Cave Man Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Greetings all, long time lurker, first time poster. I've installed Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD onto a Q6600/Asus P5K-E WiFi-AP successfully. I've only had a couple of issues, one of which is rather important. Unless a device is connected to a USB or FW port at start up, the ports do not appear to be active. For instance, if I boot with an external firewire drive connected and on, the drive shows up on my desktop. I can eject that drive and reconnect it at any time. But if I try using another FW drive it will not mount (unless I reboot with that drive connected). Same thing for USB devices. My SATA DVD burner (Samsung) mounts CDs, but not DVD Video discs. I plan to write up a how-to for my install, but would like to get these loose ends tied up first. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleburth Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 sudo kextload -b com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass sudo kextload -b com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireAVC Write these commands in terminal and everything sholud work until reboot. First one loads USB driver, the second one loads FireWire. And read THIS topic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cave Man Posted May 18, 2008 Author Share Posted May 18, 2008 Thanks very much - the USB kext load worked, but the fw one did not. I'll read the thread you listed to get some insight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cave Man Posted May 19, 2008 Author Share Posted May 19, 2008 I seem to have the USB issue resolved - reinstallation with the vanilla kernel appears to be stable. However, FW is still not fully functional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macfr Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 I had the same problems on a GA-EP35-DS3P, I switch to a retail install and it know works perfectly I saw spmewhere in the forum that the default fix PCGENUSB or something like that causes a lot of problems with usb ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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