New install on XPS 1530

[xSteveO]

I've noticed that even after the USB Fix 1.3 that I'm still having issues. Example: iPhone won't show as connected unless I plug the cord in before the computer is turned on, my camera also is the same way. USB mouse actually works fine no matter when it's plugged in, thumb drive as well. I was beginning to think it was maybe something with it being a storage device, but it doesn't make any sense considering my thumb drive is recognized upon plug in. Any ideas what might be happening here?

 

also, seems like a common problem, but the restart/shut down hangs. i was just curious if there was a fix out there and I wasn't seeing it.

[xSteveO]

I will bump again, someone has to have some info

[xSteveO]

hi

[Lanceomni]

You are sure that both your kernel and system.kext are the same version?

 

type:

uname -a

in terminal to display your kernel version.

 

Go to System/Library/Extensions/ right click on system.kext and select get info. The version number is displayed there.

[xSteveO]

that says 9.2.0 on the System.kext, the kernel is 9.2.2

[Lanceomni]

that says 9.2.0 on the System.kext, the kernel is 9.2.2

 

There are other things that can cause problems with USB but you want to have these versions matching. Im assuming you used "usb fix 1.3.mpkg" from lioNEXT's post. When you run the installer there will be an option to customize before you install. There you can choose both kernel 9.2.2 & system.kext 9.2.2 or just one of them. If im not mistaken 9.2.0 is default in that installer. If for some reason you did choose the correct options and still had problems you can manually install the system.kext.

 

Getting the file

A. From the "usb fix 1.3.mpkg" but you have to dig deep.

1. Right click on "usb fix 1.3.mpkg" and choose "show package contents"

2. Go to Contents\Resources\ and do the same as #1 on "9.2.2 Kernels & System.kext"

3. Go to Contents\Resources\ and do the same as #1 on "9.2.2 System.kext Only"

4. Go to Contents\ and open Archive.pax.gz A folder labled System will apear and system.kext is located down System\Library\Extensions\

B. From various updates on apple's site using Pacifist to pull the file.

C. The forums

 

Manually installing the file

1. Move the old System.kext to the trash

3. Copy system.kext to /System/Library/Extensions

4. Enter your admin password when prompted

5. In Terminal write:

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/system.kext
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

6. Restart and used the boot flags:

-v -f -F

 

-v Verbose

-f Load kexts from extentions folder and not the mkext cache

-F Ignore com.apple.boot.plist. (Remember if you use any other boot flags such as -legacy cpu=1 you need to add those as well.

[xSteveO]

Tried it manually, everything seemed to go fine until I restarted. Tried the -v -f -F commands and nothing happened, can't even boot into safe mode, ideas?

[Lanceomni]

And you just installed system.kext?

 

You can boot in safe mode using -s and replace the file with your old one. If you did not back the original up you should be able to find it similar to the method I explained.

 

Where did you get the system.kext from?