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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/105455-usbfw-ports-not-functional/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/105455-usbfw-ports-not-functional/#findComment-750150 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/105455-usbfw-ports-not-functional/#findComment-750161 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/105455-usbfw-ports-not-functional/#findComment-751647 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/105455-usbfw-ports-not-functional/#findComment-751726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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