Network working..by hand (WAS: Re: on/off topic (fwd))

[Mark S. Mathews]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Samuel Rydh wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:12:57PM -0400, Mark S. Mathews wrote:
> > Ok,
> > 
> > I've managed to get the network i/f under OSX running but only after doing 
> > a kextload by hand.
> > 
> > Any hints on getting OSX to do this at boot-time?
> > 
> They should load automatically. How did you install them?

I thought they should load automagically.  Just aint happening.

I installed them using the installer package from the groovy virtual 
filesystem you've got in there (very cool BTW).

One thing I noted, the README in the virtual fs states that the fs only 
shows up when the drivers are out of date or not installed.  Well, the fs 
appears at every boot.  I don't know if that's indicative of anything.

> One thing you could try is rebuilding the mkext cache 
> by doing '/usr/sbin/kextcache -e -L' as root (if the date
> stamps are wrong, the mkext cache might not be
> rebuilt automatically).

Hmmm, doesn't seem to help.

I ran it w/ -v3 and got these messages:

kextcache: skipping bundle /System/Library/Extensions/MolAudioDevice.kext;
no OSBundleRequired key (still checking plugins)

kextcache: skipping bundle /System/Library/Extensions/MolEnet.kext;
OSBundleRequired key is "Network-Root" (still checking plugins)

I'm not much of a BSD or OSX person, so I have no idea what these mean.  
;-)

Thanks,
-M

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