[Wirelessdriver-support] Two PrefPanes, No Connection

[Jason H. <ja...@co...>]

Hello all,

I had been running b1 on my Lombard (with a Farallon Skyline card) since the
early days of OS X with almost no problems. This week, I updated to b4, and
was planning to manually hack it to work when I upgraded to Jaguar, but by
the time I got around to doing it, b5 was out. I upgraded, installed b5, and
restarted. No connection.

Going to System Prefs I discovered I had 2 WirelessDriver PrefPanes.
Reinstalled. No go. Decided to just restart one more time and see what
happened. On reboot, I still had two PrefPanes, but the connection was up.
All was well for a day.

This evening, I lost my connection. I tried rebooting. I tried powering down
the card and reinserting it (which I tried the night before with no
problems). On insert, the system crashed.

Rebooted, still no go. Decided to try taking matters into my own hands.
Snooping around, I found the two copies of WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane.
One was in '/System/Library/PrefPanes' and the other was in
'/Library/PrefPanes'.

They appeared to be identical except for the creation and modification
dates, so I deleted the older one. Rebooted. Only had one PrefPane, but
still no connection. Tried reinstalling again, and the installer errored
out. Copied the newer WD PrefPane folder over to where I'd deleted the older
one and rebooted. Two PrefPanes again, still no connection. Reinstalled
without errors, rebooted, still no connection.

So now I am tethered to my cable modem. Doesn't seem like that PrefPane
folder belongs in both locations. Figure my best bet is to delete both
folders and start from scratch - but will that get everything?? Has this
sort of thing happened to anyone else? Suggestions?

Many thanks,
Jason