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I have an acer aspire and I have an atheos ar5b93 network card and I need a kext for that, plus I have an audio card that's supported by voodoohda, and I used ideneb to patch the hda file, it says it's 32bit only and 10.6 doesn't support it. Please help

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Drop it in /System/Library/Extensions, then fix permissions...

sudo -s (type your password when prompted and press enter, don't worry it's supposed to be invisible)
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R go=u-w /System/Library/Extensions
touch /System/Library/Extensions/

...and reboot.

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Drop it in /System/Library/Extensions, then fix permissions...

sudo -s (type your password when prompted and press enter, don't worry it's supposed to be invisible)
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R go=u-w /System/Library/Extensions
touch /System/Library/Extensions/

...and reboot.

Or just drop it into kext utility and all that is done for you.

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I prefer to do as much as I can manually. Sometimes you just don't have access to GUI tools and then you're {censored}ed if you don't know how to do things from Terminal.

 

Actually I use Kext Utility to repack my extensions.mkext but that's all I use it for. The last (and only) time I ran it on S/L/E it set the permissions wrong.

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I prefer to do as much as I can manually. Sometimes you just don't have access to GUI tools and then you're {censored}ed if you don't know how to do things from Terminal.

 

Actually I use Kext Utility to repack my extensions.mkext but that's all I use it for. The last (and only) time I ran it on S/L/E it set the permissions wrong.

Never had any problem with it myself. I just suggested it as the OP didn't seem overly knowledgable, that's all.

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Exactly...and what I did was pass that knowledge to him.

 

Fixing permissions via Terminal following the directions above requires the ability to read, type and pay attention. Maybe I'm expecting too much, you tell me!

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Maybe I'm expecting too much, you tell me!

I have no idea what the OP's capabilities are. That is why I offered an alternative approach. Not saying that one is better than the other.

Now, the OP can choose which is most appropriate for him.

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You're right..of course.

 

When I have the patience for it I try to learn to do stuff from Terminal instead of using all those helper apps that are floating around.

 

Don't get me wrong, I have all of those apps and utilities and I use them sometimes, maybe I'm a freak but it feels satisfying to do those things manually from Terminal, I feel like I'm more in control of what's happening. So that's what I try to pass on.

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