rohde Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 "Legacy USB support" is whereby your computer can run USB devices in DOS. For example, if you have a USB keyboard, and you want to mess around in DOS, you would need to have Legacy USB Support enabled. If you switch off Legacy Support, USB devices will only start working once XP/x86 starts loads up. Now, there are problems in x86 if you enable Legacy Support. I think its because x86 is an EFI system, so doesn't recognise bios/dos etc. I couldn't get USB to work until I disabled Legacy Usb Support. To do this, switch on your PC, hold down DEL, and when you get into the bios, you should have an option to "Disable Legacy Support", under your USB options/configuration. If you don't have this option, well.... erm... Ok, I see. Thanks for the explanation. I will look through the BIOS to see if I can't find it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10856-usb-port-doesnt-work-anymore-in-1045-did-work-in-1043-tho/page/2/#findComment-83215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlevine Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I would like to attempt this fix and am trying to download the torrent file containing the necessary kext file, but unfortunately the torrent is only being seeded by one person who seems to be on a dial-up modem. I would be overjoyed if someone from this community could PM me the kext file or email it to me (just PM me for my address). I would certainly appreciate the help. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10856-usb-port-doesnt-work-anymore-in-1045-did-work-in-1043-tho/page/2/#findComment-88934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neversell Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 i have the same problem i checked my bios and i do not have Legacy USB support, but use 2.0 controller so i disabled the use support in bios, but no luck can you pm me with the files too? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10856-usb-port-doesnt-work-anymore-in-1045-did-work-in-1043-tho/page/2/#findComment-102168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Also Labelled Enable USB Keyboard Support Enable USB Mouse Support as in my Bios. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10856-usb-port-doesnt-work-anymore-in-1045-did-work-in-1043-tho/page/2/#findComment-102206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfn_doe Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I too am stuck without usb support. I've got JAS 10.4.6 installed an I swapped in the 10.4.3 iousbfamily.kext and it didn't seem to make any difference. I've tried setting and unsetting "legacy usb support" in bios to no avail. The wierd thing is though, my laptop's onboard fingerprint scanner shows as being detected in the system configuration under osx although no other usb devices will show up when plugged in. If I could just get this one feature to work I'd probably switch a big percentage of my linux usage over to OSX but until that happens it's linux only for me... Also everybody who needs those 10.4.3 extensions needs to go to search for 10.4.3 on some of the torrent sites, took me about 30 seconds to locate and it was a fast download as it's less than 30meg... p.s. please don't pm me to ask for a copy... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10856-usb-port-doesnt-work-anymore-in-1045-did-work-in-1043-tho/page/2/#findComment-107835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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