It only occured to me after I realised I had been following installation guides to the letter for the Intel Pro 100 network thing I had stuffed into the system for the last build I used (10.4.6, which I recall worked instantly with that card, native) and also for the Via Rhine networking adapter which is built into my motheredboard, to no avail.
I would love to get this networked, but if I install the drivers, nothing changes, and no PCI devices are found! Has anyone else had this problem?
Hardware:
Abit Av8 motherboard
- AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester
- VIA K8T800 Pro chipset
- 128MB Geforce 6800 AGP graphics card (works just fine with Quartz, btw)
I find it odd that the ATA controller - a PCI device? - would function like it does if the system couldn't detect PCI devices, so have I missed the plot completely or are PCI devices really meant to be listed in the Profiler??? Cheers!
(would any crap from the Console help? Kinda hard to get on here since the damn thing won't network.... a lot of rubbish about "library extensions xxxxx.kext/blah/blah doesn't contain code for the architecture specified;" though..)A friend using the same motherboard is having the same problem! No PCI devices found.
The above makes me think it's not due to kext file permissions or general installation problems... even from the OS X installer (when booted from disc) PCI devices are not found. Since the 10.4.6 build worked ok I tried overwriting some of the kext files in System/Library/Extensions with ones from the older build, and as expected wound up with a broken OS X install. I figured replacing any kext referring to PCI in its name (IOPCIFamily, I think?) and the AppleVIA and AppleVIAATA kexts (since my mobo is VIA chipset based) would bbe something along the lines of what needed to be done. It's quite obvious I have no idea what I'm doing, isn't it?
