neotigZ Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Hi everyone. my pci isnt working and i have to use a wireless card for internet. the card is a edimax ieee 802.11g turbo mode. it has mac os drivers and everything but osx86 doesnt see my pci slots. can anyone help? i looked thru the forums and found a app called pci manager or something and it said it was not supported by my os. so it didnt work of course lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 Please help? purty please..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Hi everyone. my pci isnt working and i have to use a wireless card for internet. the card is a edimax ieee 802.11g turbo mode. it has mac os drivers and everything but osx86 doesnt see my pci slots. can anyone help? i looked thru the forums and found a app called pci manager or something and it said it was not supported by my os. so it didnt work of course lol Try to use moded IOPCIFamily.kext. But another problems 1. Some MacOSX driver made only for PowerPC. They don't work on Intel. 2. Manufacturers made drivers only for USB bus but not for PCI bus. Among them TVTuners, WiFi, sounds. I still have no solutions for PCI TVTuner and PCI Realtek WiFi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 23, 2008 Author Share Posted August 23, 2008 Try to use moded IOPCIFamily.kext.But another problems 1. Some MacOSX driver made only for PowerPC. They don't work on Intel. 2. Manufacturers made drivers only for USB bus but not for PCI bus. Among them TVTuners, WiFi, sounds. I still have no solutions for PCI TVTuner and PCI Realtek WiFi. thanks. ill give that a try soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 23, 2008 Author Share Posted August 23, 2008 Try to use moded IOPCIFamily.kext.But another problems 1. Some MacOSX driver made only for PowerPC. They don't work on Intel. 2. Manufacturers made drivers only for USB bus but not for PCI bus. Among them TVTuners, WiFi, sounds. I still have no solutions for PCI TVTuner and PCI Realtek WiFi. I had a kernal panic! It said it was unable to load drivers. i used kext helper. how do i fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock42 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 i believe you have to boot to single user mode and delete it along with the extension.mkext. or your hosed. did you try taking all your cards out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 23, 2008 Author Share Posted August 23, 2008 i believe you have to boot to single user mode and delete it along with the extension.mkext. or your hosed. did you try taking all your cards out? you really think taking the card out may work? i do have drivers for the wifi card already installed. also how do you do the single user mode and what about goin into linux and removing the file that way. just goin in there and taking it out. oh and where is it? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 24, 2008 Author Share Posted August 24, 2008 i believe you have to boot to single user mode and delete it along with the extension.mkext. or your hosed. did you try taking all your cards out? i tried taking the card out and that didnt do anything and i tried using linux to delete the file and it wouldnt let me. so how do i do the single user mode? and why didnt this work? ugh i want internet on my mac! is single user mode like dos or something? i hate that. i hope its more like safe mode in windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 AAAAARRRRGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I downloaded mac drive and deleted iopcifamily.kext and extension.mkext. and i still get the same kernel panic. should i delete the Extensions.kextcache? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sama7896 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 yes, then boot -s, type those 2 commands at the end and then repair permissions diskutil repairPermissions /system/library/extensions/ good luck/ if it won't let you, use install media to repair permissions/reinstall. After that rebuild cache booting with -f edit;ps:never use macdrive on system files,never repair disk with macdrive, only use to backup files on lost systems. Anything else you can do in su mode/ terminal instalation media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 26, 2008 Author Share Posted August 26, 2008 yes, then boot -s, type those 2 commands at the end and then repair permissionsdiskutil repairPermissions /system/library/extensions/ good luck/ if it won't let you, use install media to repair permissions/reinstall. After that rebuild cache booting with -f edit;ps:never use macdrive on system files,never repair disk with macdrive, only use to backup files on lost systems. Anything else you can do in su mode/ terminal instalation media thanks for the reply. when i boot with -s and -f do i hit like shift or something when it says darwin loading? or f8? and also thanks to everyone else that has replied to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 27, 2008 Author Share Posted August 27, 2008 ok so i did it and i still get a kernel panic .... i have had this installation for over a year and i got a lot of stuff on there if i reinstall is it possible to keep everything on there and just like update or something or is there a leopard that i can download and upgrade and it keep everything on there like that kalaway or a jas since mine is jas. maybe itll have pci support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makwanad Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Haha you're not the only one with the PCI problem... I have a broadcom 4318 chipset card (Belking Air Force One 54g) I used that kext with OSx86 tools and still get problems... I've tried everything from device ID's to the bcm43xx_enabler.sh shell. Nothing, I'm pretty certain OS X isn't recognising my PCI card. Anyone else who can help with this will go down as the lord in my books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 30, 2008 Author Share Posted August 30, 2008 Well can i get any input on upgrading like if i download leopard if i can keep all my apps and settings and stuff and which one would be the best to download? like the jas server one or something? (shugs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotigZ Posted August 30, 2008 Author Share Posted August 30, 2008 Come oooonnnnn........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonScryer Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Kexthelper should of made a backup of the original IOPCIFamily.kext - Try this: At startup, put in -s to drop to single user mode /sbin/mount -uw / cp -R /backup/IOPCIFamily.kext /System/Library/Extensions/ rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.* <-- PAY ATTENTION TO THAT. You put the wrong thing, you will delete your whole Extensions folder reboot ----- If it says can't find file, look in / for a backup or Backups or Backup Extensions directory. If no go, either reinstall or find an IOPCIFamily in an updater corresponding to your Install. you do have a backup install, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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