How Do I Install A Driver On My Mac?

[chaseardoin7]

I recently purchased a cheap little camera off of e-bay. When I plug it in to my mac, it says that it is not readable (or something of that sort). I read the manual for the camera and it said that I need to install two drivers that they provided on a CD. One is called AkResData.Bin and the other is Magin.bin. I currently have those files on sitting on my desktop, now where, and how do I install them?


chase

 

[kkat69]

Are you sure those are OS X drivers? Typically *.bin are Windows files.

Did you try to goto the manufacturers website?

 

[chaseardoin7]

no manf. website, like i said, this camera is super cheap, i'm using it for student research. the cd that came with the camera is on a cd-r disc, lol, it's that bad. if i double click the .bin files, they are archived as a .cpgz file, does that mean anything?

 

[SpookyLars]

.bin -- it's also binary image that can be opened by free StuffIt Expander.

 

[chaseardoin7]

i just tried it in the stuffit expander that you referred me to. it says that the file is con compressed or encoded.

 

[spinnerlys]

Maybe a card reader can help.

It spares you the trouble with suspicious files.

Does the camera have a card?

 

[chaseardoin7]

there is no card, it's internal memory (4gb).
this thing is such a headache.

 

[pit29]

Do you have some more info? What's the name of the camera, which version of OS X are you using?

 

[chaseardoin7]

Do you have some more info? What's the name of the camera, which version of OS X are you using?

there is no brand name on the camera
running the latest version of leopard

 

[chaseardoin7]

okay, nevermind. I got pissed off last night and broke the camera in half. may it rest in pieces.