Remotely login to terminal, no internet

[MacRumoron]

First of all I made a huge mistake and over wrote the IOUSBFamily.kext file on my iMac G5 with one from my MBP.. don't ask how this happened, long story

anyway, none of my USB devices work anymore including my mouse, keyboard, and internet connection (i connect through usb cable)... the only way i know to fix this is to remotely login to the terminal.. but the problem is my iMac isn't online. I tried connecting to the internet through the ethernet port but it isn't working, i think i have to set the peferences which i can't do w/o a keyboard or mouse

so i am wondering if i can somehow directly link my iMac to my MacBook Pro through a firewire cable and login the terminal from the MBP? or any other solution?

if not, i'll just erase everything, not a huge problem but i'd prefer not to

 

[WildPalms]

Connect the two machines together with a firewire cable and boot your iMac into disk mode by holding T when it boots. After a short while the iMac should appear on your other Mac as a hard drive, where you can then replace the missing file, or perform other maintenance. (be careful with permissions)

See also: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

There are a number of other steps you can take before you need to reload the machine, let me know how you go with that.

p.s. I have a G5 machine if you need the missing kernel extension

 

[MacRumoron]

Connect the two machines together with a firewire cable and boot your iMac into disk mode by holding T when it boots. After a short while the iMac should appear on your other Mac as a hard drive, where you can then replace the missing file, or perform other maintenance. (be careful with permissions)

See also: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

There are a number of other steps you can take before you need to reload the machine, let me know how you go with that.

p.s. I have a G5 machine if you need the missing kernel extension

yea I need the IOUSBFamily.kext file from the /Systems/Library/Extensions/ folder..

I appreciate it a lot

update: i was able to replace the IOUSBFamily.kext file with the firewire cable using files here. It is in .pkg format so I had to use Pacifist to extract the IOUSBFamily.kext file. I dragged it in my iMac HD in the /System/Library/Extensions/ folder and restarted the computer, but still does not work.

Do I need to do something with permissions?