Asus K50IN

flip360 · #1 10-12-2009, 11:45 PM

Hello All,

I would like to report that this notebook works with vanilla OS X 10.6.
I have managed to install it through this script http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/pre-i...talling-t4041/ (thanks man) on a GUID partition (the other one is a Windows 7).
Its Working in 32 and 64 bit mode, vanilla kernel, speedstep, Chameleon RC4, and my choice of kexts in the extra folder.
The system is stable with more than 24hours of load time, full 64bit, mind you that i dont have dsdt patch or i cant seem to find it

The only non working part is:
1. The WiFi card which is Atheros AR9285 with no working kexts sofar.
The easiest solution is to buy a WiFi card with a Broadcom 43XX chip which is working as native airport.

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UPDATE: The Extra folder with all the needeed files: http://www.mediafire.com/?2tdimxtmt2z
UPDATE II: Thanks to Buhgalter we now have a BootCD for ASUS K40/50 Notebooks, check this page for future updates: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=210118
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ASUS-K50IN/K40IN BootCD v1.1

Burning ASUS-K50IN-BootCD:
1. Download ASUS-K50IN BootCD.If you downloaded the compressed zip file you will need to decompress or "unzip" it. If necessary, download and install your choice of CD burning program (it needs to be capable of burning ISO files.)
2. Open the ASUS-K50IN-BootCD ISO in the burning application, insert a blank CD or DVD into the drive, and begin the burn process. When it is finished, you can eject the disc or keep it in the DVD drive if it is the same as the one you will be booting from.

Boot the Retail DVD:
When the bootloader ask you for rescan, press ENTER.
Go to boot options (f8), Swap disks, then press F5 to rescan drive. When the name of the DVD appears, press ENTER"

To Install Mac OS X:
1. Eject ASUS-K50IN-BootCD
2. Insert Mac OS X Install DVD
3. Press F5 (or Function+F5)
4. Select Mac OS X Install DVD and Press Enter

Installing Mac OS X:
1. The Apple logo, then a spinning wheel, will appear. (If the spinning wheel does not appear after two minutes, try power cycling the netbook and booting again. Otherwise, check the Troubleshooting guide.)
2. Once loaded, select your language and press Continue. (Press Enter on your keyboard if you can't see the Continue button.)
3. Press Continue on the Welcome screen, then press Agree on the next screen.
4. Go to Menu Bar>Utilities>Disk Utility....
5. Select the icon for the internal drive.
6. Go to the Partition tab. Configure:
- Volume Scheme: 1 Partition
- Name: <Any name without a space in it.>
- Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
- Options...: GUID Partition Table, press OK.
7. Press Apply, then Partition. When it is finished, close Disk Utility.
8. Select your newly-formatted drive as the installation destination.
9. Press the Customize button, deselect any feature(s) you do not need:
- Additional Fonts - These are only needed for specific languages with special characters.
- Language Translations - These are to translate the OS into different languages.
- Printer Support - Usually you can find an updated driver for your printer on the Internet, but this can be helpful if you use multiple printers besides your own.
- X11 - You need this if you are going to use GIMP or CrossOver.
- Rosetta - Rosetta allows you to run applications that were only designed to work on PowerPC-baed Macs (pre-10.4), it's small so it won't hurt to install just in case.
- QuickTime 7 - Useful if you need to watch QuickTime movies that are encoded in older formats.
10. Press OK, then press Install. Installation can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours depending on the condition of the DVD disc, speed of the DVD drive and the amount of items you selected.
11. Installation will probably get to the end and report that it has failed (although sometimes it says it is successful, your results may vary.) Again, this is normal, just press Restart.

Thanks to all the osx86 community, keep up the good work!

Imkantus · #2 10-17-2009, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flip360

(thanks man) on a GUID partition (the other one is a Windows 7).

So Windows 7 supports beeing installed to GUID schema? (Sorry I just wonder about this, but might be so - I am not that much into using Windows.

)

Quote:

Originally Posted by flip360

1. the audio which is working through VoodooHDA but the Bass sounds are useless and there is also a lot of noise, and

I just found this, when reading through the recent topics... - Hope it helps you.

http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/solve...ehda-to-t3927/

flip360 · #3 10-17-2009, 11:35 PM

Hello Imkantus,

As i found out myself too, Windows 7 supports beeing installed to GUID ( i have the 64bit version)

)
I have tried that link that you sent but to no avail, i have built in audio in device profiler but i have grey sound icon on the taskbar and no audio

The voodooHDA kext i have now recognizes the sound as ALC662 Nvidia MCP79 but still noise and scratches. It seems the kext from the link doesnt have the same outputs mapped as i have

I have a friend that has the same laptop and he sent me working 10.5 kext that i have no knowledge of translating them to snow leo or 64 bit for that matter. I have searched my dsdt for entering the Hdef Patch but i have no AZAL device or anything simmilar, so...F1

cheers

thorazine74 · #4 10-18-2009, 04:05 PM

You would need to get a codec dump from your audio hardware to fix the outputs mapped to the wrong ports. Also you could try using this modded version of VoodooHDA by Slice that lets you remap the ports too, it could be easier than patching AppleHDA from scratch.
Also I'm curious too, I was assuming Windows 7 didnt support installing to a GPT partition even in 64 bits variants, what method did you use?

flip360 · #5 10-19-2009, 12:01 PM

thanks man will try that kext out and try to map my ports also

Anyway i first formatted my drive with a GUID partition table, two partitions actually on single HDD, one is hfs the other one was FAT32 from within Disk Utility, installed OSX and than Win7 64bit recognized the fat32 partition. I was amazed too when i saw that it works

)

cheers

shawn0694 · #6 10-25-2009, 04:54 AM

I have the same model and components as you and I have been able to get IPC 10.5.6 working but no luck on the graphics card and when I install SL it errors half way through the install and then will not reboot with out kernel panic. any help will be appreciated thanks

flip360 · #7 10-25-2009, 08:03 PM

http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/pre-i...talling-t4041/

first off use this and generate an usb install and then just follow the marks within the script. Afterwards you will need the kexts that i wrote in the first post about and copy them to E/E on the Snow Leo Partition. If you cannot find them let me know and i will upload them somewhere. I used the golden master image of Snow Leo and the script and it turned out to be ok after days of trial and error

But it works very well as i have tried every other distro available out there, vanilla works best

flip360 · #8 11-10-2009, 04:17 PM

UPDATE: Atheros WiFi is recognized with the new kext from 10.6.2, you just have to add device id

i just cant seem to connect to any networks and although is shown in system preferences and profile ifconfig gives me this:

en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULT ICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:24:23:0a:05:fe
media: autoselect (<unknown type>) status: inactive
supported media: autoselect

and profile gives me this:

en1:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x1089)
Firmware Version: Atheros 9285: 2.1.8.10
Locale: Unknown
Country Code:
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 b/g/n
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Wake On Wireless: Supported
Status: Not Associated

if anyone knows any solution please help

cheers

flip360 · #9 11-12-2009, 06:30 PM

UPDATE: I gave up and installed the Dell 1490 miniPCI (which is very easy to do on my laptop) and BAM working airport OOTB

) Thanks imkantus for the choice

The atheros card was recognized but it did not scan for networks or finding any for that matter, so it had to go.

Cheers

RGGG · #10 11-13-2009, 02:09 PM

Heya,

I just picked up this laptop myself. I've swapped out the wifi, and am planning on loading up snow leopard this weekend. Could you be kind enough to posts the kext's that you used for your installation.

Also have you tried this kext for your realtek card? I've read around and it seems to be working pretty well. Replace your dsdt.dsl in /Extra with the one in the zip file and put the ALC662.kext in /Extra/Extensions. Rebuild the Extensions.mkext in /Extra (if your using Chameleon 2).

Cheers

Ryan

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