Asus P8H61, USB not working, Clover settings

[Sotirios Papakonstantinou]

Hello!

 

I recently installed Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan in a spare hard disk to test it. First I had not internet access, no sound and USB wasn't working. I managed to connect to the internet after downloading the official Mac OS X Realtek RTL8111F/8168 driver from www.realtek.com. For my audio card, Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Player, the download site of kxproject wasn't working, but fortunately I had saved the driver in the past. I tried to install it but installer would fail and not complete. I managed to install the kext manually using latest Kext Installer. I copied the kext file from S/L/E of an older Mac OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion installation and installed it with Kext Installer.

 

However, I could not make USB work. No USB device is recognized, including my printer, my USB Flash drive or a USB external disk. In earlier Mac OS X version a USB disk would be used if connected at boot, but unfortunately this doesn't applies in my El Capitan installation. Could you please point me to the appropriate kext to download?

 

Finally, I have problem installing Clover. My disk is formatted in GUID mode, and I have installed Clover in EFI partition. But when I try to boot to El Capitan from Clover, after a few seconds the computer restarts! I can only boot using the USB Flash drive with the El Capitan installer. The weird thing is that it has a slightly earlier version of Clover installed as well! How can I copy the boot settings from my USB Flash drive to my hard disk to make Clover work? I was thinking of using Clonezilla to clone the EFI partition, but this could make things worse. Please help!

 

Here follow my hardware specs:

 

Motherboard: Asus P8H61 (s1155)

Northbridge: Intel Ivy Bridge-DT IMC

Southbridge: Intel Cougar Point H61

CPU: Intel Core-i3 3220 3.0GHz (3rd generation, s1155)

RAM: 8GB (2x 4GB Kingston Hyper-X Blue DDR3-1600)

VGA: Asus GT620-1GD3 (NVidia GeForce GT 620 1GB DDR3 PCI-E)

Audio: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Player (SB0092) + Realtek HD Audio

HDD: Seagate 80GB SATA II partitioned in GUID mode.

LAN: Realtek RTL8111F/8168 Gigabit Ethernet

 

Thank you in advance!

[Sotirios Papakonstantinou]

Don't push guys! Get in line, you'll have your chance to help!

 

Anyway, I'll try cloning the EFI partition and see. As for USB I have a working Mountain Lion installation, I'll try to copy relevant kexts from S/L/E and install them with Kext Installer. I'll post back if it works, just in case anyone cares...

 

No offence intended, but I see so many read my post an still not reply. Thank you anyway.

[Sotirios Papakonstantinou]

Well, today I used Clonezilla to clone the EFI partition from my USB Flash drive to the EFI partition of my disk. Now I can boot into Clover and this time choosing El Capitan works as expected and boots to Mac OS, so I don't need my USB Flash to boot any more. I also tried to copy all USB related kexts from my working Mountain Lion installation and installed them with Kext Installer, but this didn't make any difference. No USB device is detected, either connected at startup or connected after booting to El Capitan. Maybe the Mountain Lion kexts don't work in El Capitan or some boot parameter interferes with USB.

 

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

[irog12]

I had the same problem with my asus p8h61m lx. only two ports were working. Until I read Rehabman's solution ( to quote) :

Item 1:

Comment: change EHC1 to EH01
Find: <45484331>
Replace: <45483031>

Item 2:
Comment: change EHC2 to EH02
Find: <45484332>
Replace: <45483032>                 

 

 

copy this to your clover config.plist/ACPI/DSDT/Patches

This worked on my hack. All ports are working now. Hope it does for you too.

[Sotirios Papakonstantinou]

These are entries in Clover's config.plist file? I will try that on the weekend. Thank you. Did you upgrade to 10.11.1 yet? Did it work? I wouldn't dare to try it and screw my installation...

 

EDIT: I could not find the entries I have to change in config.plist file! I write the steps bellow in case I did something wrong...

 

In Terminal I typed these commands:

 

cd /

cd EFI

cd CLOVER

sudo nano config.plist

 

I then saw two settings for USB. The original settings are both true. I tried all other combinations, both false, one true the other false and vice versa, could not make the USB ports work. I plug a USB flash drive and it is ignored. Not even the LED switched on, no activity! Leaving the USB Flash drive connected and restart the computer made no difference! Of course I saved the changes and restarted the computer after each attempt.

 

Any other ideas? Any USB kexts that support my Intel H61 chipset? Only if Apple wasn't that stubborn and allowed manufacturers to release drivers for Mac OS X! They fear that anybody would install Mac OS X on their computer! Is that hard to understand that this means profit for them, as more customers would buy Mac OS X?

 

Thank you for your time.

[irog12]

Not terminal. Use clover configurator and add the items. or you could just open your config.plist with textedit and manually add it. mine looks like this when opened with textedit:

 

<key>Patches</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>Comment</key>

<string>change EHC2 to EH02</string>

<key>Find</key>

<data>

RUhDMg==

</data>

<key>Replace</key>

<data>

RUgwMg==

</data>

</dict>

<dict>

<key>Comment</key>

<string>change EHC1 to EH01</string>

<key>Find</key>

<data>

RUhDMQ==

</data>

<key>Replace</key>

<data>

RUgwMQ==

</data>

</dict>

</array>

 

Note that you have to mount your EFI volume first. Then open EFI/Clover/config.plist.

Yes I already updated to 10.11.1 and it's fine. I highly recommend using Clover Configurator.