Some people, like me, can get tired of using Mac OS X and searching for scarce free and open source software in Mac box. Sometimes complexity can go beyond this. Installing new software can be huge headache too. Well, i am writing this so that if only i could help a single person like me wondering what/how to do.
Newer versions of Mac OS X like Snow Leopard has Boot Camp installed in it by default. And apple has stopped distributing the free installer of Boot Camp from their official website for their own reasons. Unfortunately for the users of Mac OS X Tiger, manual installation is required. The Boot Camp installer can be found on third party websites. For the one, you can go here. Now all you need to do is download and install it. This doesn't solve your problem yet. In order to run the Boot Camp you just installed, you need to set your date in Mac to some earlier date(around 2004/2005). Then you can see your Boot Camp ready to work.
Now that I suppose you have installed Windows 7, i surely am doubtful with your smooth experience with Windows 7 in Macbook. You might get crazy with all your control keys like brightness, volume, etc not working. The Mac driver CD, you just burnt using Boot Camp says it just works for Windows XP or Vista. Actually sound doesn't work either. So things get complicated here. Even i was tired looking around for the solution. So i thought why don't i share what i was able to find out.
I used two things for that. First the Mac Driver CD burnt using Boot Camp and then the Orca MSI Editor(for editing the installer file), which can be downloaded from here. Make sure you have these things beforehand.
Assuming you are already on Windows 7, insert the Mac driver CD burnt using Boot Camp. Without a bit of hesitation, do copy all the files inside the CD and put it inside a folder easily accessible to you. In my case, i made a folder named test on the Desktop and copied the entire content of CD to that. You cannot edit files while they are on CD, so this hassle has to be undergone.
Then Open up Orca and go to File -> Open. Browse to the folder where you kept the copied files. And then go to Drivers->Apple. You can finally see two installers; select the one named Boot Camp. On the left column of Orca under the heading Tables, you will see lots of things, not necessary to know about all. But we will need to know about only one. Go ahead and click on LaunchCondition. You will see five lines on the right side: most of them are explained on their description column. Here's a glimpse.
We just need to edit the first three lines starting with "(VersionNT". Double click on the row and you will be able to edit the line. Put a > in front of every = sign encountered on each of those three lines. Your final three lines should look like;
(VersionNT>=501 AND ServicePackLevel>=2) OR (VersionNT>=600)
(VersionNT>=501) Imp (AdminUser)
(VersionNT>=600) Imp (MsiRunningElevated)
This basically tells the installer, if the version of Windows you’re using IS, or is ABOVE Windows XP(501) or Vista(600), continue the installer and don’t give any errors. Make sure you save the modification on the installer file by Ctrl+s.
Happily everything works fine now by just clicking the setup file inside the folder where you copied the content of the CD. In order for sound to work go to the folder where you have kept the driver and then to Drivers->IDT Sigma Tel and then extract the SigmaTelSetup.rar file. Go ahead and click the setup file thus extracted. With a reboot, you can see that everything working as expected.
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