December 14, 2008

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 hardware support

I must confess I was really impressed by the iAtkos hardware support, and how good my hardware worked out-of-the-box:
  • Asus P5LDL2 motherboard
  • Intel 945G Express chipset
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
  • SoundMax AD1986A audio onboard
  • Realtek RTL8111B ethernet onboard
  • NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS
  • USB2 ports
  • PS/2 ports
  • CD/DVD read/write
  • NTFS read/write
Working, but not fully configured out-of-the-box:
  • Logitech Keyboard (due to Windows keyboard layout)
  • Logitech Mouse (no extra buttons)
PCI cards not working (as yet):
  • Ralink RT61 wireless (Ralink driver doesn't work)
  • Pinnacle PCTV Rave (old hardware, no drivers)
USB devices that worked out-of-the-box:
  • External disks (FAT32 and NTFS)
  • All-in-one SD card reader
  • Flash pen
  • Anycom Blue USB-240 (bluetooth dongle)
  • Sony Ericsson P1i phone (Symbian/UIQ3), both as an external drive and as a GPRS/3G network connection
Every other USB device not installed out-of-the-box (HP printer, etc), worked properly after installing the Mac Leopard drivers from the manufacturer's web site.
iSync with the Sony Ericsson P1 (using the bluetooth dongle) also worked effortlessly after installing the iSync driver from Sony Ericsson.
In the end, the only driver really bugging me is the lack of 6 audio channel support for the SoundMax driver, although stereo is acceptable for the time being as Vista is my gaming system.

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