391 Comments to “Samsung N310 (Samsung Go) Hackintosh Installation on Snow Leopard”

• momasawa says:

  December 30, 2009 at 2:45 am

  hi. thanks a lot for this interesting post! i also have the samsung n310 and i’m loving it. but with 10.6.2, wifi doesn’t work. airport doesn’t even appear anywhere. are you sure that if I buy the dell1390 card, everything’s gonna work fine ? is it hard to install ? risky ? i’m waiting for your advice to order it! thanks again, marie.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  December 30, 2009 at 10:18 am

  Dell *1490* should work fine, its the same card real macbooks use. Make sure you get the right one.
  If you’re in Shanghai, I have a couple in the office, I usually keep a small stock on-hand for making hackintoshes.

  Easy to install, just unscrew the base (all the screws under the plastic covers and feet), remove that.
  You then have access to the bottom, one more screw for the pci wifi card, carefully unplug the 2 antenna’s, unplug the existing card, and put in the new one, replug antenna’s, and screw it all back together.
• momasawa says:

  December 30, 2009 at 12:53 pm

  hi! thanks for your answer. i’m from france. and the dell 1490 is nowhere to be find except on the us dell site… so i’m buying the dell1390, as written in the original post…. hope it’ll work!
  i looked at the “tech specs” and they look similar, the 1490 also supports 802.11a, but g will be enough for me
  hope i didn’t just make a huge mistake!!
  thanks for the advice for the installation! i’ll be very careful!
• magicald says:

  December 31, 2009 at 4:09 am

  So is it a dell 1390 or a 1490? I just bought a N310 and I’m looking at buying the right wifi card for the Hack. Thanks!
• cgdavilab says:

  December 31, 2009 at 6:15 am

  I have the same exact samsung but my ehternet is not working. Any ideas in how to fix this?
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  December 31, 2009 at 8:10 am

  I’m using the 1490, but the 1390 should be fine also. I’m using that in another machine and it works “out the box” – no driver install needed.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  December 31, 2009 at 8:31 am

  2 possible issues.

  1 – Its turned off in the bios. Check the bios settings, and see if ethernet needs to be enabled or not.
  2 – For ethernet, you’ll need to have all the relevant kexts installed. Kexts are the equivalent of drivers in the Mac world.

  How did you install? Using the instructions above, or another way?
  If you did it using my install above, you should have a folder in the root of your hdd – /Extras/GeneralExtensions

  There should be a yukon2 driver in there, if there isn’t, then you’ll need to put one in. As I don’t actually own a Samsung N310 (I only had the one I hackintoshed for about a day), can’t help you with the driver. I knew I should have zipped the folder after I’d finished, but it was too easy to do the entire install, so didn’t bother!
  Suggest download the programs I listed, and get from there (tip, right click, show package contents will show you whats inside most apps).
  Probably NetbookInstaller will have the kexts inside its app installer in one of the folders. If so, install as with other kexts using the instructions in the post.

  Also, just to clarify, this install is for Snow Leopard, not Leopard, so drivers are targeted for Snow, and may not work in Leopard.
  If you are using Leopard, an Ethernet driver for that is here – http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=155935
• momasawa says:

  December 31, 2009 at 5:17 pm

  thanks!
  magicald, dell is telling me i should receive my dell1390 next friday (i’m hoping it’s gonna be sooner)
  if u wanna be sure at 100%, u can wait, i’ll tell you how it worked!
  but i think it’s gonna be fin anyway
  i’m so excited
  i’m loving my new mac
• momasawa says:

  December 31, 2009 at 5:18 pm

  the dell site tells me it’s been shipped! i should get it next monday!
• AC says:

  January 1, 2010 at 12:23 am

  Lawrence -

  Will any of these Wifi cards work? I just want to make sure I buy the right one.

  http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=dell+1390+broadcom&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=dell+1390&_osacat=0
• AC says:

  January 1, 2010 at 12:23 am

  Also, how does Snow Leopard run with 1GB of stock ram. Is that all you are using?
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 1, 2010 at 1:00 am

  I don’t own a Samsung n310, I just made a hackintosh for a client.
  Myself, I have a few real Apples – 2 x 24″ iMac’s, 1×20″ iMac, 1 x MacBook pro, 1 x Macbook, 1 x iBook, 1 x Mac Mini, 2 x g4 Cubes, (although one is now prepped to be a fish tank), plus a couple of other laptops and pc’s hiding around the house+office. Only one of those is a hackintosh, and that ones the Dell Mini 9, aka Mac Nano.

  As for Snow or Leopard – more ram is better. That said, the Atom chipset is artificially limited by Intel to only address 2G max ram, they do this so that they don’t cannibalize their existing low end product line. Stick 2G in, ram is cheap.

  Don’t know about eBay, I just tried to use it tonight for the first time in literally years, and they suspended my account 3 times in a row for “suspicious activity”. Apparently sending one message asking a seller if they ship to China warrants suspending my account. Spent 30 minutes on their support chat, and had it unblocked the second time. I come home 3 hours later, and I have an email saying its suspended again. I think I give up, we don’t use eBay here in China, Taobao is the equivalent, and its a hell of a lot easier to buy from!
• momasawa says:

  January 1, 2010 at 2:07 am

  AC, i’m for now using snow leopard with 1GB ram and it works fine… (but i’m just doing safari, mail, ichat, photos, avec openoffice)

  i was also thinking to buy some ram but here in france it’s not that cheap! so i don’t know….
• AC says:

  January 1, 2010 at 2:47 am

  momasawa -

  good to know that it is working well for you. How is the boot up time and shut down time? Is Snow Leopard sluggish at all?
• AC says:

  January 1, 2010 at 3:05 am

  momasawa-

  does the Samsung N310 mobo take Mini PCIe? I just want to make sure that I will be able to plug this into it-
  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280382068920
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 1, 2010 at 10:09 am

  Yes, takes mini pci-e, thats the right card.
• momasawa says:

  January 1, 2010 at 8:13 pm

  hi AC
  the boot up time is around 40 seconds, and the shut down one, 5 seconds…
  and i’m sorry but i don’t know what sluggish means….

  happy new year!
• AC says:

  January 2, 2010 at 8:21 am

  When using this method to install Snow Leopard, is the OS updateable? Can you download OS updates from Apple?
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 2, 2010 at 8:39 am

  Generally for hackintoshes you can do minor version updates, major version updates you need to wait and see.

  The above gets you working under 10.6.2, which is current (do the update, then reinstall netbookmaker, and other kexts before rebooting).

  Suggest read forums like mydellmini.com or the Netbookmaker forums for specific advice on updates.
  In general, don’t update unless you know for certain that its safe.

  Thats the downside of having a not quite Mac, Apple can be a little vindictive occasionally. That said, newer updates occasionally come with extra drivers, so more hardware works out of the box.
• david says:

  January 2, 2010 at 10:32 am

  Hello. First – THANK YOU Lawrence – great help. Second – I have successfully loaded Snow onto my N310 and it does seem to run fine even with just 1Gig Ram. I am having a Sleep problem it is described below chronologically including an initial response from Lawrence but it is still not working.

  Me-
  Just wanted to let you know I have gotten the sound to work via finding the “UpdateExtra” program and loaded the Voodoo kexts but still no sleep. I think during one of the runs of the NetbookInstaller I selected “defeat hibernation and remove sleep.” I have since run this again without this option selected. It does appear to me that the computer goes into sleep and maybe even comes out of sleep but the monitor does not wake.

  Lawrence-
  recopy the voodoo kexts in again, and do the updatextra, also do a disk utilities repair permissions. You should ask this in the page though, so everyone can benefit from the q&a’s

  Me-
  I did as instructed and did a restart after updatextra and after disk repair permissions. I then closed the lid and machine appears to go to sleep – power Button is off all other leds are off save for the power LED which blinks. I then open the lid – nothing. I hit space bar and mouse button – nothing. I press power button and it immediately lights up steady and power led is steady and wireless antenna led is on but screen is dark. Any thoughts? Thank you again, david
• david says:

  January 2, 2010 at 9:34 pm

  here is my list – probably means nothing but my directory is called /Extra not /Extras (I remember a little bit from my time in front of a Unix SGI box ls = list etc

  d-s-barsons-Mac:~ dsbarson$ ls -al /Extra/GeneralExtensions
  total 32
  drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 714 Jan 1 20:45 .
  drwxr-xr-x@ 12 root wheel 408 Jan 1 20:47 ..
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15364 Dec 31 21:35 .DS_Store
  drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Dec 31 21:35 .svn
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 31 21:35 AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext
  drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 Jun 10 2009 AppleHDA.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 AppleIntelGMA950.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Dec 31 21:35 AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 31 21:35 ApplePS2Controller.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 IO80211Family.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 IOATAFamily.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 OSXRestart.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 RealtekR1000.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 SMBIOSResolver.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 SleepEnabler.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 VAIOPEnabler.kext
  drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 Dec 26 18:09 VoodooBattery.kext
  drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 Nov 26 17:49 VoodooPowerMini.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 31 21:35 fakesmc.kext
  d-s-barsons-Mac:~ dsbarson$
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 2, 2010 at 10:26 pm

  Try adding the other Kext VoodooPowerACPI, from Superhai’s page – http://www.superhai.com/darwin.html
  See if that helps.

  /Extra(s) was a typo on my part, going from memory here, and my memory appears to like the plural rather than the singular.

  If it does, I may just amend the instructions to say add all three.

  Can you also check your Bios version, and let us know what it is. Might be that you need to update it, or turn on ACPI or similar..

  Again, I don’t actually have an N310, so a little hard to test / check for me!
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 4:07 am

  sorry about your memory VooDooPowerACPI did not work. nothing called ACPI in BIOS – but Processor Power Managemnet is and has been enabled. BIOS version is 03BA. there is a newer version on Samsung site – 05BA (Nov 19, 1009). I think I may be out of my league in loading the new BIOS though as instructions state to boot into WIndows and run BIOS exe – well I no longer have Windows – I did not partician drive and I have heard it is EXTREMELY difficult to load Samsung original XP again – not sure I want to just to gain sleep capability. all comments / thoughts welcome
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 4:27 am

  one additional possible clue, on startup before I see apple and spinning wheel but on that background color there is a text message at top of screen stating something like hibernate image is too old by 165XXX seconds to force wake = y. I have tried the Y button to wake from sleep but it has not worked. I also tried disabling Processor Power Management – no luck
• momasawa says:

  January 3, 2010 at 6:39 am

  hi
  i also have this sleep problem and this “image is too old by xxxx seconds to force wake blabla”
  … so i guess it’s kind of “normal” ? even if problematic…
  and i also lost my original windows xp
  is there another way to update the bios ?
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 3, 2010 at 9:32 am

  To get rid of the image is too old, delete the hibernation file and disable hibernation.
  terminal ->

  sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

  Reboot then terminal ->

  sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

  For the black screen on wake, can someone try this for me.

  terminal ->

  sudo pmset lidwake 0

  reboot, then check if sleep works now. You’ll need to press a key to wake up also. (lidwake 0 means wake up, but wait for a keypress to power up the screen).

  Also recommend checking the current power management settings with

  sudo pmset -g

  (maybe someone can paste that here for me?)

  More details about pmset here –
  http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pmset.1.html
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 3, 2010 at 9:35 am

  Also, for installing a BIOS:

  Not a real issue for either; Suggest google for a Hiren Boot CD 10.x version, download, burn to CD, and use that to boot into either DOS, or Windows XP (The 10.x versions have a MiniXP boot option).

  Alternate routes, make a bootable USB, and do similar things with that. That’s beyond the scope of this post though.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 3, 2010 at 10:35 am

  What kexts do you have in the /Extras/GeneralExtensions folder?
  eg

  Open terminal (in Applications/Utilities)

  ls -al /Extras/GeneralExtensions

  What does that show? (suggest paste result in here)
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 11:12 am

  again, getting out of my league but I also rarely give up. not real comfortable with terminal. I think “sudo pmset hibernatemode 0″ turns off hibernation mode but how do find and delete the hibernation file you reference? is this it?
  “it does in fact save a hibernate file (/var/vm/sleepimage) first, and then goes to standy mode”
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 11:16 am

  I think I got it. By no means picking on you but you said delete file and then turn hibernation off but I thnk the terminal sequence you specify is the reverse. I will try it now and let you know. Really appreciate this.
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 11:37 am

  did everything exactly as stated but screen is still black – got a lot of warnings when setting hibernate to 0 that battery and disk will not opperate properly etc. but continued on. here is the power setting report you asked for –
  d-s-barsons-Mac:~ dsbarson$ sudo pmset -g
  Password:
  Active Profiles:
  AC Power -1
  Battery Power -1*
  Currently in use:
  hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
  hibernatemode 0
  disksleep 0
  sleep 30
  displaysleep 10
  ttyskeepawake 1
  halfdim 1
  d-s-barsons-Mac:~ dsbarson$
• momasawa says:

  January 3, 2010 at 5:37 pm

  hi, and thanks a lot!
  i did the first step of your advice, and now on startup there’s not the sentence “forcewake…”, thank you!
  i’m now going to take care of the sleep problem and ‘ll come back here to tell you!
• momasawa says:

  January 3, 2010 at 5:52 pm

  the sleep still won’t wake up…
  when I do sudo wpmset -g
  i get:

  Active Profiles:
  AC Power -1*
  Battery Power -1
  Currently in use:
  hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
  hibernatemode 0
  disksleep 10
  sleep 53
  displaysleep 53
  ttyskeepawake 1
  womp 1
  halfdim 1
  autorestart 1
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 3, 2010 at 6:23 pm

  Can you try to see if changing the screen brightness up or down works to turn the screen on after sleep?

  If it does, then we may need to create you a specific dsdt.aml file.

  If it does work, you’ll need to give me your dsdt.dsl file from your laptop.
  See here for tools: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=515

  The patch we (may) need to do is this one –
  http://www.infinitemac.com/f84/various-dsdt-mods-t1960/#3

  If you can do it yourself, great, if not, can email me an i’ll take a look.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 3, 2010 at 7:02 pm

  I’ve made a dsdt.aml, can someone test for me? See the line in red in the post for download link, and basic instructions.
• momasawa says:

  January 3, 2010 at 8:06 pm

  for the brightness, i’m using the prefpane “shade”… but typing cmd up to wake won’t change anything…
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 3, 2010 at 8:11 pm

  No, I mean press the key for brightness after sleep as the screen isn’t turning on.
  eg Fn + whatever the key is on the keyboard.

  Does that work to turn the screen back on?

  Also, Have you tried the dsdt.aml file?
• momasawa says:

  January 3, 2010 at 8:46 pm

  fn + the key on the keyboard won’t work, but it doesn’t work either when the computer is switched on.

  i tried the dsdt.aml (that is, i downloaded it, removed the .N310, and placed it where was the first one)
  then reboot, and the warning grey thing appeared
  so i reboot again
  and it works

  but sleep still won’t work….

  maybe this is a lost cause ?
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 9:38 pm

  forgot to mention my hibernation file too old warning is gone as well. chamging brightness after sleep has no effect. one more clue and a question. sound does work when awake and changing volume works from fn+ button on keyboard but when computer sounds like it is out of sleep but screen is black sound buttons do not work so maybe computer is still asleep? do you know what vesion BIOS was on the N310 you hacked? I am ready to update my BIOS and see if this helps. thank you
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 3, 2010 at 9:47 pm

  Can either of you try the dsdt.aml file I uploaded?

  Check the root folder or the /Extra folder for an existing one.
  Replace the one you find with the one I linked above in the post, then reboot, and test.
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 9:56 pm

  sorry, feel like an idiot but I do not see where you posted the file – only a link to the code that should go into the file.
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 9:58 pm

  oh, its way at the top, I will try it right now
• david says:

  January 3, 2010 at 10:19 pm

  installed the dsdt.aml file and computer will not boot now on restart – there is a “do not enter” symbol (circle with line thru) over the apple on the start-up screen and wheel keeps spinning. powered down, tried again, same thing. I guess I need to go back to the USB stick I created with NetBookMaker and OSX? Should I update BIOS before starting over? Do you know which BIOS you worked with?
• momasawa says:

  January 3, 2010 at 10:51 pm

  i did try with the dsdt file, and i can still switch on and use my computer but still sleep problem…
• david says:

  January 4, 2010 at 11:33 am

  I am sorry to continue but… got Hirens Boot CD, no problem, boots in mini-XP, very cool, but f’ing BIOS exe will not run because it thinks I am low on battery – even if I am plugged in. Battery is full, tried plugged unplugged, exe is obviously looking for some extension that is no longer there.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 4, 2010 at 2:26 pm

  Latest BIOS I can see for it is the 05BA version here –

  http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/FM/200911/20091119135004656/Win_N310_05BA.exe

  I’ll see if I can extract the relevant files so you can run a DOS or normal windows updater.
  (downloading a trial vmware xp now for that…)
• Alex says:

  January 4, 2010 at 4:50 pm

  Hello,

  Man, reading about what all you guys are trying to do, i am really scared to try this alone…. i currently own imac 20” and macbook pro 13”, and i am planning on downgrading to N310 – hackintoshed, because i figured i don’t really do much crazy stuff on macbook pro 13” and i think i could live with netbook just that i love apple’s os x.
  Can anybody maybe do the whole steps in video? well i guess that’ll be pain in the butt…
  i honestly don’t think i can go through all these steps by reading it, and just following the comments…. i’m sure i’ll get lost and be very sad lol…. i just hope there’s some kind of place where they can do these complicated stuff for me haha…
  yea anyways i thought it’s just worth of asking, good luck to yall on getting everything fuctional!
• momasawa says:

  January 4, 2010 at 7:09 pm

  hi alex
  i really do understand what you’re saying
  i actually sold my macbook and got a n310 (it was designed by fukasawa who did work for apple, so not really a treason )
  i’m so happy to use it with apple’s os
  i installed it using a french site where there are photos that may help you. but it’s in french… the site is xsolutions.free.fr
  i’m now going to change my wifi card and this really stresses me….
  and the only problem left will be the sleep mode one… which is not really one actually because i can switch off my computer when i decide not to use it for a while…
  hope you’re gonna make it!
• Mode7 says:

  January 5, 2010 at 12:47 am

  I’ve got an N310 with the 03A (I think that’s the version #) BIOS as well that has the exact same sleep issue. I’m going to fiddle around today and see if I can get Windows reinstalled to properly update the BIOS. I’ll update in another post on how it goes.

  I know the “sleep” issue exists in both Leopard and Snow Leopard as I’ve been trying out different installs, so far though it seems if I can get the sleep working, the only other thing that won’t work on this hackintosh are the brightness keys (various workarounds for this) and the internal mic.
• david says:

  January 5, 2010 at 2:21 am

  Alex, you should follow the instructions to the letter that Lawrence has graciously provided. I am the one having all the “trouble” with sleep but sleep is not required – I just like everything to be as good as it can be The steps Lawrence outlines are flawless and a novice like me got it right on the first try. From my experience if you can afford it I would buy a separate drive to put all this on and keep the Samsung XP drive as from factory. I did not do this because I assumed the CDROM that came with the N310 was a complete, bootable recovery – it is not. I can assure you, if you follow Lawrence’s directions you will have exactly what he describes – working OSX, no wifi (until you replace card $13 on eBay) and possibly no sleep. From full restart my N310 with Snow Leopard boots in 40 seconds so sleep is really no big deal. Good Luck
• david says:

  January 5, 2010 at 2:33 am

  Yes, that is the .exe I am trying to run but it is looking for battery status on probably from software that no longer exists.

  Before we continue, I must do something for you. If you were closer a bottle of wine would be good but probably not a good idea to send to China. So, would you like a direct donation or one to LifeLine Shanghai or somewhere else? Thanks
• david says:

  January 5, 2010 at 2:41 am

  ps – and before you write me off as a “stupid american” because of the BMW avatar, it is from a dead blog I created and I do not know how to change it. It is for a $500 USD race called 24 Hours of Lemons (as in citrus) – check it out http://www.24hoursoflemons.com
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 5, 2010 at 8:54 am

  You can change the pic at http://www.gravatar.com/ – Its tied to your email address, they have pass reset details there too.

  Sleep was working on the one I made, I’ll see if I can get it back from the lady for a bit so I can copy the dsdt.aml and other files off it, and check the BIOS version. I think it might be due to having the latest bios, as sleep is tied to the ACPI functions.

  The LeMons race looks quite interesting…
• david says:

  January 5, 2010 at 10:10 am

  thank you. you did not answer how/where I can send a send a small reflection of my gratitude. per your post – nothing I can do tonight? I think we are 12 hours apart so I will lose all day tomorrow. any quick tips on how to force the BIOS update .exe to work?
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 6, 2010 at 4:34 am

  Hi.

  This is a great guide, Lawrence and I have got 10.6.2 running on my N310 however my experiences are a little different from the others.

  Sleep works and wakes up by pressing the power button using battery power but will not work when run from the mains (it goes to sleep for a second then wakes up immediately).

  I am on the 04x BIOS.

  Please can you advise me how I can install the audio kext as after I download it, it has no .kext extension and is just a binary file.

  Kind regards,

  Iain
• AC says:

  January 6, 2010 at 6:43 am

  Has anyone been successful resolving the sleep issue yet?
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 6, 2010 at 7:05 am

  Regards my post above – scrub the audio kext request – managed to find a ready kext that works on the NC10 (AppleHDA)
• AC says:

  January 6, 2010 at 8:56 am

  Lawrence, can you outline how to install this on the Samsung N310 from 2 USB Drives? I followed the guide here – http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/nbi2.shtml but i could not get the Snow Leopard image I put on the 16gb thumb USB drive to come up on the bootloader. I don’t see the ‘Mac OS X Install DVD icon’ as outlined here – http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/nbi2.shtml#installation

  I am currently ‘practicing’ the procedure on my old Dell 700M until I receive my Samsung N310 on Thursday.

  I’d like to have the 2 USB thumbdrive install procedure down by the time it arrives so I can just do the hackintosh install right away.

  I’d like to avoid the DVD drive installation, since I don’t have access to one.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 6, 2010 at 9:09 am

  Make sure that you format the drive as GUID in Disk Utility. (Partition, options, set to GUID)
  If its not, then you won’t have a compatible boot device as you’re seeing. Not sure how to do that in other OS’s, may need to find a Mac for that.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 6, 2010 at 9:12 am

  The kext I uploaded to kexts works also, should download as a zip file, just need to unzip it, but if AppleHDA works too now, then sweet.

  For the sleep problem under power, someone needs to make a DSDT.aml file which has fixes for the not quite ACPI spec BIOS. Suggest read some of the posts I link to, and start fiddling.
  Are you using the one I uploaded? Or the Netbookmaker (NBM) one? What version of NBM are you using?
• AC says:

  January 6, 2010 at 9:44 am

  I used dd for windows to write the snow leopard iso image to the usb drive. I thought that this dd program essentially wrote an exact copy to the thumb drive. I also used dd to write the NBI_083F.img file to the other smaller 2GB thumb drive and that boots fine……only once the smaller 2gb usb stick boots, it doesn’t see the other 16g stick that is plugged in that has the snow leopard image on it. My understanding is that the Netbook Installer essentially emulates Mac hardware. I wonder why when it boots it doesn’t see the other 16g stick that is plugged in.
• david says:

  January 6, 2010 at 9:58 am

  Lawrence, you look busy but any pointers on how to load BIOS 05XX given the power issue?
• magicald_223 says:

  January 6, 2010 at 10:39 am

  Do you guys know for sure that it’s a BIOS problem for the Sleep issue? I haven’t hacked my N310 yet…waiting on my 500gb harddrive to arrive…gonna keep the original HD as is just in case, but I want to know if I should upgrade the BIOS before I pull the original HD?
• david says:

  January 6, 2010 at 11:37 am

  do not know for sure but I have 03 and sleep does not work with any fix. someone else has 04 that appears to work after some adjustments. never heard what version Lawrence had. Current version on Samsung site is 05. If you are in US can I clone your original drive? I would like to have a back up as well.
• magicald_223 says:

  January 6, 2010 at 11:59 am

  I’m in the US, just have to get my HD and external burner before I start the dissassembly. I’ll let you know.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm

  Can someone try this again for me –

  sudo pmset hibernatemode 3
  sudo pmset lidwake 0

  Then reboot, see if sleep works now?
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 6, 2010 at 11:23 pm

  Yes – it is the same version Apple HDA (v1.6.8a3) as the link you provided (could not get a .zip from that link only the binary, strange).

  I am using the NBM created dsdt using NBI 0.8.3 RC5.

  Very stable. No KP’s or glitches since. Only the sleep issue when powered in but that is academic since it works when running off the battery.

  The BIOS version on my N310 is 04BA.

  Enabled EDB, disabled Legacy USB Support, enabled USB S3 Wake-Up,

  Cheers.

  Iain
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 2:55 am

  Just hacked mine with Snow Leopard after updating the BIOS to 05BA.

  Everything seems to be working except sleep and WiFi (I’m waiting for my Broadcom wifi card I got on eBay to arrive).

  Next, I will try the pmset commands Lawrence posted above.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 7, 2010 at 3:16 am

  Also try the tips Iain posted above (Enabled EDB, disabled Legacy USB Support, enabled USB S3 Wake-Up)
  /?
  @Iain, are you sure you have a dsdt.aml file? NB RC5 has a bug where it doesn’t create one.
  Check the / or /Extra folder

  terminal

  ls -al /*.aml /Extra/*.aml
• AC says:

  January 7, 2010 at 3:40 am

  Would someone mind outlining how to install snow leopard using 2 USB sticks? I receive my N310 tomorrow and have everything ready to go according to this guide here- http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/nbi2.shtml

  I hope it works, as it doesn’t boot with my Dell 700M I have been ‘testing’ with.
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 3:43 am

  Can confirm there is a DSDT.aml file in the Extra folder but the Extra folder is not readily visible. If I do a search for GeneralExtensions in Spotlight, I can find it and access it. After that I can see the Extra directory but it is ‘greyed out’.

  Perhaps it is a bug but the DSDT.aml file is there (20kb in size).

  Strange.
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 3:43 am

  the pmset did not help, but i also discovered I don’t have a dsdt file
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 3:57 am

  This would explain why my Extra folder is hidden…..

  “Show/Hide NetbookInstaller Files:

  NetbookInstaller creates a folder called Extra at the root of the drive it is installing to. NetbookInstaller can hide this folder so you don’t accidentally delete it or just to get it our of your way. If you ever want to modify the files in the Extra folder or have easy access to it, you can run NetbookInstaller again and select to show the files. (You need the Extra folder because it is where all of the extensions and settings are saved.)”
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 7, 2010 at 3:58 am

  @Adriano – Do you want to try the dsdt.aml I put in the post (the red bit), and see if that works for you or not – copy into /Extra.
  Make sure you have some way of booting into a recovery mode if it doesn’t (just delete the file if it doesn’t work from /Extra)

  @Iain, do you want to email me your dsdt.aml file, if your sleep is semi working, might want to share it with the others…

  Although, I got it working without too much effort on the one N310 I tried (and wrote this up for!)

  I spent today trying to do a Toshiba R500, but it wouldn’t co-operate – couldn’t even get it to boot into the installer without a KP… Gave up, and installed XP on it (previously it had something on it called Vista – anyone heard of that? )
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 7, 2010 at 4:03 am

  AC – does the boot132 usb stick work – i.e. is it bootable?

  If not, then try again.

  For the OS install, can use a hard drive also. I actually keep mine on a guid formatted drive on a separate partition. I keep 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 on different partitions, but I see lots of Mac’s for repairs, so I need different versions.

  Either use disk utility on a real mac to image to a partition, or use dd on unix / windows / mac to write the raw data to a partition. Note – if you do use disk utiity, make *sure* you lock the img file first before doing anything to it, as opening it will screw up the bootable bits.
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 4:07 am

  @Lawrence – Will email it to you in the next few minutes (using my 3.8Ghz C2D Hackintosh Tower here)
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 7, 2010 at 4:31 am

  For those with sleep issues –

  I’ve updated the post with Iain’s DSDT.aml file, please read the instructions carefully (in the post under the bit highlighted in red), and understand that you will need some method of booting into OSX if things go wonky.

  If people can try, and let me know what works or doesn’t work, then I can update the instructions accordingly. Hopefully with some trials and (less) tribulations, we can get it working for everyone
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 4:35 am

  Nice one, Lawrence
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 4:51 am

  OK I’m trying Iain’s DSDT.aml file that you posted now.
• AC says:

  January 7, 2010 at 6:03 am

  Lawrence-

  I used dd to write the NBI_083F Image to a 2 GB USB stick.

  I then used dd to write the snow leopard iso image to a 16GB USB stick.

  I then plugged in both the 2GB USB stick and the 16GB USB stick to my Dell 700M (to test with).

  Powered on the Dell 700M and selected the one time boot option. Netbook Installer boots, but it only shows option icons for the existing Windows 7 and Windows XP partitions already on my internal laptop harddrive. It doesn’t show the option for the Snow Leopard OS install, like I would expect it to, since the 16GB USB Stick was plugged in.

  Is this a Dell 700M issue? I’m thinking this process also isn’t going to work when I try it on the Samsung N310 tomorrow night, but I may be wrong…..
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 6:21 am

  Can we define the sleep problem? I’m not sure what to check.
  I have tried Iain’s DSDT.aml file and it seems to improve things:

  I can wake up after the automatic (timed) sleep and the lid-closing sleep but I’m not sure those are true system sleeps or just display sleeps. The fan still runs when it’s “sleeping”.

  On the other hand, if I hit the Fn+Esc keys (sleeping moon), I can not wake up from that sleep unless I reboot.

  -Adriano
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 6:51 am

  If the rightmost blue LED (the LED lights to the left of the trackpad) is just on and flashing that means the N310 is in sleep mode (as far as I know). When display sleep is on the third LED from the right (wireless) is on (it is off when in proper sleep).

  I get proper sleep only using battery power but display sleep works on both battery and AC power.
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 6:57 am

  As for the fan – it is definitely off when I go to proper sleep on mine using o4BA BIOS. I cannot hear (am deaf) but can tell when the fan is on and off by feeling the fan buzz inside the N310.

  Perhaps it is linked to what BIOS you are using? 05BA in your case?
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 7:59 am

  Ok I closed the lid and walked away. Came back 30 minustes later and couldn’t get the screen to wake up. Fan was running though.

  BIOS 05BA
  Iain’s DSDT.aml
  VoodooBattery.kext and VoodooPowerMini.kext installed
  Charger plugged in

  -Adriano
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 7, 2010 at 8:17 am

  I have been following this thread and am typing on my little Samsung Hackintosh thanks to your guide. I would like to get the 04BA BIOS since I have an older version to test the sleep results. Has anyone found any hack to make the screen brighter. That more than sleep is bugging me.

  PS. This little bastard runs 10.6 great so far. Any one have any luck updating to 10.6.1 or 10.6.2?

  Thanks for all the hard work.
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 8:24 am

  @ Adriano

  If you do what you just did but off battery power, can you wake up from sleep?
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 8:26 am

  I put it to sleep then close the lid and awake it OK with the power button on mine.

  Think you may need a clamshell.kext to get the lid/sleep combo working. Someone on here may have some tips.

  Good luck.
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 8:35 am

  Here’s what I tried with battery power:

  Putting it to proper sleep:
  ———————————
  I use the AppleMenu –> Sleep
  The screen goes black and after a few seconds all LED’s turn off except for the rightmost one which blinks and fan is off.
  I keep the lid open.

  Waking up the system:
  ——————————
  I try hitting any key, no response, LED still blinking.
  I hit the power button once briefly, rightmost LED comes on and Wifi LED comes on, fan comes on but screen stays black. I keep hitting keys, no change.
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 9:02 am

  This is exactly the same problem I had before I installed the Voodoo kexts (VoodooBattery.kext and VoodooPowerMini.kext)

  Have you tried reinstalling these and running UpdateExtra (to rebuild the Extension cache)?

  If this does not work, it is likely to be the 05BA BIOS that is causing the problem, I think.
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 9:02 am

  I don’t know what I did but now I’m stuck in a infinte power cycle loop:

  Samsung BIOS progress screen
  Apple Logo progress screen
  Grey screen with following message:
  header read size 200
  mem_base 3c27400
  wake kernel!
  Power cycle
  Repeat.

  Am I hosed?
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 9:04 am

  I will try rebuilding with the Voodoo kext after I solve my infinite power cycle.
  Any suggestions? I probably need to recover from CD.
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 9:07 am

  Repair Disk Permissions using Disk Utility as a secondary measure after you reinstall the Voodoo kexts.
• Iain Armstrong says:

  January 7, 2010 at 9:17 am

  WIth the 04BA BIOS on my N310 the screen is very bright on AC power, it dims to about 60% when you pull the mains and run off battery. Not too dim and useful. However the brightness controls do not work.
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 7, 2010 at 9:55 am

  Still on version 3 of the BIOS installed the newest dsdt and changed the BIOS settings now I can enter sleep manually via Fn + F1 (Moon face) or from the Apple menu.

  Thanks.

  Can anyone point me toward any resources to fix the screen brightness?
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 10:10 am

  Joey , What did you change in the BIOS settings? Are you using Iain’s DSDT?
  Also, how do you wake up from the sleep?

  Thanks

  -Adriano
• magicald_223 says:

  January 7, 2010 at 11:13 am

  Anyone have a link to download the 04 Bios…found one but link is broken

  @Joey: All I can say about the brightness is this vid. on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=badxjf28QMU

  He changes the brightness in BIOS…not optimal, but appears to work.

  Also, does yours wake up after you put it to sleep with the 03 BIOS?
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 7, 2010 at 11:30 am

  I exit sleep fine by pressing the power button. I can only enter sleep manually though. Fn + F1. The tip from the video does the trick for me. During startup Fn + left or right arrow changes brightness just fine.

  Small inconvenience but 99% complete machine. Two tips install Glims for Safari to enable Full screen in Safari to maximize that 10″ screen. Also install Flash 10.1 for better netbook performance.
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 7, 2010 at 11:33 am

  * correction I meant i press Fn + up or down arrow during start up to adjust brightness
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 11:42 am

  Joey,

  can you share your BIOS settings?

  Thanks
• Felix says:

  January 7, 2010 at 12:45 pm

  Hi all,
  After multiple attempts, I unable to even install SL onto my N310 – keep getting the “Could not copy necessary support files” error message.

  Just a fundamental question for everyone here who HAS installed SL onto their N310 – did you do it using a downloaded .dmg file or using a purchased SL disc ?

  Thanks
• Adriano says:

  January 7, 2010 at 1:01 pm

  Joey,

  Can you tell us what your BIOS settings are?

  Thanks

  -Adriano
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 7, 2010 at 8:53 pm

  I had a stock N310 with BIOS 03, I only changed the 3 BIOS setting outlined after the red text above: “Also check the BIOS settings as per Iain’s comment: Enabled EDB. Disabled Legacy USB Support. Enabled USB S3 Wake-Up”

  I used Netbook Installer (latest version) the following was checked:
  Install Chameleon 2 NBI, Install General extensions, UNCHECK Hide Netbook Installer files, Regenerate DSDT.aml file, Enable Remote CD, Fix Bluetooth.

  Then I renamed liam’s dsdt.amt file and dragged it into the Extras folder that should now be visible. I ran Update Extra and rebooted. Since then Fn + Esc (Moon Face) has allowed perfect sleep. I left this machine unplug all night in sleep mode and only lost like 10 mins of battery with no fan noise.
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 7, 2010 at 9:00 pm

  For people having trouble with the install and who also have access to a mac, use disk utility and a flash drive (8gb or bigger) to install. Use the restore option to back up the Snow Leopard DVD to a GUID formated usb flash drive. Then run the latest Netbook Bootmaker on the flash drive.

  Go to the Samsung n310 and with the usb flash plugged in go to the BIOS and change the boot order so the USB drvie comes before the HDD. Install 10.6 like normal and I used kexthelper to install the above kext for audio, power, etc.
• Adriano says:

  January 8, 2010 at 12:00 am

  Hmm,stillno wake up from proper sleep.
  I wonder if upgrading to BIOS 05 was a mistake,

  Joey, can you please query your Mac OS power manager setting by typing
  “pmset -g custom” in a Mac OS Terminal and post the output?

  Thanks

  -Adriano
• Brokenman says:

  January 8, 2010 at 5:32 am

  New user comments:
  BIOS 3
  10.6.2

  On sleep: sleep works by following your comments (Thanks Joey and Adriano!). Noted that mine awakes from sleep immediately (after one power indicator light blink) when it is plugged in with the power cord. On battery, works just as described.

  UNIQUE issue: When following a combination of this site’s directions, and those from mechdrew (mechdrew guide 1, then adding the kexts here for audio and sleep).

  Everything works, except, the Hard Drive does not appear on the desktop! If I click the finder in the dock, I can see the drive under devices in the sidebar, and add files to it– everything boots, but the drive does not show up on the desktop.

  Any clues?
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 8, 2010 at 7:14 am

  @ Adriano

  AC Power:
  womp 1
  hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
  ttyskeepawake 1
  sleep 0
  autorestart 0
  halfdim 1
  hibernatemode 0
  disksleep 10
  displaysleep 0
  Battery Power:
  hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
  ttyskeepawake 1
  sleep 0
  halfdim 1
  hibernatemode 0
  disksleep 10
  displaysleep 0
  lessbright 1

  Also, I did notice that sleep on battery power is fine but… I entered sleep and then plug it in to charge for hours. When I got back the battery was only at 80% not 100% and the machine was not in true sleep. I think only the display was asleep.

  It has behaved fine when entering sleep from battery power.
• Magicald_223 says:

  January 8, 2010 at 8:33 am

  I can’t wait to start my hack…finally got my 500gb HD, but my Wifi card is still in the mail. This is my first Hackintosh and I was wondering if I have to use the Netbook installer cd first with a fresh hard drive or just put in SL cd? I assume I still have to do the Netbook installer first, right?
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 8, 2010 at 10:05 am

  Joey –

  There are 2 levels of sleep for “Apple’s”

  One is “suspend” – where the computer enters low power mode; turns off screen, shuts down hard drive, puts cpu into a suspend state.
  Another is hibernate – this is where the computer saves everything to a file (/var/vm/sleepimage), and completely shuts off.

  For various reasons, the hibernate function won’t really work on most Hackintoshes (yet), or is a little flaky. As the current state of hibernation is essentially “not available”, I recommend setting hibernate to disabled.

  (pmset hibernatemode 0)

  If you look at your settings, its currently disabled –

  hibernatemode 0

  (0 means off, 1 means on)

  These are all controlled in the System Prefs / Power box –

  If we look at your Battery settings:

  ttyskeepawake 1 (means pressing a key resets the go to sleep timer)
  sleep 0 (means NEVER sleep – so you aren’t doing sleep…)
  halfdim 1 (change the brightness to lower level)
  hibernatemode 0 (disable hibernate)
  disksleep 10 (shut off disk after 10 minutes of inactivity)
  displaysleep 0 (don’t shut off display)
  lessbright 1 (change the brightness to lower level)

  So, you aren’t actually going to sleep on your automatic settings. Pressing the sleep key is putting you into suspend though, so thats good.

  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pmset for gory details on PMSET.

  Now for others -

  Getting sleep working will be reliant on a number of things.
  1) Bios version
  2) Bios settings
  3) DSDT.aml / ACPI

  We need to make a DSDT.aml file specific for your laptops that tells the bits that make OSX work how to cater to your laptops ACPI setup.

  In a perfect world, Samsung’s ACPI settings would be good to go out of the box. However most laptops cater to a broken spec, and just support Windows (barely). This is unfortunate, but its the way of Microsoft – “break the competitors functionality”. As the BIOS / ACPI is not 100% spec compliant we need to tell OSX how to talk to it. Thats what the DSDT.aml file does. It tells OSX how to talk to the laptop to get it to do the ACPI functions (sleep / low power etc).

  There are a number of ways we can get it going – one is targetted trial and error to find the best / most compatible setup (which is what I’ve been aiming at with my recommendations to try)

  Another is to setup a proper DSDT.aml file. This is also not a perfect solution, as different BIOS revisions will do things in slightly different ways, so we need to find one that does things the best, and recommend people use that BIOS version.

  I’ve been trying to do bits of both in my comments above, unfortunately this is hard – mostly because I don’t actually own one of these, and its kind of hard to do this kind of thing without one!

  I think I may need to split this out into a different post so we can get it working.
  Ideally we can find someone out there who can try the various things I’ve suggested, and knows a bit about what they’re doing. Looks like some of you are on the right track though, so share, contribute results so that everyone can benefit!

  Lawrence.
• Joinertek says:

  January 8, 2010 at 10:15 am

  Great info, thanks! Got mine up and running. Ordered a Dell 1390 card today to take care of the wlan problem. I’ve tried all the tips on sleep mode and still no joy. When running on battery sleep mode seems to work fine, and my lan card still works when it wakes up. When plugged in and I hit Fn-Esc, it goes into sleep mode and immediately wakes back up, and also manages to kill the lan card. Only a reboot will get lan working again. Seems weird that it would only be a problem when plugged in

  Anyways, that’s my experience so far. Everything else is great and I sure appreciate you taking the time to post this great tutorial.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 8, 2010 at 10:21 am

  Felix – make sure that the name you give for the hard disk doesn’t have any spaces in.

  Eg

  “HDD” is good
  “My Hard Drive” is not good.

  That’s bitten me once or twice when doing my own Dell mini 9..
  Also, if you do go from a DMG, don’t open it first, as Disk Utility will eat the bootloader.
  Lock the DMG, then open in Disk Utility if you go that route to image to a usb or partition.
  I’d recommend buying a real version of OSX though if you can afford it.

  - Its cheap.
  - Its more ethical.

  I’ve been a good boy and bought Snow (Family pack for the win!), but I also have bought a crapload of Mac hardware over the years, so I don’t feel too sad about being naughty either. Even so, I’d recommend sticking to the official Hackintosh line of buying it, rather than piracy. Long term its better for the community.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 8, 2010 at 10:25 am

  Magic – you boot from the NetbookCD, then swap to the OSX dvd.
  Instructions are above – most people are finding it straightforward, although the Sleep functionality is eluding us. We’re working on that though
• Brokenman says:

  January 8, 2010 at 1:41 pm

  Fixed my disappearing HD issue– just needed to check Finder Preferences– one of the netbook installers must have turned this off.
• momasawa says:

  January 9, 2010 at 12:48 am

  hi!
  i received my dell card and installed it without any problems
  everything worked perfectly as soon as i rebooted!
  but today i tried to reinstall the whole thing to make a clean install and…. i don’t know why but airport won’t work anymore…. !!!! i don’t know what i did wrong but i’m desperate….
• momasawa says:

  January 9, 2010 at 1:14 am

  the new version of netbookinstaller doesn’t propose any more chameleon 2 rc3 but chameleon nb2…. what’s the difference ? may this explain why it won’t work any more ?
• Jane says:

  January 9, 2010 at 5:27 am

  Had the sleep issue, updated to BIOS 05 (which made no difference). Ended up putting your posted DSDT file in the /extra folder and ran UpdateExtra. Rebooted and now it does return from sleeping when the power button is pressed.

  Thanks!
• momasawa says:

  January 9, 2010 at 7:30 am

  hi
  it’s me again… i don’t kwow how to delete my previous posts but i resolved the problems
  everything works fine now!
  changing the wifi card is really really worth it and easy to do!!
• Adriano says:

  January 9, 2010 at 1:37 pm

  I got my sleep issue solved (mostly). I can put it to sleep using the Esc-F1 key sequence or using the GUI. Wakes up only when pressing the power button.
  However, if the charger is plugged in, it wakes up immediately after it goes to sleep.

  Does everyone have this issue?

  -Adriano
  0.8.3RC4 + SL
• momasawa says:

  January 9, 2010 at 3:43 pm

  hi
  lawrence, is there a way to go back to the very first comments ? i don’t remember what you told us to do to delete the sentence at startup about the delay forcewake etc…
  thanks!
• momasawa says:

  January 9, 2010 at 4:44 pm

  i’m sorry i’m posting a thousand comments…
  i downloaded your DSDT file and the sleep works now! with battery or even when it’s plugged! thanks a lot!
  in the bios i enabled the edb and didn’t change the other things and it works fine…
  should i also change the others ?
• Adriano says:

  January 10, 2010 at 12:27 am

  Momasawa:

  You mean it doesn’t immediately wake up after you put it to sleep while it’s plugged in the charger?? Which DSDT file did you grab above? The one with Iain in the name?

  Can you please list all your BIOS settings in the “Advanced” section? Are you running BIOS 05? I checked my EDB setting and it is enabled but I still suffer from the immediate waking with AC plugged in.

  Thanks.

  -Adriano
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 10, 2010 at 2:28 am

  There is a ton of information in these comments. The problems that so far seem unresolved are true sleep (when lid is closed). Forced sleep via Fn + Esc (moon face) and Apple menu works.

  Even if you have enter sleep once placed on the charger the computer exits its suspended state.

  I am thankful for the information contained in these posts and am welling to help in anyway possible. So far I’m loving this is little machine and Time Machine backups are working so I can afford to experiment and restore if I screw something up.
• Brokenman says:

  January 10, 2010 at 2:53 am

  Same power plug in/immediate wake up issue. Same sleep experience that others are getting– can sleep w/ FN1, wake w/ power button.

  BIOS 3
  0.8.3RC5+SL
• momasawa says:

  January 10, 2010 at 4:15 am

  Adriano, hi
  i’m sorry for my bad english… clearly i wasn’t clear
  i downloaded the first dsdt file up on the post, and set EDB on ENABLED (didn’t touch anything else) and now it works perfectly fine everytime, even when it’s plugged in!!
  so thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!
  and i’ve never updated the bios… how can i check which version i have ?
• momasawa says:

  January 10, 2010 at 4:48 am

  hi
  as usual, it’s me again…
  i noticed so the wifi was really really slow
  so i disabled the EDB in the bios and surfing is now much faster
  but sleep won’t work any more…
  can edb and the slowness really can be legated ?
  i prefer speed surfing and no sleep than sleep and very slow surfing anyway
• AC says:

  January 10, 2010 at 9:40 am

  Everything, including sleep, works fine for me.

  Plugged in or on battery, I can close the lid and the N310 goes to sleep (blue power led at the bottom flashes). I can then wake it from sleep by pressing the power button.

  BIOS is 03A and the only thing I changed in the BIOS was setting the EDB to ‘enabled’.

  Followed the settings here and used Lawrence’s (the poster of this article) DSDT file he posted above.

  I used the 2 USB Stick method here, which allowed me to not need a USB DVD: http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/nbi2.shtml

  Lawrence –
  Thanks a lot for helping me and the Hackintosh community out.

  It’s greatly appreciated.
• momasawa says:

  January 10, 2010 at 4:07 pm

  same thing for me, AC
  except that with EDB enabled, surfing on the internet gets really really slow…. when i disable EDB, of course sleep won’t work anymore but internet is normal again…
• Adriano says:

  January 11, 2010 at 12:15 am

  I just realized why sleep now works with the AC plugged in for me.
  pm thinks it’s running on battery with and without AC plugged in (battery still charging, though). Icon on top menu bar shows plug icon for 1 second but and switches back to battery icon.
  I’m running BIOS 05 and EDB must be enabled in my case or sleep won’t work with AC.

  I’ll fiddle around more and report back.

  -Adriano
• Adriano says:

  January 11, 2010 at 1:50 am

  I have a sily question:
  Is it possible to generate a DSDT.aml file without going through the whole installation process?

  -Adriano
• momasawa says:

  January 12, 2010 at 12:42 am

  do you know if there’s a way to completly disable BLUETOOTH which i don’t use and may make me get more battery autonomy ?

  thanks
• magicald_223 says:

  January 12, 2010 at 11:22 am

  So I got my wifi card and hard drive…I installed dell 1390 wifi card easily, then I pulled the stock HD and put in my new 500GB drive…well only on the HD bracket mounts completely snapped off when I was tightening the screw!!! I was being very gentle….so the HD bracket has 2 out of 3 screws in it securing it to the case!! Hope it holds, any ways then did the install as lawrence outlined above and everything is working but the sleep…However, I haven’t changed the DSDT file. I need some guidance on this because netbook installer did make an “extra” folder so I don’t know were to copy and paste it. Thanks!!
• magicald_223 says:

  January 12, 2010 at 11:38 am

  Also, everything was going good until I tried to install VM fusion and I got a message to restart computer early in the install process, now I’m SL won’t load and get the same message over and over…?
• Adriano says:

  January 12, 2010 at 1:27 pm

  The “Extra” folder that is created is invisible. Do a file for “extra”.
• magicald_223 says:

  January 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm

  Well, it was VM fusion that crashed everything…anyone know of a fix for it? Anyone using Parallels on netbook hackintosh?

  Now sleep is working after installing Lawrences DSDT file and changing BIOS as Lain detailed above.

  Thanks for all the help getting my Netbook going!!
• momasawa says:

  January 13, 2010 at 3:22 am

  could you confirm that edb enabled could make internet slower ?
  thanks!
• cgdavilab says:

  January 13, 2010 at 4:25 am

  Hi, I had problems with my ehternet port but now its being recognized but the automatic setup will not pick up the settings (Time capsule as router) but that is okay for now because i got a broadcom wireless card and it works great and pretty fast 130 mbit connection. My two issues now are the AUDIO will not work. it worked with voodoohd running on 10.5.8 but it doesnt work with SL 10.6.1. any suggestions? and i will try the sleep tonight. thank you all for this great post and all the feedback.
• Joey Perdomo says:

  January 14, 2010 at 1:47 am

  I don’t recall if this is has been fixed by anyone in the comments. Once my N310 comes of of sleep (suspend via Fn + Esc) the brightness always reduces to the most minimum setting. This forces me to reboot just to fix the brightness during startup,

  Has anyone fixed this or found a workaround?
• Redline says:

  January 14, 2010 at 6:39 am

  For anyone that has a working install that sleeps and does not have slow wireless, can you do us a favor and run “kextstat” in a terminal for us?

  Please post the output on pastbin, making sure to select a month for “How long should your post be retained?”

  I can compare yours to mine and work out the differences.

  As a side note to how different kexts can mess things up, I installed 10.5.7 from iDeneb, and sleep worked with both the lid and the FN+sleep. However, when I updated to 10.5.8 via iDeneb’s update kit, sleep was broken.

  I feel this can be fixed, but we need to track down the kext versions that allow sleep.

  Right now, my sleep doesn’t work with or without EDB enabled, but it locks up before fully waking when I have it disabled. With EDB enabled, it will goto sleep, blink once, and then immediately wake again, and turn on the LCD. kernel log indicates that USB3 and USB7 are the reason for wake.
• Clint Antar says:

  January 14, 2010 at 4:25 pm

  I installed Snow Leopard as instructed but I have no audio. I used the kext provided and it doesn’t work. In the sound preferences mute is check and everything is grayed out so I can’t make changes to uncheck the mute option. Please advise. Thanks in advance for your help.
• momasawa says:

  January 14, 2010 at 11:32 pm

  here is my “kextstat”… (thanks!)

  Last login: Mon Jan 11 08:50:04 on console
  imac-de-marie-et-gustavo:~ les_cocos$ kextstat
  Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version)
  1 67 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.bsd (10.2.0)
  2 4 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.dsep (10.2.0)
  3 96 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.iokit (10.2.0)
  4 102 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.libkern (10.2.0)
  5 84 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.mach (10.2.0)
  6 27 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.private (10.2.0)
  7 44 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.unsupported (10.2.0)
  8 11 0xffffff7f80609000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily (1.3.0)
  9 22 0xffffff7f8061d000 0×12000 0×12000 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily (2.6)
  10 2 0xffffff7f80c16000 0×44000 0×44000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform (1.3)
  11 0 0xffffff7f80ee1000 0x1b000 0x1b000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement (96.0.0)
  12 8 0xffffff7f80d01000 0x1a000 0x1a000 com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily (1.6)
  13 0 0xffffff7f81032000 0×12000 0×12000 com.apple.driver.DiskImages (281)
  14 0 0xffffff7f81168000 0×8000 0×8000 com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall (2.1.11)
  15 0 0xffffff7f815fd000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet (6)
  16 2 0xffffff7f81600000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.kext.AppleMatch (1.0.0d1)
  17 0 0xffffff7f81603000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.security.quarantine (0)
  18 0 0xffffff7f81607000 0×8000 0×8000 com.apple.security.sandbox (0)
  19 0 0xffffff7f80efc000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient (96.0.0)
  20 0 0xffffff7f80c7c000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC (1.4)
  21 2 0xffffff7f80c5e000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily (1.1)
  22 0 0xffffff7f80c60000 0×6000 0×6000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC (1.3)
  23 0 0xffffff7f80f8e000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS (1.4)
  24 8 0xffffff7f80bd4000 0×42000 0×42000 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily (1.6.1)
  25 0 0xffffff7f80c5a000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons (1.3)
  26 0 0xffffff7f80e9b000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleHPET (1.4)
  27 0 0xffffff7f80f88000 0×6000 0×6000 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC (1.3)
  28 1 0xffffff7f80c84000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime (1.3.0)
  29 0 0xffffff7f80c87000 0×7000 0×7000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM (1.3.0)
  30 11 0xffffff7f80ea3000 0×34000 0×34000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (3.8.5)
  31 0 0xffffff7f81011000 0xd000 0xd000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI (3.7.5)
  32 0 0xffffff7f80fe2000 0×14000 0×14000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (3.7.5)
  33 5 0xffffff7f809c0000 0x1a000 0x1a000 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily (1.9)
  34 0 0xffffff7f81170000 0×10000 0×10000 com.apple.nvenet (1.0.69)
  35 3 0xffffff7f80c66000 0×7000 0×7000 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily (2.0.2)
  36 0 0xffffff7f80c6d000 0xf000 0xf000 com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort (2.0.1)
  37 1 0xffffff7f809da000 0×24000 0×24000 com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family (310.6)
  38 0 0xffffff7f809fe000 0x1d6000 0x1d6000 com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx (421.91.26)
  39 2 0xffffff7f80c8e000 0x4b000 0x4b000 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily (4.1.7)
  40 0 0xffffff7f80cd9000 0×28000 0×28000 com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI (4.4.0)
  41 0 0xffffff7f8111e000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (3.8.5)
  42 0 0xffffff7f80ffe000 0xf000 0xf000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (3.8.4)
  43 0 0xffffff7f810b3000 0×14000 0×14000 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage (1.6.0)
  44 3 0xffffff7f810c7000 0×19000 0×19000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily (2.6.0)
  45 0 0xffffff7f810e0000 0×9000 0×9000 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI (1.2.1)
  46 0 0xffffff7f81060000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter (402.1)
  47 0 0xffffff7f80600000 0×5000 0×5000 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib (1.0.0d1)
  48 0 0xffffff7f80605000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.BootCache (31)
  50 3 0xffffff7f810f3000 0×9000 0×9000 com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily (1.6)
  51 2 0xffffff7f810fc000 0×7000 0×7000 com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily (1.6)
  52 1 0xffffff7f8112f000 0×7000 0×7000 com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily (1.6)
  53 0 0xffffff7f81136000 0×13000 0×13000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice (2.6.0)
  54 0 0xffffff7f81161000 0×7000 0×7000 com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient (2.6.0)
  55 1 0xffffff7f80fde000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (3.7.5)
  56 0 0xffffff7f8100d000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub (3.8.5)
  57 3 0xffffff7f80ed7000 0×5000 0×5000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver (3.8.4)
  58 0 0xffffff7f80edc000 0×5000 0×5000 com.apple.driver.AppleIRController (251.1.4)
  59 4 0xffffff7f80f94000 0×42000 0×42000 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily (2.2.4f3)
  60 1 0xffffff7f80fd6000 0×8000 0×8000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController (2.2.4f3)
  61 0 0xffffff7f8102c000 0×6000 0×6000 com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController (2.2.4f3)
  62 1 0xffffff7f80e99000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard (1.2.0a3)
  63 0 0xffffff7f80ff6000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard (1.2.0a3)
  64 1 0xffffff7f80ff8000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse (1.4.0d7)
  65 0 0xffffff7f80ffb000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDMouse (1.4.0d7)
  66 8 0xffffff7f8062f000 0×23000 0×23000 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily (2.0)
  67 4 0xffffff7f80652000 0xf000 0xf000 com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport (2.0)
  68 2 0xffffff7f80661000 0×295000 0×295000 com.apple.NVDAResman (6.0.6)
  69 0 0xffffff7f81180000 0x47d000 0x47d000 com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal (6.0.6)
  70 0 0xffffff7f808f6000 0xa4000 0xa4000 com.apple.GeForce (6.0.6)
  71 0 0xffffff7f8101e000 0×5000 0×5000 com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient (3.1.0)
  72 0 0xffffff7f80c7f000 0×5000 0×5000 com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight (170.0.14)
  74 0 0xffffff7f80f4b000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleLPC (1.4.9)
  75 1 0xffffff7f8099a000 0xc000 0xc000 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily (4.0.1d0)
  76 2 0xffffff7f8060d000 0xb000 0xb000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC (3.0.1d2)
  77 0 0xffffff7f809a6000 0×11000 0×11000 com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin (4.0.1d0)
  78 7 0xffffff7f80eff000 0×34000 0×34000 com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily (41)
  81 0 0xffffff7f80f43000 0×8000 0×8000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile (17)
  82 0 0xffffff7f8105c000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.NVSMU (2.1.8)
  83 0 0xffffff7f80f92000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI (1.0.4d0)
  84 2 0xffffff7f80d2a000 0×8000 0×8000 com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily (1.7.9a4)
  85 1 0xffffff7f80d32000 0×14000 0×14000 com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController (1.7.9a4)
  86 2 0xffffff7f80d46000 0×5000 0×5000 com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib (1.3)
  87 4 0xffffff7f80d4b000 0x1b000 0x1b000 com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily (1.7.2fc1)
  88 0 0xffffff7f81028000 0×4000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (1.1.2)
  89 0 0xffffff7f80618000 0×5000 0×5000 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X (7.0.0)
  90 1 0xffffff7f81052000 0xa000 0xa000 com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily (10.0.3)
  91 0 0xffffff7f810e9000 0xa000 0xa000 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager (2.2.4f3)
  92 0 0xffffff7f81149000 0xc000 0xc000 com.apple.iokit.IOSurface (73.0)
  93 1 0xffffff7f80d66000 0x7c000 0x7c000 com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib (1.7.9a4)
  94 0 0xffffff7f80de2000 0xb3000 0xb3000 com.apple.driver.AppleHDA (1.7.9a4)
  96 0 0xffffff7f81115000 0×9000 0×9000 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP (2.0.3)
  98 0 0xffffff7f80f7a000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction (20)
  99 0 0xffffff7f80f7d000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction (10)
  100 0 0xffffff7f80f82000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction (10)
  101 0 0xffffff7f80f84000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction (14)
  102 0 0xffffff7f80f86000 0×2000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction (10)
  103 1 0xffffff7f80f4e000 0xb000 0xb000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController (1.0.4d0)
  104 0 0xffffff7f809b7000 0×9000 0×9000 com.apple.driver.AGPM (100.9.3)
  105 0 0xffffff7f80f7f000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction (17)
  106 0 0xffffff7f80f59000 0x1e000 0x1e000 com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver (1.7.9a4)
  107 0 0xffffff7f80f77000 0×3000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver (1.2.0)
  109 0 0xffffff7f81063000 0xa000 0xa000 com.apple.filesystems.autofs (2.1.0)
  110 0 0xffffff7f81044000 0×6000 0×6000 com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothBNEPDriver (2.2.4f3)
  111 0 0xffffff7f8104a000 0×8000 0×8000 com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothSCOAudioDriver (2.2.4f3)
  112 0 0xffffff7f80e9e000 0×5000 0×5000 com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor (1.9.2d0)
  113 0 0xffffff7f8160f000 0×4000 0×4000 com.bholland.driver.IRKeyboardEmu (0.4)
  114 0 0xffffff7f81079000 0x3a000 0x3a000 com.apple.filesystems.udf (2.1)
  115 0 0xffffff7f80d1b000 0xd000 0xd000 com.apple.nke.asp_tcp (5.0)
  116 0 0xffffff7f81613000 0×51000 0×51000 com.apple.filesystems.afpfs (9.6)
  imac-de-marie-et-gustavo:~ les_cocos$
• momasawa says:

  January 14, 2010 at 11:34 pm

  oops i’m so sorry… this was from my imac so useless… i’ll post the kextstat from the samsung!!
• momasawa says:

  January 14, 2010 at 11:41 pm

  here is the kextstat from my samsung

  Last login: Thu Jan 14 16:38:04 on console
  Mac-de-momasei:~ mamosawa$ kextstat
  Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version)
  1 52 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.bsd (10.0.0)
  2 4 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.dsep (10.0.0)
  3 73 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.iokit (10.0.0)
  4 78 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.libkern (10.0.0)
  5 63 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.mach (10.0.0)
  6 25 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.private (10.0.0)
  7 45 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.unsupported (10.0.0)
  8 0 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.6.0 (7.9.9)
  9 0 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.bsd (7.9.9)
  10 7 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.iokit (7.9.9)
  11 9 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.libkern (7.9.9)
  12 4 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.mach (7.9.9)
  13 17 0x2f406000 0×11000 0×10000 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily (2.6)
  14 12 0x2f3b1000 0×4000 0×3000 com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily (1.3.0)
  15 2 0x2f64f000 0×41000 0×40000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform (1.3)
  16 0 0x2f1bd000 0×3000 0×2000 com.superhai.driver.SMBIOSResolver (1.0.7)
  17 0 0x2918d000 0×2000 0×1000 com.psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart (1.0.3)
  18 0 0x2f3f4000 0×2000 0×1000 net.osrom.kext.Disabler (1.0.1)
  20 0 0x2f5f6000 0×18000 0×17000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement (90.0.0)
  21 6 0x2f738000 0x2c000 0x2b000 com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily (40)
  22 2 0x2f60e000 0xa000 0×9000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC (3.0.1d2)
  23 0 0x2f5dd000 0×6000 0×5000 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X (7.0.0)
  24 6 0x2f7b5000 0x1e000 0x1d000 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily (2.0)
  25 3 0x2f6ec000 0×18000 0×17000 com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily (1.6)
  26 0 0x2f5e3000 0×11000 0×10000 com.apple.driver.DiskImages (281)
  27 0 0x2f63f000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.iokit.IOSurface (73.0)
  28 0 0x2f417000 0×2000 0×1000 sk.triaxis.kext.SleepEnabler (1.0.0)
  29 0 0x2f59a000 0×6000 0×5000 com.superhai.driver.VoodooPower (1.2.3)
  30 0 0x2f64a000 0×5000 0×4000 com.superhai.driver.VoodooPowerMini (1.2.4)
  31 0 0x2f58d000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction (20)
  32 0 0x2f5a0000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction (10)
  33 0 0x2f5b3000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction (10)
  34 0 0x2f6cd000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction (14)
  35 0 0x2f6dc000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction (10)
  36 0 0x2f875000 0×8000 0×7000 com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall (2.0.11)
  37 2 0x2f86b000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.kext.AppleMatch (1.0.0d1)
  38 0 0x2f87d000 0×5000 0×4000 com.apple.security.quarantine (0)
  39 0 0x2f88d000 0×8000 0×7000 com.apple.security.sandbox (0)
  40 0 0x2f871000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet (6)
  41 0 0x2f86e000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction (17)
  42 1 0x2f8db000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily (3.4.0a20)
  43 0 0x2f8c3000 0xf000 0xe000 com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin (3.4.0a20)
  45 0 0x2f882000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC (1.4)
  49 0 0x2f8fb000 0×4000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS (1.4)
  50 1 0x2f8ff000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily (1.1)
  51 0 0x2f8f1000 0×5000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC (1.3)
  52 2 0x2f9f6000 0×7000 0×6000 com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily (1.6.8a3)
  53 0 0x2f9dd000 0×10000 0xf000 com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController (1.6.8a3)
  54 1 0x2f9d3000 0×4000 0×3000 com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib (1.3)
  55 3 0x3546e000 0×17000 0×16000 com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily (1.7.0fc16)
  57 0 0x2f9fd000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleLPC (1.4.6)
  58 2 0×35507000 0xd000 0xc000 com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily (2.5.0)
  59 0 0x354b4000 0×9000 0×8000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA (2.5.0)
  60 0 0x354f1000 0×5000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIBatteryManager (1.0.15)
  61 3 0x355c1000 0x3b000 0x3a000 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily (1.6.0)
  62 0 0x2f7a6000 0×4000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons (1.3)
  63 6 0x3562f000 0x2f000 0x2e000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (3.7.8)
  64 0 0×35549000 0×10000 0xf000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI (3.7.5)
  65 0 0x2f7a3000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime (1.3.0)
  66 0 0x2f79b000 0×4000 0×3000 org.netkas.fakesmc (2)
  67 2 0×35559000 0xe000 0xd000 com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport (2.0)
  68 0 0x2f79f000 0×4000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight (170.0.2)
  70 0 0x2f7af000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.AppleHPET (1.4)
  71 0 0x354fd000 0×6000 0×5000 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC (1.3)
  72 0 0x2f6c5000 0×2000 0×1000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPS2Nub (1.0.0d1)
  73 0 0x3557e000 0×11000 0×10000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer (6.0.0)
  74 0 0x356de000 0×36000 0×35000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelGMA950 (6.0.0)
  75 1 0x459e2000 0×71000 0×70000 com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib (1.6.8a3)
  76 0 0x45ad4000 0×69000 0×68000 com.apple.driver.AppleHDA (1.6.8a3)
  77 0 0x2f9ed000 0×5000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient (3.0.5)
  78 3 0x356c6000 0×16000 0×15000 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily (1.8)
  79 0 0×35794000 0x2c000 0x2b000 com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 (3.1.14b1)
  80 0 0x3580d000 0×14000 0×13000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (3.7.5)
  81 1 0x357e7000 0×24000 0×23000 com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family (300.20)
  82 0 0x45e3f000 0x1a8000 0x1a7000 com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx (410.91.20)
  84 0 0x2f7b2000 0×2000 0×1000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (3.7.5)
  86 0 0x357c0000 0×6000 0×5000 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib (1.0.0d1)
  87 0 0x45c01000 0xf000 0xe000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (3.7.8)
  88 2 0x45b52000 0×5000 0×4000 com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Controller (1.1.0)
  89 0 0×35503000 0×4000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (1.1.0)
  90 0 0x45b75000 0×5000 0×4000 com.apple.BootCache (31)
  92 0 0x45c7c000 0xe000 0xd000 com.apple.iokit.IOATABlockStorage (2.5.0)
  93 0 0×35485000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Keyboard (1.2.0)
  94 0 0x45c9d000 0xa000 0×9000 com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Trackpad (1.1.4)
  96 0 0x354ed000 0×3000 0×2000 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter (402.1)
  97 0 0x357c6000 0×4000 0×3000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (3.7.5)
  98 1 0x45d39000 0×37000 0×36000 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily (2.1f17)
  99 0 0x45c75000 0×7000 0×6000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController (2.1f17)
  100 1 0x461a2000 0×9000 0×8000 com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily (10.0.2)
  101 0 0x461b7000 0×9000 0×8000 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager (2.1f17)
  102 0 0x462d8000 0x1a000 0×19000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily (2.5.0)
  103 0 0x462a0000 0xa000 0×9000 com.apple.filesystems.autofs (2.1.0)
  105 0 0x2f1f3000 0×2000 0×1000 com.superhai.driver.ClamshellDisplay (1.0.1)
  Mac-de-momasei:~ mamosawa$
• Clint Antar says:

  January 15, 2010 at 12:19 am

  Can anyone who has working audio on their N310 post exactly what kexts you used to obtain audio. I have been trying kext after kext with NO luck.

  Thanks for your help.
• momasawa says:

  January 15, 2010 at 12:53 am

  audio didn’t work for me. i installed the kext in the post up here and audio has worked since…
• Redline says:

  January 15, 2010 at 2:40 am

  @Clint I used the one provided above, the ALC272. The kext name is AppleHDA, v.1.6.8a3. I used kext helper to install it.

  @momasawa I thought you said that sleep didn’t work for you unless you enabled EDB?
• Clint Antar says:

  January 15, 2010 at 3:11 am

  Hi Redline, did you have to add a .kext extension? The file downloads as a binary file.
• momasawa says:

  January 15, 2010 at 3:31 am

  indeed
  sleep will work with edb enabled, but then internet is really slow (even though it’s ALWAYS not fast)
  before i answered your question about the audio.
• Redline says:

  January 15, 2010 at 10:27 am

  When you download it, OSX should automatically uncompress it. If not, double-clicking on it, will result in the same process of uncompressing it so you have a .kext. You should see an icon kind of like a LEGO piece. Use the program “Kext Helper” to install the kext. http://tinyurl.com/yj6l6ja
• Redline says:

  January 15, 2010 at 10:28 am

  And to be clear, the kext is available via http://www.kexts.com/view/182-alc272_%28snow_leopard%29.html
• momasawa says:

  January 15, 2010 at 9:12 pm

  …. i updated to 10.6.2 and audio won’t work anymore…. even with the usual kext……
  oops…
• Redline says:

  January 16, 2010 at 12:37 am

  I did the update immediately after installing. The update most likely overwrote the AppleHDA.kext. Reinstall it.

  Are you putting it in /System/Library/Extensions or are you putting it in the /Extra/GeneralExtensions?
• Irina says:

  January 16, 2010 at 3:14 am

  Hi, I am not sure i can do this myself. Here is my question: How much would you charge me to have Mac OS installed on my Samsung Go? I’ll pay the shipping costs, of course. Please let me know if you are interested and willing to do it.
• momasawa says:

  January 16, 2010 at 4:57 am

  i did reinstall the kext but didn’t work anyway…

  i finally made it thanks to this: (in french…) http://xsolutions.free.fr/home/netbooks/snowosx86/hardware100.html

  my only problems left are slow wifi sometimes (not always…) and bluetooth always enabled and impossible to disable…

  also: were you able to update easily ? i used a patch and some things in the terminal …
• momasawa says:

  January 16, 2010 at 4:58 am

  i finally made it thanks to this: (in french…) http://xsolutions.free.fr/home/netbooks/snowosx86/hardware100.html

  my only problems left are slow wifi sometimes (not always…) and bluetooth always enabled and impossible to disable…

  also: were you able to update easily ? i used a patch and some things in the terminal …
• Redline says:

  January 16, 2010 at 10:35 am

  I used software update when I rebooted from a successful install. I didn’t have any prob/em rebooting after the update. Graphics and everything else appeared to function normally.

  The update may be my problem regarding sleep. That, or the fact I used NetbookBootMaker RC5. I may just try to install any of the custom Kexts from the RC4 ISO that was referenced in this how-to. I have this weekend to futz around with it. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve been looking into DSDT modification, so if I get time this weekend, I’ll see about trying to do a vanilla install using only smbios.plist and a patched DSDT. I really liked that iDeneb 10.5.7 gave me a fully functional hackintosh netbook with sleep and long battery life (8.5 hours compared to 5.5 that SL is giving me). I know it can be done in SL. It just takes time to track down all the problems.
• momasawa says:

  January 16, 2010 at 3:06 pm

  hum… if you find a way to increase battery autonomy with SL, don’t hesitate to tell me!!
• Adriano says:

  January 18, 2010 at 4:48 am

  Anyone come up with a solution to the brightness control yet?

  I know that brightness can be adjusted only before OS X has finished finished booting.

  Thanks

  -Adriano
• cgdavilab says:

  January 18, 2010 at 5:11 pm

  Hey, I had the same “panic attack” when i tried to install VM ware and Parallels, there was some instructions on a couple of sites but they weren’t clear for me. if somebody could pos step-by-step instructions would be really cool thanks.
• cgdavilab says:

  January 18, 2010 at 5:14 pm

  How are you installing the kexts? AKA Kext Helper?
• Redline says:

  January 22, 2010 at 3:05 am

  I didn’t get a chance to do any of the DSDT stuff this weekend. However, I’m currently typing this on the N310 without a power adapter. The battery meter says just under 6 hours left. That’s with wireless going, firefox with six tabs open and transmission going with two torrents.

  When I had no apps running, and wireless turned off (when I first booted) it was reporting ~5:40 left. Mind you this was a boot without the power adapter plugged in, so the screen is at the lowest brightness setting. I left it to sit for about 15 mins. The meter then said that there was 7:10 left. I think the meter has to go through a complete battery cycle to adequately gauge usage.

  On the sleep issue, it seems that the bluetooth adapter is the problem. I’ll try disconnecting it and then testing this weekend to be certain. I’m going to look at using a custom kext to enable the option to turning off the BT adapter. You can read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/yaquztc

  I’ll report back on my results.
• jerome says:

  January 22, 2010 at 7:46 am

  I’d be very interested to hear your reports on the battery issue. I really want to run OS X on my N310, but not if I’m going to lose hours of battery life.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 22, 2010 at 8:08 am

  Battery life would be dependant on what you use, rather than the OS per se.
  OSX is reasonably good at saving battery compared to other more popular OS’s.

  Tips from me – look into the CoolBook extension – http://www.coolbook.se/CoolBook.html, with that you can underclock the CPU and get even longer battery life.

  The big hog however is as always the screen. Make sure that the screen brightness is not set to 100%. If you want to change it on the fly, you’ll need to disable the BIOS automatic brightness setting, and set brightness to as low as you can use. For changing the brightness on the fly in OSX, you can download a small script. Haven’t tried this, but should work – http://rapidshare.com/files/308625309/Brightness.zip. (Excuses include – China firewall, blocking, rapidshare blows balls from China speedwise, even when working)

  What else – oh, don’t default to using flash all the time. Flash sucks cpu like no tomorrow, so use Flashblock, and its Safari equivalent plugin click to flash. Get that here – http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/.

  I’d also recommend downloading the free and very useful iStatPro – http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/, as it has a nice process usage viewer for dashboard.

  While you’re getting stuff for dashboard, suggest try DeepSleep http://deepsleep.free.fr/, as this lets you put the computer into hibernate mode. Note that this may or may not work depending on whether you have sleep setup correctly (eg, installed the dstml file, and set the bios Execute Disable Bit = Enabled)
• Brokenman says:

  January 22, 2010 at 2:35 pm

  Just installed the Broadcom 1390 card. Wifi works, but then within a minute freezes the whole computer– mouse freezes, and I’m unable to move the mouse or force quit– can only hold down the power key and restart.

  Any ideas?
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  January 22, 2010 at 2:41 pm

  Check your kext’s – make sure you haven’t added one for the previous card.

  terminal -

  ls -al /Extras/GeneralExtensions

  See if you have any wifi ones in there. Maybe post your list here so i can see.
• jerome says:

  January 23, 2010 at 4:09 am

  I went ahead and followed this guide to get Snow Leopard on my N310. So far it’s really nice. A couple things are bothering me though:

  1. Anyone have a suggestion on how to properly calibrate the display? I can’t seem to get it right as the blues always end up being more purple. I know this is a subjective thing, but any pointers are appreciated.

  2. My fan appears to be on full all the time. Is that something I can adjust anywhere? It wasn’t doing that under Windows XP or Ubuntu.

  I still have the issue with sleep while plugged in (using Iain’s DSDT) but that doesn’t bother me as much. Sleep on battery works perfectly.
• Brokenman says:

  January 23, 2010 at 3:04 pm

  Took your hint to look at the kext files, and just in case, I re-installed them one more time. That did the trick. Wifi is working. Thanks!
• Brokenman says:

  January 23, 2010 at 11:21 pm

  I spoke too soon…

  After the re-install of kext files, I was able to surf the internet via wifi for about 30 minutes without a problem. But the next time I tried, it froze again, and freezes at a different point ever time I use it. It does not seem to freeze the computer if i turn Airport off.

  With Airport on, it sometimes will freeze while loading a page in Safari, sometimes when launching Safari, and once when not using any internet browser at all.

  I’m wondering if I have a bad Broadcom 1390 card?

  Here are my kext files:
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15364 Jan 23 00:25 .DS_Store
  drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Jan 23 00:25 .svn
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Jan 23 00:25 AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext
  drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root wheel 136 Jun 10 2009 AppleHDA.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 AppleIntelGMA950.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Jan 23 00:25 AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Jan 23 00:25 ApplePS2Controller.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 IO80211Family.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 IOATAFamily.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 OSXRestart.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 RealtekR1000.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 SMBIOSResolver.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 SleepEnabler.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 VAIOPEnabler.kext
  drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root wheel 136 Dec 26 17:09 VoodooBattery.kext
  drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root wheel 136 Nov 26 16:49 VoodooPowerMini.kext
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 23 00:25 fakesmc.kext

  Any suggestions are greatly appreciated…

  Thanks!
• magicald_223 says:

  January 23, 2010 at 11:21 pm

  @Jerome: 1. I don’t know about calibrating the display…mine look great?

  2. My fan also runs all the time though at low speed I think…I’ve been thinking about trying smcFan control…anyone else tried it?
• jerome says:

  January 26, 2010 at 12:50 am

  that’s strange about the display. mine looked really purple by default. it also seemed more grainy than my ubuntu installation. not a deal-breaker, but an annoyance nonetheless. i’m also having quite a bit of trouble getting two finger scroll to work correctly.

  these are all relatively minor issues though. it’s pretty awesome to have snow leopard almost fully functioning on my $255 netbook.
• emmanuel says:

  January 26, 2010 at 2:02 am

  Hi All,

  i’m from france, and just buy a N310… 1 hour from now I had on my desk a WinXP and mac Mcbook Pro, Now, i get 2 mac…

  Just try to make wifi work (waiting for my 1390 card to be delivered)… Even if its ugly do some one have a solution to make this Atheros working ?

  I installed the IO80211Familly Kext, but it do not work… (no wifi on the menu bar, no wifi on system pref/network…

  And thks for this very good tutorial ! Thks all for your input
• new era says:

  February 1, 2010 at 1:05 pm

  Hi,
  I downloaded the netbookinstaller rc4, and booted into the cd, but after i put in the snow leopard dvd and hit F5, it just keep telling me there are “ebios read error”, what should i do? please help.
• Bruce says:

  February 2, 2010 at 2:28 am

  Installation is going well so far, Thanks.

  I’m new to this level of computing. The .kext I downloaded following your link for the AppleHDA…Samsung_NC10 doesn’t have the .kext file extension. Do I just add the .kext extension or am I missing something.

  BTW this is great.
• Brokenman says:

  February 4, 2010 at 8:11 am

  For those who may run into the same issue… I think I may have solved this problem (Swapped Dell 1390 wifi card connects to internet but then freezes the computer).

  As far as I can tell, there is a difference between versions of the Dell 1390 card.

  The card that was causing crashes was:
  Dell DW 1390 Rev A00
  MPN: YH774

  I ordered another card, and this one seems to work:
  Dell DW 1390 Rev A04
  MPN: PC559

  Both are Broadcom BCM94311MCG, as far as I can tell.

  That revision seemed to make all the difference.
• jerome says:

  February 5, 2010 at 6:40 am

  has anyone tried the newest samsung bios? i read somewhere that the recent bios update for some other sammy netbooks fixed the brightness keys issue. just wondering if any of you tried it with the n310 yet.
• Adriano says:

  February 7, 2010 at 5:24 am

  I’m still using version 05. I just wish I my fan did not run constantly.
  Anyone have any fan issues?

  -A
• Adriano says:

  February 7, 2010 at 5:40 am

  I do I install the BIOS when I no longer have WIndows on my netbook??
• Adriano says:

  February 7, 2010 at 5:40 am

  How do I install the BIOS when I no longer have WIndows on my netbook??
• RoS says:

  February 10, 2010 at 5:40 am

  Thank you guys for the great post and comments. I however have 2 unresolved problems:

  1. After a bit of use on battery, when I plug the power cord back in, the system still thinks that it is under battery mode, although it is charging the battery.

  2 While on power, when I put the system to sleep, it goes to sleep just briefly and wakes up right back.

  Any fix for these two problems?

  Thanks a bunch!
• RoS says:

  February 10, 2010 at 5:52 am

  Sorry, but I forgot another issue:

  3. Brightness!

  Thanks!
• Seung Lee says:

  February 12, 2010 at 3:00 pm

  Hi!
  thanks for this awesome guide!
  My n310 is being shipped right now, and I wanted to order the
  wireless card so it’ll come together.

  can I just use one from a macbook like this one?

  http://cgi.ebay.com/Macbook-Original-Wireless-WIFI-Card-802-11n-AR5BXB72_W0QQitemZ300388902409QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45f092e609#ht_500wt_956

  or does only the dell broadcom 1390 work?

  also where did you get the broadcom card?
  I could only find it on ebay…..

  is this even the right one?

  http://cgi.ebay.com/Broadcom-Wireless-Mini-PCI-E-Card-DELL-DW-1390-AirPort_W0QQitemZ320485940880QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops_Nov05?hash=item4a9e735e90#ht_1215wt_1167

  Hope to hear from you soon!
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  February 12, 2010 at 3:35 pm

  The Macbook one and “Dell”1390 are the same card.

  Basically the Mac uses a Broadcom 1390 Mini PCI-e card.
  If you put one in your laptop, your M/Hac(k)intosh will think its the real thing (as, well, it is the real thing..)

  They’re pretty easy to find. I don’t know much about ebay, so can’t help you there. Not very popular in this side of the world, plus the last time I’ve tried to use it to buy something they froze my user account 3 times in a row, and I couldn’t be bothered since.

  Sample search here – http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=broadcom+1390&_sacat=See-All-Categories
• cgdavilab says:

  February 13, 2010 at 9:30 am

  I was able to install Snow Leopard on my N130 by following this guide, after less than 2 months of use, I have broken the POWER latch, if anybody wants to buy it for savaging, i am selling it for $125 plus shipping. or if anybody knows a way make it turn on without the Power latch.

  Excellent guide.
• Adriano says:

  February 14, 2010 at 11:58 pm

  I just plugged in an external monitor and it worked perfectly as a secondary display but I as soon as I turned on mirroring (so I can use the external monitor as my main one), I got vertical color bars and distorted graphics.
  Anyone try to use an external display wih the N310 + SNow Leopard?

  Thanks

  -Adriano
• katapaltes says:

  February 22, 2010 at 1:34 pm

  Has anyone looked at “rebranding” the AR5007EG to a “vanilla” card per this article:
  http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=122365

  The author of the original post and a few others are using AR5007EG cards. I may try it after I get a DW 1390 in the mail because you can brick the card if you make a mistake.

  Everything is working on my Go except wi-fi. I asked an eBay seller today if his DW 1390 card was Rev A03/A04 or not, since I’ve seen reports of those working reliably, and will buy it if so.

  Other: Two-finger scroll would work and then not after reboot, and then would work again and then later not. Some time after adding the kexts required for sleep, I made the three BIOS changes to get sleep to work and two-finger has worked since then every time, but don’t know for sure the two are related.
  -kat
• Burlesque says:

  February 28, 2010 at 10:20 am

  I can’t turn on my n310 without it being plugged in. Anyone else having this problem?

  Damn great guide + comments. Damn great. Thanks to all.
• katapaltes says:

  March 7, 2010 at 12:57 am

  I just got my Apple-branded AR5BXB6 installed this morning and it’s working perfectly – I’m using it right now. The card I pulled out of my Go was labeled “AR5BXB63.” My attempts to rebrand it were unsuccessful. I never “bricked” the card, and Linux was always able to find it somehow.
  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300393225407#ht_500wt_698

  Everything seems to be working perfectly now, although I haven’t used it long-term. I would recommend this card; it seems like using an Apple card is a safe bet. (eBay ~ $9.00 USD). Putting the back cover back on, I just made sure to accommodate the VGA port first. After the back cover was on, I noticed when looking at the rear of the computer that the black plastic was curved a tiny bit in relation to the orange cover, so I had to push down lightly over the speakers to get those last two tabs to snap into place.

  I love this netbook,
  -katapaltes
• emmanuel says:

  March 8, 2010 at 1:25 am

  Hi there,

  great tutos !

  i got mine, with à 1390 wifi card.

  The only issue i still have is : When i start the N310, wifi works perfectly. I the computer is sleeping and i ask the compuiter to wake up : no more wifi (“No wifi card installed”) !

  i need to restart to get it work !

  WIRED no ?

  An idea someone ?

  THXS
• Katapaltes says:

  March 9, 2010 at 9:23 am

  @Burlesque: You might reset the BIOS to its defaults to see if it helps. If you have Windows still installed, you can boot into it and then shut down the computer to see if the power-on behavior is the same. I know that after using a particular operating system on a tri-boot system, I have to boot into Windows to get the NIC to work. I know that’s a long-shot… You can maybe find a toll-free number and call Samsung?

  @emmanuel: You might try reinstalling the latest version of netbookinstaller (if you didn’t install using the latest version). .8.3 Final is the current version. I installed with .8.3 RC3, updated to RC5 later, and then updated to Final. If you still can’t get it to work, I saw someone with a similar problem and he made some entries in the rc.wakeup file, so perhaps you can Google for “rc.wakeup sleep NIC OS X” to find an answer.

  -kat (I got the orange one)
• ciento says:

  March 13, 2010 at 9:53 am

  Hello hello,

  Thanks for the great tutorial! This was one of the main reasons for me to buy the n310, one of very few Netbooks living up to my aesthetic standards
  And thanks to your tutorial it was so super easy to get the decent OS (snowleopard) installed…
  I installed a dell 1395 wifi card. Just works fine.

  Only two tiny things:
  1. How to get the Brightness adjusted? Is the only way the script mentioned ealier?

  2. The Ctrl Key seems not to be working (properly). It doesn’t do much. Therefore the Alt-Key works for Copy etc. (Alt+c instead of Ctrl+c). And to make an @ i need to use Windows-Key+l. I have no Hackintosh experience, maybe it is just the way it works? Or is there a way to change that? Could someone enlighten me?

  Awesome guide, can’t thank you enough!
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  March 13, 2010 at 12:27 pm

  Brightness, haven’t really checked into, there are scripts, but again I don’t actually own one of these, my Hackintosh is a Dell Mini 9
  ctrl – you can change keyboard settings in system preferences to remap the Apple key (which defaults to the windows key) to Control or whatever you fancy.
• ciento says:

  March 13, 2010 at 7:21 pm

  Hello Lawrence,

  Thanks for your answer!

  Ctrl: Doh! Keyboard settings… of course in the system preferences. Cheers.

  Brightness: The script you recommended didn’t work right away, as it seems to need CHUD to be installed. But since I learned this stands for ‘Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller’ I am hesitant to install
  No, I’ll have a look into this later, but for the moment I found a workaround:
  The nifty little free app ‘brightness control’: http://www.splasm.com/products/productbrightness.html

  And i discovered one more thing: Bluetooth cannot be turned off. The Activate Checkbox is checked and greyed out.
• Felix says:

  March 15, 2010 at 11:41 am

  hi all,
  i had some problems with installing using a .dmg file previously so i went ahead and got a real SL DVD and now I’ve got a fully working SL installation on my blue N310.
  Sleep works with Lawrence’s DSDT.aml, I’m using a Dell 1395 card pawned off my old Inspiron 1420 for WIFI – in a nutshell, everything works including Software Update.

  However, I also notice the same issue with @ciento whereby my Bluetooth is switched on and working flawlessly but the option to switch it off is greyed out.
  anyone has a clue for this?

  @Lawrence, thanks for the great guide! Viva la Go-int0sh !!!
• Felix says:

  March 15, 2010 at 2:07 pm

  Just an update:
  Found a fix for the Bluetooth issue here:
  http://s10lenovo.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=3256&sid=3e512a8c6b9393d405bafc6d6ea8a80e

  You can refer to Step 8 on the FIRST post.
  For my N310 – the ProductID = 8529

  Now I can turn off my Bluetooth!
• ciento says:

  March 20, 2010 at 6:48 pm

  I got exactly the same happening.
  thought it does not bother me much, as I hardly use mirrored mode…
• joe says:

  April 12, 2010 at 8:39 am

  everytime i install the voodoopowermini.kext it says hold down poer to restart and will boot back in to mac but won’t function keep saying hold down power to restart. i can’t get sleep to function properly.
• Adriano says:

  April 12, 2010 at 9:25 am

  I just did a Software Update from with Snow Leopard and it installed a bunch of packages.
  Now I’m stuck in a boot panic loop.
  I tried “boot ForceWake=y” but it didn’t help.

  Any suggestions?

  Thanks

  -Adriano
• joe says:

  April 12, 2010 at 9:27 pm

  ok using 10.6.3 i have installed the voodoobattery.kext and loaded up lawerence’s dsdt file but do i need to have Voodoopowermini.kext loaded to have sleep working properly? also please write a tutorial to get sleep working do we use the kexts or dsdt files or both and in what order. also i found out that recovering from time machine is not possible. any one that can help please email me at cmecha@gmail.com
• joe says:

  April 12, 2010 at 9:38 pm

  felix please email i would like to pick your brain as to this sleep issue. cmecha@gmail.com
• Adriano says:

  April 18, 2010 at 2:06 am

  I went back to 10.6.2 (thanks to Carbon Copy Cloner).
  I should have done some research before updating to 10.6.3.
  I’ll try again after consulting the mechdrew’s OS Update Guide.

  -Adriano
• joe says:

  April 21, 2010 at 2:15 am

  OK i have everything working so far in 10.6.3 except sleep and screen brightness. i am also compiling everything i can on the insanely mac forums so it will be easier to find. i would really like a step by step on how to get sleep to work. also any one else have issue with the voodoominipower.kext
• Adriano says:

  April 21, 2010 at 10:57 pm

  In my case, I had both voodoo kexts installed and the DSDT posted at the top of this page.
  I also had to play around wth my BIOS settings to finally get sleep to work.

  Brightness only works for me via the Display Preferences.

  -Adriano
• joe says:

  April 21, 2010 at 11:45 pm

  Yeah i can’t use the voodoo kexts with out the power one braking the system. as for the dsdt.aml which one did you use. i would also like to know if there is another kext i can use other than the VoodooPowerMini.kext. i can’t even adjust screen brghtness in display porperties.
• Adriano says:

  April 22, 2010 at 1:45 am

  The brightness adjustment in the display properties is new for me. It must have shown up when I went to 10.6.3 recently. I used this DSDT:

  http://www.computersolutions.cn/downloads/DSDT.aml.N310

  Also, I have BIOS 05. Haven’t figured out a way to flash my BIOS without Windows.

  -Adriano
• momasawa says:

  April 23, 2010 at 1:20 am

  hi everyone!
  thanks for everything
  my wifi card is working fine but sometimes (often) it’s incredibly slow… other times it’s gonna work perfectly. it’s not related to my network because my other computers work fine all the time;;; do you have some ideas ? any bios settings ? i don’t know what to do.;.
  thanks a lot!
• genzai says:

  April 26, 2010 at 3:46 pm

  Brilliant!
  With this DSDT i also have brightness control, finally!
  I have also mapped the brightness up/down to my keyboard using Keyboard Maestro since the function key for this does not work. This is one of the last flaws finally with a workaround. So far i have not seen any downside to using this DSDT versus the one created by NBI. I am using 10.6.3

  I think if there is a growing community and interest we would do well to move out forum and discussions to mymacnetbook dot com. This is the insanelymac site specific to netbooks.

  I would love to know what bit of code in this DSDT is allowing the brightness controls enabled.
  g\
• Seung Lee says:

  May 1, 2010 at 7:29 am

  Ok so I installed it finally on my netbook
  It went so smoothly up until the complete install.
  When I copied the 3 kexts into the extra/generalextensions
  folder then did the updateextra thing and restarted
  I always get the
  You need to restart your computer screen…
  I’ve reinstalled twice….

  I’m guessing it might be because I’m using the 10.5.x version
  of the voodoobattery kext but the link for the 10.6.x version doesn’t work…

  Can anyone send me the right version to my email?
  shl615@gmail.com

  Meanwhile, I’ll wipe the hard drive for the third time and do another re-install…. T~T
• Seung Lee says:

  May 1, 2010 at 7:41 am

  Ok so I installed it finally on my netbook
  It went so smoothly up until the complete install.
  When I copied the 3 kexts into the extra/generalextensions
  folder then did the updateextra thing and restarted
  I always get the
  You need to restart your computer screen…
  I’ve reinstalled twice….

  I’m guessing it might be because I’m using the 10.5.x version
  of the voodoobattery kext but the link for the 10.6.x version doesn’t work…

  Can anyone send me the right version to my email?
  shl615@gmail.com

  Meanwhile, I’ll wipe the hard drive for the third time and do another re-install…. T~T
• Seung Lee says:

  May 4, 2010 at 2:17 am

  ok so I found the voodoobattery kext here

  http://www.superhai.com/debug-darwin.html

  I copied the batter and power kexts both in to the general extentensions folder,
  and used the updateextra app to update them,
  and I get the same result…..

  The grey screen with the I need to restart my comp message…
  This is my 4 time reinstalling…..
  SOMEONE HELP PLEASEE
• Seung Lee says:

  May 4, 2010 at 2:19 am

  Also I have bios 06BA
• Breathless says:

  May 4, 2010 at 10:21 pm

  Hopefully this will help some people here who are having trouble.

  I now have a perfectly functioning N310 – sleep, bluetooth on/off, audio, brightness adjustment (though not from using the function key – I haven’t tried Keyboard Maestro as someone referenced above), updated to 10.6.3, EVERYTHING working except for wireless. I have an apple card coming that was suggested from a link above that I got for about $8 from ebay that I will hopefully be able to get working with Snow Leopard, Windows XP and Windows 7. I don’t feel like bothering trying to figure out this Atheros card because everything I have tried so far results in me getting a white screen on reboot. I suggest you also not bother with it and seek other alternatives.
  I am now successfully Tri-booting Snow Leopard, XP, and Windows 7 using the chameleon bootloader included with NBI 8.4 RC1. It was a little difficult to get working properly without OSX wiping out XP/7 and vice versa, but I figured it out, using a combination of Acronis True Image, and OSX’s image restore function/Netbookmaker, NBI Installer, etc.

  A FEW THINGS TO NOTE:

  FIRST OFF, YOU DO NOT NEED Voodoobattery.kext and Voodoopowermini.kext to get sleep! I don’t know what they do besides cause kernel panics, but they are not necessary for sleep on the N310. Actually, it is the Voodoopowermini that causes the panic, not the Voodoobattery.kext for me, but anyway….

  DON’T TRY TO UPDATE YOUR VERSION OF THE CHAMELEON BOOTLOADER from the one that is installed by NBI Installer. It won’t work and you won’t be able to boot again. Can you say reinstall? The one downside (and the reason I was looking to update my version of Chameleon) is that you can’t hide partitions. The current version of this customized version of chameleon used with NBI doesn’t support it.

  For me, my /extra folder was and is still hidden. This is annoying as I don’t remember it being hidden on my other hackintoshes, but it is. I had to use iTweax to show the hidden files and folders. I’m sure there is another way to reveal hidden files and folders, but I don’t know how. But I digress….

  During this process (which is not necessarily the order in which I did things), I noticed that certain things stopped working (audio, screen brightness adjustability), and I needed to reinstall the DSDT (overwrite it again and reboot). For instance, and I’m not sure why, but I lost brightness control at one point for an unknown reason. If this happens to you, you may want to either try and different dsdt, or just reinstall the one you are using and reboot. If you are still having an issue, run the updateextra program (the thing with the shoe icon) and reboot.

  AFTER FIRST SUCCESSFUL BOOT INTO SNOW LEOPARD, RUN THE NBI INSTALLER 8.4 RC1, THEN REBOOT, THEN UPDATE TO 10.6.3:

  I am not sure why certain people are having an issue with this (updating to 10.6.3), but it may have something to do with the fact that they have the voodoobattery or voodoopowermini kexts or other sleep kexts installed. Updating to 10.6.3 was basically the first thing I did after installing Snow Leopard. It rebooted fine afterwards and worked without issue. I used the 10.6.3 full download and installed it from a flash drive (I didn’t run it from software update). I then used software update to get the rest of the updates, and I’m now fully updated.

  USE THIS DSDT:

  http://www.computersolutions.cn/downloads/DSDT.aml.N310
  It’s the same one that is posted above by others. This one worked great for me.

  TO GET BLUETOOTH WORKING:

  Follow step #8 from the link above provided by Felix. Here it is again for convenience:

  http://s10lenovo.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=3256&sid=3e512a8c6b9393d405bafc6d6ea8a80e

  To summarize, you don’t need to change your vendor ID in the kext described in the link, only your product ID. In fact, I ignored most of the stuff from step 8, especially the stuff about converting from hexadecimal blah blah. Just do the following….. Backup your Bluetooth kext described in the link, then copy it to your desktop. Navigate inside the kext (the one you just put on your desktop) as described and simply change the product ID in the info.plist to 8529, save it, copy it back to the original location, overwrite the original, run the “updateextra” thing inside the extra folder and reboot. BOOM, Bluetooth on/off working.

  TO GET SLEEP WORKING:

  This is actually not hard at all. It was not working for me at first (I thought) because the Voodoobattery and voodoopowermini kexts were not working and were causing a kernel panic, so I thought all was lost. It would go to sleep, but wouldn’t wake up. Later, I found out that it was because not all the options in the bios that were said that needed to be changed in the original tutorial were there for me to change. REMOVE THESE KEXTS IF YOU INSTALLED THEM, THEY AREN’T NECESSARY…. then run the “updateextra” thing, and reboot to make sure they are gone.

  So, while not necessarily necessary for everyone, update to the latest bios. Yes, you need to do this from windows, and I suggest doing it from XP. You can’t do it from OSX, so get that out of your head. The one I used I think was called 06BA… something like that. I had 03BA at first (you can check by looking inside your bios and finding the version number), and I believe some of the options weren’t available. As soon as I installed Lawrences DSDT, updated to the latest bios and changed the proper settings….. BOOM, sleep works.

  Here are the settings, as referenced above in the original tutorial:

  EDB = Enabled
  Legacy USB Support: Disabled
  USB S3 Wake-Up = Enabled

  Pressing “Function + Sleep (escape)” puts it to sleep as well. Pressing spacebar or clicking the mouse doesn’t wake it back up like I would think that it should, but you simply have to push the power button and it wakes back up immediately.

  TO GET SCREEN BRIGHTNESS WORKING:

  Just update to 10.6.3 and and use the DSDT described above. Worked for me instantly after rebooting. The auto screen brightness setting in the bios takes care of the screen dimming for me, and that’s the way I like it. I have the display set to sleep after a few minutes to save battery life, but I like a nice bright screen when I am using it.
  At a certain point, it stopped working (no longer had the bar to adjust in the display properties) and I had to reinstall the DSDT. I don’t know why, but overwriting the DSDT again and rebooting brought it back, and now it’s here to stay. Maybe I used a different DSDT at first, and then ended up using Lawrences…. I don’t know.

  TO GET AUDIO WORKING:

  I can’t remember, but I think I ended up using a different AppleHDA.kext then the one described in this original tutorial. I think it worked at first, but after 10.6.3 it was broken, and reinstalling it and running the updateextra file didn’t help. I THINK anyway….

  I believe what I ended up doing is just doing a search for “AppleHDA 10.6.3” in google and using one from kexts.com that was said to be patched for this particular audio card. Sorry to be vague, but it wasn’t very difficult to find. I am no genius…. If the original kext described above works for you after 10.6.3, that’s great. It may have worked for me as well, I just seem to remember what I just described as what I had to do.

  TO GET WIRELESS WORKING:

  Get a different card! Don’t waste your time! THEY ARE CHEAP!

  I only now have one minor issue. Following the advice of Lawrence above, I installed several of the utilities he described (the screen brightness script, the deep sleep thing, the addons for Firefox and safari, etc). After rebooting (and not once before) I got a kernel panic. I couldn’t get past it until I used the –x –f boot flag. Now, it only seems to happen occasionally. I have tried removing “deep sleep”, and I am not sure how to remove the brightness script. It still occasionally kernel panics. I can get around it either by booting with the “–x –f” boot flags, or simply by shutting off the system and trying again. I have since run the updateextra again and repairing permissions with disk utility. It seems to be ok since last night, but we’ll see. Since it doesn’t happen all the time, I consider it a minor issue.
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  May 4, 2010 at 10:26 pm

  Excellent comment!
• Breathless says:

  May 4, 2010 at 11:11 pm

  Thanks Lawrence…. Any idea on how to remove that brightness script once it is “installed”?
• Breathless says:

  May 4, 2010 at 11:26 pm

  Also, I really really think you should remove the reference to those voodoo kexts in your main post. They don’t seem to have much to do with sleep for the N310 and they are causing kernel panics for most people.
• Benjamin Rockhold says:

  May 5, 2010 at 8:39 am

  I did as you said above, and it’s worked.
  Screen brightness and sound do not work yet, but that’s in-progress.

  Thanks a lot for compiling that great information!
• Seung Lee says:

  May 5, 2010 at 10:39 am

  So we shouldn’t install the brightness script?

  Thanks so much again for the guide!

  Now my n310 is working with everything

  but the brightness, and I haven’t tried bluetooth yet,

  but I’m sure it’ll work with your guide!
• Breathless says:

  May 5, 2010 at 9:49 pm

  The brightness script did not appear to work for me. I can’t say for sure that it caused any ill effects because in addition to it, I installed several other things prior to rebooting and getting the kernel panic. After booting into -x -f boot flag I was able to repair permissions with disk utility and run the updateextra utility and have not had another kernel panic…. so at least if you tried it and it caused a panic, you can be relatively confident that it would be easy to work around. I say that others should try the script and see if it works. It did not appear to work for me. Anyone else try it yet? Also, Lawrence maybe you can shed more light on this….. How does the brightness script work? Is it something you are supposed to assign to specific hot keys? Or do you have to manually open the “increase brightness” or “decrease brightness” scripts every time you want to make a change?
• joe says:

  May 5, 2010 at 9:50 pm

  so the question is can someone post a link to the bios update and how to do that with out having to wipe your machine to install XP. also would include updating Bios in your initial tutorial.
• Breathless says:

  May 5, 2010 at 9:53 pm

  @ Seung Lee

  Did you update to 10.6.3? After doing this and then using the proper DSDT and setting the brightness setting to “auto” in the bios, you should be fully working. There isn’t anything else you should have to do. Reinstall your DSDT maybe.
• Breathless says:

  May 5, 2010 at 10:08 pm

  There are two bios files that are available. This first one is the one that you will likely have to use:

  http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/FM/201002/20100203094911375/Win_N310_06BA.exe

  And here is the second one:

  http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/FM/201003/20100302094206890/Win_N310_01BD.exe

  CHECK YOUR VERSION OF YOUR BIOS IN YOUR BIOS. IF YOUR VERSION ENDS IN A “BA”, USE THE FIRST ONE. IF IT ENDS IN “BD”, USE THE SECOND ONE.

  I would not count on being able to update to this bios without installing XP. The only thing that you could try is booting from an UBCD or Bart PE and trying it from there, but thats a long shot – but i’d be curious to see if it could work. You are better off using disk utility to IMAGE your current Snow Leopard installation to an external drive formatted as HFS Journaled, then once backed up, either wipe out your snow leopard and install XP (which can now be restored later), OR creating an additional FAT32 partition while in Snow Leopard and installing XP to that, later creating a dual boot environment.
• Breathless says:

  May 5, 2010 at 10:45 pm

  NP Ben, all credit goes to Lawrence for creating the guide that I followed
• joe says:

  May 5, 2010 at 11:54 pm

  will be trying to dual boot using BCD.
• Breathless says:

  May 5, 2010 at 11:55 pm

  I can see that the guide has been updated! Awesome!

  If you want Lawrence, I can post my working audio kext later so we can have only one audio driver link listed that absolutely works
• Breathless says:

  May 6, 2010 at 11:19 am

  Ok, this will make things even easier for you. Lawrence will update the guide with the kexts I will be referring to.

  THE BEST PCI-E WIRELESS CARD TO GET:

  At the suggestion of katapaltes, I got this wireless card:

  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270572265459&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

  Its the Apple AR5BXB6, advertised as:

  “Apple Macbook A1181 A1150 Wireless WIFI Card AR5BXB6″ on ebay.

  It is an “apple card”, so Snow Leopard recognized it immediately and I had no problems connecting. The great thing is, I am triple booting with XP, 7, and Snow Leopard – and even XP and 7 recognized and installed the card immediately without me having to provide any drivers for it. I was afraid that since it was an apple branded card that windows os’s wouldn’t have drivers for it. Windows recognized it as “Atheros 5006exs”. NO PROBLEMS.

  Next, I will be providing both the audio kext and bluetooth kext that I am using that work perfect for me with 10.6.3. This means that you won’t have to experiment with audio drivers that may not work, and you won’t have to modify the bluetooth kext to make it work with your N310. Just overwrite your current bluetooth kext in S/L/E with this one and rebuild extentions. The same goes for my audio kext…. except as stated in the guide, place this in your \extra\generalextentions folder and rebuild the extentions.

  Look for these soon in the guide.

  Breathless
• joe says:

  May 7, 2010 at 12:29 am

  ok so i screwed up pretty bad and have no way to recover my XP os. so can any one ship me a xp recovery iso for the n310. willing to compensate you for your troubles. please email me at cmecha@gmail.com
  Joe
  any help is greatly appreciated.
• Breathless says:

  May 7, 2010 at 2:26 am

  Check your email…
• joe says:

  May 7, 2010 at 7:36 am

  well looks like i need another way to get this done. the live disk does not recognize my netbook’s battery and there for cannot run the bios update. unless some one can give me a update with out it needing to detect a battery. PLease help me.
• Seung Lee says:

  May 7, 2010 at 12:51 pm

  Ok so I haven’t updated the osx yet,
  I’m kinda scared it’ll cause kernel panic for the 5th time T_T
  I have a working hackintosh I’m now very afraid to do anything.
  Anyways I just realized that my hackintosh won’t recognize the charger anymore.
  When I plug it in it should the plug sign for 1 second then it goes back
  to the battery sign with the percent.
  The percent number does increase but the netbook is not recognizing the charger?
• Breathless says:

  May 7, 2010 at 11:12 pm

  You generally won’t get kernel panics unless you use incorrect or incompatible kexts, so I wouldn’t worry. Everything in the updated guide will work just fine for you.

  Just to be sure you don’t have a hardware problem, double check you have the proper DSDT installed (you may even want to overwrite it again – even if you have the correct one installed) and then run the updateextra utility to eliminate these as possible culprits. If this doesn’t fix it, you either have a bad power adapter or possibly the solder points on your AC connector on the board may not be making a proper connection….. this still doesn’t seem to make sense to me though because you say the percentage of your battery increases. It sounds like a software problem.
• Seung Lee says:

  May 8, 2010 at 12:24 am

  T_T

  I ran software update and then when the computer restarted,,,,,

  I get a kernel panic T_T

  HELP

  I took pictures of the panic screens…..

  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/shl615/IMG_6324.jpg
  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/shl615/IMG_6323.jpg
  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/shl615/IMG_6322.jpg
  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/shl615/IMG_6321.jpg

  HELPP T~T
• Leo says:

  May 8, 2010 at 8:07 am

  Hello!

  I’ve just installed osx on my new (last arrived) n310 Orange, so I’ve 10.6.0 . I would like to reinstall the DSDT because the only thing that doesn’t work for me is Sleep Mode (..wifi card too…of course)…so…how can I reinstall DSDT or overwrite the existed DSDT?
  After do that i have to update to 10.6.3 ?

  Thanks!
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  May 8, 2010 at 8:58 am

  Whenever you install a software update pack thats large – eg 10.6.2 -> 10.6.3, re-run Netbook Installer to redo the drivers etc. Remember to re-add/update any other ones that we’ve talked about in the post also.

  You can use a recovery disk to go back in and enable / disable whatever Kext is causing you to crash. The OSX install disk will let you do that.

  One thing to remember, is that a Hackintosh is not a real Mac, so if you aren’t sure about installing an update, don’t until you’ve read up on others experiences (i.e. it worked ok, or oh crap, my computer crashed…)

  Thats also part of the experience really, although using a hackintosh is getting easier, and easier. This guide used to be about double the length originally, now its only a few steps!
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  May 8, 2010 at 9:00 am

  Update to 10.6.3 using the Apple full update pack (usually around 500MB).

  DON’T REBOOT WHEN IT TELLS YOU TO!

  At that point, run NetbookMaker, do the drivers etc. Then add our Bluetooth/Sound Driver (see main page for zip). Download and copy the dsdt file to the location I tell you in the post , then rebuild the Kexts using the UpdateExtra tool (again, see above)
  Finally after all that, you can reboot.

  It should be fine post reboot.
• Breathless says:

  May 8, 2010 at 9:12 am

  Please try to boot using the -x -f boot flag.
• Seung Lee says:

  May 8, 2010 at 11:26 am

  How do you exactly fo the -x-f boot?
• Seung Lee says:

  May 8, 2010 at 11:48 am

  ok …..
  so now when I turn it on with the netbook cd in the external dvd rom,
  it won’t boot the netbook cd.
  I checked F2 and devide boot list and usb CD is still #1 on the list… T~T
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  May 8, 2010 at 11:53 am

  @Seung.

  Remember to enable USB Legacy devices so you can boot from USB again.
  Disable again once everything good, as it messes up sleep.
• Seung Lee says:

  May 8, 2010 at 11:56 am

  @Lawrence

  Ok thanks for solving my 10000reboot panic

  So how do i do the -x-f boot?

  then after that do I recopy all the kexts and dsdt

  and also do the netbook cd tool again?
• Breathless says:

  May 8, 2010 at 12:34 pm

  FYI Lawrence, Leaving USB Legacy Enabled for me doesn’t have any negative effect on sleep. I’ve tested it several times…
• Leo says:

  May 8, 2010 at 7:57 pm

  @Lawrence

  Okay…This is what I’ve done: I’ve updated to 10.6.3 using the combo update v.1.1 from Apple (not from System Updates) and then when it asked me to reboot I’ve just minimized the window, so I’ve run NetBookInstaller and applied the bootloader again and other things like you suggest on the main page. Next I’ve copied the bluetooth and audio kext in the right folder but when I put the DSDT.aml in the Extra: it wasn’t any DSDT to overwrite!! I’ve just put it there….then I’ve rebooted from the 10.6.3 window update that was minimized before…and….it continuously reboot after the Apple logo….I tried -x and -x -f but it did the same….

  Now I’ve reinstalled 10.6.0 …..
  So.. what I’ve done wrong and what I should do to have sleep and 10.6.3??
  Many Many Thanks!!
• Seung Lee says:

  May 8, 2010 at 9:27 pm

  @breathless

  how do you do the -x -f boot?
• joe says:

  May 8, 2010 at 11:01 pm

  got everything working but iam looking for a program or kext will let me change the keys. i want to map the display brightness to the fn and arrow keys as they are on the netbook and want to make sure that all the keys are right.
• Adriano says:

  May 8, 2010 at 11:52 pm

  I don’t think the blue Function key is recognized by OX X.
  I used Keyboard Maestro to map the Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down key combinations to brightness.

  -Adriano
• Breathless says:

  May 9, 2010 at 1:50 am

  I suggest that the 10.6.3 update should be the first thing you do after installing OSX and installing Netbook Installer. Don’t install any kexts yet, nothing. Do this:

  Install or restore your OSX installation,

  Install NetbookInstaller, making sure to install the chameleon bootloader,

  REBOOT

  Then run the 10.6.3 update from the full file like I did (i didn’t download it from software update)

  REBOOT

  You should not have to reinstall netbook installer after 10.6.3, since the bootloader is already in place and 10.6.3 does not effect the bootloader. Only after 10.6.3 should you install any kexts. This way there is nothing for 10.6.3 to conflict with.

  Please make sure that you didn’t:

  A) install an updated version of chameleon after netbook installer
  B) Install any voodoo battery/power kexts or any other kexts prior to running 10.6.3
  C) are not trying to boot from the netbook cd after installing the NBI.

  What you are describing sounds like a bootloader problem (instant reboot after the apple logo). I have had this several times in my fooling around with this whole process. One way you can get around it is to use create a backup bootloader using NetbookMaker. This way if you hose the chameleon bootloader, you can always stick your in your backup bootloader and make it boot, then reinstall NBI.

  Sorry if i’m repeating stuff you already know or have already tried, i’m just letting you know what worked for me
• Breathless says:

  May 9, 2010 at 1:57 am

  Seung Lee,

  RIght after Chameleon bootloader starts and you can see the countdown before it will boot OSX by default, press something to interrupt the countdown. When the countdown is interrupted and OSX is selected as the OS to boot, simply type “-x -f” without the quotes. You can see the small type at the bottom of the screen. So, it is a “-x” WITH A SPACE and then a “-f”. This should get you into safe mode provided there isn’t a bootloader problem. This will usually get you around kext problems. It will take a while to boot. You can then repair permissions, update kexts, reinstall NBI, or whatever else you need to do. Sometimes when I boot into safemode my keyboard doesn’t work, so you may need to plug in an external keyboard.

  B
• Breathless says:

  May 9, 2010 at 2:12 am

  Homies,

  I just figured something out. Without doing anything extra, I found that brightness DECREASE DOES WORK, its just not mapped to the proper key. Instead of Fn + Arrow Down, it is Fn + F12. Try it!

  The function key is recognized and will do a number of functions, just not brightness up for some reason. Probably because it doesn’t understand the keyboard layout properly.

  The function key works with:

  Sleep (Fn + Escape)
  Volume Mute/Unmute (Fn + F6)
  Volume Up/Down (Fn + Arrow Left / Fn Arrow Right)
  Fn + F3 (it brought me to ebay.com – shrugs)
  Touchpad activate/deactivate (Fn + F10)
  Home/End (Fn + PgUp / Fn + PgDn)
  All of the Numpad Keys (Fn + blah blah)
  and maybe more
• Seung Lee says:

  May 9, 2010 at 4:43 am

  I can see the typings on the bottom and it does take longer
  but it still says my hibernation image is too old then goes into the panic screen
  depicted in my previous posting..
• Leo says:

  May 9, 2010 at 5:24 am

  @Breathless

  Nothing changed…. with a new installation of 10.6.0 I’ve run NetBookInstaller installing properly chameleon and the correct settings and then the reboot was ok! Next I’ve updated to 10.6.3 from the file dmg but when I rebooted…it continuosly reboot after chameleon load and apple logo appears without loading anything..and reboot “ad libitum” … Maybe there’s some kext i have to remove manually after the update from the Mac Os X Install DVD??

  I have the latest bios firmware version: 06BA
  My samsung n310 arrived 2 days ago!
• Breathless says:

  May 9, 2010 at 5:56 am

  @ Leo,

  Maybe try going from 10.6.0 to 10.6.2 first, then to 10.6.3.

  @ Seung Lee,

  Try doing the “forcewake=yes” boot flag. You appear to be stuck in “deep sleep”. If that doesn’t work try a combination of that and the -x -f bootflag
• Seung Lee says:

  May 9, 2010 at 12:49 pm

  no luck…. it does show a different screen for a seconds, but it said the wrong boot code or something……i guess I should just reinstall?
• Leo says:

  May 9, 2010 at 6:11 pm

  Help! Keyboard/trackpad

  @Breathless

  I’ve solved: from 10.6.0 I’ve updated to 10.6.3 reboot ok!! So I’ve replace the DSDT to have the sleep brightness and now both works…but keyboard and trackpad doesn’t work!!! why?
  I’ve try with fn+some F functions on the keyboard but nothing reactive my keyboard and trackpad….instead if I use an external mouse usb it works!…..I haven’t an external keyboard usb….so how could i resolve this?

  Thanks so much!
• Leo says:

  May 9, 2010 at 6:54 pm

  Ok, I’ve solved!!

  That’s my experience and I want to share with you: All works except for wifi (i’ll replace next days..)

  Samsung N310 Latest Bios version 06BA

  1) I’ve Installed 10.6.0.

  2) Updated to 10.6.3 with the combo update file (not from system updates just because I want to be safe and sure.) WITHOUT REBOOT. When asked you to reboot don’t do that (Just minimized the update window installation and proceded to install the NetBookinstaller..)

  3) Installed NetBookInstaller 0.8.4 RC1

  – Checked: Chameleon 2 NBI bootloader
  – Install General Extensions
  – Regenerate a system specific DSDT

  Unchecked the others…

  4) When NetBookInstaller finished I’ve rebooted by clicking on the window i’ve minimized before (10.6.3 update window)

  5) Reboot was OK! Next I’ve rebooted again just to setup this in bios:

  To Enabling Sleep / Brightness:

  EDB = Enabled
  Legacy USB Support: Disabled
  USB S3 Wake-Up = Enabled

  So Boot again into OSX

  6) Replaced the DSDT.aml with the Lawrence one in this main page and rebooted again.
  That’s all OK: Brightness and Sleep…But… Keyboard and Trackpad doesn’t work!

  7) So to have both Sleep and Keyboard and Trackpad works I’ve modified the settings in Bios:

  EDB= Enabled (if Disabled I cannot wake up from sleep)
  Legacy USB SUPPORT: Disabled
  USB S3 WAKE UP: Disabled

  Save all settings.

  8) Now works everything for me!

  I Hope this little guide/experience will help you too!! And Thanks to Everyone for support me @Breathless @Lawrence.

  Leo.

  ….Could I do updates (such as iLife,iTunes) by System Updates next time?
• Breathless says:

  May 9, 2010 at 10:14 pm

  You should absolutely be able to do updates. Your keyboard and mouse may not have anything to do with a bios setting. Mine occasionally did the same thing and it could be fixed by either a simple reboot, or “updateextra” and reboot. I’d put your bios setting back, reboot, then if it doesn’t work on first boot, reboot again ; )
• Breathless says:

  May 9, 2010 at 10:30 pm

  I think that is the best thing for you at this point. This time though, write down your every step so we can find out why if/when it goes wrong.
• joe says:

  May 10, 2010 at 12:00 am

  it also apperas the the OSX recognizes ALT as CMD
• Breathless says:

  May 10, 2010 at 10:43 am

  Yes, I was wondering why I couldn’t do the “find” command with the windows key. Thanks!
• joe says:

  May 10, 2010 at 9:44 pm

  so the question is…is there a way to map keys in osx, is there a way to make OSX recognize the keyboard as a windows keyboard. or is there a kext that will map everything appropriately
• Leo says:

  May 13, 2010 at 12:28 am

  The easiest way is to use Keyboard Maestro just to map the Brightness Up/Down … I don’t think there’s a way to map the windows key as the “Apple command” key…
  They are inverted…maybe it’s a BIOS setting…
• Breathless says:

  May 13, 2010 at 10:44 am

  perhaps there is no way to map it there, however on my desktop hackintosh, it seems that it is that way by default….
• Adriano says:

  May 15, 2010 at 5:16 am

  Does anyone know how to update the BIOS without windows installed on the hard drive?
  The Samsung 06B Bios installer seems to be a windows installer of size 1.7MB.

  Thanks

  -Adriano
• Leo says:

  May 16, 2010 at 6:23 am

  Maybe you could use a Live CD….(anyway that’s horrible) but that’s the only chance to update!
  ah….Does anyone know how to change resolution to 1024×768? The maximum displayed to me is 1024×600 and i cannot use properly Garageband or Photobooth..Thanks!
• sk8er000 says:

  May 17, 2010 at 4:31 am

  This is the BEST guide to get work snow leopard on the n310 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
• sk8er000 says:

  May 17, 2010 at 6:54 pm

  I use a program called statusbar.. it’s like a reverse zoom!!
• Leo says:

  May 18, 2010 at 2:38 am

  Where can i find StatusBar??? Search on Google and no results….
• sk8er000 says:

  May 18, 2010 at 4:56 am

  here you find statusbar (post n°14):
  http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=200260

  here you find screen scale (post n°10):
  http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=218535&start=0&p=1470429&#entry1470429

  I haven’t tried the second yet..the first is working perfectly
• Leo says:

  May 22, 2010 at 10:43 pm

  Hey you guys!!

  Anyone has tried to get works the Wireless card known as Atheros5007EG ?
  One of InsanelyMac has installed Leopard 10.5.8 and then replaced with IO80211Family_kext_v.2.1.2 file that it can be easily find on Google and get the same Wifi card works!!

  http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=200485

  Is there any chance to get it on Snow Leopard? Just replace that extension? Can anyone have a try?

  Thanks!
• Dick says:

  June 14, 2010 at 4:41 am

  Thanks for the simple instructions.

  My Samsung came with Windows pre-installed on C: drive and an empty D: drive, both about 72 GB. Can I just install Snow Leopard on the D: drive without reformatting? Also, is there any problem with putting the Leopard installer and the Netbooksinstaller ISO on the same 8 GB memory stick and doing the installation from that instead of a CD drive?
• Sebastian says:

  June 15, 2010 at 5:32 am

  Thanxz a lot Lawrence and all the others participating,

  everything works nice until i install the update to 10.6.3. Then QE/CI disappears which is a bag of hurt.

  Does anyone have a solution to this???

  And what are the major changes in between 10.6 and 10.6.3???

  Thanxz again to everyone!
• Breathless says:

  June 16, 2010 at 12:00 am

  please update your kexts sebastion. Run the updateextra, as well as repairing disk permissions using diskutility. Unless you have a different revision of gpu, there is no reason for you to lose acceleration.
• Breathless says:

  June 16, 2010 at 12:09 am

  You would need to make a modification in order for OSX to let you install it on an MBR formatted disk.

  http://osx86.sojugarden.com/downloads/#osinstall

  I bypassed this by leaving my windows installation as is, putting in a different hard drive that was empty, installing OSX on it as GUID, then after installation I made an Image of the OSX partition using disk utility, then popped my original hard drive back in with the Windows installations on it restored the OSX image from the OSX installer. In this case it doesn’t limit you from RESTORING an OSX image to an MBR formatted drive. You would then need to install the chameleon bootloader to the OSX partition that is now restored alongside your windows partitions by booting off the netbookinstaller cd (since the restored OSX will not contain the chameleon bootloader – even though it was an image of one that did contain it). Hope this helps.
• Sebastian says:

  June 16, 2010 at 2:08 am

  Everything works like charm with 10.6.

  I hope you’re right – and will try again… ? System Profiler says: 0×0003. Is that yours?
• asustekk says:

  June 18, 2010 at 3:31 pm

  Somebody has update to 10.6.4?? I installed it, but now not recognize CPU, I boot with “recovery=yes” and boots, but run terrible slowly. I go back to 10.6.3 and now work fine.
• sk8er000 says:

  June 19, 2010 at 12:31 am

  10.6.4 is out any ideas??
• Tom says:

  June 19, 2010 at 3:00 am

  I am having the same problems as Sebastien, 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 updates work like a charm, but as soon as the 10.6.3 or 10.6.4 update combo’s were installed the system simply restarts and cannot be booted into safe mode. any suggestions, the first time after installing 10.6.3 It seemed to be a different error from the one after I reinstalled the whole thing and went straight for the 10.6.4 combo update, which gave me a sleep error on startup, would prompt user “y” to bypass sleep enabler or something to that effect.

  I would like to get either of these updates working any suggestions?

  I also had downloaded a copy of the snowywind which was 10.6.2 with no way of getting it to be restored to the disk using disc utility…all from usb/dvdrom drive. any success with loading that onto an n310?!?
• sk8er000 says:

  June 20, 2010 at 2:01 am

  i’ve found a way to get the update working, now everything works except bluethoot on\off, so the bt is always on…any ideas to fix it?
• Breathless says:

  June 20, 2010 at 6:29 am

  I updated to 10.6.4 and got a kernel panic, and couldn’t get into safemode. Something about the cpu not being supported. After doing a bit of research I found that you can type recovery=y to get it to boot. Then after this, I had to reinstall NBI Installer. Then I could boot fine. The problem is that my system is now slow a molasses with 10.6.4. It boots up very slow and performance just isn’t the same. I tried to run the updateextra and repaired disk permissions but it didn’t help. I also tried booting into safe mode (which was suggested elsewhere) and then just rebooting, but nothing helped. It seems that performance issues are common with 10.6.4. My advice to everyone here is to NOT UPDATE TO 10.6.4 until this is all sorted out.
• sk8er000 says:

  June 20, 2010 at 4:35 pm

  i’ve updated with the combo and then with the new nbi launche with recovery=y..

  My n310 seems to have the same performances and the same boot time of the 10.6.3..

  anyway I don’t know if the cup usage is the same..

  i had only to reinstall the audio kext and changed the dsdt.aml

  the only thing that doesn’t work is the bt on/off..
• Ernst Mulder says:

  June 23, 2010 at 3:46 pm

  Got almost everything working on 10.6.4. Except for the bluetooth switch and the N310 won’t sleep when closing the lid. And the power manager does not recognize that a power adapter is connected (the battery indicator changes for a second when the adapter is connected and then switches back to battery mode). Charging works however.

  Basically running on NetbookInstaller 20100616212351, a new wifi card plus the audio and bluetooth kext’s mentioned above.

  Any idea on how to fix these last couple of minor annoyances?

  For the sleep-on-closing-the-lid problem I have tried the new LidSleep.kext (1.2) but that didn’t help.

  Is there any way to map the brightness controls to the correct keys? Where is that done, in the DSDT.aml file or somewhere else? (Still trying to understand what is and isn’t in the DSDT.aml file) and how everything links together.
• Breathless says:

  June 25, 2010 at 10:47 am

  Ok Homies,

  Here is how I fixed my 10.6.4 issues.

  I initially did the update via software update. This left me with terribly slow performance, no audio, and no working bluetooth.

  To remedy this, download the 10.6.4 package:

  http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1048/en_US/MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.4.dmg

  Install it.

  Reboot and use the recovery=y flag to get into OSX. You will get a kernel panic if you don’t.

  Once you get into OSX, run NBI installer (reinstalling the bootloader, etc) and reboot. This left me with “hibernate image is too old” message, but it would still boot now without the recovery=y flag. To get rid of this message (if you get it), open up a terminal window and do the following commands one at a time and then reboot:

  sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

  sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

  The hibernate message should now be gone.

  Now, use kexthelper to reinstall your audio and bluetooth kexts. Before using kexthelper, I just tried to manually reinstall the audio kext and repairing permissions didn’t work…. i had to use kexthelper. After using kexthelper and rebooting, I had audio again. Bluetooth on and off works, BUT clicking on the bluetooth icon to get to the menu takes a very long time to activate the menu. Be patient. After you make your selection, I noticed that my “turn bluetooth on” or “turn bluetooth off” choice didn’t take effect until after one or more reboots. I can live with this

  FYI, my performance is now pretty much back to normal. I am no longer getting the terrible hard disk trashing and super slow boot up that I was getting before.

  Have fun

  B
• Breathless says:

  June 25, 2010 at 10:51 am

  I do however suggest that for now that anyone who is still using 10.6.3 to KEEP IT, and don’t install 10.6.4 if everything is working properly. There is simply no reason to potentially degrade your N310 Hackintosh performance since everything was perfect in 10.6.3
• Sebastian says:

  June 26, 2010 at 5:31 am

  I’m on 10.6.3 now. Everything fine except the “can’t turn of bluetooth” issue.

  Thanks again everybody!
• sk8er000 says:

  June 26, 2010 at 7:28 pm

  HOW TO FIX THE BRIGHTNESS CONTROLL WITHOUT PROGRAMS (thx to mrmojorisin17)

  -you have to delete the ApplePS2Controller from general extensions the run udate extra

  -install with kexthelper VoodooPS2Controller.kext (just write it on google to find it)

  -reboot

  now with Fn+F12 you can decrease brightness and with Fn+Ins you can increase it!

  P.S.
  now on settings you have twice trackpad icon, look the settings of them to set the trackpad again if you use the two fingers gestures!
• Tom says:

  June 28, 2010 at 1:57 pm

  I’m all good with 10.6.3 only wondering if anyone is finding proper solution for the Fn shortcuts which are at the top of the keyboard. Also I opened my n310 just for the sake of seeing which wifi lan adapter I actually have. its the Realtek RTL8129E… can’t seem to find any kexts or pkgs for this specific chipset. anybody find anything on this for hackintosh osx?

  thanks.
• Breathless says:

  June 28, 2010 at 8:37 pm

  Thank you for this tip.

  I think this should be added to the guide, as well as the proper procedure to update to 10.6.4.
• Tom says:

  June 30, 2010 at 11:36 am

  as the age old adage goes if you want something done right you had better do it yourself… or something to that extent since it won’t get done at all… I’ve taken the plunge into Xcode and the appleHIDKeyboard.kext to see if I can find the correct lines to edit the Fn keys as well as remainder mapping for the n310… if anyone should care to help or already be an expert on this subject please do send me a message.
• Ernst Mulder says:

  July 1, 2010 at 3:52 am

  Was trying to do something like that also. Couldn’t find the appropriate sources (the only one I could find for ApplePS2Controller.kext was quite old). I’m not sure where to start, AppleHIDKeyboard.kext or ApplePS2Controller.kext? The latter seems the likely candidate? Where did you score the sources? Also the sources for NetBook Installer unfortunately include the compiled kext’s not the sources.
• Tom says:

  July 1, 2010 at 6:16 am

  this is all hit and miss for me so I’m checking apple’s developer site for info on those files… i’m just starting with getting on insanely wind as well. I’m quite curious because I have a wind u100 and love the fact that all the kexts for keyboard were perfect the first shot over a year ago when i first got it all done. If anyone can find who made them thats probably our best bet for getting this one done for the n310.
• eros biox says:

  July 21, 2010 at 12:14 pm

  Anyone else having a problems with their keyboard not responding?
  Mine was in and out, but would still respond to USB Keyboard input.
  I’ve tried several kexts currently using ALC272 (Snow Leopard)

  my wireless card arrived today, I installed it and now I ‘ve lost all keyboard input after boot.
  even USB key input is lost.
• eros says:

  July 22, 2010 at 9:17 am

  figured it out.. I’m a retard and shouldn’t post at the end of the night.
• jocc says:

  July 24, 2010 at 6:28 pm

  I’d tried severals times to install, but I failed. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
  I updated the bios, created the installer CD (from 0.8.3 RC4) boot from it and when I tried to install from the 10.6.3 retail DVD simply didn’t. I get the apple logo for a brief… and then reboot to XP.
  It’s frustrating…. Any help?
  Could be the 10.6.3 retail with the 0.8.3 RC4?
• Lawrence Sheed says:

  July 24, 2010 at 7:01 pm

  Press space for boot options, then try a different device id (at the swap disk part).

  NetbookInstaller uses Chameleon as the Boot Loader, so you’re best off reading the Chameleon docs here – http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/board,1.0.html
• jocc says:

  July 26, 2010 at 12:56 pm

  finally. I done the installation properly. I made a USB drive (at less 8GB) formatted wih GUID labelled OSXDVD and done a Restore from a snowleapard 10a432 dmg I’ve got. Updated the BIOS, boot from the NetbookInstaller CD and instead of swap to the Snow Leopard DVD I used the USB drive done. do the installation and continue as say the instructions.
• Roger says:

  July 30, 2010 at 6:26 pm

  Hi

  Got almost everything working on 10.6.3, but even after installing the sebastian DSDT files several time, i still do not have brightness control in the monitor preference and sleep doesn’t work, after sleep when i triy to waking up I got blacl screen an I need to reboot.

  any ideas to fix it?
• Roger says:

  August 2, 2010 at 3:07 pm

  Update—

  I finally re-download the DSDT file (maybe the first one was corrupted) and install, now everything work fine, Sleep and brightness. I have remapped the brigthness key with keyboard maestro on contol + up and down, it’s perfect
• John Doe says:

  August 4, 2010 at 3:06 pm

  Hi all,
  I’ve successfully used the DSDT published here on a Samsung N130.

  Everything is working fine except that the brightness is reset to the maximum at every reboot.

  Is there a way to fix this issue ?

  Thanks a lot.
• Burlesque says:

  August 5, 2010 at 10:57 am

  I have tried to install 10.6.3 six times now: all failures. I have followed closely the results of Leo and Breathless and the others, and have even tried updating step by step from 10.6 to 10.6.1 to 10.6.2 to 10.6.3 after having tried the combo update a number of times. 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 work like a charm; after I cannot boot into OS X with any boot flag as far as i can tell. Anyone have any insight on this?

  Best guide ever. Thanks to all.
• toni says:

  August 10, 2010 at 6:13 pm

  10.6.3 keeps losing keyboard and trackpad at boot after one update. My only solution has been to take the battery out and start with just powersource, then it works. Really mystical problen. I suggest that people dont update if not absolutely neccessarry. Otherwise a nice working setup. And thanks for the hilbernate error message tip.
• John Doe says:

  August 10, 2010 at 6:18 pm

  Mmm, I might have found a solution to my brightness issue as described here:

  http://myhpmini.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1542

  I’ll give a try and let you know…
• toni says:

  August 10, 2010 at 6:31 pm

  What was the solution if I may ask ? :p
• andoryuu3 says:

  August 11, 2010 at 3:52 am

  Hi Lawrence,

  Very nice guide on the n310 install!! This is probably the only complete and detailed guide for the job!

  Because of this, I worry that maybe this information might become lost later, so I am working on archiving key parts and files into a checklist. While I am using quite a bit of the information here, I am passively working on adding to it with my own information as I play with my n310.

  One file in partictular I have found very helpful is statusBar. When you install things like Macfuse or Secrets prefPane, System Preferences barely fits on screen! But statusBar scales windows you open to a percentage. So what if you could make System Preferences 70% 80% or 90% of original size? Change the scale percentage in statusBar before opening the app you want, and it’s instantly smaller and fits on screen.

  Thank you so much for your guide to installing on the n310– it has helped greatly for many of us and will continue to in the future!
• ditrist says:

  August 14, 2010 at 3:28 am

  OK WTF, Really, Can’t get Bluetooth actvation working in 10.6.4 for the life of me. Anyone have success with this! the kexts are gone from this page and now. lid close equals no backlight hair is falling out of my head.
• andoryuu3 says:

  August 15, 2010 at 5:51 am

  Hi ditrist,

  Please check here for a mirror. I’ve been collecting mirror links and backing up important files for this guide on my Google Site. Either click on my username, or visit this URL:

  http://preview.tinyurl.com/osx86n310

  Also, I can use bluetooth perfectly using the kexts from this guide. Install your kexts prior to updating and it should work.

  がんばって (good luck) ^^
• ditrist says:

  August 16, 2010 at 9:47 am

  OK thanks, but i just figured out everything as far as bluetooth goes. the only problem i’m down to is Speedstep. have you ever had this working. really gettin ready to call it quits. inless i just screwed up somwhere i feel like i have turned this os structure in to swiss cheese at this point. but speedstep is where I’m at it’s been hours. even gave voodoopower a stab in the dark and got nothing but KPs this thing is useless burning up the battery in 3 hours. also ended up using a patched dirtybit kernel in the end to to bring back performance, and lost sleep in the process. any help would be great bedtime now at leasst it was only a sunday
• Sebastian says:

  August 22, 2010 at 12:35 am

  Does anyone else have problems with the quality of the microphone? Using Skype or iChat the quality is really really bad. Anyone else?

  And did anyone experience any problems with the “Snow Leopard Graphics Update” yet released? I haven’t tried so far…

  I accidentally updated to 10.4.6. Working so far – but I’m afraid of putting back the DSDT.aml from this thread. Will it work with 10.4.6?

  Sorry – so many questions…
• PHIL111456 says:

  September 13, 2010 at 11:09 pm

  All,
  I’m a newbie to on Samsung– I just bought a new N310 on the basis of the 100% OSX compatible rating on http://www.mymacnetbook.com/compatibility-chart/?chartid=20 but reading these trails fills me with doubt

  I’ve done Snowywind on MSI, which is a simple install… was hoping for similar here, can someone advise me which is the simplest, easiest build to use, preferably 10.6.4 Snow Leopard?
  THANKS, I APPRECIATE YOUR ADVICE!

  For your info this is the new (nicer, bigger disk, but still GMA950) spec:
  Samsung N310 – Atom N280 / 1.66 GHz –
  RAM 1 GB – HDD 250 GB – GMA 950 –
  WLAN : 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 –
  Windows 7 Starter – 10.1″ Widescreen TFT
  1024 x 600 ( WSVGA ) – camera – black
• Meierseppl says:

  September 21, 2010 at 5:36 am

  Hi,
  where are the Audio and Bluetooth Kexts, i can’t download them.
• Crazyrod says:

  September 24, 2010 at 1:05 am

  Hello everybody !

  Everything worked well, but the link for “Samsung N310 Audio and Bluetooth Kexts” doesn’t work, so i can’t turn off bluetooth, and i don’t have any sound.

  Has anybody got a link for these files ?

  Thank you.
• Crazyrod says:

  September 24, 2010 at 1:07 am

  Hello everybody !

  Everything worked well, but the link for “Samsung N310 Audio and Bluetooth Kexts” doesn’t work.

  Has anbody got a link for these files ?

  Thank you.
• andoryuu3 says:

  September 29, 2010 at 11:51 pm

  http://www.tinyurl.com/OSx86n310
• andoryuu3 says:

  October 2, 2010 at 1:04 am

  Please go here. http://www.tinyurl.com/OSx86n310
• andoryuu3 says:

  October 6, 2010 at 11:48 pm

  Does the microphone sound good in other operating systems? I have nothing to compare it to as I have used OS X exclusively. I agree, the microphone sounds terrible. My Logitech headset, however, works perfectly with the microphone port.
• Aldo says:

  November 22, 2010 at 10:55 pm

  Hello there

  Thank you for this tutorial, I bought a N310 and it work perfectly.
  Except for the wifi. I tried evything possible I think, but I am very new in Hackintosh…

  So as you preconised I will buy a Wifi card and the only one I found on ebay is this one :

  http://cgi.ebay.fr/Broadcom-Wireless-Mini-PCI-E-Card-DELL-DW-1390-AirPort-/250729283846?pt=FR_GH_Informatique_Composants_Cartes_R%C3%A9seau&hash=item3a60a14106

  Do you think this will work well. It is not branded DELL but it looks like the same…
• Smash says:

  November 23, 2010 at 10:05 pm

  Ok i update to 10.6.5 because in this release there is driver for wifi…but now don’t work
  Anyone test or try… go go go create a new guide to update this netbook!
  Thanks for all and good day!
• Breathless says:

  November 28, 2010 at 12:53 pm

  I am also trying to recover from a botched 10.6.5 update…. I’ll let you know if I get to where I can boot normally again. In the meantime, I am able to boot using the “recovery=y” bootflag.
• Breathless says:

  November 28, 2010 at 1:24 pm

  Alright homies, got it.

  To update to 10.6.5, run the combo updater from here:

  http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1324/en_US/MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.5.dmg

  Don’t reboot when it tells you to… instead, run the new 0.8.5 Pre version of Netbook installer from here

  http://netbook-installer.googlecode.com/files/NetbookInstaller%200.8.5pre.app.zip

  After running, reboot and enjoy. If either it screws something up and you can’t boot, or you already updated to 10.6.5 only to find out that you can’t boot anymore, just use the recovery=y boot flag to get you booted, then run the new 0.8.5 Pre.

  Done dizzle.
• illuminarok says:

  November 29, 2010 at 9:54 am

  Does 10.6.5 work with the performance of 10.6.3 once NBI 0.8.5 Pre is installed?
• Breathless says:

  December 2, 2010 at 11:13 am

  Performance appears to be at least as good if not better.
• AlexB says:

  December 3, 2010 at 10:01 am

  Thanks fro this great resource, but I’m somewhat confused about which version of NBI I should use for the N310. I’ve managed to install osx once patching a USB copy of 10.6 with NBI 0.8.5pre and installing that. I then upgraded to 10.6.5 and it seemed to work (except for sound), but I was concerned that the extras folders seemed to have a “1201″ DSDT and kexts I’m not sure the N310 needed.

  So at this point in time, should I install to the letter with older versions of NBI as per the original instructions on this page, and then only use the newest NBI when I update to 10.6.5 as Breathless did?

  Just trying to get it right; thanks!
• Breathless says:

  December 3, 2010 at 11:42 pm

  You did it right, as long as you are updated to 10.6.5 you are good to go. I am still trying to get sound working myself on 10.6.5.

  I have those extra kexts in there as well in the “general extentions” folder. As soon as I’m feeling lucky i’ll start removing them one by one and will see what happens – then i’ll let everyone know which ones are truly necessary. If I screw something up, I can always use the recovery=y to get back in as that will load all the necessary backup kexts.

  Just use Lawrences DSDT from the original guide Put it in your extra folder. The extra folder has to have a dsdt.aml in the extra folder, and it needs to be named as such. The one in there named “DSDT1201″ would be ignored by the system, thus you don’t need to worry about it.
• AlexB says:

  December 4, 2010 at 1:28 am

  Thanks, Breathless! I had replaced the 310 DSDT as you suggested. Odd that it weighs in at 20k vs 40k for the generated one. 0.8.5pre is a wip and all the older visible install options in 8.3 are now automated, which makes me question the choices it makes. M’s done an amazing job so far, but we’re still talking ihacks where so many things can go wrong. I’d still feel more comfortable picking options from a list.

  I’ll report back here as well if I find a sound solution. Funny how that’s often the first thing to break.
• illuminarok says:

  December 5, 2010 at 5:41 am

  Please post a solution once you get sound working. I can’t update until sound works as it does on 10.6.3
• AlexB says:

  December 6, 2010 at 1:38 am

  I think VoodooHDA might be the way to go for sound. Might be worth a shot:

  http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showforum=156
  http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda/
• AlexB says:

  December 8, 2010 at 12:41 am

  I tried the “ALC272 (Snow Leopard)” AppleHDA.kext from kexts.com and it works under 10.6.0: both internal speakers/mic and external ones work, and the N310 volume (Fn L/R) works as well. I won’t try upgrading till I get my wifi card, but maybe someone can see if it works in later versions. I simply put it in the “Extra/GeneralExtensions” folder and ran NBI’s UpdateExtra utility and rebooted, so backtracking only involves removing it and update/rebooting again. FYI: I’ve discovered that the N310′s hardware is mostly identical to the NC10, for which there seems to be a lot more community support. The only difference might be what’s visible in the BIOS.
• AlexB says:

  December 9, 2010 at 1:04 pm

  FYI: the above kext is NOT working in 10.6.5 ;(
• illuminarok says:

  December 9, 2010 at 9:50 pm

  Thanks for trying, sorry to hear
• Breathless says:

  December 14, 2010 at 12:47 pm

  aight, here is the deal…

  For audio with 10.6.5, you need to remove AppleHDA from S/L/E, repair permissions, reboot. Then install VoodooHDA 2.7.2:

  http://voodoohda.googlecode.com/files/VoodooHDA-2.7.2.pkg.zip

  Reboot….. viola, perfectly working audio.

  Also, FYI, I have tested and you can safely remove the following kexts from Extra / General Extentions and still maintain full functionality:

  AHCIPortInjector.kext
  IOATAFamily.kext
  ElliottForceLegacyRTC.kext
  KextcacheHelper.kext
  VaioPEnabler.kext
  IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext
  RealtekR1000.kext

  After removing them, repair permissions and reboot. If for some reason you have an issue rebooting, you can always boot with recovery=y

  The only thing that is not fully functional for me is bluetooth. The device is active, and I can click on it and try to turn it on, but it never goes on.
• AlexB says:

  December 14, 2010 at 1:39 pm

  Quick little FYI: I used the NBI 0.8.3 final to install 10.6.0. Used the above DSDT with the kexts.com audio driver for the ALC272 in the Extra folder (used “UpdateExtra”). After fixing BIOS settings it all seems to be fine. I then installed NBI 0.8.4 rc1 and then without rebooting installed the 10.6.3rev1.1 Combo update; on first reboot the NBI logo replaced the apple logo to indicate it was working its mojo. After I updated Extra with the suggested BT driver, it all seems to be fine, sound, sleep, wifi is snappy, BT on/off.. I’m stoked! :0)
• AlexB says:

  December 14, 2010 at 10:11 pm

  Thanks for the update Breathless! Does the voodoo audio driver give you full compatibility with both internal and external jacks working? There was some discussion that the voodoo driver creates a feedback problem as it defaults the mic to a high sensitivity level; was this solved? And do you know if the kexts you removed are useless in 10.6.3 as well? TIA.
• Breathless says:

  December 15, 2010 at 11:55 am

  @AlexB

  No Problem! The laptop speakers and headphone jack work perfectly if that is what you are asking. The voodoo driver does create the slight mic feedback issue if your speakers are up too loud, but that is easily remedied by going into the voodoo prefpane and lowering the mic input.

  My assumption is that 10.6.5 fixed a few things and thats why I was able to remove so much stuff. You can always give it a shot and see what happens! Its almost foolproof with recovery=y
• Breathless says:

  December 15, 2010 at 11:58 am

  **correction….. not 10.6.5 that fixed things, but chameleon RC5
• AlexB says:

  December 19, 2010 at 7:01 am

  Quick question about Bluetooth and Wifi disabling: I notice that when I disable wifi, the wifi LED is still on. So are these devices still on even if disabled in the menu bar? It would be useful to reduce power consumption when not in use.
• AlexB says:

  December 20, 2010 at 6:41 am

  Other question: does the DSDT in the main article include any speedstep tables? My CPU seems to be running at full speed all the time.
• Breathless says:

  December 23, 2010 at 1:00 am

  no, it does not
• Adriano says:

  December 28, 2010 at 6:00 am

  Hello,

  I’ve just upgraded from 10.6.4 to 10.6.5 and got everything working (even brightness with Fn-F12 and Fn-Ins) but managed to loose my trackpad functionality. I have been trying to fix the issue by installing and removing all combinations of the following kext’s:

  AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext
  ApplePS2Controller.kext
  VoodooPS2Controller.kext

  using various methods (UpdateExtra, Kext Helper, OSX86Tools, VoodooPS2Controller-0.98-installer.pkg) but still can’t get the built-in trackpad to work. I am now stuck with using an external USB mouse.
  Am I missing something? Can someone help?

  PS: I am running the 05-BA BIOS.

  Thanks

  -Adriano
• Adriano says:

  December 30, 2010 at 1:39 am

  OK Finally got it working. I had to re-install the 10.6.5 update and then NBI 0.8.5 and I skipped the VoodooPS2 kext.
• Adriano says:

  December 30, 2010 at 10:40 am

  Hello,

  I am trying to update my BIOS to 06BA. Since i don’t have WIndows installed anymore, I used Hiren’s Boot CD to boot a mini WindowsXP from a USB flash drive.

  Here’s the problem, whenever I try to run Win_N310_06BA.exe, it tells me that my battery is not present or not at least 30% charged even thoug i have a fully charged battery and the AC adapter plugged in. I tried removing the battery and running off the AC only but it didn’t help.

  Any suggestions?

  Thanks

  Adriano
• FIFfan5 says:

  December 31, 2010 at 2:25 pm

  I press F5 and select the Install OS X disc. It starts to boot. I see the Apple logo for a second then screen goes black and boots up windows. I am at a loss. Please help. I am new to Hackintosh and need step by step.
• FIFfan5 says:

  December 31, 2010 at 2:27 pm

  Try running a battery calibration in the BIOS. It runs down your battery – sort of resets it. Then charge back up and try again.
• AlexB says:

  January 5, 2011 at 3:08 pm

  To Breathless: I decided to install 10.6.5 over my existing 10.6.3 using your suggestions: I installed the combo + nbi 0.8.5 pre, removed the “useless” kexts, updated the Extra folder, and rebooted. I got into 10.6.5 without issues, but i my case BT works fine, except that I can’t on/off. I tried the “Terminal Mod” to change the Device and Vendor IDs SysInfo is reporting (to enable on/off), but now the system considers the kext invalid and won’t update S/L/E. I might of done something wrong, so I’ll probably re-update or restore my backup. We have a fix for audio, and I assume that BT can be fixed, but I can’t get it to sleep: it does and then wakes up on its own with the screen off, Does sleep work for you? I get the feeling maybe one or more of the kexts we removed helped sleep, because in my first foray into 10.6.5 sleep did work with nbi 0.8.5. Thanks for any insights.
• AlexB says:

  January 6, 2011 at 11:00 pm

  Silly me: I was using the wrong DSDT(!). Sleep now works. I installed VoodooHDA 2.7.2 but it’s so clearly a hack and does some wonky volume management. Also graphics now seem less smooth than they were under 10.6.3. Not a clean upgrade… rats…
• AC says:

  January 7, 2011 at 9:15 am

  Has anyone been able to install iLife 11 **and** update it successfully on 10.6.5? When I update after installing iLife 11, i get kernel panics and can’t recover.

  I don’t like 10.6.5 either- doesn’t seem right and I have the same issues- no bluetooth and hacky audio.

  Anyone try upgrading to 10.6.6 yet?
• moo says:

  January 8, 2011 at 1:11 pm

  I’m with Fiffan5. After booting NBI and then swapping for the OSX disk, I press F5 and select the Install OS X disc. I see the Apple logo for a second then the netbook restarts and boots up Windows. Does the drive need to be wiped and reformat before the install? Are there any Bios changes that need to be made? My boot order is DVD>Flash>HD.
• moo says:

  January 10, 2011 at 2:08 am

  I gave up on this method and used the osx.mechdrew Mini 10v guide for usb & mac. Loade 10.6.3 perfect. Of course I need to fix sleep/hibernate (goes to sleep/hibernates but locks up), wireless, audio, touchpad, BT and function keys. Probably more, but that’s all I see for now. Should I skip 10.6.4?
• moo says:

  January 12, 2011 at 12:05 am

  Updated to 10.6.6 for laughs. Instant Kernel Panic, but I got it to boot from the flash boot loader. It finally blue screened and I am back to 10.6.3. It did get bluetooth working though. I’ll wait for the NBI 10.6.6. Anyone get the Atheros card working?
• AlexB says:

  January 12, 2011 at 12:59 pm

  Re: Atheros. Some of the Atheros cards work, but not the one in my N310 which is from the 5700 line. I took it out and replaced it with a Broadcom. Look on InsanlyMac for options. The N310 is a real cinch to take apart for this: all the rubber feet are just adhesive so you just pull them off for access to the screws. They do stick very well if you keep the adhesive from dust when you put them back. If you have the empty HSDPA PCIe slot and don’t plan on turning your wireless off, plug it in that and use the HSDPA antennas cause you’ll get better reception. These antennas are like 3X bigger than the normal wifi ones. And don’t forget to insulate the normal antenna terminals to prevent shorts.
• AlexB says:

  January 14, 2011 at 4:39 am

  NBI 0.8.5pre works for 10.6.6 too. Check over at Insanlymac.
• moo says:

  January 17, 2011 at 2:31 pm

  Thanks a lot AlexB. Pulling those rubber feet off was my biggest worry about changing cards. Loaded the Atheros Legacy kext but no go. I still have no audio even though I loaded the appropriate kext (I think). Also, no wake up on sleep, just a black screen. If you have any more tips for me…
• moo says:

  January 22, 2011 at 1:05 am

  I fixed the audio with the kext from above. I didn’t unload my old applehda.kext… So all I need now is my Dell WiFi card and to fix the wake from sleep issue.
• AlexB says:

  January 31, 2011 at 1:35 am

  In System Preferences, Security, try disabling “Use secure virtual memory” in the General tab. Then disable “Legacy USB” in the Bios, The only other step that may be necessary (haven’t looked at this in a while, so don’t remember exactly, sorry) is doing something in the terminal to either set deep hibernation off, or to use another mode for it; that was from a relevant post on the MyDellMini board. I think that if the machine sleeps and then runs out of power, it will lose the machine state and it’ll restart from scratch. But otherwise, sleep via lid close and power button wake works.
• moo says:

  February 3, 2011 at 2:44 am

  Thanks to the CS guide, mechdrew and AlexB. This is what worked for me.
  1. I used the osx.mechdrew Mini 10v guide for usb & mac for a clean 10.6.3 install.
  2. I used the AppleHDA kext and the sleep fix from above. I did not need the bluetooth kext. I loaded DSDT.aml from above, but it did not correct any issues I was having. It was replaced by NBI when I was cleaning up failed kexts.
  3. Loaded a menu bar widget for a brightness slider. Loaded a dashbar widget for bluetooth on/off. I tried various kext fixes to no avail, but these widgets are cool and work perfect.
  4. I bought a Dell BD 4311 off ebay and used IO80211Family kext. As noted above, do not bother with the Atheros card. I tried and wished I had spent $5 sooner.
  Make sure to get kext helper and osx86tools. As a Win dude, terminal is horrific. I still have a couple of quirks, but no biggies. Closing my lid turns the display off, but it does not sleep until the specified sleep interval. And my webcam only works with iChat. I’ll check back when 10.7 rolls around. Cheers!
• ATZ007 says:

  February 24, 2011 at 1:03 am

  I managed to successfully install 10.6.6 and Windows 7 on my Samsung N310 KA01UK. however i need advice/help with following

  1. “Trackpad” tap and multitask is not working
  2. Unable to turn off and on “Bluetooth”.
  3. When I start the netbook, mac automatically starts however I can choose Windows by pressing any key on the first loading screen and then choosing windows. Previously it use to give me option to choose Win 7 or Mac OS X at the beginning (just after turning netbook on) however this option is gone after an update on mac. How do I get this option back? I have tried playing with EasyBCD but couldn’t get it working.
  Keyboard layout is set to US, how do I change it to UK?

  Thank you
• ATZ007 says:

  February 24, 2011 at 7:19 am

  I managed to get bluetooth working
• AlexB says:

  February 28, 2011 at 5:04 am

  How? My BT works but I can’t turn it off.

  If you’re using Chameleon for booting, you set your boot options in com.apple.boot.plist in the Extra\ folder and change/add the following:

  “Timeout : # “[where # is the number of seconds]
  “Default Partition : hd(D,P)” [where "D" is the disk number (0) and "P" the partition #]
  “Quiet Boot : Yes” [if you want to boot straight into a partition, no delay; use F8 to bypass]

  I don’t know about using EasyBCD; I don’t think you should be using it if you’re using Chameleon. Language subselection is in SysPrefs under Language & Texts > Formats.
• ATZ007 says:

  March 2, 2011 at 11:54 pm

  For Bluetooth on/off, go to http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t215326.html (post by “maclust” Apr 20 2010, 05:52 PM)

  I’m not using Chameleon as EasyBCD is easier to use but must say, Chameleon does look much nicer.
• Juerg says:

  March 13, 2011 at 5:50 am

  Thank you very much for the tutorial. I appreciate your efforts very much.

  Unfortunately the link to the Audio & BT kexts is broken. Where can I find these files?
• rembo10 says:

  March 25, 2011 at 2:00 pm

  I basically got everything working on 10.6.7, except bluetooth on/off.

  Updated from 10.6.3 using combo update from Apple’s website (not Software Update), ran 0.8.5pre, rebooted but kept getting a grey screen. Booted up with -v and got to my desktop just fine. Weird.

  To get sound working on 10.6.7, I used this kext:
  http://www.kexts.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=182

  I deleted the AppleHDA (10.6.3) folder that NBI creates, then I put the above kext in S/L/E then ran Kext Utility 2.4.2, replaced the generated DSDT with the one here, then rebooted. Like I said, the only issue for me now is the bluetooth on/off and having to boot with verbose mode.

  Anyone know why that would happen? I think it might have to do with the wrong graphics driver, because it seems like it’s loading things up even with the grey screen (after the apple logo & spinning wheel). If I hold the power button for a second, then hit enter, the computer will shut down, so it’s almost like SL booted up behind the grey screen.

  If I boot with in verbose mode with -v, it loads up just fine, and shows no kernel panics or anything. Any ideas? Would verbose mode load anything differently, or issue different commands? Trying to figure this out but I’m still learning
• rembo10 says:

  March 26, 2011 at 1:41 pm

  You can use these files for sound & bluetooth in 10.6.6:

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/r4h6yi

  Just put them in Extra/GeneralExtensions and run UpdateExtra and reboot. Should be working after that

  I think sleep is my only issue now – I’m not sure if I should enable HibernateMode 0 or 3. Any ideas? Also, I can’t do the two-finger right click….. Don’t know how to fix that
• ATZ007 says:

  March 31, 2011 at 2:43 am

  Tried DSDT.aml and IOBluetoothFamily.kext on 10.6.7 but Bluetooth on/off option still not on the task bar
• rembo10 says:

  March 31, 2011 at 6:52 am

  Try it on 10.6.6 if you can. I found 10.6.7 to be really buggy for me, but 10.6.6 works great.

  What I did was intall 10.6.3 retail from a usb I made from the retail disc + NetbookBootMaker. Then I think I downloaded the 10.6.6 combo update right away, but before restarting ran the NBI 20100616212351 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/863180/NetbookInstaller%2020100616212351.app.zip)

  Restarted, replaced the DSDT with this one, put the audio & bluetooth kexts in E/GE, ran update extra and restarted. Everything seemed to be working great.

  I also replaced my wireless card to the Dell 1390, and switched out my RAM for Crucial 2GB -> before the RAM upgrade, my AC adapter wasn’t being recognized (showed it was running on battery instead of charging when plugged it), but since doing that the issue has gone away. I think it has something to do with the DSDT

  I’m just trying to figure out now how to get it to sleep when the lid is closed, and be able to adjust brightness with Fn+arrow up/down. I think that’s it though, everything else runs perfectly.

  Let me know if you have trouble with 10.6.6 and I’ll try to help out. I don’t plan on updating to 10.6.7 after my last experience
• rembo10 says:

  April 20, 2011 at 12:31 pm

  Upgraded to 10.6.7 with no problems this time. The key was using NBI 20100616212351.

  1. Installed 10.6.3 via USB using NetbookBootMaker (http://code.google.com/p/netbook-installer/downloads/detail?name=NetbookBootMaker%200.8.4%20RC1.app.zip)

  2. Ran Software Update, updated everything. When prompted to restart, ran NBI 20100616212351 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/863180/NetbookInstaller%2020100616212351.app.zip)

  3. Restart, replace the DST with the one from this site, restart again, just to make sure it works. (http://www.computersolutions.cn/downloads/DSDT.aml.N310 – right click, save file as)

  4. Put the updated kexts (AppleHDA and bluetooth, I’ve uploaded here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9306002/n310%2010.6.7%20kexts.zip) in Extra/GeneralExtensions, run Update Extra & restart. Everything should be working!

  All I did for the bluetooth kext was update the plist in the 10.6.7 kext with the product id for the n310. Also, make sure in bios you have legacy usb disabled, edb enabled and usb s3 wake up enabled.
• rembo10 says:

  April 21, 2011 at 1:58 pm

  Sorry, last thing – make sure to run NBI 20100616212351 after the update (you’ll get the Dell Mini logo for about 10 mins), and then run it again after the restart. Restart again then do the kexts. Otherwise you’ll get a kernel panic.
• andoryuu3 says:

  April 22, 2011 at 6:09 am

  Care to share what the product ID would be? Is it simply n310, or something else?

  Alternatively, could you simply upload the modified bluetooth kext or plist?

  Thanks!
• andoryuu3 says:

  April 22, 2011 at 6:23 am

  Nevermind! I misread your comment– it appears you already have.
• kaj2003 says:

  May 8, 2011 at 11:52 am

  I just went through all the steps listed here, and now I’m stuck with 10.6. I can’t seem to update to any versions of upgrades. It always says that I don’t have a valid volume on which to install. Software update doesn’t even list security updates or OS x updates. I’m kind of stuck here!
  Also, even when I install the bluetooth and audio patches like instructed above, I still can’t control my bluetooth.
  I made all the changes to the BIOS too.
• ckoh88 says:

  May 24, 2011 at 9:22 pm

  Hi Rembo,

  I tried your steps to upgrade 10.6.3 to 10.6.7 but encountered Grey Screen after restart. on step 2 (i.e 2. Ran Software Update, updated everything. When prompted to restart, ran NBI 20100616212351). Could have missed out a step or two.

  Did you install NBI after Software Update, before restarting the machine which install all the components before shutting down and restart? Or perform Software Update, restart then install NBI? Please enlighten. Thanks.
• ekato999 says:

  June 2, 2011 at 6:45 am

  Did you put -v option in boot:?
  I also got same problem but solved by -v option.
• drecha says:

  July 2, 2011 at 11:53 am

  rembo10, can you please update the AppleHDA and Bluetooth kexts to 10.6.8 like you did for 10.6.7 and repost new updated zip.

  Trying to update my N310 to 10.6.8.

  Cheers,

  Dre
• drecha says:

  July 5, 2011 at 3:16 am

  Never mind……I upgraded and replaced the Mach_kernel with legacy_kernel-10.6.8 and all is fine. Everything works including the built in 3G modem……however sleep is a bit buggy. I installed SleepEnabler.kext but it did not help.

  I formatted and installed 10.6 via NBI and then ran the 10.6.8 combo update.

  Dre
• FX175 says:

  July 17, 2011 at 10:47 pm

  @rembo10 – thanks so much for your guide and files! – installed and upgraded to 10.6.7 successfully with everything working (sound,bluetooth off, wifi with Dell 1390, sleep and brightness control via Sys Preference)

  @drecha – did you use the same NBI 20100616212351 and kexts as @rembo10 posted for your update to 10.6.8 ?

  I’m curious about trying to update to 10.6.8 from 10.6.7 – anyone has successfully attempted this? Mind sharing your experiences?

  Thanks all
• Ansele says:

  July 19, 2011 at 1:59 am

  I have a Samsumg Go N315; Will this install for the N310 work on the N315?
• drecha says:

  July 20, 2011 at 10:35 am

  Yes I did and I have everything working on 10.6.8 except the sleep. You must replace the kernel…or you’ll get the panic.

  Cheers.

  Dre
• ALexB says:

  August 6, 2011 at 8:54 pm

  N315 = GMA3150 graphics which isn’t natively supported by OS X. There are hacks, but the performance is far from ideal. Some have looked into this, but what’s required is a complete graphics driver for OS X; and it’s not a trivial task.
• Fabiano Junges says:

  October 25, 2011 at 11:54 am

  Lion on N310, it’s possible?
• Kris says:

  November 6, 2011 at 5:04 pm

  I have the same problem how did you resolve that problem?
• Mike says:

  November 12, 2011 at 5:05 am

  Hi,Would you give step by step how to update to 10.6.8 and how to replace kernel(how to find correct kernel)..I am new to leopard..just wish to know how to avoid kernel panic..?thanks for any info
• mike says:

  November 13, 2011 at 1:14 am

  hi,
  when you changed kernel,you swapped or just installed new one..?
• andoryuu3 says:

  November 17, 2011 at 1:52 am

  Unsure. I’d love to try, but I’m working on getting Lion on an Alienware M11X in my very limited spare time.

  Come January, I can likely give a new attempt at it. Sorry about that being so far out.. But it can’t be helped.

  My n310 Snow Leopard install works fine still (typing from it right now), but for whatever reason the bootloader is messed up, so I’m going to need to reinstall sometime soon anyway.
• Dm says:

  February 7, 2012 at 8:12 pm

  It will be helpful, if you do same with Lion
• rembo10 says:

  March 6, 2012 at 8:47 am

  If you’re still having trouble getting 10.6.8 booting, try this kernel from http://tdev.me/2011/07/mach-kernel-atom-10-8-0-xnu-1504-15-31-mac-os-x-10-6-8/?lang=en

  Here’s a download link:
  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9306002/mach_kernel_atom_10.8.0.zip

  So here’s a step by step, going from a fresh install….
  1. Installed 10.6.3 using NetbookBootMaker
  2. Ran a software update from 10.6.3 -> 10.6.8 (not even the combo update, just a normal software update)
  3. Ran the special NetbookInstaller (link in my post above… its the 201006… version)
  4. Reboot, hold shift key, type “recovery=y”, hit enter
  5. Open up a terminal, type:
  “sudo -s”
  “mv /mach_kernel /mach_kernel_backup”
  “cp /mach_kernel”
  6. Reboot
  7. Ran NetbookInstaller again (the 201006 version again), copied over the dst file into /Extra, then rebooted again (not sure if all these reboots are necessary but I did ‘em anyway)
  8. Copied the kexts from my post above into /Extra/GeneralExtensions, ran the kext updater in extra, rebooted

  All seems to be working well – bluetooth won’t turn off so I’ll work on that and post an update here. Also messing with some newer gma950 kexts – hopefully it’ll get rid of the purplish tint (anyone else notice that??)

  Anyways, this might be a dying thread but hopefully this helps someone.
• joh says:

  June 14, 2012 at 9:51 pm

  certainly not a dying thread. I’ve been following your helps HUGELY!!!

  One addition to the sound for my little hacki:

  Sound didnt work, and I could bring it to work. What helped was to erase the AudioHDA.kext and AppleHDA.kext.10.6.3 in the System/Library/Extensions folder and then use kext utility:

  http://www.osx86.net/view/447-kext_utility_2.4.2_x86-x64_snow_leopard.html

  With that I managed the sound. For some weird reason, I cant get an external screen to work. Any ideas how to fix that one? It had been working some month ago, now the internal screen goes gray and that’s it. The external screen wakes up sp something happens but it immediately says: no signal found.

  Apart from that everything’s working, although I’m using 10.6.7. Bluetooth can’t be switched off, not the end of my days.

  All the best and THANKS again for all your help!!!

  joh
• Bachu says:

  August 14, 2012 at 11:08 pm

  Hi…
  I can´t go through the first step.
  Can someone help me with this?
  I´ve already did the BIOS thing.

  When I try to download the NBI the link is offline. I searched in Internet and found http://code.google.com/p/netbook-installer/downloads/list
  “Download both files, but I don´t understand the following step.
  The original post says:
  Download the latest NetbookInstaller ISO from here – http://osx.mechdrew.com/downloads/
  Burn to CD. Connect your USB drive to the N310, and boot off of the newly burned CD.”

  Well… there´s not an iso any longer, it´s just a zip with an app inside.
  I burned 1 cd to try, but it won´t boot.
  I also tried making an usb and using NetbookBootMaker and 10.6.3 Retail, and it won´t work either.

  PLEASE HELP!
  I really want Snow Leopard to work in my n310.
  Thanks
• chokung says:

  October 1, 2012 at 5:20 am

  The guide works flawlessly on 10.6 installation; All works accept bluetooth won’t turn off; but that is fine by me.

  For 10.6.8 update; Everything accept sleep works; I have edit the com.apple.Boot.plist & DSDT that with enable 10.6.8 sleep & Brightness (reduce by Fn+F12).

  Chk it out at: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2058074/Archive.zip

  Simply replace DSDT&Plist, then update the extensions, u’ll be good to go!!
• troemich says:

  October 12, 2012 at 6:20 am

  The download link to the NetbookInstaller ISO is offline, so here you have a working link for all those who need the iso file.

  http://www.mediafire.com/file/6mafsya38yg87k2/2072-NetbookCD_0.8.3.iso
• JFisher says:

  November 30, 2012 at 7:40 am

  Can anyone tell me the merits of making one of these Samsung N310 into a Hackintosh? How would it compare to others Hackintosh I’ve used? I’ve made ASUS Eee PC 1005, Dell mini 10 and 1012 Netbooks into Hackintoshs. Each had their merits and drawbacks the ASUS being my favorite overall. I hated the trackpad on Dell Mini 10 and the graphics card was limited with the Dell 1012/1018 which caused video playback issues. Just wondering – Thanks
• JFisher says:

  December 3, 2012 at 12:23 pm

  Well I may be alone in “no man’s land” . . . this thread may have died out . . . I won a Samsung N310 on eBay & plan the attempt to make the little guy into a Hackintosh so thanks for all the blog history for me to attempt the project.