USB on AAO

I've had my AAO running Leopard for a couple weeks now. It's dog slow with the SSD, so I'm considering swapping it out with a hard drive. But that's another story. The issue I'm having is that in System Profiler, it recognizes the USB ports, however if I try plugging in anything USB, it won't do anything. I tried restarting the machine with the peripheral plugged in but still no luck. Has anyone else had any issues with USB ports?

 

This is due to a version mismatch of your kernel and system.kext. I assume you are running 9.5.0 kernel - so either find a vanilla 9.5.0 system.kext download or use pacifist to extract it from the apple update. Install kext, and USB will work.

You can verify that the versions are not matched:
In terminal:

Code:

uname -a

Gives you kernel version

Then, in Finder, go to /System/Library/Extensions, right click->Get Info on system.kext. Look at version info.

If the versions do not match, then you will have USB issues.

 

Hmm, you're right. My kernel version is 9.2.0 and my System.kext is 9.2.2.

 

Check out this thread on insanelymac:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=95789

They have a 9.2.0 system.kext link in that post, as well as an auto-fixer program (I have not tried it)