*FIRST POST UPDATED* Leopard installer disc for MSI WIND

Stellarola · **Joined:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:41 am **Posts:** 83

UPDATED Oct1 2008

How it's made: The Wind installer disc is built using an extensive script called Slipstream by Dense, an extremely talented programmer and great guy. I was able to use slipstream to insert all the latest kexts, hex strings, device ids, etc into the final product. As you all can see, it's really the easiest solution to make discs such as this. This is the same tool that others like Kalyway and Jas use. Just a real loud shout out to Dense for providing the tools needed to get this working and get it out there as quickly as we could. This wouldn't have happened without him.

THE WIND INSTALLER DISC CAN BE FOUND ON TPB!! "MSIWindosx86"

So the custom installer disc is finally here. This is the first release for the disc and consider it a beta as we wanted to get some feedback from the community. This is currently the easiest option to install Mac OS X Leopard on the MSI Wind notebook. Please take into consideration the installer was made with the MSI Wind notebook in mind and we're hoping that the other clone revisions of this notebook (Advent, Luvbook, Akoya) will work as well, even though some of the hardware is slightly different.

Before I list off some of the features, I'd like everyone to know that NOONE DRAWS A PAYCHECK FROM THESE EFFORTS. We created this disc to help the community and give people more options on their brand new MSI Wind notebook. If you really like the way this OS feels to you please consider purchasing OS X Leopard from http://www.apple.com.

Before someone starts complaining, be sure to read the OSx86 forums at http://www.insanelymac.com for some preliminary information about OSx86 and how it works before you start making a fool of yourself.

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--Features--

-Single disc installation
-Native Graphics on boot of OS
-Keyboard and Trackpad Working
-Native Camera support for use with applications such as iChat, Photoboot & Skype
-Internal Speakers with Mute, Volume UP/DOWN functionality
-Bluetooth Works natively
-Clamshell Sleep
-System Sleep (Still to be determined)

So we understand what the features are of this thing. Now lets get down to business on what doesn't work. Because we all know that's what people love to complain about... :!:

--Features not yet implemented--

-About this Mac Screen - This is just cosmetic as it does not affect the functionality of the notebook

-Line in/out Mic - This is the biggest complaint from everyone. I am trying my hardest to source down the one man who can actually get this function to work. Until then, be glad you HAVE OS X Leopard running on your MSI Wind.

-Trackpad Scrolling - This could potentially be solved, but I have not delved deep enough into the process.

-Installer can potentially not show progress bar - As you can see in Onetrack's installation video some people have been noticing that the progress bar for the installation is not showing. This doesn't mean it's not installing as it's purely cosmetic.

Onetrack has done a great job of lending me a hand with testing the installation and he was kind enough to upload some videos to show people both the installation of this installer disc and also how to upgrade the RAM, WIFI and the HDD.

INSTALLATION OF THE CUSTOM INSTALLER DISC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS7yFH_I3NI

INSTALLATION OF RAM, HDD AND WIFI CARD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir-aLtuVNps

Please watch those videos before attempting the installation so you throughly understand how to do this.

I want to give a shout out to Onetrack, Stoked4life, SME82 and everyone else who helped make this release happen so quickly.

This will be the first release with others to come afterward which will be more thoughtout and thorough.

Thanks everyone,

-Stell

Stellarola · **Joined:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:41 am **Posts:** 83

I'd also like to know if Bonjour services are working with the ethernet.

-Stell

nightrain · **Joined:** Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:33 pm **Posts:** 27

sounds like a good idea to me. Still waiting for my Wind to arrive, so I can't provide any feedback...yet.

Stellarola wrote:

-Wifi Working (With Dell card or native if a Realtek driver comes out before I release)
-Stell

On a side note, I think it's important that the Realtek card be operational in order to make the Wind a viable Apple replacement.

Will we need an official Realtek OSX driver for the RTL8187SE to work, or is it possible to create/modify another driver to get the card working?

spicypixel · **Joined:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:55 am **Posts:** 16

Likewise, never used OSX before, but would if it worked out of the box. Thumbs up from me.

stewart1988 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:21 am

Love my Mac so would love to have this on my Wind!

Only problem wouldn't it be illegal to share this so I guess you cant really give people links/torrents to download on this forum..
Although i'm sure talking about it is fine right?

My Wind/4211 at the minute is just a huge playground lol! Installing OS's all over the place to test what I like and don't and what works and don't until I find a setup that I like!

Stellarola · **Joined:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:41 am **Posts:** 83

stewart1988 wrote:

Love my Mac so would love to have this on my Wind!

Only problem wouldn't it be illegal to share this so I guess you cant really give people links/torrents to download on this forum..
Although i'm sure talking about it is fine right?

My Wind/4211 at the minute is just a huge playground lol! Installing OS's all over the place to test what I like and don't and what works and don't until I find a setup that I like!

Talking about it is fine. We'll cross that bridge when we need to.

-Stell

Martian · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:06 pm **Posts:** 47

I would certainly love to give OSX a good on the Wind

+1

Martian

phobic · **Joined:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:28 am **Posts:** 27

Don't have my Wind yet (Tues, 8 Jul hopefully :roll:

) but has (or is anyone) able to try the WLAN drivers from Realtek's FTP? There's some OS X drivers but obviously I'm not sure they'll work. At any rate I ordered a Dell 1500 Wireless N card which happens to have the same chipset as the Apple Airport Express.
Anyway, here's the link to the ftp:

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/wlan/

The two files are named:

Realtek_RTL8187_MacOS10.4_Driver_1309_UI1.5.1.zip
Realtek_RTL8187B_MacOS10.4_Driver_1117_UI_1.5.1A.zip

nightrain · **Joined:** Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:33 pm **Posts:** 27

phobic wrote:

Don't have my Wind yet (Tues, 8 Jul hopefully :roll:

) but has (or is anyone) able to try the WLAN drivers from Realtek's FTP? There's some OS X drivers but obviously I'm not sure they'll work. At any rate I ordered a Dell 1500 Wireless N card which happens to have the same chipset as the Apple Airport Express.
Anyway, here's the link to the ftp:

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/wlan/

The two files are named:

Realtek_RTL8187_MacOS10.4_Driver_1309_UI1.5.1.zip
Realtek_RTL8187B_MacOS10.4_Driver_1117_UI_1.5.1A.zip

There's also one called Realtek_MacOS10.4_Universal_Driver_1.4.5_UI1.4.7.zip - hard to tell if "universal" means it's like a universal realtek driver, or if it means universal binary, but it might be worth a shot as well.

Stellarola · **Joined:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:41 am **Posts:** 83

If we could get a device id for this Realtek WLAN I might be able to get it to work.

Lemme know if anyone knows it

Thanks,

-Stell

nightrain wrote:

phobic wrote:

Don't have my Wind yet (Tues, 8 Jul hopefully :roll:

) but has (or is anyone) able to try the WLAN drivers from Realtek's FTP? There's some OS X drivers but obviously I'm not sure they'll work. At any rate I ordered a Dell 1500 Wireless N card which happens to have the same chipset as the Apple Airport Express.
Anyway, here's the link to the ftp:

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/wlan/

The two files are named:

Realtek_RTL8187_MacOS10.4_Driver_1309_UI1.5.1.zip
Realtek_RTL8187B_MacOS10.4_Driver_1117_UI_1.5.1A.zip

There's also one called Realtek_MacOS10.4_Universal_Driver_1.4.5_UI1.4.7.zip - hard to tell if "universal" means it's like a universal realtek driver, or if it means universal binary, but it might be worth a shot as well.

nightrain · **Joined:** Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:33 pm **Posts:** 27

this is from the Linux sub-forum, I'm not sure if the device id is in there though:

admin wrote:

# lspci -nn

Code:

00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03)
02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02)
1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02)
00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device [10ec:8199] (rev 22)

# sudo lspci -vv

Code:

02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8199 (rev 22)
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 6894
   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
   Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
   Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
   Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
   Region 0: I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
   Region 1: Memory at dfc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
   Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
      Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
      Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
   Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
      Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
   Capabilities: [70] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
      Device: Supported: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag-
      Device: Latency L0s <128ns, L1 <2us
      Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
      Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
      Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
      Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
      Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Port 0
      Link: Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <64us
      Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch-
      Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1

#sudo lsusb -v

Code:

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x0bda Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
  idProduct          0x0158 
  bcdDevice           58.87
  iManufacturer           1 Generic
  iProduct                2 USB2.0-CRW
  iSerial                 3 20071114173400000
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           32
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          4 CARD READER
    bmAttributes         0xa0
      (Bus Powered)
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower              500mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass         8 Mass Storage
      bInterfaceSubClass      6 SCSI
      bInterfaceProtocol     80 Bulk (Zip)
      iInterface              5 Bulk-In, Bulk-Out, Interface
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x01  EP 1 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x82  EP 2 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
  bLength                10
  bDescriptorType         6
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  bNumConfigurations      1
Device Status:     0x0000
  (Bus Powered)

The card doesn't seem to send the dhcp request and so doesn't get a connection, the router is definately setup to allow the card to connect. I'm wondering if it's a pci to usb bridge issue. Maybe 10ec:8136 isn't properly supported but then I don't know, I've tried using the windows drivers for the RTL8185B but the card isn't recognized as it's not the B version (I only tried this driver because one of the two ID's from the B card matched our ID for the SE card).

stokedonlife02 · **Joined:** Fri May 30, 2008 10:39 pm **Posts:** 46

hey stellarola i'm in for whatever you need. i ordered my wind from msi shop online and it hopefully will ship monday, so when i get it ill help with the disc. i remember you from osx86 message board and when we were first trying to get leopard on our hacks and onetracks guide. good to see you on this board.

TrippleSinner · **Joined:** Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:52 am **Posts:** 181

I too have ordered a dell 1500 wireless N card from ebay for 35$ so hopefully that'll fix the crappy wifi distance issue.

scudderfish · **Joined:** Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:39 pm **Posts:** 55

I'd be extremely interested in this.

Stellarola · **Joined:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:41 am **Posts:** 83

If anyone with this laptop wants to help, just hit me up on AIM.

PM me for the screen name.

-Stell

scudderfish · **Joined:** Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:39 pm **Posts:** 55

phobic wrote:

Don't have my Wind yet (Tues, 8 Jul hopefully :roll:

) but has (or is anyone) able to try the WLAN drivers from Realtek's FTP? There's some OS X drivers but obviously I'm not sure they'll work. At any rate I ordered a Dell 1500 Wireless N card which happens to have the same chipset as the Apple Airport Express.
Anyway, here's the link to the ftp:

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/wlan/

The two files are named:

Realtek_RTL8187_MacOS10.4_Driver_1309_UI1.5.1.zip
Realtek_RTL8187B_MacOS10.4_Driver_1117_UI_1.5.1A.zip

Those files contain drivers for network cards plugged in via USB.

phobic · **Joined:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:28 am **Posts:** 27

scudderfish wrote:

phobic wrote:

Don't have my Wind yet (Tues, 8 Jul hopefully :roll:

) but has (or is anyone) able to try the WLAN drivers from Realtek's FTP? There's some OS X drivers but obviously I'm not sure they'll work. At any rate I ordered a Dell 1500 Wireless N card which happens to have the same chipset as the Apple Airport Express.
Anyway, here's the link to the ftp:

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/wlan/

The two files are named:

Realtek_RTL8187_MacOS10.4_Driver_1309_UI1.5.1.zip
Realtek_RTL8187B_MacOS10.4_Driver_1117_UI_1.5.1A.zip

Those files contain drivers for network cards plugged in via USB.

Oh well then that sucks.

I'll be able to help with OS X once I get my Wind as well since it was pretty much the main reason why I bought it.

Solinx · **Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:33 pm

stewart1988 wrote:

Only problem wouldn't it be illegal to share this so I guess you cant really give people links/torrents to download on this forum..
Although i'm sure talking about it is fine right?

Just chiming in to say you're right sharing links isn't an option here. Talking about how to create an installer disc or what works and what doesn't work is fine.
Requests or offers to share the disc cross the line.

Good luck and have fun

sed8ed · **Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:15 pm

This is a great idea.....Really looking forward to a Wind only version with specific kexts for the Wind in place....

I really like ichat and and mail in OSX as most of my family use Macs so if I had this functionality on my Wind it would be awesome, I'm no newbie to OSX on a PC having configured a few machines since the project was launched.....

As long as most things work i.e resolution, and graphics (fully) along with speakers, webcam, bluetooth, mic, I'd be blown away...looks like wifi doesnt work but the old Dell 1390 will come to the rescue again lol....

Looking forward to updates and news on this....I have kalyway 10.5.1....wonder if that would go straight on....

malarcy · **Joined:** Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:04 pm **Posts:** 61

The wlan chipset is an RTL8187SE - limited drivers listed on the realtek site but I emailed them and they sent me the linux drivers, needed to be hacked a little to get them to build but they are working now.

Might be worth one of you os x folks mailing them and seeing what comes back

this is the email address I sent to

wlanfae@realtek.com

I would like to run os x as well - be really cool to show of the box with ubuntu, windows and os x running on it.

Malarcy

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