Editing info.plist in System/Library/Extensions

[yusukeaoki]

Hi, Im currently using a 2011 17in MBP.
As many of you would know, this boy only has USB2.0.
I bought a express card USB3.0 last year and it was working all great with
tonymacx86's USB3.0 driver.

However, last week I had my logic board replaced.
After that, my driver no longer worked including my USB3 express card.

I noticed that under Systems/Library/Extensions,
there is a kext file called AppleKextExcludeList.kext.
And bingo, the driver was listed in there.

Im trying to edit the plist but it keeps on telling me all I can make is a duplicate.
I tried editing the permission to me from the Info menu.
Still didnt work.
I just want to delete the GenericUSBXHCI from there.

Running 10.9.1 Maverick.

Any ways?

 

[MacUser2525]

Hi, Im currently using a 2011 17in MBP.
As many of you would know, this boy only has USB2.0.
I bought a express card USB3.0 last year and it was working all great with
tonymacx86's USB3.0 driver.

However, last week I had my logic board replaced.
After that, my driver no longer worked including my USB3 express card.

I noticed that under Systems/Library/Extensions,
there is a kext file called AppleKextExcludeList.kext.
And bingo, the driver was listed in there.

Im trying to edit the plist but it keeps on telling me all I can make is a duplicate.
I tried editing the permission to me from the Info menu.
Still didnt work.
I just want to delete the GenericUSBXHCI from there.

Running 10.9.1 Maverick.

Any ways?

Open Terminal.app in the /Applications/Utilities folder then type in and hit enter key.

sudo nano /Systems/Library/Extensions/AppleKextExcludeList.kext/Contents/Info.plist

Type in your password when asked to edit the file as root to remove the offending line(s). Then you will need to rebuild the .kext cache since your already used to hackintosh tools get the kext helper launch it and it will do it for you after you enter your password.

 

[yusukeaoki]

Open Terminal.app in the /Applications/Utilities folder then type in and hit enter key.

sudo nano /Systems/Library/Extensions/AppleKextExcludeList.kext/Contents/Info.plist

Type in your password when asked to edit the file as root to remove the offending line(s). Then you will need to rebuild the .kext cache since your already used to hackintosh tools get the kext helper launch it and it will do it for you after you enter your password.

Thank you!
I got to the part where I can now edit the kext.

My question from here is, do I just remove the offending line from the info.plist
and copy and paste it in terminal?
I just created a duplicate file on desktop, opened it via textedit and removed the

<key>net.osx86.kexts.GenericUSBXHCI</key>
		<string>1.2.5d5</string>

Then copy and pasted that to terminal.
Now do I WriteOut? I hit WriteOut and then enter but it keeps on giving me errors.

 

[MacUser2525]

Thank you!
I got to the part where I can now edit the kext.

My question from here is, do I just remove the offending line from the info.plist
and copy and paste it in terminal?
I just created a duplicate file on desktop, opened it via textedit and removed the

<key>net.osx86.kexts.GenericUSBXHCI</key>
		<string>1.2.5d5</string>

Then copy and pasted that to terminal.
Now do I WriteOut? I hit WriteOut and then enter but it keeps on giving me errors.

Just delete the two lines in the file while you have it opened for editing in Terminal. To do this put the cursor at the start of the first line then hit the CTRL + K keys at the same time to delete the entire line do it again for the second line then CTRL + O to write the file out hitting enter key to accept the default name the same as the input file was named ie. just an edit of the file then CTRL +X to exit nano then rebuild the caches. Reboot after cache rebuild and it should work again.

 

[yusukeaoki]

Just delete the two lines in the file while you have it opened for editing in Terminal. To do this put the cursor at the start of the first line then hit the CTRL + K keys at the same time to delete the entire line do it again for the second line then CTRL + O to write the file out hitting enter key to accept the default name the same as the input file was named ie. just an edit of the file then CTRL +X to exit nano then rebuild the caches. Reboot after cache rebuild and it should work again.

I hit enter after I finished editing but it keeps on telling me
"[ Error writing /Systems/Library/Extensions/AppleKextExcludeLists/kext/Contents/Info.plist:No such file]"
When clearly, there is the file.

 

[chrfr]

I hit enter after I finished editing but it keeps on telling me
"[ Error writing /Systems/Library/Extensions/AppleKextExcludeLists/kext/Contents/Info.plist:No such file]"
When clearly, there is the file.

No, there is no file at that path. You have the path as /Systems with an "s" at the end. It's just /System.

 

[yusukeaoki]

No, there is no file at that path. You have the path as /Systems with an "s" at the end. It's just /System.

Oh god that is so embarrassing, I totally missed that.
Thank you so much!

Unfortunately, the USB3.0 hack isnt working