a failure after installation of Wifi-Drivers. The System hang up in a booting loop (i saw that in Verbose Mode), anything with a mDNSResponder… ?! I haven´t saved all of the errors, I have just tried a complete new installation.

The System is now working complete, wifi, webcam, graphics acceleration etc. – But there comes a failure at booting up the system:

It tooks only a few seconds after the gray screen with the “loading circle” comes up – computer makes a shutdown. In verbose mode i can see it like “cpu halted; unmount, etc…”

Because of this i have to start always in single user mode ( -s) , type the following commands in:

/sbin/fsck -fy – here comes an error like “checking catalog ; file invalid key length”; then

/sbin/mount -uw /

and then exit – voila, system starts now und runs wonderful….

Could anyone tell me, what this is, and what I can do?

Greetings from Germany, Kris

new problem:
I have my eeeMac set up with iDeneb, all running smoothly (except audio and ethernet) but I have one problem

1024×600 was not available at first, I then fixed it with SwitchResX and got it to work, but everytime it reboots, it’s in the right resolution at first before it falls back into the 800×600 mode without me being able to do anything…

any idea?

thanks

@Brian
I like the idea of having a natively supported WiFi module installed.
Do you know i any of these will work?

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/category.aspx?c=ch&category_id=6913&cs=chdhs1&l=de&s=dhs&~ck=anav

I seem to not be getting a 1490 card here…

I don’t know if any others work, ProgHippie. Dell 1395 and 1490 do.

cool! i now got myself a 1490 from the bay, i’ll keep you updated if it will work.

about the resolution: switchresx is BS, i now used displayconfigx and all is cool!

I’ve tried to install the iDeneb 10.5.4 on my eeepc 8g,but the installation process stops when I choose the language. Can someone help me ? Thanks.

Is there a patched EeePC 901 BIOS based on current Asus BIOS v1502 available from somewhere?
Because Leopard (with special graphics card driver from above link) does only display a blue background after booting when original BIOS v1502 is installed (besides the very slow booting..), at least on my EeePC 901 while following the installation instruction above.

Thanks for the great work!

mantillo

@mario

make sure to turn on the devices in the bios before the first boot

if not, you will get an infinite loop.

i mean the first boot AFTER the install, that is.

if you can’t set up the language in the first installation window (before there is any data copied) your bios may be corrupt. also, think about using ENGLISH, i’ve tried both german and french, and they both didn’t work smoothly (be it because of the language, be it another reason)

Hi!

For sorry I have a problem with the English language, and German translation of this grateful install instruction I couldn’t google out.
I’m not understanding the meaning of “Expand the triangle for…. and check…..”
What does it mean “check”?
Just look is it specified in, or I have to mark this entry?

Thanks for help.

@ProgHippie

I’ve tried both Italian and English but they didn’t work. Also,I’m using the last version of the eeePC 8G BIOS.

@Grose

“check” = “ein Häkchen setzen”

;-)

@Mario

Try the “hacked” BIOS from http://osrom.net/biosmod/

i havee iDeneb 1.2 installed on my 1000h right now. If I download iDeneb1.3 iso will I be able to use that to simply update my install or will I have to back up all of my stuff and do a fresh install of it completely? Thanks. I can’t find an update patch like i did for 1.2. :-(

I have ideneb 10.5.4 installed on 1000H running at 1024×600. When I watched video on youtube, the video started playing for a couple seconds and then freezed right there, the progress bar was still moving forward but the video screen was not updating. I also tried to play a rmvb file(located on local drive) using Real Player, video pauses and resumes around every 3 seconds, very bad, CPU usage is pretty high too(80%-100%). Anyone has a solution?

It is because you have no audio. As soon as you connect a bluetooth stereo headset/stereo system or a usb audio card the problem will be fixed. I had the same problem and confusion. I grabbed a usb sound card of amazon for about 3$ us. microphone and audio works great.

@ProgHippie

I have the 8G Eeepc,inside the site you gave me there isn’t the right bios for me.

Hi,
I have a 901 16g xp and i tried to install OSX on it by using the instruction above. I have XP on the 1st 4g SM SSD drive, and OSX on the 2nd 8g SS SSD drive. After the installation done then it reboots. I got a “Welcome” screen. I selected US on country and clicked “continue” next screen “Select Your Keyboard” I selected US then click on “continue” now the “Do You Already Own a Mac?” screen came up. I selected ” Do not transfer my information now” then i clicked “continue”. After a minute later the “Welcome” screen appeared again.
Please help!
Thank you

I installed ideneb 1.5 (OSX 10.5.5) on a Asus 1000H.I flashed the BIOS with the 1003 Hack. Disabled all in BIOS – only USB support left. Bootet the DVD.Formatet the whole 160GB Drive with HSF+journaled and went on with the installation.Then Customize: Expanded the triangle for Chipsets and checked ICHx Fixed./Expanded the triangle for Wireless and checked Broadcom/ Expand the triangle for Fix and checked FireWire Remove./Expanded the triangle for Video, then the triangled for Intel. GMA950. The special check for Kernel version (Vanilla Kernel ist standard).Installation ran… Installation will hang on “Do you want to transfer information from another Mac” screen.Just shut the EeePC and then start it up again holding down the F8 key. When the prompt appears type -s to enter single user command line mode. From there type the following commands, one at a time:

sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
passwd root

Set the root password and restart. Now OS X should boot at normal.
Restarted Computer and enabled everything in BIOS.

So far.. no Sound, No Ethernet, No Wifi.. but Buttons for dimming the screen brightness work! Keyboard workds..touchpad.. but OSX has pretty long bootup time.. (couldnt enable/dissable speedstepping in the bios! during install.

@ple:

that’s a known issue and you could have resolved it by reading more than just the top 5 posts.

-> turn all the devices in bios (“onboard devices”) on before the first start with the os installed (“enabled”)

Does anyone elses screens go crazy when extended to an external monitor with mirror turned on? Mine goes haywire.

@Narayan
It works, but now i got the loging screen and i dont know what is the user name and password. Please help.
Thanks

Hi,
I got the OSX installed and got i got it passed the previous issue. After reboot now i get a loging screen and i dont know what is the user name and password.
Please help!
Thanks

after i pressed F8 and typed -s

i followed the workaround i found on the net like discribed above

sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
passwd root

..after typing “passwd root” i had to enter my own passphrase like vor excample “123″ and hit enter…

after reboot I had the same login screen and didn’t know what to enter. The user name is “root” and the password -> your own passphrase (like “123″)

Greetings,

can i put any 2.5 inch hard drive in my eeepc 1000h?

@dweeb: yes you can.

just to summarize, this is now my system:

- asus eee 1000h with 160 GB
- dell 1490 wifi card
- 2 gb kingston ram
- mini usb soundcard of speedlink

…and everything works like a blast. it’s really a mini macbook – yay!

thanks so much to the crew making this possible!

@ProgHippie

Where I can find the hacked bios for my eeepc 8G ?

well… that’s the “old” processors there…

use of osx on this system is not recommended, anything under the atom processor is just too weak i’m afraid. i think that’s also why there is no customized bios around for it

@dweeb

No you cannot!!
It must be a SATA 2.5 in drive no standard PATA 2.5 will fit. ;)

@ple
Presumably you went into single user mode to bypass log in and entered a password there. When logging in first time, your name will be root and the password whatever you typed in earlier.

Nice, fixed EeePC 901 got updated to 1502! :o)

@mantillo
What do you mean by “fixed Eeepc 901 updated to 1502″ ?
Are you talking about the bios revision 1502 which corrects the bug for installing osx ?

@Dave
it works, thanks :)

I’m thinking of buying a eeepc 1000HD. Does this process work there too? Haven’t seem anyone else with an “HD”, only the H.

Thanks.

Skip

I remember reading somewhere that the HD was far inferior to the H when it comes to running OS X. Check the iPis forum maybe.

What does the new 901 bios do?

Several issues not sure if anybody found any solutions:
1. Fan speed control.
2. Speedstep or manual cpu frequence control.

u was suggesting that 901 isnt the ideal for MACoS X due to the HDD problem..

901 feature a Zif socket which can be mod to support a zif or 2.5 HDD .. wat do u say if it has an HDD, will the the 901 fast enuf? and bios mod is required?

My research indicate some version of 901 only has 1G 400mhz memory .. some ppl upgrade with 2G 800mhz.. i am not sure that there is any improvement in performance which could match the 1000H 566mhz.

@madcow: what a lot of misinformation…. where did you see a 2.5HD inside a 901?

@yanxin: search the net. Try “coolbook” or “xnu kernel”

@Dominique974:

Sorry, I forgot a word, I wanted to say:

“Nice, fixed EeePC 901 BIOS got updated to 1502! :o)”

I did not test the new BIOS with the fixed DSDT (?) tables, yet.
But if it works, you can use the newest BIOS from Asus with MacOS/Leopard
(this did not work with normal 1502, at least on my 901).

[...] How To: Mac OS X 10.5.4 for the Eee PC 901 & 1000H | MacEee.com (tags: eee osx howto) [...]

Check out the new Lenovo Netbooks. Wonder how OSX will run on that puppy.

My friend got one and everything seems to run okay

+wifi is detected as airport using the same fix used on the dell mini 9
+ethernet doesnt work, as is usual
+no sound, usb sound card works as fix
+external vga works, mirrored also works unlike in the eee 1000h
+all other keys work including wifi toffle and function keys, except brightness

@Peninha: Basically, some 901 has Zif socket which allow 1.8 drive to be connected. So conceptually a 2.5″ PATA can be connect with a converter, fairly simple.

According to my research there are no zif to 2.5″ converter yet.
There is for other direction such as a 1.8″ HDD connect to a 40pins socket however a mod with direct pinout with an external DC source of 5V can be mod to allow 2.5 in an 901 through Zif socket.

It is still my concept through .. I dont have an 901 to prove the concept work but i did quiet an amount of research which lead to my question above. However it has not been answered yet ..

Anyone know if the new iDeneb 1.3 release is worth installing if you’ve got 10.5.5 running and working well already? I can’t figure out if there’s a lot new here besides the OS update, or if there are other driver / lower-level fixes that make redoing everything worthwhile…

i got 10.5.5 running. i tried it with the newest modded bios for the 901 and i could not get the right screen resolution during installation. couldnt see the bottom of my screen. used the older bios and everything went ok. of course sound and ethernet dont work but the webcam also does not work.. any one know how to fix this? I am also having trouble getting the the 16 gig drive as the default boot. It is set to slave while the 4 gig is set to master. Can anyone tell me how to set the 16 gig drive as the master? I want to be able to boot into osx as the default.

Anybody know how to disable the default tap-to-click touchpad behaviour? Registry trick or kext?

ACK! Using Windows too long today…”registry” per the above should have been “Terminal.”

Hi,

@glenn
How did you get the wifi work with airport? whick fix did you use? dell mini 9??? where can i find it? or did you use the wifi pcie mini card?^^

i have another problem: the apple key is on my 1000h placed on the ALT key and the aplle´s function key is on my windows key. how can i change it? anybody an idea?

@arek, nope we used the fix as mentioned above, the ralink wireless utility. unless you are talking about the lenovo.

pop out the keys and swap it. or go to system prefs > keyboard > modifier keys and change accordingly.

Ideneb V1.3 is working, but during the installation, the windows for the DVD’s check and for the installation process disappeared.

I will recommand the V1.1 then update to 10.5.5

So nothing new about the sound ?

after installing the kext files, and reboot, the laptop would hang on the startup, i type f8 during startup and went to root. type
cd /System/Library/Extensions
to remove the kext file
type rm -ri AppleIntelGMA950.kext
it will remove the whole directory
then type reboot
got os x to load back to normal, now will see what I could do to finish the install

Hello again

Has anybody managed to install any form of OSX ON eee pc 904
All posts are on 901 & 1000

Is there is hope of installing it on 904, considering it is celeron
Other net posts have managed on even older eee pc, but can’t find any version that runs on the 904

Please help

Thanks a lot

Deya

@glenn

thx for the infos. the keyboard is working now ;-)
but i still don´t know how you got the wifi detected as airport. i´m using the same ralink utility und i have always turn the radio first off and then on, but i would like to use the airport utility

come on anyone with a 901 get the webcam working?? anyone? no webcam is bothering the heck out of me. system profiler recognizes it but nothing else does. any help would be really appreciated. i know u 1000h got it working.

does anyone else with the 1000h and 10.5.5 ideneb 1.3 installed have the problem where the webcam works fine with other apps but when taking you user id pic for the account it doesnt sshow you any kind of preview in the pictures from until after the 3 2 1 and it takes the picture?? a small thing i know but i am a bit of a perfectionist.

@goh: the 901 and the 1000H have different webcams (at least the ones I got). While the one in the 1000H works out of the box I couldn’t put the other to work yet. I can provide the pci ids of both if anyone’s interested.

@dweeb: I always use msiwindosx image and upgrade to 10.5.5 then. In the 1000H the webcam works fine when creating accounts.

@Peninha

do you install the same drivers with msiwindosx? how did you upgrade to 10.5.5? also, i notice sometimes my 1000h does not power off completely and i have to hold the power button until the leds and fan turn off. does that ever happen to yours? the webcam worked fully the first time i installed ideneb. i might just try a reinstall.

also, does anyone know if it is possible to simply uninstall and reinstall the webcam and its drivers without reinstalling the whole os? like an equivalent of winddows device manager?

I just saw they are coming out with a “premium” eee model, the s101. The specs look very similar to those of the 901. Is there a good chance I would be able to install X on that as well?

@kmikase:

The DVD check and installation windows during iDeneb installation disappeared on my last installation on EeePC 901 with iDeneb v1.1 (not 1.3), too.
Never happened during my installation attempts before…I thought that I might had done something wrong with the touchpad..?

[...] that worked for me. I take no credit at all for this. Guys like paul or the guys over at maceee did the lions share of the [...]

Hello!

I’d like to try out OS X on my 1000H 160GB EEE.
Therefore I have some questions, none of the above posts have answered.
Now I have win XP and ubuntu ee working on my eee.

* Will installing OS X alter the masterbootrecord of my harddisk? (I hope it won’t)

* I would like to put the install-image onto a USB stick, and install OS X on the 3rd oder 4th partition from the stick.
(will OS X also work on an extended partition, or only on a primary one?)

* afterwards I’d like to use bootpart for making OS X accessable from the windows XP bootloader (boot.ini)

Will the above steps work, or is there a flaw in my thinking?

@KingJohn
I have OS X on dual boot with winxp. using Chameleon loader in MBR

I THINK that loader will only boot OS X on primary part where something like Grub can boot it in extended.

But!! if ubuntu’s boot loader is in mbr and Ubuntu root is extended, why not give OS X the bed it deserves then use whatever boot loader you like.

As for the jump drive(need more than 4 gb) hit the pen drive linux scene for info on bootable flash iso and all will be good and right in your little world!

mine also doesnt always turn off. anyone found a fix yet?

@Dweeb : try this, it always shutdown and reboot fine on mine : http://www.psystar.com/openhaltrestart.html

I don’t know if it is the same for all of you, but when i put the Eeepc 1000H on sleep, when it wakes up if i don’t press a key, the keyboard goes crazy. So everytime it wakes up i press down arrow and no pb anymore, also my trackpad never goes crazy.

For others : the original wireless card of the eeepc ain’t an airport.It works with another utility.
I can only recommand you to buy a Broadcom BCM94321MC (you’ll find it on ebay) it is an airport and AGN.

To uninstall the webcam drivers, i can’t tell you, check in your /library/quicktime/ maybe there is a driver for the webcam there.

Does anyone have a recomendation for a usb ethernet adapter i can use? wifi is nice but kind of slow. The cheaper the better as well.

I am in Canada so links to newegg are kinda useless

Thanks

@Kmikase

Thanks but that didn’t work. Oh well. It shuts down about 75% of the time. I am about to do a full-reinstall of the OS tomorrow anyways because I am getting my Apple Airport Extreme Wifi Mini PCI-E Card 802.11n 300M tomorrow! (I missed delivery today because they came at freaking 9:00 AM and I had class.)

Any else’s clock driving them crazy on dual boot with xp? I did the regedit for system time is UTC but it still keeps get sc@#&ed up! I also tried deleting the UTC reg key and letting windows have it’s way and set OSX time zone to UTC and still windows cannot figure out what time it is. any info is good. Thanks

@joeZomie:

I did a very stupid workaround for the time problem:

My windows is set to correct time zone and I set Mac OS to a time zone that the clock shows the correct time. This way, the Mac time zone is wrong, but the time shown by Mac and Windows clock is correct. :-)

@ Dweeb. i think it is the best to do, reinstalling after changing the airport. Mine works great. When you’re install is done install the shutdown file i gave you.

For those who are talking about the time, are you talking about the 2h differences between windows and Leo ? If yes, there is a patch for this.

Hello again

Does anyone know how to completely remove the HDA Audio stuff?

I installed it and it doesn’t work however now it is teh deafult audio device even though I have a usb device.. Basically this forces me to have to go into system preferences and switch devices before I have sound. It is a minor annoyance.

Help please

So in case anyone else wants one I bought a dlink dub e100 usb ethernet card and it work perfectly.

If you’re using the newer 1000H with bluetooth and wireless N, does anything change?

I was debating a 1000H vs. an MSI Wind, but it will be a total pain to have to replace the Wind’s wireless card to make it work with OSX.

@ James :
Just go to system/library/extensions/ and delete appeazalia.kext

Thanks Kmikase

That worked. I am going to begin modifying my eee today (maybe) I will try to mod it and fit my usb sound card and my usb ethernet inside the case. Could be a lot of work but if I can get them in there it will be nearly perfect. Can anyone point me to eee 100h teardown instructions?

Thanks

if i were you i couldn’t try to put them inside, you will modify the case so you’ll lose your waranty. I’m waiting for a mini usb sound card too, but what i already did for my other laptop (the inside sound card works great) is to create a small mic. There is just the 3.5 jack with the mic, no long cable.

I replaced the wireless card by the BMC94321CM today and it work just great as it was say before. but for xp i had to find special drivers. If some of you need them ask me.

So I took the thing apart and began looking for spots to add my mods. There is very little room to work with and my usb network card is really bif so I am not certain I will be able to install it. I caould order a smaller one from ebay but I already paid for this one so I am not sure.

I am trying to figure a way to connect the built in speakers to teh sound card. I will try to find a 4 pin togle switch so I can run both the headphone out and built in speakers from my new usb sound card and toggle between on and the other. I am a little worried about connecting the usb sound device to to the usb controller as it seems to be integrated into the usb plug on the left and sealed in an aluminium cover. Also to anyone else looking to teardown their eee 1000h step one remove the keyboard. After that it is a cakewalk.

A friend of mine who does hardware builds recommended against installing this hardware and insists a software fix is around the corner. He seems to think that installing hardware that isn’t an augmentation but a replacement is a waste of effort.

What do people here think?

I totally agree with your friend, you shouldn’t do that because:
- as i said, you’ll lose your warranty
- You may break something inside the laptop or on the motherboard
- Is it really a problem have a usb sound card ?

You should wait with this usb card till a driver is released. My eeepc works perfectly after having change the wireless card. Ok sound is missing, but it is not a big deal to have an additional usb card. I’ve ordered one one ebay and those card seem pretty small, so it’s not like if you were connecting all the time an Audigy on your Eeepc.
Or if you really want your internal speaker working, you can solder a cable with a 3′5 mini jack which goes from you internal speakers then goes out of the laptop so you just have to plug it in the usb sound card. You can also create a really small mic. Mine is just a 3′5 minijack with a mic on it and it works great.

That ’s some ideas but really, i would try to put this usb card inside.

Well I have installed the iDeneb 10.5.5 version on my brand new 900a. This version of eee PC is a hybrid between the 900 and 901. It does have the Intel 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1 Gig of RAM, but only a 4 Gig SSD and no WebCam at all.

Given the small size of the SSD I decided to install OSX on an attached 16Gig USB fob drive. This all seemed to work fine and the install went great. However, now I am stuck. Everytime I try and boot up the system is getting stuck at
“MAC Framework successfully initialized
using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers”

And here it sits. Any suggestions in getting this working???

Thanks for any and all help.

Scott

Will this work on the new EEE 900HAs?

[...] a writer for WebMonkey, was able to run the Mac OS following instructions found at MacEEE.  Many people consider this a hack, but it pretty much consists of using a prepatched Mac OS [...]

Hi!

Best regards from Germany.
For all, who’s original RaLink Wifi card acts bitchy.
I choose several driver, only one works more or less acceptable, is from here:
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/S … ntosh.html
Switching off/on is necessary.
I made a cut, I bought a original Apple Extreme card.
it runs native, it runs perfect.

Grose

Hi!
some quick questions:

1
So, is it just a matter of time until somebody will figure out how to get sound working under leopard on the 1000h or is it just impossible?

2
install a dualboot with xp – could I also follow these instructions to install OSX and then from osx do the bootcamp-routine?

3
for the 1000h u also recommend a bios-flash – or just for the 900?

many thnx in advance to all! keep up the great work, it´s so amazing!!
stoobz.

…ah forgot something:

4
Is there a guide to install osx 10.4 tiger on the 1000h? I just found guides for all the other eeepcs :(
did anybody manage to do this? do the same problems remain there with no ethernet and no sound?

thnx again!!!! ;)
stoobz

@stoobz

1. As far as I know it is only a matter of time. Good people at the iPis OS X wiki seem to be working hard on it from what I see in the thread there.

2. I am not certain but I do not believe you will be able to use bootcamp to dual boot as it is designed for Apple hardware. You don’t need to. The best way to dual boot I have found is to download the chain0 file which you put in the C:/ directory in XP, then modify the XP boot.ini file by appending c:\chain0=”Mac OS X” at the end of the .ini file, save and exit. Then install iDeneb or whatever on a seperate partition or a separate hard drive or whatever but instead of selecting GUID partition select MBR so that when you turn on your computer youu will be able to choose XP or OS X from the WIndows boot menu. It is important you format the OS X partition as MBR. It would not read the chain0 file and boot into OS X for me until I did.

3. I am not surre if it would be worse if I didn’t, but I did do the bios flassh on my 1000H and from what I hear it is much slower to boot if you do not.

4. I have not seen a guide to install Tiger but I don’t understand why you would want to since the newest version of Leopard is stable on the 1000H and you still would not have sound, ethernet, or airport support with the standard 1000H hardware because there is simply no drivers for them yet.

I myself am actually about to go back to the iDeneb 10.5.4 distribution. I think it ran more smoothly and also for some reason with iDeneb 10.5.5 I cannot see a preview of the picture I am about to take in the user icon picture select box although I can in photobooth.

Note to folks trying to get wireless working – make sure you have a 1000H and NOT a 1000HA. The network cards are different between the two different models. I have a 1000HA and struggled to get the wireless going all weekend before realizing that my wireless was an 802.11 a/b/g and not an 802.11 a/b/g/n.

The 1000HA does not have 802.11n nor Bluetooth, but comes with a 160gb hard drive (although I believe the 1000H does now too), and is $50 cheaper.

I’ve ordered a Broadcom nic to replace the one that came with the HA. Sad about the bluetooth though :-(.

ugh. i follwed the guide at http://board.ihackintosh.net/index.php?showtopic=751 to update to 10.5.5 because i was not liking the direct 10.5.5 ideneb install.

I need help with:
9. Find the line that says ‘Don’t Steal Mac OS X.kext and replace it with dsmos.kext (You might not have this in the script, i didn’t)

am i supposed to save or something? i replaced the part of the line that said don’t steal mac.kext with dsmos.kext but then just clicked restart and now my eee pc hang with the apple and the loading symbol eternally. i couldnt figure out any way to save my changes :-(

@Kmikase

so for the manual 10.5.5 update i dont have to install IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext and i dont have to:

8. Re-open your Terminal again and type: nano /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1 (hit Enter)
9. Find the line that says ‘Don’t Steal Mac OS X.kext and replace it with dsmos.kext (You might not have this in the script, i didn’t)

like it says to do on http://board.ihackintosh.net/index.php?showtopic=751 ??

Any help would be greatly appreciated. for some reason if I install 10.5.5 direct with IDeneb 1.3 I have issues with the webcam preview in the user icon select and that irritates me for some reason so here i am trying to go from ideneb 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 manually.

I found a pretty cool way to update to 10.5.5 manually. It is the only way I have managed to do it successfully by hand.

http://mysticus.titanous.com/update.html

For some reason my laptop keyboard wasn’t but I reinstalled the third package (only the extras) and held down power to turn it off at the end like I had to do the first time I updated and now my keyboard and my webcam works fully.

@Keith

So the 1000HA you need a different kext for the wireless to work?

Hi.
Kamikase can you please direct me to the XP drivers for BMC94321CM Thanks

Any ideas to help me out here???

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Original Post:
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Well I have installed the iDeneb 10.5.5 version on my brand new 900a. This version of eee PC is a hybrid between the 900 and 901. It does have the Intel 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1 Gig of RAM, but only a 4 Gig SSD and no WebCam at all.
Given the small size of the SSD I decided to install OSX on an attached 16Gig USB fob drive. This all seemed to work fine and the install went great. However, now I am stuck. Everytime I try and boot up the system is getting stuck at
“MAC Framework successfully initialized
using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers”
And here it sits. Any suggestions in getting this working???
Thanks for any and all help.
Scott

Sorry i’ve been away for a while.

@ Dweeb :

So for the 10.5.5 update, you don’t need to install anything. I knowt there are usefull kext to do it but i prefer to do it manually:

as i said before just download it from the update service.
Launch terminal then write (use copy and paste for each line ;) ) :

sudo -s
while sleep 1; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; done

don’t close the terminal and launch the update package.
When it is over don’t click on restart, go back in the terminal and then press ctrl+c then close the terminal.

Now you can reboot, you will have the apple screen for a while then the computer will reboot one more time.

@ Gazman : I don’t remember where i’ve downloaded them, but i have them on another computer. I don’t have time to do it right now (quite late here) so i’ll post a rapidshare link tomorrow. This driver is designed for Dell but it works great (and it isi for XP/Vista)

thanks!

Hi,
Have 1000h running 10.5.5 used iDeneb 10.5.5.
Can anyone help can’t get bluetooth or built-in webcam working
Cheers

@gasman

reinstall. they should work out of the box. i used this method http://mysticus.titanous.com/update.html to manually update from ideneb 1.1 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 full bt and webcam work out of the box.

hi guys,

i just experimented from what i read but i totally have no idea about Mac.
i followed the instruction and successfully installed iDeneb on my eeePC 1000h with XP still in it. when i boot up, an OS selection appears.
1) for XP
2) for Mac OS.

XP runs fine just like before.
but when i select the Mac OS, it seems to boot normally for a time and then a message appears saying “still waiting for root device”
then it goes on forever.
what should i do next?

tnx for the help.

@JFisher.

When you boot, you shouldn’t have an OS selection but the chameleon countdown, then if you press a key during the countdown you can choose between the partition.
But what i don’t get is , if you have suceed to install OS X without problem, why you have this issue now.

Which version of Ideneb have you used ? ( V1 ; V1.1; V1.3 ?)

Just wanted to say thank you to all who contributed.
I have a 1000H/ 160GB/ 1 GB ram

Used ideneb 10.5.5 update 1.3 I think ( latest)
works like a charm with known issues.

Installed apple MB363Z/A WIRELESS CARD – PERFECT SWAP – NO ISSUES.
the previous card is no longer shipping / old.

Thank yyou to the trailblazers !!!!!!

Geez – My 1000H arrives tomorrow, and I’m beginning to think I should have gone the MSI Wind route in order to get OSX functioning. I don’t know “squat” about OSX – what’s a kext? And I thought the stock b/g/n wireless card worked in OSX??

The stock card does work – but you have to vary it on/off each time, it’s not a big deal but becomes annoying.

If you replace the card – and want to run XP as well you will need new drivers for this card. Searching came up with this but have not tried it yet.

Apple MB363Z/A XP drivers wireless came up with this
http://www.driversdown.com/drivers/8178.shtml

@Kmikase,

tnx for your reply. most appreciated.
i used iDeneb 1.1
yes, when i boot-up, it does have the countdown to start with.
when i press a key before the countdown finishes, then the selection choices appear next.

XP is on partition 1 = disk0s1
iDeneb is on partition 2 = disk0s2

after i installed successfully, partition 2 was set active.
so it now manages the boot-up sequence.
but even so, XP still boots up perfectly. it’s still what i am using now.

but have problems with OS-X
i tried putting the parameter -v during boot up. that’s how i discovered that it stucks-up with the comment “still waiting for root device”
then it goes just goes on forever.

don’t know how to proceed?

again, many thanks for any help!

fuck, i seem to have screwed it up.

i tried to update to 10.5.5 with the manual instructions of kmikase, apparently I screwed it up…

i get a kernel panic unsupported CPU, appleintelpowermanagement etc and the “you need to restart…” screen.

any fix possible? or just reformat and start from scratch with the new ideneb?

Hello all,

I just ordered an Asus Eee 1000ha (i know i will have to change the wifi card to get OSx to work, to either the broadcom or apple mini-pci cards already mentioned). I am thinking of eventually trying a dual-boot config with XP and ideneb 10.5.5.

There are two main issues that concern me though. I think about three different people have reported a noisy fan (fan running at full belt) with mac os x. To the people who had this problem, has it persisted? Has anyone else experienced this problem? Also has anyone had success with the Fan Control Utilities recommended to try in a previous post?

The other main issue, is the shutdown problem. Many people have reported their eee’s not shutting down completely, or shutdown being successfully 75% of the time. Is the problem universal? Have people found solutions?

The other issues which I can live are: no brightness control (would be nice, but can manage without), no wired ethernet (wouldn’t use it), no audio (would use the usb audio fix), no sleep (?).

This thread has been a great resource, thanks to everyone!

About the noisy fan: It seems like mine is running at full throttle, but I doesn’t disturb me at all. I find it very silent for that, after all.

My EEE 1000H shuts down fine, goes to sleep and wakes up again fine, has brightness control (there is a kext for that available at ipis-osx.wikidot.com) and for the sound i have bought a mini usb-soundcard which is bearly bigger than the plug itself…

cheers mate

another quick question: how can i be a 100% sure that the graphicscard is hardware accelerated? it’s that info in the system profiler, right?

i just reinstalled my eeeMac and somehow the quality seems worse than itt was before… but maybe that’s just because i stared into my imac while resetting the eee…

@matt – I couldn’t get the default NIC in the 1000HA working. It’s an Atheros 5006EG or something like that?

But I didn’t try too hard either after all the re-formatting and rebooting….

@Glenn and others using his wifi-script:

The automator-script for reactivating wifi works great for me. I also managed to get it running on wake-up: Install the tool ’sleepwatcher’ with the StartupItem-option. Then create a .wakeup file in your home directory containing the path to the executable of the automator-script and make the .wakeup file executable.

Hey tog,

I’ve been trying to use sleepwatcher but don’t know how to use it. Can you give us a short tutorial here or at http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/ how to do it? Thanks

Would it be possible to update the how-to to reflect the feedback and the newest experience?

Also, I am probably going for the S101 instead of the 901. The larger unified SSD HD (32 or 64 gig) should overcome the problems fitting the entire install, no?

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/asus-eee-pc-s101.aspx

Reviews and articles on the s101 say its basically a 1000h with a SSD, hardwarewise. So it ought to be the same procedure as for the 1000h, no?

OK, then this is how I got my Wifi to automatically reactivate on wake-up:

1. Take an automator-script that works well. I used the version from Kmikase (which is based on Glenn’s version) and added a step to close the wifi-dialog: http://rapidshare.com/files/157640735/togWifi.zip.html
(For some reason, the quit-step in Kmikase’s version did not work for me.)

2. Unpack the script at some location. I put it in the Applications-folder.

3. Download sleepwatcher: http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/sleepwatcher_2.0.5.dmg

4. Install sleepwatcher including the StartupItem-package contained in sleepwatcher_2.0.5.dmg. Now on every wake-up sleepwatcher will look for any .wakeup script in the users home-directories and execute it.

5. So we will create a simple wake-up script to launch the Automator-script. Just put the path to the Wifi-script-executable (in my case “/Applications/togWifi.app/Contents/MacOS/togWifi”) into the .wakeup-file:
Open the Terminal and type “echo /Applications/togWifi.app/Contents/MacOS/togWifi > ~/.wakeup”. Of course, you can create more complex wakeup-scripts, if you have more things to do on wakeup.

-> that did the trick for me :)

An update will be in-the-works soon. We haven’t tested with the S101, but I think the biggest problem will be the change in GPU.

@ Fisher

It is weird, Have you done the bios flash ?
Ohhh I may have an idea :)
Try to get partition magic. And check within this app if your Mac partition is a main partition or a extended partition. It should be a main partition to work fine.
If it is the case, i suggest to start another installation.

@ ProgHippie

Sorry dude, but you gonna have to reinstall leopard. Before doing any major update, you should always use time machine to back up your system.

May be you’ll prefer this way : Go to http://www.apple.com then download and all download/Apple/Max OS X update. There download the 10.5.5 update and keep it on your desktop.

Once done, Launch terminal then write (use copy and paste for each line ;) )press enter at the end of each line:

sudo -s (then enter your password)
while sleep 1; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; done

don’t close the terminal and launch the update package.
When it is over don’t click on restart, go back in the terminal and then press ctrl+c then close the terminal.

Now you can reboot, you will have the apple screen for a while then the computer will reboot one more time.

With this method you can have the kernel panic because the kernel causing trouble is disabled during the procedure.
But DO A TIME MACHINE back up before :)

I think i’ll create a summuray of all this thread at insanelymac. The system to answer sucks, you can’t find anything.

[...] Mac OS X on an Eee PC Came across this article via twitter: How To: Mac OS X 10.5.4 for the Eee PC 901 & 1000H How To: Mac OS X 10.5.4 for the Eee PC 901 & 1000H | MacEee.com [...]

I broke it. I tried to update to 10.5.5 using this guide,

all seemed well until I rebooted and now all I get is a blue screen and no desktop. I have no idea how to go about fixing this and am a little saddened by the loss of my OSxeee

It seems like the system is trying to load something unsuccessfully as the hard drive light blinks for a few minutes after initial boot but eventuality it goes dark and the system just stares at me with its lovely blue screen.

Any help would be appreciated. I tried replacing the extensions folder with the one from before the upgrade in single user mode but that didn’t work either, In fact all I got from that was the spinning sprocket on a gray apple screen.

Am I screwed? Can it be fixed?

@ people who messed up their osx install manually updating to 10.5.5–you have to reinstall osx :-(

I found a pretty cool way to update to 10.5.5 manually. It is the only way I have managed to do it successfully by hand.–i broke mine about 5 times trying the other methods from this board on my 1000h. i guess im that special. lol

http://mysticus.titanous.com/update.html

For some reason my laptop keyboard wasn’t being recognized but I have a usb keyboard that was so i used that and reinstalled the third package (only the extras) and held down power to turn it off at the end of the third package install (like I had to do the first time) I updated and now my keyboard works fully and i have a 1000h with 10.5.5 working great. shutdown has also actuallly worked for me finally too.! btw i used ideneb 10.5.4 with the 1.1 update applied. i didnt install all of my kexts and such until after the 1.1 update and the 10.5.5 update.

also it is good to use 0sx86tool to back up your extensions and mach kernal in case anything goes wrong. i have mine on a flash drive.

http://mysticus.titanous.com/update.html is what I used to update my box and it totally hosed it. I am downloading iDeneb 10.5.5 iso right now. Does anyone know if the standard install guide will work for that version of the distro? Any weird considerations?

@Kmikase,

tnx again.
yes, i did flash the bios.
i know the bios flash was successful ‘coz the first time i installed without flashing the bios, my leopard install was not successful.

just as you thought, leopard is not on the main partition although it is set active.
i will try to do a re-install and put XP on the secondary partition and the leopard on the first. i hope that works.

will let you know what happens.

many thanks!

Hi Kmikase,

Any luck with XP drivers for BMC94321CM ?
Cheers
Gasman

I just installed from the 10.5.5 ideneb dvd and I can’t get the resolutio to work correctly. Has anyone managed this feat? Is there a particular kext for this update? I am now stick at 800 x 600.

Help?

I have reinstalled twice to no avail.

I miss my maceee please help

Wow, thanks for the great guide. I’m hoping to purchase my first netbook this week, and I would love to run Mac OS X on it. I have a few questions.

First, do you think that, after installing Mac OS X Leopard on an Eee PC, one would be able to easily upgrade to the next upgrade, Snow Leopard? Or is it likely that you’d have to start from scratch, using your guide to install Snow Leopard?

Second, since Mac OS X isn’t officially approved for non-Apple hardware, how would I deal with things like software updates? Can they be automatically updated, just as if I was using a Mac? Will my software sense that the hardware isn’t a Mac and notify Apple that I’m using “pirated” hardware?

Thanks.

Still no love with ny screen which is weird because it used to work just fine. I am certain I will be able to get it eventually. I was wondering what backup strategies people are using?

I tried using disk utility and cloning the os x partition to an external usb but I had no luck. It won’t let me write to an external usb drive. My win xp partition is ntfs and ubuntu is ext3 so I can’t backit up locally either. What do you guys use? I would love to clone my box to an external usb drive for backup when I finally have it going correctly.

Another question I have is if anyone has successfully intsalled from teh ideneb 10.5.5 iso? If so what options did you use in the Customize protion of the install. The 9.40 vanilla kernel is no longer available so I used the only 9.40 kernel there, but it wasn’t the same.

Any ideas?

vanilla is the default kernal on the ideneb 10.5.5 install. i have used it successfully but preferred using 10.5.4 updating to 1.1 and then manually updating the os to 10.5.5 because i had better camera support for some reason.

@James Halper

To fix your screen issue, did you try the steps from Post-Install Drivers & Enhancements in the above guide? Works fine for me with iDeneb 10.5.5.

for iDeneb 10.5.5 use this guide

http://www.enik.ch/2008/10/osx-leopard-1055-on-the-eee-1000h/

(i’m also glad i’m not the only swiss bloke with an eeeMac ;))

if screen resolution fix doesn’t work with switchresX, try displayconfigX.

Guys I need some help. I have the 1000ha. I installed XP on partition one, then made part 2 and installed 10.5.5 using this guide. http://www.enik.ch/2008/10/osx-leopard-1055-on-the-eee-1000h/
But when I boot up after the install and go into OSX, I get the MAC welcome screen that wants me to register. I choose English, and USA Keyboard and on the 3rd screen it asks me “Would you like to transfer your information?”. I choose, “Do not transfer my information now” and then continue. And this is where it thinks for a little while but then always takes me right back to the original Mac welcome screen. I can’t get this registration app to quit or proceed into the OS and am stuck. I have been pulling my hair out about this. Does anyone know of a solution? The only change I did was I selected Atheros during install for the wireless card because the 1000ha uses the Atheros AR5007EG. I also tried with “Broadcom” selected and got the same result.

@jay
Known issue already answered above. Read dweeb’s post from September 3rd, 2008, 12:00 am for the fix.

That worked. Thank you. I so happy now. :)

Yes I got the res worked out. I had to do every kernel extension one by one and do the video ones last as in the previous install. I also had to download more recent kext files from the insanly mac forum

Things seem mostly right with the box as of now.

@dweeb (post from October 7th, 2008, 10:50 am)

Did you manage to fix mirror arrangement in the preferences and use an external display without the whole thing getting crazy”

Where is CHUD?

Over on the ipis forum there are instructions on getting sound to work but I need to install CHUD from xcode on my box. I can’t find the download for it however. All links to apple’s site lead to “you session has timed out”

Can someone please help?

@James

Yup, that link doesn’t work. Had the same issue this afternoon. :)
You can easily find it yourself at the Apple Developer Connection website. Just register and go to downloads, if I remember correctly CHUD is located in the developer tools section. You’ll find it.

Head over to the link below for a rapidshare download of CHUD. Just get the CHUD, not the script

http://forums.msiwind.net/post52326.html?sid=8e9811b423e7db6107b8f9ae2a2d9d06#p52326

[...] to this probably a Eeepc 901 or 1000 __________________  C2D MBP 17" 2.4GHz Glossy  [...]

EEE 1000HA owners: Did you need to flash the BIOS for OSX to boot properly?

I’m wondering if the new EEEs such as the 900HA and such STILL have the ACPI bug, can anyone please confirm?

Thanks!

@ Gasman,
sorry dude i tottaly forgot about it,i’ve been busy.
Here is the link : http://rapidshare.com/files/159290169/Wifi_broadcom.exe.html
it works in XP/Vista

What it is CHUD ? are we talking about the sound working ?

Yep, audio works now thanks to snickersmd, codeye, hagglebeef, Toonces over at ipis-osx

http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-100527/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-getting-temporary-audio-from-internal-speakers

Oh f**k i don’t i’m totally lost with their scripts.
So i do have the sound coming out from the speakers but it doesn’t work at wake up, so i have to enter the different command said in the topic.

So anybody has made something easy for the Eeepc1000H with the sound ? an automatic script or something like that ?

it’s kinda hard to make sound auto on on wake up since it asks for your password. You can make a script based on the scripts in the msi wind forum (see my earlier link) where you hard-code your password in the automator script. just play around with it, i’m sure you can hack it.

@Glenn – actually, that’s incorrect, but you need to get your hands dirty in the command line to get this working.

1. Install Sleepwatcher: http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/
2. Create the scripts in this post:
http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-100527/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-getting-temporary-audio-from-internal-speakers#post-294536

This post has a step-by-step if you’re unsure how to proceed:
http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-100527/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-getting-temporary-audio-from-internal-speakers#post-295859

3. Then make the changes to the script and create the new files as outline here:
http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-100527/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-getting-temporary-audio-from-internal-speakers#post-295859

Sound works for me on boot and after waking from sleep with no interaction from me – I don’t need to enter my password.

@kmikase – the thread on the wiki has instructions for making sound work on startup and on wake from sleep. Works great. I don’t ever have to enter a password and it works fine.

My screen resolution is not correct and therefore I cannot see any of the buttons I need to press that are normally at the bottom of the screen to move through the installation. Anyone else had this?
Can’t really go any further coz I can’t see what I’m pressing !!!!

[...] How To: Mac OS X 10.5.4 for the Eee PC 901 & 1000H | MacEee.com [...]

EEe 1000HA Oweners:

I changed WifI card to Dell 1490 and flashed bios to modded bios EEE1103

and dualboot XP. Leopard works well, but after reboot. my wifi is not working, and the airport wn’t turn on. I try to downgrade to modded bios 1005. it says unsuccessful the bios too old. but the leopard boot well and wifi works well. However, it is not working after reboot. So I am pretty sure is the bios 1103’s problem. I flashed the asus new bios 1206 the leopard won’t boot, it stopped in grey apple. By the way, everytime XP works.

I need new modded bios or some help to downgrade bios.

jjzhu

@Kmikase

i finally was able to make the leopard work. it’s a charm except for the sound. but i guess i can download a driver for that.
however, i can’t boot XP now. if i select XP on the selection screen, it returns a boot error. but iDeneb works fine.

before, iDeneb returns a boot error but XP works fine, now iDeneb work fine but can’t boot XP.

maybe i need to start over with a proper installation keeping multi-os installation in mind.

any other suggestions how i should start over.
i am hoping to get the iDeneb and XP loaded together.

Ah thanks, Jeff and neil for that. I myself don’t want to use sleepwatcher since last time I used it I got frustrated and it did wonky things to my system so I suggested something simpler.

And here it is, Audieee by Jamie Curmi over at ipis-osx. Be sure to join the community there and help us test it out!

http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-101853/audieee:the-less-ugly-stop-gap#post-298779

Works great even on sleep, restart and on boot (I added it as a login item)

Found another neat app. This will help run apps on wake up

http://www.mhtc.net/~bunnz/onwake/onwake.html

Very easy to use (just drag the app or alias to the wakeup folder). I use it to turn on wifi on wake using the automator script I made. Perfect for those who don’t want the complications of sleepwatcher (like me!)

My 901 is almost perfect. I have never had any luck with getting my webcam working. Can anyone help me? I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks again.

[...] per

Does anybody know how to do this on the eee Box B202? I put the iDeneb 10.5.4 disk in and it goes straight to the “restart your computer” screen!!! do i need a certain BIOS version?

Hi, I have followed this guide to the letter but I cannot get WiFi working on my 901.
Does anyone have any alternate solutions or drivers?

Many thanks

Hello,

I’ve receaved my new eee PC 1000H with BIOS version 1005.
I have no option in BIOS to disable Hyper Threading.
Somebody else has the problem too ?
Thanks

Whiletrue

woody, did you install the ratlink app? its kind of a weird solution, you have to turn the radio on and off, then connect to the network you want, if you need a password you have to enter it, it wont work like regular osx. if you want wifi to work in your airport, you need to upgrade to a new card, you can get a new one on ebay for like 30 bucks.

whiletrue, did up put in the modded bios?

I tried perusing the comments here, but didn’t see a whole lot about install size. Will I be able to put Leopard on the 8GB “fast” SSD of the 40GB 1000? Should I use Kalyway instead?

Also, are there any current upgrade issues? I have a Mac running Tiger, but I’m not sure what’s safe and what’s not as far as Apple updates on Leopard for this setup? After initial install, how do I go about updating it to the most current state (that still works of course).

I apologize if these have been adressed, but this is one heck of a long comment section haha…

Tim

Hello every I would like to thank you for this great wiki and I’m happy to say that my 1000h is finally up and running.

I do have a question and may need some comments, does skype works on the osx because when I tried to use it all it does is try to connect and then it close out here is my laptop spec.

asus 1000h
160gb hd 80 window/80osx
2gb ram
wifi airport extreme
and the my audio works with the above help

more info I install 10.5.4 and did the manual update and everything went fine
I also updated everything on the updater from mac I dont know if I should have done that but my laptop still
works so I’m guessing it should be fine.

Can a leopard install fit on a 8GB partition without shrinking it? Help please! I want to know before I promise my wife a netmac lol…

@ gopowergoh – Thanks – I did flash the Bios and install the WiFi drivers exactly as the instructions stated but still no luck. Don’t really want to swap out the card as people have WiFi working on their 901 with the original so there must be a way to get it working !!

Hello,

I have a problem with the wi-fi on iDeneb 1.3. After installing the ralink driver, the Network configuration in the PrefPane of mac os freezed.
It didn’t recognize the new network card.

Is someone can help me with this ?

Thanks
Whiletrue

I have the same issue with network hanging. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

I have my 1000H dual booting XP and OSX
Anyone know how to sync the times?
ie I set the right correct time in XP but the time is off when I log into OSX
Any help appreciated

Try syncing it via the internet. Both windows and mac have this built in the time and date app they have.

Any reason we are choosing iDeneb over MSIwindOSx86?

Just wondering if there was a specific reason?

Hello,

I have a problem with the wi-fi on iDeneb_v1.3_10.5.5.After installing the ralink driver(10.5), the Network configuration in the PrefPane of mac os freezed.
It didn’t recognize the new network card.

Is someone can help me with this ?

Thanks

@dahe :
I had the same problem.
It’s the IONetworkingFamily.kext. It fixes Time Machine but seems to break the Ralink Wireless driver.
You must replace it with the backup file.

After enabling Hyper Threading in the BIOS of my 901 the WiFi works !!!!! Go figure

@dahe

I also had a problem with my Ralink not configuring. In my case, the install pretended as if it never happened.

Configuration:
EeePC 1000H – msiwindosx86 (10.5.4)

I looked in the BIOS, and the wifi was *disabled* along with the camera. I turned them both on, and voila! it was up and running. I think the modded BIOS I installed had those turned off.

Wifi works (ralink interface blows chunks, but it works!)

I’m torn between the 1000 and 1000H. I don’t need the extra hard drive space and want the smallest possible device. Could anyone share their benchmarks or impressions about performance between the two?

Thanks!

This is just an updat for some who may not be followinf the ipis forum closely. Thanks to the hard work over there I now have the internal speakers and headphone jacks working. I have yet to figure out a way to toggle between them without putting in my password but that shouldn’t be a big deal.

Maybe soon we will have the hotkeys working too

Thanks

Can anyone tell me if the Asus EEE PC 1000H-WHI015L Linux version will adapt to Mac. Can I also load XP to it. As it has a 160gig drive i thought 3 primary partitions. Linux.XP.Mac?

Or is the MSI wind better if so what model?

Thanks

Ps Great work by everyone involved.

[...] http://www.maceee.com/how-to-mac-os-x-1054-for-the-eee-pc-901-1000h-27.html [...]

Well .. i now have osx. (iDeneb 10.5.5) running on my 901.. and well .. only thing not working for me as of now is ofcourse the sound, and perhaps time-machine
… i intend to try it .. later, when i get a bigger and faster harddrive (the ssd is sloooow). great guide… bit outdated and not up-to-date with the 10.5.5 release…

there is patch to fix the time diffference between mac & windows, look for it in insanelymac.

About the wireless, i recommand you to change it for an airport extreme, it cost around 20€ or less.

@UXGeek

I contemplated this decision and came up with the following:
1) 1000 wins on random read performance (ie app startup) and quietness
2) 1000h wins on storage space, write performance (ie, installing apps), sustained read performance (loading big apps/files)

I chose the 1000h as I plan to triple-boot and have large data files and applications.

Video Comparison of the 1000 vs. 1000h performance-wise can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnyCHmq51w

Hello all,
first of all, thnaks for the tuto !
hum now i can explain my problems :
i have an 1000h and i tried to install idend 10.5.5 but, after the instal( wich pass very well), the netbook reboot in loop , some idée?
i didn’t flash the bios… maybe ?

About the time difference, i juste edited the timezones so if i live in gmt+01 i put that in windows and gmt+00 in macos. kinda ghetto but it works

Hallo @ all,

First big thx for the Guide!

I want to bye me the 901 Win (Linux is not shipped in germany) + 16 GB SDHC and put just Leo on it.

My Question is if I can join the fast 4 GB SDD and the slow 8 GB Flash before the installing with the Disk Utility, iPartition ore something els to one 12 GB big partition and install OSX on this?

Speed isn’t the big Problem here, the speed of the 8 GB Drive should be enough.

As far as i Know it is with a Mac possible, but with this hacked eeePC 901?

And the other question is if I can use the 16GB SDHC Card for Time Machine. But this shouldn’t be a problem

oh, and if this is not possible, can I at least move the Virtual Memory and Sleep-image to the 4 GB SDD?

- Leo on the slow 8 GB Flash
- Virtual Memory and Sleep-image on the speedy 4 GB SDD (for fast wake up and cos of only 1 GB RAM)
- Time Machine extern SDHC with 16 GB

Sorry, for stupid questions, but I’m (not yet) very familiar with OS X

@ all,

I wanted to install ideneb v1.3 10.5.5 on my eee-pc 901; but during setup screen I am not able to see the whole setup screen. Is there a trick? But so I can not bypass the installation. Can anyone help me?

Thx

Kindly Regards

Puky70

the trick is .. as mentioned a bit up in these comments.. to press F8 during boot so that you can enter startup options..
There you have to write as follows.. exactly:

“Graphics Mode”=”800×600x32″

then press enter..

Can it be installed on eeepc 900 which is based on a Celeron M 900Mhz ?
I wonder if those drivers are work on the 900 also

hi all ::
osx works like a charm on my 901 ,,
sound works with audieee (just search on google )
dimming the screen works with shades
for the sound ,, you need to download chud tools
the easyest way to download chud is to search for “apple developer password” or something on google and download it from apple
i just thougt i post this so everyone can be up to date

Was wondering if anyone has tried tinkering with the s101, and whether or not it would be possible to install OS X as well as XP Pro.

Hello Folks,

i have managed to install 10.5.5 with security Update 2008-007 and Windows XP dual Boot on my Eee 1000H. The only thing what doesn’t work is the Ethernet Port. I have tweak my Eee Hardware as followed:
- HDD 500 GB
- 2 GB Ram
- WLAN Airport Extreme mini PCI

Even sound works without problems, as far as i could test the speedstep isn’t fully operational under OSX but my Battery life is around 5 hours.

It took me a lot of time and nerves before i got a stable working envirement. I had around 20 failed Installations including failed updates from 10.5.2 to 10.5.4 or 10.5.5

So i can recommend the ideneb v1.3 10.5.5 image for Installations, don’t forget to choose the X11 package because
different applications will not work afterwards. Please take care to have the carbonlib.zip package because without that, MS-Office and some other applications won’t work

regards

dr.cisco

Just bought Eee PC 901 Go and finish most of the procedure of installing Mac OS 10.5.5

Mainly wanna see if Launch2Net 1.8.3 could drive the internal 3.5G module to get on line but fail, launch2net simply just doesn’t support, pity…

other results listed below

1. Resolution is OK without using SwitchResX
2. Noisy fan problem too
3. Wake up from sleep will get a dark screen, use Fn-F3,F4 could get back normal display
4. Use WirelessUtilityCardbusPCI for Wi-Fi is OK, I found that clicking Radio off and back on on Advanced Tab is a trick to connect.
5. I used Jabra BT110 for audio, Sound setting seems to be OK while I saw the voice level and heard the alert sound, but audio doesn’t work when using Skype
6. After all the steps the Eee PC 901 Go running OS X 10.5.5 could make about 4:30 running time

Hi,

i realised that i can´t use the button with “><|” on my eee 1000h using leopard. it works with windows. do you have the same problem??

Is there a way to install iDeneb from a flash drive? I have an 8gb flash (and no external DVD drive), and I’m currently running windows. I know that you can put the (bootable) installation iso on a flash druve using Disk utility on Mac, but is there an alternative program on Windows?

Thanks

Any info about using this on a 900HA???

I have a 1000H and want to install OSX. I ahve read in some guys that the Bios Update should only be done on the 901 while others suggest it should be done on the 1000h also. Basically my question is can I do the install on my 1000h without flashing the bios?

@Steve,

I have a 1000H and needed the BIOS Update for my attempted installs (msiwindosx86.iso and iDeneb 1.3 10.5.5)

@Milosh

Nope, you need to use Mac. Actually you can use Disk Utility using the iDeneb DVD itself. Not sure if that works by itself, since I’ve always used Chameleon. They have a guide here, a bit complicated though

http://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/how-to-rebuild-an-install-dvd-with-chameleons-cdboot

What I do is just download the chameleon installer and point it to the DVD drive with iDeneb. Works just fine as a bootable installer (and way faster since it’s USB)

@ Arek

try the upper left key instead. in my (german) keyboard, the “” ist at the lower left, between shift and “y”. on the eeepc (ideneb) this key does not work, but “” is bound to the “^°”-key underneath ESC, left of “1″.

@ Arek
sorry the >< signs i entered did not get through. but you will get the meaning.

Folks

Just in case you have not found it here is a link to get sound working. I have it running on my 901

http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-100527/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-getting-temporary-audio-from-internal-speakers

This forum and wiki is pretty active at the moment

Caber:)

hi all,

I finally got everything working, just one thing is screwed up:
If I choose windows in the beginning when the bootloader comes up, I get an error saying can´t read disk.

Can I fix this somehow? I tried once with the eeePc-Cd but it reformatted and reinstalled the hd back to the factory-settings and all the OSX was gone.

thnx in advance for any help! almost there!!! :)

@stoobz: Everything? What about LAN?

no, unfortunately not :(
I ment all the stuff described in the howTo..

one way to choose fan speed for me is to boot into windows and use eeectrl restart without shuttingdown and load leopard

hi.
i plan to install ideneb 1.3_10.5.5 on the asus eee 900ha that’s arriving
next week for me, and i want to do triple or quad boot with windows, osx,
linux… is it possible, and how i do it ?

I´ve installed ideneb 1.5.4 and now after install i´m hanging at the gray screen with mouse. Sometime the SSD is busy but nothing happens. But i can move the mouse!

and i also have the problem the screen is cutted on the bottom, during the installation!

To enable full bluetooth functionality, follow my guide at

http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-108855/working-bluetooth-kext

This lets you enable/disable bluetooth via the bt menu bar icon which did not work before.

my problem is solved! I´ve found out what to do

But I have another question:

I´m not able to get the wifi working!!

Does anybody know what I could do?

To MichaelOSX,

The problems you’ve described have been covered in detailed for weeks now. If you read the full instructions it specifies what to do (for the grey screen hanging, you needed to update your bios) for the wifi you need to use the Ralink program described in the instructions.

I suggest you visit http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/as it has instructions on how to fix your problems and has tutorials and a forum.

the problem is that i already installed the driver for the wifi but the computer might´nt recognice it and the wifi software tells me “no device”

so what? :-(

For saving additional space using compressed diskcopy images, follow guide here:

http://everything2.com/e2node/Compressing%2520Applications%2520folders%2520in%2520Mac%2520OS%2520X

I appreciate the guide, but if you want to advertise it as updated, please keep the pace with releases of iDeneb.

i got everything working except the trackpad. It’s not that it’s sensitive but doesn’t work how it should at all. I put my finger on the pad and the cursor jumps down to the bottom left corner. Anyway to fix this? Trackpad driver I could use?

Does anybody know, if I can run my Harddrive with Leopard under FAT 32, and would it be faster than OS Extended?

EDIT: because I have the eee pc 901 go with 16GB SSD drive and it´s really slowly the most time!

Michael – what you can do is format the ssd in mac os extended but make sure its not journaled..
then try xslimmer,, but the best thing is to upgrade the ssd to either harddrive or faster ssd,

Just wanted to thank everyone here for the great discussion and support. My wife bought a 1000HA with the expressed purpose of having me figure out how to put OSX on it. We had done so in the past with the first gen 7xx and it worked, but had a few too many bugs for her.

After several tries and fooling around with enabling/disabling the onboard devices, I ended up leaving them all enabled, and it installed fine. I had two issues slow me down: 1) The freeze after Transfer My Info and 2) The original wireless card would not work. I installed a Broadcom that I had lying around (Dell 1390), and it was instantly recognized. The freeze, oddly enough, just went away after a third or fourth reboot. I wish I could say what I did.

In any case, it’s up, it’s running, it’s faster than I expected. Next up will be a hack at getting sound going via the Quick and Dirty method. Thanks again, everyone!

I am also happy about this forum, beause without this persons i might have to work with XP on my eeepc :-)

can i use a 4GB RAM Block for my ASUS EEEPC901go running OSX 10.5.4?

Is this possible anyway?

Any issues with substituting an EeeBox for the 1000H? Are all the drivers the same?

@bcx

No problem using this for the EeeBox B202. Just use Azalia to make line out audio work and you’re done. Even ethernet works.

Anyone have better instructions for installing this on the EeeBox? On boot it keeps crashing and asking to restart before I can even install the OS. Some of the errors… Unable to find driver for this platform:\”ACPI\”.\n”@/Volumes….
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer.

iDeneb 10.5.4

scratch the last comment… it’s hanging at the apple logo before I get setup options (partition).

i’ve used ideneb 10.5.5

1.) use bios from osrom.net
2.) graphics needs that you delete the natit.krxt (with natit u get no signal msg”
3.) enable 1280×1024 in startup of kernel extension
4) ralink wireless is working but the driver and app of ralink is not “apple style”

EEE 901: I have got everything working, apart from the LAN port.

1) upgraded bios
2) Followed the tutorial on this page to get everything working apart from audio.
3) Got audio working from here http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/the-sound-tutorial, its working perfectly from a reboot.
4) got enable/disable bluetooth from here:http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/forum/t-108855/working-bluetooth-kext

everything is now working apart from the LAN port.. Thanks for the help this website has provided

Hi all,

1000H user here. I installed iDeneb_v1.1_10.5.4 following this guide, step by step. I got a successful install BUT when i installed the kext for the graphics it went bad, got stuck on apple logo/spinning wheel…

Tried to boot -x, -f yadayada and gave up.

so, i have installed it again after formating and following every step. so now im back with a “clean” install…

What do i need to install to get graphics work and in what order?

shall i install:
1.AppleIntelGMA950.kext and the reboot?
2.or install both GMA950kext + AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext then reboot?

3. or am i missing something totally here?

(other info: did a BIOS flash via osrom.net for eee 1000H)

(sorry for bad english)

Regards to you all

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I had successfully installed iDeneb 10.5.5 on my eee pc 900ha.

But, the built-in wifi Atheros 5700EG didn’t working. I have installed the Ralink driver based on the guide instructions and when I went to System Preferences -> Network, there was no ethernet connector detected.
FYI, I had enabled the WLAN in BIOS and the wifi led was also on.

I have done the install and uninstall process of the Ralink driver for several times, but the result still the same, the System Preferences -> Network didn’t detect any ethernet connector.

If there’s anyone that had successfully installed Ralink driver on their 900ha, please let me know, your help will much appreciated.

To install osx on 900ha, I have uploaded the modded bios into my server, you can download it using this url:
http://www.jaringweb.net/download/900HA-ASUS-0305MOD.rar

Now, what you need is just follow the guide in this page or you can also use this url for your reference:
http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/installing_ideneb_1_3_1000h

BTW, if any of you have successfully installed the osx on 900ha, please let me know your experience with the built-in wifi (Atheros 5700EG).

dont really think ralinkdriver would work for aetheros… but i think there is a driver for it,.. (had that card in a fujitsu laptop) look in insanely mac forums for that…

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Got iDeneb_1.3_10.5.5 working on an 1000H using the instructions here and on the ipis-osx page. Thanks for all your hard work.

Got two questions. I decided to swap out the ralink wireless card with an airport card pulled from a Mac Mini. Works fine, but, every time I restart the EEE, I have to remember to toggle the wireless card off and on from the bios setup. Otherwise it is not recognized. After I go through the bios setup, wireless works as expected. Anyone else encounter this? (And by the way, I had the same problem with the ralink card as well.)

Second, what are people’s opinions about the security of using a patched OS pulled from bit torrent? This is probably fairly common practice in the linux world, but being a long time Mac person, it makes me a little nervous. From this perspective, wouldn’t using something like the initrd with OEM DVDs approach be safer? Don’t get me wrong, I am not impugning the integrity of the people who did all the hard work to put the iDeneb distro together, but given the distributed nature of bit torrent, it seems there would be a lot of opportunity for mischief along the way. Would using something like little snitch for a while to closely monitor network traffic be sufficient?

Thanks for all the hard work and this great tutorial.

I have the same problem as slushe.

My trackpad don’t work ok. Is sensitive, but it goes to the left bottom corner. Some help?

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just for ppls information ..
using deneb 10.5.5 on eee901

timemachine WORKS for me .. just did a restore to a new runcore ssd.. worked flawlessly..

what about the microphone? is it now working?

Hi

Could anyone upload the Broadcom 94321MC Driver for XP?
I can´t find it and the link is dead… thx

I just upgraded my mem to 2gb, but now the batterysymbol only shows a small “x” ?!?

@ChrisP : I’ve installed this one this morning and it works perfectly.
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14644

I’ve just posted information on how to install OS X on any Atom EEE Pc’s using a stock apple install DVD.

This technique allows the use of the apple update system.

It also removes the questions of downloading pirated disk images.

http://eeemac.blogspot.com/2008/12/installing-osx-on-eee-pc-901-or-1000.html

-GReg

I am new to computing and would like all the legal info and useful tips on ways to get the most out of my eee pc 901 from intelligent users please, including the best programmes to load onto it and the best upgrades available. very manythanks in advance, Nadia

Hi,

is iDeneb 10.5.5 working? or should I use the 10.5.4?

[How To] Install Leopard From An USB Flash Drive, How to make it bootable for any eeepc!
Found on the Internet and edited:

1. First, we need to prepare the USB drive. Fire up Disk Utility, select the USB drive, and go to the partition tab. Select “1 partition” from the drop-down menu, name the drive whatever you wish (i.e. Mac OS X Installer), make sure the format is “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” in the next field, and then select the “Options” button below the partition map picture. Select MBR (Master Boot Record) – mine was defaulted to Apple GUID (which will NOT work). Select “OK” and then apply your changes. Disk Utility will create 1 partition, use MBR, etc.

2. Now, “restore” the image of the DVD installer onto the USB drive. I’m using an image file (ISO) but you can use a DVD also. The image must be listed in the left pane of Disk Utility, if it’s not there, drag the image file over. Select the USB drive, go to the “Restore” tab. It’s pretty straightforward from here. Select your image/DVD as the source, and the USB drive as the target. And away you go.

3. This is a bit of paranoia on my part – eject the USB drive using Finder and then plug it back in.

4. Launch OSx86Tools. Towards the bottom of the window, you’ll see the button for “Install EFI/Run FDISK,” select it. Find your USB drive. Now just run the script, watch it work.

5. Of course now you have to try it out, boot up the eeepc, hit esc, and voila – should be able to boot right off the USB drive!

Hello I recently purchased an eee PC 900 running ASUS Linux, was attempting to install OS X 10.5.5 iDeneb to a usb external boot, unti kernal panics at boot screen. Is it possible to run OSX on this machine and if so what am I missing? Thanks – Christopher – Certified Apple Technician

I got ideneb 10.5.4 working on an asus eee pc 900ha. Audio works with the fix provided above. Wifi/wlan does NOT work unfortunately, even after trying several of the methods described in the posts. I am willing to bite the bullet and buy a new wlan card, but I don’t want to order one until I know for sure that it will work.

None of the Ralink utilities detect the native card in os x, they all say “NO DEVICE!”, and the network preference pane in system preferences shows a bunch of blank fields.

Has anyone gotten wifi to work on the 900ha with either the native card or a new card? I would prefer using a software workaround for the problem, but any advice or help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!!!

Just curious, has anyone that installed a Broadcom card gotten the wifi to work in windows?

@ness if you have a leopard install disk there is a broadcom driver on this that will get your wifi working in windows. Don’t run bootcamp app on disk just open/explore its contents and navigate to the driver folder on the disk. Double click no menu pops up but in about 30 seconds you’ll see your wifi icon pop up.

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Hi,

could someone confirm a proper solution for the alltime running fan problem on 1000H?

regards
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I OSX cant recognizes WI-FI you must turn it in bios off boot restart and turn it off again. It works form me

Hi, I have a eee pc 1000hd and have tried to no avai:l kalyway, Ideneb, and various other torrented versions. Is there any way to get Leopard running on my machine it has: 900mhz intel celeron M, 2gb ram, 120HD, and atheros wireless card. I am so frustrated I already own multiple Mac machines, but I need a small portable affordable version which Jobs has yet to do. Thus leaving me with this endless task of search trying new methods with no progress.

Any help is appreciated, Blake M.

@blake:

There should be no real problem doing it on the 1000hd, ive got 10.5.5 running on my eee900.
be guided by this:
http://tigeroneeepc.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/8067329

cheers

Thanks for the link it works except one problem I am encountering I get the eee turned on and fully booted up except I am stuck at the Welcome Please Register page. If any one has encountered this problem before and knows how to fix this it would be great.

Thanks again, Blake

@blake

yes thats a common problem. boot with the “Graphics Mode”=”600×480x32″ option .. it passes the “welcome loop” and skips the info-registering stuff at the welcome screen. no biggie .. but you will have a user called Administrator.. and you can go from here :D

Sorry to keep asking questions but how do I enable graphics mode is that part of chameleon?

Thanks in advance, Blake

@blake..

yes ofcourse .. :D you press F8(or was it the any-key) to enter boot options (before the white screen comes up).

its us-keyboard layout when you write at the prompt…

Alright not trying to sound stupid but I am still getting the same result and the graphics mode did not seem to work.

Thanks again, Blake

@blake

first. make sure you write it exactly like this:
“Graphics Mode”=”640×480x32″
with all the ” and so on..

secondly .. if this doesnt work..
do a search on google for “osx86 welcomescreen loop” or something similar .. you should find stuff about it in the insanely mac forums ..

Here ist the revised Tut for the EEE PC 1000H:
http://super-nice.de/wordpress/?p=259