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[nikkpap]

Hi to all i just found that if you edit the original AppleStorageDrivers.kext and the inside AppleUSBCardReader.kext you can probable have Generic Driver for your card reader too....

what i did was to copy the AppleStorageDrivers.kext to my desktop and right click on it and show package contents  and edit again the

AppleUSBCardReader.kext with show package contents and final i used a plist editor to edit the Info.plist (inside the AppleUSBCardReader.kext) so go to the IOPersonalities --> AppleUSBCardReader --> Physical Interconnect Location (Change it to External) and the Vendor Identification (Change it to Generic or what its on your System Report on the USB Section ) and in vender id and product id change it to yours but on in hex mode 0x2222 convert it to dec http://www.stringfun...ex-decimal.html

tested on mac os x lion 10.7.5 and previous 10.7.x

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•  Generic Card Reader.zip   450.33K   75 downloads

[giofrida]

Good! Does it work on unsupported SD Card Readers?

[nikkpap]

yes mine is unsupported i dont know even the name of the card reader

[giofrida]

So this method should solve all the problems related to SD Card Readers. Nice! (I'll try it on my 6720s. The Reader isn't unsupported, but i want the SD Icon )

[amsart]

thanks, i will try it now

[TheRacerMaster]

I'm currently using AnyCardReader, but I will try this. Thanks for this.

[kali2000]

Not work with

card reader USB2.0-CRW

from Realtek

DivID: 0x0139=313
VenID: 0x0bda=3034

[solarein]

Thanks for the great info nikkpap! I was even able to get my multislot card reader working using your method. Quite nice.

To avoid editing system kexts, I made a plist-only kext that is just one of the IOKit personalities in AppleUSBCardReader with Internal replaced with External and the vendor/device IDs changed. I'm attaching it here in case anyone else might find it useful. Just change the idVendor and idProduct in Info.plist to match your card reader, place in /S/L/E and rebuild cache. This way you don't have to modify the original AppleUSBCardReader.kext.

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•  GenericUSBCardReader.zip   1.44K   38 downloads