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-MadMax-
Hello!

I got my HackOS-X running just yesterday, did a native installation, everything is running great (Final Cut for example).
Even my ATI Radeon 9800pro is running as intended, fully supported!!!

Because I'm really into editing video, I bought a no-name 25$ PCI FireWire card today:
It's got the Mac seal printed on it and supports OHCI so I suppose it really should work.

When I open the system profiler it says "No PCI-Cards are installed on this Computer", and when I click on "Fire Wire" I just get a blank page.

Many users on this forums said, those cards would work gr8, however, I just don't get that card to work. Even tried another one from my VistaPC, but my OS-X just doesn't recognize them.

When I updated to 4.9 my Radeon refused to work, until I copied over the old .kext from 4.8, so I think, maybe FireWire will work when copying the old .kext over, too.

Are there any .kext files I can use to install some kind of FireWire drivers ? What .kext's are used by OS-X for handling the FireWire cards at all?

(I suppose the card could run if I installed a .kext from an older version as 4.7 or 4.8)


thx,
- M.S
-MadMax-
At least I found out that the files OS-X uses to control the FireWire stuff are named:
IOFireWireAVC.kext
IOFireWireFamily.kext
IOFireWireIP.kext
IOFireWireSBP2.kext
IOFireWireSerialBusControl.kext

I'm gonna try to switch the IOFireWireFamily.kext with an older version, I pray that it will work ^^.

EDIT:

It did not work. Still nothing displayed. Maybe somebody has/had the same poblem and is able to tell me a solution?

EDIT:
Yepee, everything working now:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...aded&start=
Thanks to this file. It was actually missing completely!
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