RehabMan
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- Motherboard
- Intel DH67BL
- CPU
- i7-2600K
- Graphics
- HD 3000
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
The only way would be to hack the entire laptop (eg. install hackintosh bootloader, fully configure it, etc.)... not a bad option really but a bit of a task. A bit easier task than a real hackintosh, since all your devices/native DSDT are supported and doing the right thing (what Apple expects). In that case, you'd be able to patch DSDT with RMNE device and have NullEthernet attach to the fake device.
If it is something you want to play around with, I was able to hack my real Apple MacBookAir6,2 in about 5 minutes.
I simply created a USB stick with Clover and created an appropriate config.plist for it (you need almost no options to make it boot). To my surprise my MacBookAir6,2 will show an option "EFI Boot" for the FAT32 volume containing the Clover bootloader. And further to my surprise, I was able to boot the installed system with no hacks at all. When I created the smbios for Clover, I used the same serial# as the machine had, but I changed the first two digits to 'G8' (indicating "Made in the US"!), as I didn't want something funny to happen with the official serial# (going from memory here... 'C0' indicating China?).
Of course, booting via Clover I would have been free to patch DSDT, including using something like NullEthernet.kext...