help with appleonboardpcata.kext

[quickslvr1287]

first off im completly new at this stuff...dont have a clue what im doing in the terminal...but im slowly learning it little by little

 

anyways ive been trying to get scousi's AppleOnboardPCATA.kext to work on my machine but im still having problems

 

i have a zv6000 laptop

AMD Athlon 64

512 MB RAM

80 GB HD

 

im pretty sure im running OS X 10.4.1 (the deadmoo image??)

(did use maxuss patch thingy that lets me run rosetta stuff with SSE2) if that helps

 

if someone could lay out step by step what i need to do to install the kexts correctly in the terminal im sure other newbies and myself would appriciate the instruction...thanks again guys

[Callysto]

If you drop the kext in /System/Library/Extensions folder then all you have to do is repair the permissions you can use terminal or diskutility

 

in a terminal type sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions

and for good measure delete the kextcache in /System/Library then reboot

 

you can load a kext with kextload /System/Library/Extensions/whatever.kext and note the reply from the terminal (make sure the permissions for the kext are correct first though)

[scousi]

If you drop the kext in /System/Library/Extensions folder then all you have to do is repair the permissions you can use terminal or diskutility

 

in a terminal type sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions

and for good measure delete the kextcache in /System/Library then reboot

 

you can load a kext with kextload /System/Library/Extensions/whatever.kext and note the reply from the terminal (make sure the permissions for the kext are correct first though)

 

 

The biggest problem I've seen is that some people have these 2 kext

AppleOnboardPCATA.kext

AppleGenericPCATA.kext

 

 

in the /System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns .

 

You must delete, move them or change the kext extensions (ie kextsav)