HP Mini 110-1125NR Snow Leopard Working Wifi

[lunasicc]

Thank Drexus. I currently am Dualbooting Windows7 and SL 10.6.1. I am sort of confused installing a Vanilla Leopard (still learning hackintosh).

I don't mind having to reformat my HD and installing Leopard, just don't know where to start.

[thebubzie]

Guys i strongly recommend buying an external dvd drive. I installed them from retail discs not copied image files. But yeah my wifi is still working in matter of fact i'm typing this message on my hackintosh. :]

[lunasicc]

Problem is, I don't have a external DVD drive or the Retail DVD's, just the image files and a 8gb flash drive. Anyone know any alternative ways to install Vanilla Leopard?

[thebubzie]

I mean the image files will work but I strongly recommend buying a $60 external dvd drive at your local electronic store.

[Drexus]

Problem is, I don't have a external DVD drive or the Retail DVD's, just the image files and a 8gb flash drive. Anyone know any alternative ways to install Vanilla Leopard?

I have an external DVD that uses a USB connection. So I figured there would be no difference in speed if I used one or the other - since it's still USB. Ask yourself: Would you use a tiny USB stick, or a clumsy external drive that needs a cord for power... Ya, forget the external.

If you used Disk Utility to restore the retail DVD onto the USB Stick, then all is well. Same data. I haven't tried the external drive for anything other then watching movies. So, I've done everything to this point on a USB stick.

Anyhow, let me get to work. I have a method that will quickly tell me what files are different form the double upgrade compared to the strait SL install.

Talk to you all in about 2 hours.

[LeMaurien19]

@Drexus (you may not even want my response anymore but here goes anyway)
I may not have it nailed down 100% but:

Vanilla - is when you don't have anything non Apple stock on the main installation volume, especially inside /System/Library/Extensions - iDeneb and other distro's put stuff in there by default right from square one of the install process to make OS X Leo boot from a PC (your normal Disabler, VoodooPower, BatteryManagement, fakesmc etc.) which mucks up the system for upgrade.

The concept does seem to involve keeping all that "make OS X boot from a PC" stuff separate from the main installation volume; keeping it "pure" and no different than a main installation volume taken from a real Mac. One way to get started with Vanilla is via Retail Mac OS X installation.

My take is you can create a USB installer with retail install DVD restored on it and made bootable by Netbook BootMaker - sort out issues with OSInstall.mpkg / .pkg and it'll install an OS X system that's also devoid of additives in /S/L/E.

Then finish off with EFI boot method (which is essentially just putting all those "make OS X boot from a PC" stuff in a separate place from the installation itself - a "boot layer" if you will) to make the machine capable of booting by itself.

Also, I think an /Extra folder in / works ok for this purpose - as long as you keep everything else, specially /S/L/E, untouched...

[Drexus]

@LeMaurien

Vanilla to me is where you don't use anything other than a retail disk to install from. No iDeneb, modified kernals, parts of this and that, just the raw image. Essentially the only thing I used to install/run LEO was the NetbookBootMaker. If I don't use that, then nothing will boot on a PC netbook right?

That said, my attempt did not go so well with the new method. I performed a clean install of LEO with the 10.5.6 update right after. At that point I was on the internet happy as can be. Then I ran the SL (Snow Leopard) install. So I booted from my USB stick and performed the install.

At this point the NetbookBootMaker that was installed onto the LEO partition (because that's how I was getting my LEO partition to boot) was broken when SL was installed. So I reinstalled NetbookBootMaker on to the newly upgraded SL volume and booted up. It was a familiar sight. No wifi, just a note in the network settings that said the airport was off.

So I have 4 questions for those who were able to get to the wifi state:

1 - What was used to get LEO to boot? (what tool was used to get the mini to take on OSX - different then NetbookBootMaker?)

2 - What was then used to run the SL installer if an external DVD drive was used? (You can't just insert the DVD and simply tell the mini to boot from that volume)

3 - Once the SL install was performed: Again, what method allowed the new SL volume to boot?

When I first installed LEO (while booted into another partition using SL), I immediately performed the 10.5.6 update (and never booting into the fresh 10.5.0). Only after the update did I boot into 10.5.6. Then I was able to see the wifi was in fact working, and that perhaps the system writing network prefs was critical for the 10.6 install to work.

4 - Was the 10.6 install performed on top of the 10.5.6 partition without ever booting into it? (essentially 10.5.0 to 10.5.6 to 10.6.0: all upgrades without ever trying out the new setup until the very end) Was this ever performed?

Perhaps my NetbookBootMaker changed something for the SL install, and so my wifi was broken by re-applying the NetbookBootMaker tool again.

If anyone can answer these 4 questions (which I'm sure many are asking too), it would be super helpful.

[Drexus]

Ok. I see the issue I cause myself. I should try not to do this so late at night.

I forgot to install 10.5.8 after the 10.5.6

I'm going to start again.

back in a few hours...

[Drexus]

OK. So I seem to remember being in this exact situation before. 10.5.8 installer hangs on the last part of the install. It will sit there writing package receipt forever. So I figured the NetbookBootMaker was interfering. So I divided up the LEO partition into 2 smaller partitions and installed 10.5.6 on both. One to boot from, and the other to update. So I got the part where I'm going to install the 10.5.8 combo update on the untouched, unbooted partition with 10.5.6 (having not ever booted it or or creating a user account). So the update took a long time... and then hung in the same spot. After an hour it's still sitting there telling me "about a minute". So this is why I never got 10.5.8 working on the mini.

I'm thinking the combo is the wrong way to go. I'll try the slower 10.5.7, 10.5.8 updates - non-combo, so see if that helps.

[lunasicc]

Hey Drexus, thebubzie said he used boot-132 to boot from his Leopard Retail DVD. Now isn't there a way to put the boot-132 on a USB instead of the typical CD/DVD?

Anyways, thats how he boot into Leopard without using NetbookBootmaker. After that he updated to 10.5.8, then used prasys empire EFI to boot into Snow Leopard.

[Drexus]

Ok. This stops here.

As I seem to remember from the last time I used 10.5.8, I forgot that 10.5.8 on the HP mini 110 does not work at all. So installing it and upgrading to 10.6 will offer you nothing if you don't have wifi on 10.5.8 to start with.

Something is radically different from 10.5.6 to anything after that. I have a clean version of 10.5.8 working now, all works fine... but no wifi card showing at all. If I pull kexts over from 10.5.6 I'm sure something may get going, but it's highly unlikely this will help 10.6 in the slightest.

Sorry Lunasicc & Gardenofsimple. Until we get wifi on 10.5.8, we are back to pulling the ROM off of the card.

@thebubzie:
So you have 10.5.8 with wifi... but the 1125NR is far different then the 1115CA. I'm afraid we will have to try something else.

[lunasicc]

Im looking at HP models that use the same card here at http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?Se ... 04593-003# and the mini 110-1115CA uses the same wifi card.

Unless you are talking about other things that differ from 110-1115CA and 1125NR.