Links that really helped.

[chinoy]

How about links that get to the point.

Instead off making you read 50 pages and still leave you wondering.

 

Here is one which replaced 10 days of reading with one page.

 

Please post such gems for 10.6

 

http://insanelywind.com/wiki/index.php/Kext_Downloads

[greensonu]

thanks

[Rhapa]

Where's the difference? I learned a different way to install kexts in Snow in the Portuguese section:

 

1. Put the kext that'll be installed in the Personal Folder (Finder - Shift+Command+H)

2. In a terminal window get the permissions for the kext:

 

sudo chown -R 0:0 kext_name.kext

sudo chmod -R 755 kext_name.kext

 

3. Load the kext before installing it for avoiding problems in next boot:

 

sudo kextload kext_name.kext

 

4. If there's no problem, install it:

 

sudo mv kext_name.kext /System/Library/Extensions

 

5. Make sure if there is another kext that may conflict. If there's rename it.

6. Update the kext's cache:

 

If you're running Leopard just delete the file that it'll be recreated:

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

 

If you're running Snow Leopard:

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

 

Original Post (in portuguese): http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=209655

[Beerkex'd]

Exactly, "where's the difference".

 

Also, my apologies for going off on a tangent here but...

 

How about links that get to the point.

What point do you want to get to? I can show you many links about how to do many different things. for example, if you're looking for information on how to install kernel extensions on 10.5.x:

http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/04/all-about-kext.html

Or if you're using PATA devices on a Hackintosh with 4GB RAM or more and you can't figure out why it keeps crashing when transferring large files:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127611

Or if you want to know how to implement native CPU state switching via DSDT:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181631

Or how to make a Chameleon boot CD:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=160234

 

I have a huge collection of bookmarks and I could go on forever but what's useful to me might be gibble gobble to you.

 

Look at this guide by Lanceomni, it is totally to the point and covers everything you would possibly want to know about the subject:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=148566

..yet for some reason the thread is 8 pages long, and still the questions that are covered in it get asked nearly every day all across the forum. Well not as much as they used to for that particular subject, but you get the point.

 

Instead off making you read 50 pages and still leave you wondering.

Nobody is holding a gun to your head!

 

Nobody knows what you know and what you don't know, which is why nobody can write a tutorial that's perfect for you. If you do find one that applies to your hardware, is easy to follow, and you actually understand everything it says, you're either lucky, good at using google, or you read the tutorial before you bought the hardware.

 

So you found that page (link quoted below) by chance (a link in in a forum) or you found it with google. Others can that too and they will eventually find what they are looking for. If they don't find exactly what they're looking for, they take a little bit here and a little bit there and use what works for them.

 

Maybe one day you can write your own tutorial or guide on something. And then you can shake your head when people keep asking what it means, when, as far as you are concerned, it says right there in plain English.

 

http://insanelywind.com/wiki/index.php/Kext_Downloads

That page is great if you have an MSI Wind. For people with different hardware - not so great.

 

You can post a {censored}load of links here that you believe contain useful information but it'll not make any difference, people will still ask what to do about "Still Waiting for Root Device".

 

Oh, the answer to that is here btw, but that won't stop people from asking:

http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/05/still...oot-device.html

http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/11/still...-device-ii.html

 

One mans trash is another mans treasure. Keep on trucking!!

[mooquu]

How about links that get to the point.

Instead off making you read 50 pages and still leave you wondering.

 

Here is one which replaced 10 days of reading with one page.

 

Please post such gems for 10.6

 

http://insanelywind.com/wiki/index.php/Kext_Downloads

 

thanks that really helped! you da man

[Beerkex'd]

no, you da man dogg!! You passed the five post noob-limit by posting random "thanks" in unrelated threads!

 

(your DX58SO guide is nice though)