[Herojam]

Hi Humph,
Thank you for your reply. After downloading the smbios.plist file and having it on my desktop, I went into the terminal window i typed
sudo cp Desktop/smbios.plist/Extra/smbios.plist.
it asked for my admin password . Is the admin password in terminal same as the password for the MAcOSX? Oh dear ! This is the first time i'm using terminal. I just pressed enter and it showed the source and target but it could not save the file in Extra as when i did the list command , there is no such file in Extra. What have i done wrong?

What shall i do ?

Herojam

[minimalpc]

Originally Posted by Herojam

Hi Humph,
Thank you for your reply. After downloading the smbios.plist file and having it on my desktop, I went into the terminal window i typed
sudo cp Desktop/smbios.plist/Extra/smbios.plist.
it asked for my admin password . Is the admin password in terminal same as the password for the MAcOSX? Oh dear ! This is the first time i'm using terminal. I just pressed enter and it showed the source and target but it could not save the file in Extra as when i did the list command , there is no such file in Extra. What have i done wrong?

What shall i do ?

Herojam

You are missing a space in your command (before /Extra). Also, just in case you are not in your home folder when you are running it, I would suggest the following:
sudo cp ~/Desktop/smbios.plist /Extra/smbios.plist

Also, humph has chown and chmod reversed in the commands he posted above--i.e. it should be
sudo chmod 755 smbios.plist
sudo chown root:wheel smbios.plist

[Herojam]

Hi minimalpc,
thanks for pointing out my error. I managed to create the smbios.plist folder under /Extra. After doing that i saved it .Then i rebooted the the 10V. I checked the System profiler and found that it is now masquerading as a Macbook air.
But the DVD player still cannot function and still gives the same error " A valid drive cannot be found" . I thought after i managed to get a smbios.plist in extra everything would work but i am back to square one. I don't don't know where i have gone wrong.
Guess i have to find out but i really am learning a lot from you guys. Its tough but ii'll get there with all your support.

Cheers

Herojam

[Side.Step.Society]

Try this.

Use NBI to "Show NetBook Installer Files". This'll make the Extra folder appear on your drive if you haven't made it visible already.

Copy and past this (As plain text) in TextEdit:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>SMbiosvendor</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>SMbiosversion</key>
<string>MBA11.88Z.00BB.B00.0712201139</string>
<key>SMbiosdate</key>
<string>04/01/2008</string>
<key>SMboardmanufacturer</key>
<string>Apple Computer, Inc.</string>
<key>SMboardproduct</key>
<string>Mac-F42C8CC8</string>
<key>SMfamily</key>
<string>MacBookAir</string>
<key>SMmanufacturer</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>SMproductname</key>
<string>MacBookAir1,1</string>
<key>SMserial</key>
<string>W88033AKY51</string>
<key>SMsystemversion</key>
<string>1.0</string>
<key>SMUUID</key>
<string>00000000-0000-1000-8000-000000000000</string>
<key>SMmemtype</key>
<string>24</string>
<key>SMmemspeed</key>
<string>1600</string>
<key>SMmemmanufacter</key>
<string>Apple Computer Inc.</string>
<key>SMmempart_1</key>
<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
<key>SMmempart_2</key>
<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
<key>SMmemserial_1</key>
<string>0x00001020</string>
<key>SMmemserial_2</key>
<string>0x00003021</string>
<key>SMexternalclock</key>
<string></string>
<key>SMmaximalclock</key>
<string></string>

</dict>
</plist>

Then, save it as "SMBIOS.plist" to your desktop and drag it to your "Extra" folder after.

I did some googling to find this SMBIOS.plist file, which has the correct info for MBA. DVD Player works fine for me now, even without an external drive plugged in, so give this one a try.

[minimalpc]

Originally Posted by Side.Step.Society

Try this.

Use NBI to "Show NetBook Installer Files". This'll make the Extra folder appear on your drive if you haven't made it visible already.

Copy and past this (As plain text) in TextEdit:



Then, save it as "SMBIOS.plist" to your desktop and drag it to your "Extra" folder after.

I did some googling to find this SMBIOS.plist file, which has the correct info for MBA. DVD Player works fine for me now, even without an external drive plugged in, so give this one a try.

It may work, but you don't need all of those key entries. Mine works with an SMBios.plist containing the same entries as the one humph posted EXCEPT I deleted the SMserial key and string value. I don't know if that made a difference or not. I would suggest that Herojam try deleting that entry from his existing SMBios.plist file first.

Herojam, at any point did you try modifying the DVDPlayer.app or framework files? If so, that may be the problem. Mine are completely unmodified.

[minimalpc]

To make this procedure easier, I have put together a simple Automator app called MBAMasq. It is not been tested other than on my own Mini 10v, but it is fairly simple. Hopefully it will work for those uncomfortable with modifying their own SMBios.plist file.

[humph]

Originally Posted by minimalpc

....
Also, humph has chown and chmod reversed in the commands he posted above--i.e. it should be
sudo chmod 755 smbios.plist
sudo chown root:wheel smbios.plist

Thanks for spotting that typo. I've edited the post to correct.

[Herojam]

Hi Guys,

1.

Copy and past this (As plain text) in TextEdit:

I tried to save the file to the desktop by using textEdit but it would not save the file as smbios.plist. It wanted to add another rtf extension to the plist. Is that ok ? So what i did was to rename it after it was saved to the desktop.I removed the rtf extension.

2. As advised , i ran NBI to show the hidden files and I could now see the extra folder. I then dragged the smbios.plist into the extra folder. Rebooted and still no success.

3. I guess as minimalpc 's post suggests; i had previously tried the method using the Hex editor method to change the internal occurences to external to the DVD playback file and even though i made a copy of the original DVD playback file as back up and have now put in back it still gives me the " cannot find drive error".

Should i reinstall Snow Leopard 10.6.2 to get it back to the original state and try again from scratch.

I'm not giving up so i'm going to keep on trying hopefully i can get the DVD player working on my 10V.

I'm going to try minipalpc's short prog to see if it works on my 10V.

Cheers & thank you all of you. You are the greatest.
Hope i can still count on your support & help.

Herojam

---------- Post added at 10:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:51 PM ----------

Just wondering how Franksterling managed to find success with the DVD player?
Could you please share your experience and what steps you took to get the DVD player running.
Did you try the Hex edit method as per the post of or you started with a completely new DVD player which was never modified in any way.
Just curious to know.

Thanks

Herojam

[seaflux]

When you are creating the .plist in Textedit, you need to go to the format menu and select "make plain text." Then when you 'save as' "smbios.plist", a dialogue box will appear telling you that ".txt" is the normal extension. There will be an option to "use .plist" - just use that. Put it in the /Extra folder. It works.

[Shooter]

Minimal thanks your automator worked like a charm......