[onlyone-jc]

Hi.

I installed a LaCie Combo Firewire/USB PCMCIA card in my computer this morning. I installed the drivers, clicked restart, and upon reboot I was faced with what looked like a kernel panic (something telling me to restart the computer in a few different languages). So, I restarted the computer, and the same thing happen upon every succession.

I managed to boot up in to Safe Mode, install the drivers again (I just ran the installer again), and then tried a normal boot, which was successful.

Upon testing the firewire buss, it seems a little temperamental. At one point, the device I have connected to it dropped out. I had to eject and re-enter the PCMCIA card again in order to recover from it.

I've noticed a new little icon on the Finder bar, which is displaying that I have a PCMCIA card in the slot. When I click on it, I get a menu with a list of items; Unknown Vendor, USB Controller, and Power off Card. Shouldn't it state LaCie here, instead of Unknown Vendor?

Does anybody have any clues as to how I can resolve this? If needed, how would I uninstall the drivers for the card? Where will they be stored on the system? Is there a hardware installer/uninstaller application hidden in OS X, at all?

Thanks,
onlyone-jc.

[Leonard]

Are you using this in a Powerbook? I asume you're not using this in a MacBook Pro, I don't think it'll work in a MacBook Pro.

LaCie doesn't give much info on it. They don't even have a driver download for it for the Mac that I can find. I assume you have the drivers off a CD? Strange LaCie doesn't have a download for the drivers, I would have imagined there was a driver update aat some point.

The Unistaller would have come with the installer. My guess is you're looking for a .kext file. I can't remember where they are stored, though. There might have been other things installed besides the driver though.

[onlyone-jc]

Thanks for your reply, Leonard! I figured it out, and what I figured is that the drivers I installed were for the USB buss, which appears fine. It's the firewire buss I'm having problems with. It seems to be pretty much plug-and-play (i.e. I put the card in, and the busses just appear, regardless of drivers).

Anyway, when I open up the System Profiler and click on FireWire, the System Profiler just randomly quits. Then when I select to report it, the send report window quits as well. It's weird. I've just reinstalled OS X, so I know that it's definitely not a software issue. Faulty hardware unit, do you think?

Thanks,
onlyone-jc.

[onlyone-jc]

I managed to copy the error report before it quit, and the error codes are:

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Any ideas what this is referring to? Is it the memory? It doesn't seem right that there be a problem with the memory, since this system has been fine before I installed this card.

Thanks,
onlyone-jc.

[onlyone-jc]

I tested my memory both with an extended Apple hardware test and memtest, and it passed everything. So, surely it's not the memory?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
onlyone-jc.

[onlyone-jc]

I put the card in again, and connected a device to it, and to my surprise, it now seems to work! *is very confused!* Although, it does still state that it's by an 'Unknown Vendor', but then maybe that's just the way it is? I'm not sure.

onlyone-jc.