Lenovo W510 - Installation - El Capitan

[RehabMan]

What is the Best Way to install El Capitan on a Lenovo (w510)
Right now im running El Capitan bit getting allots of kernel panic, reboot loop at start up.
missing: shutdown, wifi, Sound, Bluetooth, battery indicator, and some other small issues.

Follow the Clover guide linked from the FAQ.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...faq-read-first-laptop-frequent-questions.html

You will need to do some research on the Nvidia and what is required to enable it (maybe Nvidia web drivers).

 

[RehabMan]

Its almost a book... Not a guide .

I have readed, but im not getting closer, the problem Came when going from Unibeast 6.0.1 to 6.1.1
newer had the problem befor ..

The guide does not use Unibeast.

 

[RehabMan]

Hmm yes your right.

but thats i all to difficul a Way to do it.

I Will find the old Unibeast instead...

The "old" Unibeast does not support 10.11 (Chimera/Chameleon problem).

Good luck...

 

[sneitzel]

I have the same laptop and got some of those things to work but I used Clover not Unibeast.

I gave up working on it because there is a big problem with this laptop.
The USB3 controller is NEC/Renasas and is not supported in El Capitan.
That is a deal breaker for me since it leaves the laptop with only one USB port (the single port on the back of the laptop).

 

[sneitzel]

But, to address some of your issues:

An appropriately patched DSDT file specific for your model W510 will solve many instabilities.

WFIF/BT - I have a patched BIOS that removes the whitelist restriction, so I have installed a WIFI/BT combo card that is natively supported

Sound - I used a patched version of the AppleHDA kext with the proper deviceID

Battery - Use Rehabman's battery fixes along with the associated DSDT patches

Shutdown - I fought with that in Mavericks and finally got it working, I am still fighting with it in Yosemite, I never got to it in ElCapitan because of the USB3 issue notes in the post above.

 

[RehabMan]

I have the same laptop and got some of those things to work but I used Clover not Unibeast.

I gave up working on it because there is a big problem with this laptop.
The USB3 controller is NEC/Renasas and is not supported in El Capitan.
That is a deal breaker for me since it leaves the laptop with only one USB port (the single port on the back of the laptop).

With NEC/Renesas, OS X versions prior to 10.11 are a better choice.

 

[sneitzel]

You will need to do some research on the Nvidia and what is required to enable it (maybe Nvidia web drivers).

For me, I simply had boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes initially then made sure that was added as a permanent boot flag. After the install, I did download and use the NVIDIA web driver package.

 

[sneitzel]

With NEC/Renesas, OS X versions prior to 10.11 are a better choice.

I 100% agree!
Unless someone comes up with a magic fix...

 

[RehabMan]

For me, I simply had boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes initially then made sure that was added as a permanent boot flag. After the install, I did download and use the NVIDIA web driver package.

GraphicsEnabler=Yes is for Chameleon/Chimera. Would need to be something different for 10.11 and Clover.

 

[sneitzel]

I remember creating the USB Boot drive with Unibeast, selecting legacy and NVIDIA options, then on initial boot I got a black screen after the initial grey Apple screen. I added GraphicsEnabler=Yes at boot and it worked.