Before we begin I want to tell that you are doing this at your own risk and this will be voiding the warranty of your netbook.

Here are a list of compatible cards I have seen mentioned online but I have only tested and verified the Dell 1510.

• Dell 1510 Tested and working with 10.5.8
• Dell Wireless-N DW 1500 mini PCI
• Any Broadcom mini PCI
• If you know of more comment or email me and I’ll update.

Steps for card installation

Ground yourself so you don’t short anything internally

Flip the machine over and remove the battery

Remove the ram cover, ram, and the silver screw.

Remove the 4 screws in each corner

Flip the machine back over and open the lip.

Time to remove the keyboard

The keyboard is held in place by 4 tabs the top directly above the F1, F6, F10, and Insert.

With a flat head screwdriver or something else very thin click each tab and the keyboard will popout slightly.

Once popped out slowly pull it out from top corn to top corner. (Warning there is a ribbon connecting the keyboard to the track pad so don’t just rip it out like a gorilla.)

Once the keyboard is loose lift it up from the bottom to expose the ribbon connector. If you haven’t worked with ribbon connections before don’t worry it ain’t no thing. It was my first time to and after about 30 secs I had it under control.

To release the ribbon you will see 2 black connectors on the left and right side. Carefully push them out towards the monitor.

The ribbon should immediately release.

Cool keyboard is out now time for the fun part.

Remove the 6 screws that are holding the shell and trackpad.

Once all 6 have been removed flip the trackpad, blue ribbon connector up. (Note this ribbon connection is different then the keyboard connector. It needs to be flipped up).

Once screws and ribbon have been removed and released start prying thing case off. This is a major pain in the ass and you have to be a gentle giant not to just hulk the top off and break the plastic clips. I would recommend using a credit card and run it around the entire crease to help loosen things up. You will also have to focus on the tabs that are under display. There are 4 in total and harder then the rest of the tabs to loosen up.

Once the top is off you will see all the internal components of the machine. I celebrated with a beer at this point.

To access the wifi card you will need to release the ribbon for the SD card reader which is another flip up like the trackpad.

Once the cable is out of the way simple unscrew the wifi card and it should become very loose and easy to pull out of the board. Gently tug the antenna off the wifi card. Removal complete.

Get your OSX 10.5 compatible card, connect the antenna to it and insert it back in the board. Once the card and antenna are secure and screwed in reconnect the SD card ribbon.

Rebuilding

• Re-secure the case and make sure you have enough slack to connect the trackpad ribbon.
• Flip the ribbon connector down making sure the ribbon is fully connected.
• Fasten the keyboard ribbon back in and drop it back into the case starting with the bottom.
• Flip the case back over and install the remaining screws, ram, and battery.

Wifi Card Installed Time to See if It’s Working!

I fumbled a few times at this stage and missed something very basic that sent me into a kext loop that wasn’t needed.

While booting the machine go into the Ausu bios and make sure that WLAN is enabled. My wasn’t and I thought the 10.5.8 upgrade had broken the ability for the card to connect to a network.

I booted in Chameleon with -v -f and noticed a few lines of code showing the airport id and that the card was enabled. I think they are displayed right before all the voodoo.kext files load.

Another good sign that the card is working will be the blue wifi light always active on the bottom right of the machine.

OSX should immediately recognize the card. My system acted a little funky until I did a restart. Menus were bouncing around and keyboard and trackpad weren’t working. I also doubled checked that my ribbons were securely fastened.

After restarting everything was back the system was back to normally and I was connected to my router.

Possible Things to Trouble Shoot

Many people have had wifi issues after upgrading to 10.5.8. Apparently Apple stopped supporting certain cards. Here is a kext from 10.5.7 that should enable the support of your card if it was working in 10.5.7.

Good luck with the card swap.

Here are the steps to install 10.5.8 OSX iDeneb on an Asus 1005HA. This installation requires you to have another OSX machine and either a USB key 10gigs + (recommend 16gig) or an external DVD drive.

Pre-installaton Downloads

• iDeneb (for my installation I used 1.4 10.5.6 OSX). Recommend grabbing the latest here.(you must register to download from the site)
• ACPIFix.pkg to get around an error that freezes the loading of OSX. Get it here.
• iDeneb upgrades.
• Kext files needed to get resolution and Quartz Extreme working, audio, battery, sleep and more working. Click here.
• GernericCPUManagement app.
• Kext Helper. This is built into iDeneb in the customize package.
• Chameleon 2, should be in in the latest build of iDeneb or grab it here.
• Spark, so you can have volume control + many more features. Grab it here.

If you need help creating a bootable USB drive click here.

Install iDeneb 1.4 on your machine

(The below will assume you are booting from a USB drive)

1. Boot to your USB drive by hitting ESC when bios loading screen comes up.
2. Select you USB drive from the list.
3. iDeneb should load Chameleon as this point.
4. Once the install wizard comes up follow the steps that you would for any normal installation.
5. Make sure you formatted the drive on the 1005ha. By default mine came in 4 separate partitions which I erased and reformatted into a single OSX (journaled).
6. In the customize setting of the install select the following: ICHx Fixed, FireWire Remove, Video/Intel and check GMA950, Applications KextHelper, found in Applications/iDeneb/Kexthelp.app.

After 10.5.6 iDeneb has been installed

• After install hit esc and boot to the USB drive.
• Once Chameleon loads hit F8 then type the following: “rd=disk0s1 -v -f” and hit return.
• It will take a couple minutes but you should see OSX wizard for setting up your admin user account.
• After filling out the wizard install the ACPIFix.pkg.
• Once the package is installed restart the machine.
• Do not hit esc this time and allow the internal HD to boot.
• Once Chameleon loads hit “F8″ then type “-v -f”.
• If all goes well at this point 10.5.6 should load with 800×600 screen res, which we will fix later.

Update 10.5.7 with iDeneb pkg

• Install the 10.5.7 upgrade from the pkg download.
• Restart once the upgraded has been installed.

Update 10.5.8 with iDeneb pkg

• Install the 10.5.8 upgrade from the pkg download.
• Restart once the upgraded has been installed.

Installing the Kext for Audio, Display, Etc

• Once 10.5.8 is successfully loaded install the kext files and packages list at the top of this post. Note all kext files must be installed using the Kext helper app or a smilar method, terminal command, or OSX86 Tools.
• Recommend installing a few at a time and then restarting to determine where an issue could be happening if anything strange happens.
• Install the GenericCPUPMControl.app and have it start at login and keep hidden (these setting are in login options). Also note that voodooPower.kext is required for this to work properly.

Finishing touches

• Get Spark.aap, it’s an app to get shortcut keys working, like for volume function keys Spark.app.
• Install about this mac. Download.
• Webcam is working. If you are having issues I recommend reinstalling some of the display kext since Quartz Extreme needs to be running.

Features I haven’t tested

Mic. Not sure if the mic is working or not.

Once wifi is up and running I will update this section and post Skype configuration. The wifi card, Atheros AR9285 that comes with the 1005ha isn’t supported yet. From what I’ve read it might possibly be supported in 10.6 Snow Leopard. I’m still waiting on my card to get here from Hong Kong and plan on doing a followup post on how to take the 1005ha apart and replace the existing wifi card with a supported card. A separate post will be on this subject in 10-15 business days.

Gesture support. I’m assuming that this will be supported by a kext at somepoint since its supported in windows.

Please post any issues with your install below and I will do my best to answer.

Special thanks the irc.mac.speak.net OSX86 chat room for everyone’s help and input.

For those of you have an old computer laying around the house here is a great way to put it back in use in ways that will forever simplify your life.

I have done this at the last few places I lived but never created a post of this before.

My first system I had setup was an old dell running xp with an 40gig drive minimal ram and stock gfx card. The second machine featured in the picture above is the new system I’m setting up today. Mac G4 45oMHz 800mb ram with all stock components.

Apps that you will need:

• VNC application, ChickoftheVNC to remote control your tv with your laptop… which like most of us is always in your lap while watching tv.
• VNC iphone remote application, Mocha Touch.
• VLC media player and iphone remote app
• Boxee if you have a new enough system to support it. Unfortunatly I’m running a g4 and can get some of the newer sexier apps.
• Hulu app. Again if your machine will support it.
• Handbrake to backup your DVD collection and store it in the basement.
• Silverlight…. I know, but its needed if you want to watch your Netflix movies.

Components you made need to setup the system (Note this depends on what ports you have on your computer and what you have on your TV)

So this is just a list of common ones

• 3.5mm cable with dual headphone inputs.
• VGA Cable (Supported by most newer TV’s)
• HDMI Cable if you got the hottest new gear
• Computer speakers if you missing the 3.5mm port on the back of you TV (This is the least ideal setup)
• largest HD you can cram into you machine. Why not hold all the media you can possible fit!

That should be a good start for you home media pc. Post a comment if you have a questions for recomendations. Enjoy.