USB Not working

[mroarsome]

I have just installed the Kalaway OS X 10.5 DVD on my Compaq V5101 laptop. Everything seems to be working - video - sound - networking - except for the USB ports. If I plug in a USB mouse for instance, it gets power and lights up, but does not move the pointer on the screen. Same goes for a USB HDD, it spins up, but does not mount.

 

Under System Profiler all four USB ports come up. Here is the first one's details as under System Profiler:

 

USB Bus:

 

Host Controller Location: Built In USB

Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBUHCI

PCI Device ID: 0x27c8

PCI Revision ID: 0x0001

PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086

Bus Number: 0x1d

 

Here is the guff on my laptop (probably not relevant):

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...193&lang=en

 

Any Idea's on how to get them to communicate?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

[mroarsome]

I jsut fired up a Ubuntu live CD to see the exact USB controller used, it is the following:

 

USB:

 

82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller

 

Please help!

[mroarsome]

Yes! I fixed it

 

Well actually I didn't fix it, But found the answer here:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=28559

 

You just need to download:

 

1. Darwin 9.0.0 - Attached File PCGenUSBEHCI_303.4.5.kext.zip ( 121.04K )

 

and then open up terminal and follow these instructions:

 

sudo su

rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleUSBEHCI.kext

cp -R <path to>/PCGenUSBEHCI.kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/PCGenUSBEHCI.kext

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/PCGenUSBEHCI.kext

touch /System/Library/Extensions

shutdown -r now

 

And it should all work. Let me know if it doesn't.