serious help needed with Kernel Extensions

Basically I've screwed a number of things up on my system such as sound input/output, my USB ports and my airport card. I'm not quite sure how I've done it but its through the kextload function in the Terminal. When I try and reload these particular Kernel Extensions I get errors along the lines of "Missing Dependencies" and basically cannot reload these extensions and therefore I'm not getting sound output or my airport card isn't working. Could anyone point me in the right direction of how to sort out these "dependencies"???

Thanks....

Nathan

 

bummer, that's what I was really hoping to avoid. Is there anyway possible to cure this problem without having to reinstall the system?!!!

 

i do have some idea of what the command does but obviously not enough cos I've done something that's messed it up. already been through the kextload manual loads but haven't been successful in figuring out what i've done.

thanks for the pointers though. how is an Archive and Install performed? I presume this just lets me backup all the stuff I need, wipe the system and then install them all back onto the newly installed system?

thanks very much for the help, really appreciate it...

 

nice one, cheers ;-)

 

I found a nice easy and hassle free way of solving this problem yesterday, without the need to reinstall my system or anything like that.

All I did was remove the file 'Extensions.kextcache' (from System/Library/Extensions) to a different folder in the hope that OS X would just recreate a new kext cache file upon reboot. That's exactly what it did!

Thank goodness I didn't bother with the hassle of reinstalling the system...phew!