OS X no longer sees AirPort Card

Wolfman-K

Wolfman-K

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I'm using a Powerbook G4 1.67 with 2gb Ram. OS X 10.4.6

I recently installed PocketMacBB for usb syncing between my PowerBook and my Blackberry. Upon the manditory restart, OS X gave me the following error message.

SYSTEM EXTENTION CANNOT BE USED

/System/Library/Extentions/AppleAirPort2.kext was installed improperly and cannot be used....

I have looked at the appropriate plist fiels and can't see anything obviously out of place but then again I don't exactly know what I am looking for.

I tried reinstalling MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.6PPC from a suggestion on a related thread, when I searched for this problem. No luck there.

Any thoughts?

Is there an easy way to reinstall the AirPort drivers?
 
Check Apple's website and see if they have the latest installation of the Airport Software. You could probably download the update manually and then install it from the desktop. Hopefully that would go about repairing the affected file.
 
Yes I did that too... all of that is either firmware for the airport base station or for older versions of the OS. I even tried those assuming I could get updates after I installed them but the installer sees that I have 10.4.6 and won't install them.

:(
 
I solved it..... and I feel so stupid too. With such a nice GUI its easy to forget the unix roots of OS X.

What would you do if this happened in linux?

repair permissions of course... duh.

anyway problem solved. :D
 
A little off-topic, but you asked about what would be done in Linux.

I've searched high and low for an answer to that question about whether there's a Repair Permissions command in Linux orany other Unix for that matter. Apparently, there isn't since there is no such thing as a "default" set of permissions (according to some forums I've Googled). So I guess it's a plus for OS X? :o
 
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