iLearnFast Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I have been using iatkos s3v2 for about six months. Everything worked fine until I updated to 10.6.6. After I installed 10.6.6, my usb ports immediately quit functioning properly. They work fine for a mouse and keyboard, but they won't read my flash drives, external hard drives, or cd/dvds. The flash drives are formatted to fat and fat32 and the external is formatted to exFat. None of them show up on the desktop, disk utility, or system profiler, but all of them show up on my pc. I reinstalled iatkos s3v2 without updating to 10.6.6 thinking that would fix it, but it still don't work. Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it? BTW: it is an acer aspire one d15o if that helps. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 If you're using a patched kernel, update it. As far as I know, kernel version must match system version or you get that problem with USB devices. At least that's how it was on Leopard. USB breaking after updating to 10.6.6 seems to be a common problem, use the forum search or google to find others in the same situation. I believe one solution is to use IOUSBFamily.kext from 10.6.4 or 10.6.5, not sure. I didn't have this issue myself. Sorry to keep editing this post but the new users lounge require new posts to be approved by a moderator before they appear and that sometimes takes a while. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLearnFast Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 If you're using a patched kernel, update it. Kernel version must match system version. How would I go about doing that? Forgive me, a nube when it comes to mac. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 First you need to find out which kernel you're using. Tell me what make and model CPU is in your laptop. Run Terminal.app and type uname -a Post the output here. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLearnFast Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 I have an intel atom in my laptop. System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 Kernel Version: Darwin 10.3.0 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc0hdz Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 have you tried installing USB Rollback from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]? it worked for me. if usb mouse is not working, try booting with -F thats how i got to go in OS X with mouse working. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I have an intel atom in my laptop. System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 Kernel Version: Darwin 10.3.0 Everything worked fine until I updated to 10.6.6. After I installed 10.6.6, my usb ports immediately quit functioning properly. Try this kernel "Patched mach_kernel 10.6.0 for Atom-based netbooks" http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=197020 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLearnFast Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Thanks, I'll have to wait until my wireless adapter comes in the mail to try, cause I don't have a way to get the download to my mac. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 How do you plan to use that without working USB ports? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLearnFast Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 That is a good question. If I reinstall iatkos s3 without selecting the patched atom kernel, would my usb ports work again? and if so, how do I update to 10.6.6 without losing functionality of my usb ports, or if Im not using a patched kernel, will I not have to worry about losing functionality when updating. BTW, Thank you guys so much for helping me. EDIT: just tried reinstalling without selecting "atom kernel" and it just started loop booting so that won't work. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLearnFast Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Update!: I reinstalled iatkos s3v2 with the atom kernel, and now the usb ports work again But now, my software version is back to 10.6.3 and my kernel version is 10.3.0 how do I update to 10.6.6 without losing functionality of usb ports? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobi2003 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I have been using iatkos s3v2 for about six months. Everything worked fine until I updated to 10.6.6. After I installed 10.6.6, my usb ports immediately quit functioning properly. They work fine for a mouse and keyboard, but they won't read my flash drives, external hard drives, or cd/dvds. The flash drives are formatted to fat and fat32 and the external is formatted to exFat. None of them show up on the desktop, disk utility, or system profiler, but all of them show up on my pc. I reinstalled iatkos s3v2 without updating to 10.6.6 thinking that would fix it, but it still don't work. Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it? BTW: it is an acer aspire one d15o if that helps. The exact same thing happened to me yesterday when I finally was able to update to 10.6.6. Everything worked except for all my usb port on my EEEpc1000h. I'm using Klohanne's method on his 10.6.4 post on this site. I found that if I used the usb installer flash drive to boot, then point it to boot from the hard drive install my usb port work again along with the flash card reader. I'm a newbie and don't understand what's on the flash drive that's not on the hard drive. But after trial and error of copying different files from the flash drive to my hard drive install I found that preboot.dmg in the extra folder gets everything working. I'm sure this is not the best way to fix it but it works for me. I haven't successfully tried the s3v2 method but I checked and unfortunately did not see a preboot.dmg file on the s3v2 image. If you haven't tried it, it's still worth a shot to try and use your usb flash drive to boot first. If anything at least to gain access to your drives. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Update!: I reinstalled iatkos s3v2 with the atom kernel, and now the usb ports work again But now, my software version is back to 10.6.3 and my kernel version is 10.3.0 how do I update to 10.6.6 without losing functionality of usb ports? been covered many, many, many times already, but i will be nice so read carefully... 1. Update to 10.6.4 2. restart 3. go to S/L/E and copy IOUSBFamily.kext and IOUSBMassStorage.kext to your desktop. 4. Update to 10.6.5 5. DO NOT RESTART 6. copy the 2 kexts from your desktop TO S/L/E (either you copy and paste it or use some utility) 7. Repair permission 8. Reboot 9. Update to 10.6.6 10. repeat steps 6 to 8. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1629968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLearnFast Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 It worked!! Thank you guys!!!! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1630383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 It worked!! Thank you guys!!!! Congrats. Glad we could help and glad you learned something Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/245076-my-usb-ports-quit-working/#findComment-1630403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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