Thx so much.
Have good time in sweden
PS : I noticed your suggestion for the wifi card but looks like the extreme last choice for me (I already know I will have to go with this). Was just hoping if the orangeware drivers were usefull.

PS2 : Don't touch your eee ... If mine was working, I won't

Regards

Originally Posted by ibricking.com

Your guide is useful, but some steps assume a certain knowledge

I am aware of that. I keep adding little tidbits mostly as a way to add notes to myself. The page is far from being a comprehensive guide.

The biggest problem I still see with all this is that there is no way to install it without access to a Mac. E.g, Chameleon comes as an installer that only runs on OS X! I eventually like to provide a tool that runs on Windows and prepares most of it automatically. But for now, I am still investigating optimal components for a minimal setup, etc.

I'd settle for OSX living on a SDHC 16gb memory card which I could presumably boot off by choosing in the BIOS (or pressing esc) when I wanted to use OSX. Then have Win Vista/7 as the single OS on the hard drive.

That's certainly possible. I have a 8 GB SSD card in the slot on the right which contains Chameleon and OS X, which I can boot from by pressing Esc at start of the Eee PC.

This makes a few things a little easier: You can format the disk as GPT, avoiding patching the Installer.

I have access to a friends genuine macbook so could presumably boot off a retail DVD and install to the 16gb memory card?

OK, that would be the easiest of all: Install OS X onto the memory card, using the MacBook, formatting the card as GTP first. Then boot off that card (still with the MacBook) and run the Chameleon installer. Now you have it bootable and it contains an Extra folder in the root of the card.
Now add some more essential extensions to the Extra folder's Extensions folder, such as "AppleDecrypt" and probably "IntelCPUPMDisabler". With that, the system should be bootable on your Asus. Kbd and Trackpad may not work yet, though (add the VoodooPS2 stuff or similar fixes for that, all from the MacBook).

To be on the safe side, you could do this with your 16GB: Partition in into two same-sized partitions. Once you have installed OS X onto one and made sure you can boot it on your Asus, use something like Carbon Copy Cloner to make a full copy to the other partition.
From then on, you can play with one partition, e.g. adding/changing extensions, while still having a backup partition which you can boot from as long as you don't change it.

Originally Posted by ibricking.com

However, I get the message "remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart."

I have no idea where that comes from. Is the stick still formatted as FAT? Maybe the boot loader can not handle that - try reformatting it as HFS+

for now i also claim to have a decent running osx 10.5.7 on my 1008ha.

would it help somebody when i upload the extra folder (with the kexts and the dsdt) i used to install osx 10.5 off my external drive, the kexts i installed after the 10.5.7 combo update and my final current extra folder?

what works:
- graphics at 1024x600, quartz extreme, core image
- sound with input/output - no choppy stuttering when on battery
(correction: i just used the dsdt patcher gui and now the sound is choppy again on battery, but not with cpu load)
- bluetooth
- wifi (with the dw 1510)
- sleep (more about that at what not works)
- proper shutdown and reststart

what works not / not properly:
- no two finger scrolling / side scrolling
- after update to 10.5.7 theres no mouse in the mouse and keyboard pref pane
- no sleep when closing the screen - eee stays on
- fan seems to run all the time at low speed
- disk util says many permissions differ, don't know if this is a problem or how to fix it

if i missed something feel free to ask.

can you tell me what to do for proper sleep and shut down?

Originally Posted by The Spirit

can you tell me what to do for proper sleep and shut down?

i simply don't know. i have a clean vanilla installation like quiteannoyed and i used superhai's voodoopower.kext. i still use some old dsdt which was originally designed for the 1000he or such.

I am almost ready to provide a complete guide to install a basic OS X on the Eee.

However, it would require access to a Mac so that things like Chameleon can be pre-installed onto a USB stick or similar.

Without a Mac, I have no idea how to go about it, since one needs Chameleon installed to be able to boot a OS X DVD, as far as I know.

I wonder what people do when they have no Mac. Hmm ... I guess that's where you'll need a patched Installer such as iDeneb then? Because these have a boot loader on the disk already.

How about this:

If I tell you how to start off with help of a Mac, in order to create a boot-stick that can then start a vanilla OS X Installer, then any of you with a Mac could create a small disk image that others without a Mac could write onto a USB stick. It's just that I personally won't do this, because I won't re-distribute extensions that are not made or copyrighted by me, out of principle.

i found a way to get the backlight of the screen on after sleep. usually when you put your 1008ha to sleep and wake it up again you have to press fn + f6 to get the screen back on. now i found a solution at EEE Boot

this fix requires chud from the apple developer site. sing up as a developer for free. then go to "downloads", "developer tools" and look for the latest chud.

you also need the latest "eeeboot": http://www.pd.net/eeeboot/EEEboot.1.11.iso.zip.

the guide says that it will also fix ethernet. since this is meant for other eees with different hardware it wont fix it. tough the backlight thing works. at least for me.

Fix the Brightness controls for wakeup and Ethernet.

This does a double wammy. It fixes the brightness controls and it fixes the on board Ethernet. Cool huh? If you are interested these two have been grouped together because they both use sleepwatcher.

Shut down your computer, reboot and press F2 to get to the bios. Turn on the Internal Lan option (we told you to turn that off when you installed os x, it was important to turn it off, or os x can hang during the install trying to connect to the not then working port). Reboot then continue

This fix requires Chud, but you have already installed it for the audio fix. If not, install it now.
I have

At this point, if your computer goes to sleep, you can wake it up, but the monitor does not come on after it wakes up until you press the fn button plus f4. (fn+f4).

The first thing you need to do is to install sleep watcher.
Go to EEE-Utilites>Fixes>Diming Control Wakeup

Mount Sleepwatcher. Install both Sleepwatcher.pkg and Sleepwatcher StartupItem.pkg

Click on Set Up Wake
It will ask you for your password.
This script does a bunch. (make sure you've installed sleep watcher first).
First it figures out what the device number of the display currently is. I say currently because if you turn things off and on in your bios this number will change. (wifi, bluetooth, etc). More on this later. It then creates two new executables in your /etc directory. rc.DIMsleep and rc.DIMwake, and then it modifies the rc.wake and rc.sleep that sleep watcher uses to call these two scripts. DON"T INSTALL THIS MORE THAN ONCE. It's a dumb script and will let you install this as many times as you click it. If you do install it more than once it'll slow down your wakeup (it won't do much more than that). It's effecting /etc/rc.wakeup and /etc/rc.sleep so if you need to poke around, look there.

You should now be done. The screen should go back on when the computer wakes.

If you ever change things and your display controller number changes, run "Fix Dim if things have changed". This is the same code as "Set Up Wake", except it does not effect the rc.wake and rc.sleep files. You only need to fix these two files once.

Now a little fix that I messed up for this install script.
(Sorry about this, I'll get it working via the scripts in the next update)

The dim controls file where it stores your last brightness level is not there.

Open terminal
sudo touch /etc/last_brightness
sudo chmod a+w /etc/last_brightness

Close terminal ... Done for this bit.

maybe someone can help me with this particular problem: always running fan.
my complete cooled down eee start it's fan after 5 minutes after startup. no cpu load, just doing nothing. hat somebody experienced something similar? i believe that before switching the wifi card the fan ran significantly less often.

I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks and probably not be around on this forum. After my return, I hope to finish my guide on my own site. It's pretty complicated (with the goal to make the installation possible for someone without a Mac at hand, and with preserving the Windows installation on the Asus)

Any luck with integrated webcam ? it works well (and far better than my macbookpro webcam) with photobooth but not in ichat or google talk video browser plugin, black screen.. thanks.