Mac OSX Leopard on a T61

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rubbish84 · #1 Post by **rubbish84** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:55 pm

Hi,

A friend of mine recently purchased a macbook and I have spent some time playing with it.

I found that Leopard does some interesting things that I wouldn't mind being able to utilize.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience of putting Mac OSX Leopard on a T61?

I know it can be put on a PC but can you run it dually with windows?

Are there any major dirver issues?

I look forward to any input.

Thanks,

zaklafontaine · #2 Post by **zaklafontaine** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:37 am

Yes, It can be done fairly easily given you have the right hardware.
Wireless - Thinkpad a/b/g works fine, Atheros works from what I've read
LAN - Haven't looked into it much, but I'm pretty sure there aren't drivers available yet.
Video - gma x3100 is fully supported, and there are also some nvidia drivers floating around
Sound - recently "fixed". If you look in the forum around where this post is you'll see that there is a solution, but it is not perfected yet.
Sleep/wake - this might work for you, and it might not. I haven't tried leo4all or iatkos, but it does not work on my kalyway. It's not that big of a deal, because it only takes about 30 seconds for my computer to boot. Good luck!
p.s. there are a ton of dualbooting guides on the insanelymac website.

rubbish84 · #3 Post by **rubbish84** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:42 pm

Thanks zaklafontaine,

I really appreciate your help. The hardware you quoted is exactly what I have. So, it will be most likely something I will try to play with at some point soon.

zaklafontaine · #4 Post by **zaklafontaine** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:42 pm

Ah, No problem. I guess there is hope for the LAN drivers. The guy that fixed the sound T U R B O. Has a blog where he said he's getting close to fixing it. (http://0xfeedbeef.com/osx86/) If you have any problems feel free to ask me. It's well worth the plunge. Just make sure you get time machine working or some form of back ups.

rubbish84 · #5 Post by **rubbish84** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:19 pm

Time Machine would be one of the major reasons for my wanting to use OS-X so that won't be a problem.

Thanks again for your help.

slackwaresupport · #6 Post by **slackwaresupport** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:39 am

i have a t61.
nothing works.
no ethernet, no audio, no wireless, no gl on the video.
but it does install and i can run it. also no pcmcia

kachofool · #7 Post by **kachofool** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:18 am

You can get audio working with tweaking. There's a work around for cardbus too... the wireless has drivers depending on which wireless card you have in the thinkpad.

slackwaresupport · #8 Post by **slackwaresupport** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:26 am

zaklafontaine
where did you download the audio fix??
http://fsa.0xfeedbeef.com/azalia-turbo-tp1984-v1.tgz
is asking for a password

scratch that.. just allowed me in.

flypenfly · #9 Post by **flypenfly** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:38 am

What about the N card?

paOol · #10 Post by **paOol** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:58 am

i swear, there is like no guide on installing osx leopard on a T61.
(post drivers and stuff)

if only i knew how, i'd write a guide myself.
i can get to about the 3rd screen using Kalyway 10.5.2 and it just keeps restarting itself.

Mac OSX Leopard on a T61

Mac OSX Leopard on a T61

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