Compaq Mini 110 - part 3

So far the little netbook has been ambling along nicely, improving with every little step of risks that I take in tinkering with it,

• Sleep is now functioning. The satisfaction of closing the lid and have the thing shut down properly is ...unsettling.


• Ethernet and WLAN are still not working. So far the theories out there have stretched from hardware oddness and particular distributions of OS X being flawed in one way or another. I've resorted to using a USB dongle in the meantime, so nyeh to that.

It served me well during my stay in Helsinki, so I guess that my initial irritations concerning the little tike are becoming invalid.

Compaq Mini 110 woes

Gah! Apparently ethernet is going to be a problem.

In short, the ethernet chipset is not (yet?) supported while the wireless chipset's stellar support is being marred by the fact that the former isn't working. That's a problem to say the least.

There's a free mini pci slot somewhere in that thing, so I suppose adding a card and rewiring the antenna is one thing to consider. However, the mini is notorious for blacklisting "unsupported" cards. Gah...

Compaq Mini 110, meet OS X

I'm a rather happy Macbook Pro user, but occasionally I get the tickles and feel like I must ...tinker. The previous Hackintosh was pretty much complete (an Intel D945GCLF2-based little monster with FW800 and eSATA -it does alarmingly well at being a simple music and web server), so I really needed something new to obsess over and tinker with until it works.

I found this:



So far it has been one fundamental pain in the ass. Where video and audio were previously the focus of sinister practices, they just worked. Except that the screen is not the usual 1024x600 -it's 576 pixels high. So that gets rounded off to about 480 pixels during setup -which has two freaky side-effects:

1. You cannot see, let alone *click* the bloody buttons that are vital to installation. You need to blindly tab your way around the GUI, press space and hope you don't screw things up.


2. On a plus, you don't get the smug introduction to OS X because -get this- the screen is too small for the awesome bullshit!

But I never considered that not only Wireless but Wired LAN as well are in no way working right now.

I'm re-reading the third InsanelyMac thread about networking and I cannot fathom how people ever managed to get anything done. Nothing works.