Join Steve, Brian, Bruce, and Michael as they tackle the latest News and Technology here on Episode 15 of Friday Free For All!

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Join Steve and Ron Knights as they tackle the latest News and Technology in the Apple Macintosh area of tech here on Episode 9 of Mac ‘N Tuesday!

Hey guys, I recently acquired an Acer Aspire One 10.1″ netbook from craigslist on a trade. So naturally those of you out there know me, I hackintoshed it. Now first off I used the distro iDeneb v3 or 10.5.6. After installing this, my sound didn’t work out of the box nor my wifi. That wasn’t a problem. I managed to find the kexts for my sound online. But the wifi was the problem. I searched everywhere and everyone said it’s not going to work with the installed Atheros AR5007 card. I would have to buy a dell mini 9 card to put into it. I said no way. There has to be a way. In fact there was. First off I changed my version number of OS X from 10.5.6 to 10.5.5 using the version.plist file inside Hardrive/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist. I copied it to my desktop. Changed the permissions to read/write on the one in the location. Inside the text file changed to 10.5.5, saved, and over wrote the existing one.

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