Help! getting to work my AKE BC168 PCMCIA on Snow 10.6.2

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Would there be any help for Snow on this?

PCMCIA AKE BC168

AKE Inside hide PCMCIA to Two USB 2.0 Ports

 

* Supports High Speed 480Mbps.

* Full Speed 12Mbps and low speed 1.5Mbps Data Transfer

* It can connect all kind of USB2.0/USB1.1/USB1.0 devices, removal hard disk. CF/SM/MMC/Memory Sticker, Scanner, Printer, Digital Camera, Camcorder, CD-R/RW, DVD-RW etc.

* Supports "plug and play" function. * It can be used for the laptop with 32-bit Cardbus and PCMCIA interface.

* Fully compliant with FCC and CE standards.

 

Features:

 

* Add 2 USB 2.0 ports to your windows-based notebook.

* Truly Plug and Play.

* You can Share with other Devices and Old Notebooks

* Supported Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/VISTA

I am certain 100% it works on an actual G3 PowerBook "Pismo" running OS 10.4 "Tiger", I haven't read anywhere if anybody with a newer mac has tested it.. but if it worked on that powerbook... it could probably work now

I contacted that very person who has it working to provide me print screens of his About this Mac.. more info... to see if you guys could try to help with it(he wasn't sure which one was it but he send allot screenies):

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Anyways I have yet not tried any kexts for PCI... trying to do this on my Acer 3680, which all usb ports died... the only way i have usb through Linux & Windows 7 is using a PCMCIA AKE BC168 <- it has 2 USB ports

 

That I know of past testings with Leopard 10.5.7 (I did not choose any PCI kexts) it already gives me Kernel Panics instantly from booting with it connected... I have to disconnect it for me to able to boot and use Leopard.. if I try connecting it... it freezes & creates a kernel panic as well... so simply I could not use it under Leopard 10.5.7

 

Now recently on Snow in which I'm currently on 10.6.2 I can actually have it connected but it isn't recognized at all.... So I think its best I get to try to have it working under Snow since I am not getting any kernel panics with it connected.

 

So I went into Linux through Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD, and got this through Terminal with: lspci

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
0a:03.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
0a:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0a:09.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0b:00.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
0b:00.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
0b:00.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)

 

I actually have no clue which one is it exactly... I'm guessing it is the last ones with VIA Technologies... not really sure yet, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

*UPDATE*

If its the VIA Controller I found 2 Devices & Vendor ID for Them through Windows... not sure which is which, since they have different names:

VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller - Device ID:3104 Vendor ID: - 1106

VIA Rev 5 (there were 2 of these with same name, device & vendor ids) - Device ID: 2028 - Vendor ID: 1106

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I updated at the end of the post Thread some Device & Vendor ID ... incase that helps

[p_noch]

uses chun-nan's iopcifamily.kext and you'll need iopccardfamily.kext from leopard too

 

and run 32bit only

 

PCMCIA working fine here on 10.6.3 (32bit)