noob permissions question.

[JammerML]

ok, so I've got drivers that I am copying over to the /System/Library/Extensions. After one reboot the driver works fine....after a second reboot, throws a error message that the extension was installed incorrectly......I can repeat this ad infinitum. I am pretty sure that this is related to the permissions set on these files.

 

What am I doing wrong?

[awesomo]

deleting the old ones?

[JammerML]

deleting the old ones?

 

funny....

[hecker]

Set the permissions like this:

Open Terminal and write

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/* 
sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/* 
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache (not needed for Leopard)
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

(Enter your admin password when asked)

then reboot.

[JammerML]

Set the permissions like this:

Open Terminal and write

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/* 
sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/* 
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache (not needed for Leopard)
sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

(Enter your admin password when asked)

then reboot.

 

I've done this....hmmmm....I'll try it again.

[hecker]

Make sure that the files you copied to the Extensions folder are really the ones you need.

To copy them you need to use the -R switch, since a kext file is actually a directory.

Like this:

sudo cp -R yourkextfile.kext /System/Library/Extensions/

 

What is it that you are trying to install? Can you tell us exactly which steps you took?

[JammerML]

Make sure that the files you copied to the Extensions folder are really the ones you need.

To copy them you need to use the -R switch, since a kext file is actually a directory.

Like this:

sudo cp -R yourkextfile.kext /System/Library/Extensions/

 

What is it that you are trying to install? Can you tell us exactly which steps you took?

 

 

Sure, These are drivers for a broadcom ethernet card. in particular the AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.

 

I am literally dragging and dropping this file, and choosing to replace, and authenticating, then going into a terminal and resetting the permissions.

[hecker]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Did you try setting the permissions with the asterisk (*), like I explained before? This will change the file permissions for the whole directory.

[JammerML]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Did you try setting the permissions with the asterisk (*), like I explained before? This will change the file permissions for the whole directory.

 

trying right now

[raff]

Or boot into installation Dvd and by going into disk utilty, you repair permissions for all the filesystem!

[JammerML]

I've done this....hmmmm....I'll try it again.

 

thyis appeared to fix my problems...I was fixing permissions on indiviual files, not the entire directory.

[raff]

Glad to know!!!