Re: [Fed-Talk] SCR331 works with iBook, not Powerbook
Re: [Fed-Talk] SCR331 works with iBook, not Powerbook
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] SCR331 works with iBook, not Powerbook
- From: Michael Kluskens <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:59:48 -0500
On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Zinnato, Ronald NAVAIR wrote:
I have an ActivCard reader that I am trying to use to get my NMCI
email (https://webmail.nmci.navy.mil). Several months ago, we
tried hooking it up to my wife's PowerBook using the ActivCard Gold
software that I found at a SPAWAR site.
That's the paperclip in the electrical outlet.
I downloaded and successfully upgraded the firmware to version 5.18.
Good there, now your reader is fully supported by OS X 10.4.x via the
Keychain subsystem--better than mine I'm sure.
Then I decided to try it on her PowerBook. Remember, this laptop
had the ActivCard Gold software loaded at one time. I deleted
every trace of it that I could find.
You are going to have to do an archive and reinstall on the
PowerBook. Probably want to back up all your/her files to DVD-R/CD-R
just in case you push the wrong button or miss the right button.
If you want any of the bundled software you need to reinstall using
the DVD/CD's that came with the Powerbook and than update after doing
the reinstall. You just insert the Install DVD/CD, click on the icon
and it reboots the machine, then you get to reinstall, I believe it
is the middle choice with the extra option for importing/keeping
existing users files and preferences checked. Read all the choices,
it's fairly obvious which is one is "Archive and Reinstall". While
you're at it when you get to the install section, choose custom and
uncheck all those languages you don't plan to use on the powerbook.
Print drivers depend on what printers you might interact with, some
take 10 or 100 times as much space as others. I can do an archive
and reinstall in a hour or two and the only difference is that the
machine is much cleaner afterwards. Almost certainly you'll only
have a couple updates to install, typically a combo update to the
latest release of OS X. If your install DVD/CD is OS X 10.3, I'm not
aware of a need to update to 10.3.9 before installing 10.4 and then
the 10.4.5 combo updater (an OS X 10.4.3 DVD has been shipping, I
prefer to use that if possible). A couple of third party software
packages will need to be reinstalled: anti-virus and StuffIt Deluxe
are the ones I remember best--any program that messes with the lower
levels of the OS needs to be reinstalled--of course you should
question the safety of any program that needs to be reinstalled after
an archive and reinstall.
After you are happy with the machine there is a folder called
Previous Systems (sp?) that you should eventually get rid of to save
space).
Michael
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