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 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. 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. 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 to do this but 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. 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. For the record:.
Msi U100 Netbook
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: GUI No Timeout 2 Legacy Logo Yes This will speed up booting and you’ll also get the nicer logo, IMHO.
Msi Wind U100 Drivers
Please refer to the appropriate forums for detailed installation support. Hi – great job, installation went smoothly, unfortunately there`s one BIG problem: Network don`t work, no WLAN, no internal LAN, no Apple USB to Ethernet adapter, nothing. The main problem seems to be that I can`t access Network Settings in System Preferences. Whenever I click on the icon, it says “Loading Network” but nothing happens, the systems runs slower but you can do everything, to stop the process or even try to restart or shut down you have to kill the beast! Anybody got any idea?? By the way, it`s a U100X in original configuration with BIOS EN011IMS Ver.10A. Hi LIC, The NullCPUPowerManagement disables (nulls) the Mac OS CPU speedstep kext as it is not compatible with the Atom CPU.
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That’s why I use the VoodooPowerMini kext to re-add speedstep support. I have no idea what the bundles do. Sometimes I have to install the GMA950 kexts/bundles twice and reboot in between to get the native resolution back (after installing a Mac OS update). It’s kinda weird but it works. The AHCI kexts are related to the I/O controller hub and add support for several ICHs and make sure internal drive icons don’t show up as external drive icons.