- Joined
- Jun 15, 2015
- Messages
- 217
- Motherboard
- P5WE0
- CPU
- i5-2450M
- Graphics
- HD 3000
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hi everyone.
After banging my head against the wall I come humbly asking for help.
I realize that this is not a good laptop for a hack. However, I got the thing for around 500USD so...yeah...
What works:
1. Backlight
2. Trackpad (including gestures which I am then able to add more via BetterTouchTool. Like real Mac hardware!)
3. USB ports
4. Sound (Apple ALC)
5. mDP out
6. iMessage and iCloud (Use Nullethernet kext provided by Rehabman)
7. Acceleration
8. hiDPI display
What doesn't work:
1. Wifi Card: soldered :/
2. ALS - Ambient light sensor
3. Camera-i2c
4. Touchscreen
These 4 things while not working are very low priority and are even unlikely to be ever fixed:
Help specifically needed:
1. Keyboard...I have no idea how to get this up and running. I am assuming its a i2c but no luck. I've tried both with and without the voodoops2controller.kext in a last ditch attempt to see if the laptop keyboard was somehow connected via ps2. No luck.
2. Battery: I cannot find 'Embeddedcontrol' in the DSDT. Using just the acpibattery.kext loads the battery in a failure state stuck at 100% First time I have encountered EmbeddedControl missing from the DSDT
I am attaching PR files in the hope someone can give me some advice. If the laptop keyboard is unserviceable I may just wipe the macOS partition. I will post a detailed guide if and when the keyboard issue is solved. Thanks
After banging my head against the wall I come humbly asking for help.
I realize that this is not a good laptop for a hack. However, I got the thing for around 500USD so...yeah...
What works:
1. Backlight
2. Trackpad (including gestures which I am then able to add more via BetterTouchTool. Like real Mac hardware!)
3. USB port
4. Sound (Apple ALC)
5. mDP out
6. iMessage and iCloud (Use Nullethernet kext provided by Rehabman)
7. Acceleration
8. hiDPI display
What doesn't work:
1. Wifi Card: soldered :/
2. ALS - Ambient light sensor
3. Camera-i2c
4. Touchscreen
These 4 things while not working are very low priority and are even unlikely to be ever fixed:
Help specifically needed:
1. Keyboard...I have no idea how to get this up and running. I am assuming its a i2c but no luck. I've tried both with and without the voodoops2controller.kext in a last ditch attempt to see if the laptop keyboard was somehow connected via ps2. No luck.
2. Battery: I cannot find 'Embeddedcontrol' in the DSDT. Using just the acpibattery.kext loads the battery in a failure state stuck at 100% First time I have encountered EmbeddedControl missing from the DSDT
I am attaching PR files in the hope someone can give me some advice. If the laptop keyboard is unserviceable I may just wipe the macOS partition. I will post a detailed guide if and when the keyboard issue is solved. Thanks
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