T60 With 10.6.8 Problems

[phatskat]

Hi all, I'm a new comer to the forum but I've had my T60 1952 for about a week and I've been here since day 1 (actually, before that, reading up). I burned the MacPNT CD from this thread and followed the instructions on updating to 10.6.x (I downloaded the combo update from Apple's site). All went well, I even got my Netgear WG111v3 using a modified kext from who knows where.

Everything worked, but USB wifi was a bummer. I peeled open a broken R60 on a whim and found an Atheros AR5BXB6 inside and popped it in for the Intel card. Here is where the trouble comes in - on a second hard disk, a clean 10.6 install found the card working perfectly. I did incremental updates and it broke at 10.6.2 (although I have suspicions that a different kext was at fault), and needless to say it doesn't w - CD ROM doesn't work, nor does USB or battery monitor. Console shows launchd/configd crashing hard trying to run some AirPort related process.

Has anyone gotten this working on 10.6.8? If I remove the kexts or the card for the Atheros then the system is back to normal - obviously sans-wifi.

[phatskat]

So, time for some updates!

So, I got 10.6.8 working (almost) perfectly now - my main issue, the Atheros wifi card mentioned above, is finally working thanks to advice in this thread on tonymacx86.

Steps I took to solve this:
- Download the file from mediafire with AtherosFix.kext from the thread above
- Unzip, you get two kexts and a bundle
- Place the bundle in /S/L/SystemConfiguration
- Place the kexts in /S/L/E
- Run pfix, reboot

Also, Preboot.dmg that comes with the MacPNT_Boot CD does not seem to work with 10.6.8, I get a kernel version mis-match in pmCPU.c

Questions for the community:
- Can these kexts be placed in /E/E even though one is the same name as the one in /S/L/E - how does the one in /E/E take precedent?
- Is there a way to put the bundle elsewhere in the spirit of keeping 100% vanilla?

[Sebinouse]

- Can these kexts be placed in /E/E even though one is the same name as the one in /S/L/E - how does the one in /E/E take precedent?

Chameleon bootloader is supposed to "replace" the kext from /S/L/E from those from /E/E if they have the same name ... but sometimes something goes wrong and it doesn't work ... Just try, repair permissions ...

- Is there a way to put the bundle elsewhere in the spirit of keeping 100% vanilla?

Try to add this to your smbios.plist to keep it vanilla :

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<key>SMboardproduct</key>
  <string>Mac-F4208CC8</string>