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I installed Mac OS X on my MSI Wind today and its running perfectly! The installation went very smooth and everything is working fine including the wifi, webcam, bluetooth, ethernet port and sound. I really didn’t think OS X would run so well on the Wind, I love it! I am actually so happy with the Wind now I am going to be selling my Asus Eee 900. I tried installing OS X on it today also but it was running really slow so I just went ahead and installed the dreadful Windows XP. Its running much better but I prefer OS X over XP any day so thats why I am going to be sell it. I will be losing money on it since the price of it has dropped since I got it but since I got the MSI Wind for free I don’t mind. The thing is I really don’t have the need for two ultra portables in my life and the fact that the Wind is running OS X means I will always choose it over my Asus.
If anyone is interested in installing OS X on the Wind all you need to get it working right is a Dell wifi card. I purchased the Dell 1490 from eBay for $15 with shipping.
Update: My Asus Eee 900 is now listed for sale in the forum [Link]
- DISC CAN BE FOUND ON TPB!! 'MSIWindosx86' So the custom installer disc is finally here. This is the first release for the disc and consider it a beta as we wanted to get some feedback from the community. This is currently the easiest option to install Mac OS X Leopard on the MSI Wind notebook.
- This was written while installing both Mac OS X 10.5.6 and Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.10 in an MSI Wind U100, model MS-N011. Just notes to remember how it was done, just in case it needs to be done again. Quick links to the drivers.
- The drivers for the WIFI card are already on the MSI Wind cds and there are plenty of drivers on the net from RaLink or RealTek that get the WIFI card working in all three major operating systems: Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows XP.
This is not a how-to guide, tutorial or walk-through, I just list the kexts and settings needed to get Snow Leopard 10.6.0 or 10.6.1 up and running on an MSI Wind U100 netbook. Even though I haven’t personally tested it, the kexts should also work in the Wind U100 plus model. Up to OS X 10.6.1 the Atom 270/280 CPUs are natively supported by the Darwin kernel a.k.a. the vanilla kernel. There are rumors that this may change in a later release of OS X. In fact, Apple already seeded an OS X 10.6.2 developer version with Atom support disabled.
Added 11/10/09: Do NOT update to 10.6.2 as Apple deliberately disabled Atom CPU support and your MSI Wind netbook will go into a reboot loop or simply crash! You’ll need a modified kernel to run 10.6.2 or higher on an Atom CPU! If you’re fluent with Terminal, you might as well install the 10.6.2 update and reinstall the old kernel, see this post for more information. I tried it and it works fantastic!
I suggest you use one of the USB based installation guides to start off with.
Msi Device Driver
BIOS settings
It may not be neccessary but make sure you enable AHCI disk support in the BIOS (see advanced tab).
Kernel Extensions
To run 10.6.1 on the Wind properly there’s quite a number of kexts involved. This is the list of kernel extensions needed:
AHCIPortInjector.kext
AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext
AppleIntelGMA950.kext
AppleIntelGMA950GA.plugin
AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver.bundle
AppleIntelGMA950VADriver.bundle
AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext
fakesmc.kext
IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
RealtekR1000.kext
SleepEnabler.kext
VoodooBattery.kext
VoodooHDA.kext
VoodooPS2Controller.kext
VoodooPowerMini.kext
Download kext archive here.
If you’re using a USB based installation guide, make sure you put all those kexts in your Chameleon RC3 (or newer) /Extra/Extensions (E/E) folder on your USB stick, even though not all of them may get loaded at that point. You probably will need a USB mouse and keyboard to complete the OS X installation.
Post installation tweaks
Once Snow Leopard installation is completed and you installed Chameleon RC3 on your Wind’s internal drive make sure to load the grey kexts (see screenshot, click to enlarge) from /S/L/E. I’m always using Kext Helper b7 to do this but OSX86Tools works as well. Keep the kexts marked red in the /E/E folder on the Wind but remove the grey kexts from /E/E because you just installed them to your /S/L/E folder.
You may have to re-apply all the AppleIntel* kexts after an OS X update if your screen resolution falls back to 800×600 mode.
The following files have to be copied to the /Extra folder on your USB installation stick and to your Wind’s internal hard drive:
com.apple.Boot.plist for MSI Wind U100
SMBios.plist
DSDT.aml – this DSDT needs BIOS revision 1.0E Wind U100 and may not work with earlier/later BIOS revisions or different Wind models! DSDT is patched to fire an event if the lid is closed (important for sleep).
Download the files here.
Wi-Fi/WLAN
If you’re still using the original wireless card Realtek RTL8187S that came with the Wind, you’ll need Realtek’s wireless drivers for OS X too. To auto-close the Realtek WLAN Client Utility you may use the included AutoCloseRealTek Automator script. To load it at startup you have to mark it to open at login. It will then automatically close the WLAN Utility after 20 seconds which is usually enough to connect to your pre-configured Wi-Fi access point.
Download WLAN archive here.
For the record:
- I’m only using 32-bit kernel mode (-legacy flag in com.apple.Boot.plist)
- Internal camera works very well using Photo Booth (you may have to press Fn-Camera to activate it)
- Sleep works when closing the lid or pressing the power button or after a specified inactivity timeout
- Display is running in native 1024×600 mode
- QE/CI is working for the GMA950 GPU (Test: Start FrontRow. If the screen stays black, QE/CI is not working)
- Bluetooth is working (you may have to press Fn-Satellite-Dish to activate it)
- Wireless is working (you may have to press Fn-Satellite-Dish to activate it)
- Internal memory card reader works
- Internal speaker works and volume/mute can be controlled with the Fn-Keys
- Internal mic is not working
- CPU energy management (a.k.a. SpeedStep) is working thanks to SuperHai’s VoodooPowerMini.kext (verified using x-CPU.app by netkas). Make sure it’s enabled in the BIOS as well!
- Sound and SpeedStep still work after waking from sleep
- Boot time is about 35 seconds, waking from sleep is instant
I haven’t tested the external VGA port and the external sound connectors. Even though sound works using VoodooHDA I personally don’t like it and I’m still looking for another way to get sound working.
Once everything is running smoothly, you may want to add these lines to your /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist on your internal drive:
This will speed up booting and you’ll also get the nicer logo, IMHO.
Please refer to the appropriate forums for detailed installation support.
