Post 2: Hardware Compatibility and Requirements

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You will want to know about the details of your computer before attempting to install this
system.

To get your hardware details (Vendor IDs, Device IDs), you can
- Fire up a Linux Live CD and boot from it (ie. Parted Magic, Ubuntu Live CD). Type "lspci -nn" in
terminal, press enter and take notes.
- Boot from ML2 media, open terminal, type "lspci -nn", press enter and take notes.
- Get/install Everest Ultimate Edition on Windows and use it to export the information.
Check your hardware details and do the comparing with the hardware support list below.
- Motherboard
- Simply, Intel chipsets from 945G to C606 are supported.
Common chips are 945, 965, 975, P35, P43, P45, P55, G31, G41, G43, X58, H61, HM65, HM67,
H67, P67, Z68, Z77, X79, C602 and C606.
- Besides the main chipset model, a motherboard has many components. Every component itself
may or may not be compatible and even may be problematic for Mountain Lion. Also, BIOS of the
motherboard may be problematic to run Mountain Lion. Because of these reasons, some
motherboards will not be able to run this OS easily, some of them will need hard eforts in
order to make it partially work and some of them will never run it.
- CPU
- Intel Core2Duo and newer 64bit (EM64T) capable processors are supported.
- AMD CPUs are not supported.
- Graphics Card
- Intel Graphics HD 3000 and HD 4000 are supported, the rest Intel igpus are not. This means
Intel HD 2000, Intel HD, X3100, X3150, X4500, GMA950 and GMA900 are not supported.
- nvidia vga cards from G80 core to the newest kepler series (G80, G84, G86, G92, G94,
G96, G98, C79, GT200, GT215, GT216, GT218, GF100, GF104, GF106, GF108, GF110, GF114,
GF116, GF119, GK104, GK106, GK107) are supported on 10.8.2.
This does not mean that all of them will work (of course) but most of them will work out of
box (OOB) with ML2.
Some of them will work with issues (some are known issues and some may not be) and
some of them may not work. You will have to try and see it yourself.
Device id injection to Apple's stock Mountain Lion drivers will be needed for many nvidia cards
and  ML includes this operation as automated. However nvidia's drivers released for
Mountain Lion does not need that injection (also included in  ML2 as a choice) but anyway
after software update, injection will probably be needed again which  ML took care of that
problem too.
- About ATI, for now 7xxx is not supported on Mountin Lion 10.8.2. 7xxx support will most
likely come with 10.8.3.
Most of the ATI 6xxx/5xxx/4xxx cards work with modified drivers and the users will have to take
the additional steps to use such cards after installation.
- Network
- Common wired and wireless network devices listed below will be auto-detected by ML2
and most of them will work OOB.
- Users that have other compatible network devices will have to search for the drivers to make
them work on OS X.
Supported chips:
Wired:
- Intel Gigabit and Intel Pro/100
- Realtek RTL 8139/8111/8168
- Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114/AR8131/AR8151/AR8161/AR8171/AR8132/AR8152/
AR8162/AR8172
- Broadcom BCM57780, BCM57781, BCM57785
- Marvell 88E8035, 88E8036, 88E8038, 88E8039, 88E8056, 88E8001
Wireless: Some chips (ie. Atheros ar5008, Broadcom BCM4311) are natively supported by OS X.
So, this is not the complete wifi support list of OS X, this is the additional support list.
- Atheros 9285, 9287, 9227
- Broadcom 4312, 4321, 4322, 43224, 43225, 43227, 43228 (Some of these broadcom chips
need rebranding in order to work on OS X.)
- Minimum 1GB RAM
- Minimum 15GB free space on target partition
You may also visit Wiki HCL pages and other OSX86 platforms for more support.
Mostly, compatibility of a hardware can be defined by its chipset and device id, but
this is not a rule. Motherboards/VGA cards/other computers parts with same
chipsets and device ids of diferent brands may have diferences that can result with
incompatibility.
Therefore > Search, read and try it on your computer before asking
like "Will this hardware/computer work with  ML2?".
Simply, if a hardware is absolutely not compatible for OSX86 10.8.2
(i.e. Broadcom BCM4313, Atheros AR5007, etc.), then it is also not
compatible for  ML2.

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