site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On 28 Nov 2005, at 23:03, Carl Smith wrote: _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... Frankly, the best solution IMHO would be to stick with your StartupItem since it avoids the need to ask for root authentication each time you want to load the kext. It's not that complex to add some polling code to check that the kext is loaded. If you need to support 10.4 and later only, a kext control socket can be the solution. As long as you can't connect to the socket, this means your kext is not loaded. Actually after some thought, I think a better question would be, does anyone know of a carbon or generic call that I could use to tell if the ‘Network’ is up before trying to load my NKE from my app? Thanks Carl This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com