The New Beginner's Guide to USB Port Configuration

Edhawk said:

Could I ask a question:??

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dsk said:

Hi Everyone

I wanted to change the 15 usb ports in use as i found it wasnt the best way i had them set up. I went back to the "The New Beginner's Guide to USB Port Configuration" but it said to set up USB configuration in Catalina as allowing all usb ports to work to chose the 15 from doesnt work in later osx.

I already have a working USBPorts.kext can i just go into this in proper tree and switch ports on and off as i already know the numbers of the ports. Looking at this in proper tree i dont understand how to do this. Sorry i am a bit of a noob.

Any tips appreciated , i have attached a screen shot of the proper tree with it open. For each port i can see

Data and USBconnector number.

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Grandy said:

hi, i need expert help. i installed monterey and time has come to set usb ports. i found this guide along with few others but i couldnt make it to work as i dont have catalina. yet i have sierra and what i did is:
- booted sierra, loaded hackintool and exported usbports.kext
- edited plist inside that kext and changed smbios to the one i use now on monterey
- moved that kext to efi partition and booted monterey
- now in hackintool/usb i see different ports than i saw in the first place, i see the same as is in sierra hackintool/usb
- what is confusing me is that i dont see that usbports.kext is loaded when i go to hackintool/extensions
- how can i know if everything is ok now? my usb ports work and they did work before, before this i had a problem with mouse lagging when i plug in usb audio card, now i dont have that problem

here is the screenshot i saw before and what i see now

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UtterDisbelief said:

Hi there.

Well done on editing the Info.plist - that's a step further than most make.

Yes, that's correct, USBPorts.kext should not show as a loaded kext either in Hackintool or the 'kextstat' Terminal command. That is because it has no executable - which would normally be cached by macOS - and all it is doing is patching the DSDT.

If you have any problems with your new ports, that's a different issue etc.

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UtterDisbelief said:

Hi there.

With USBPorts.kext you don't switch ports on or off, instead you add or delete them because the kext is patching the DSDT.

You can certainly manually edit the Info.plist to do this. The easiest way is to select a port you do not want and edit the details to one you do want.

For example:

If you wish to change port HS09 to HS14 and change it from a USB3 port to Internal, take a look at this section of the plist -

<key>HS09</key>
<dict>
<key>UsbConnector</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>name</key>
<string>HS09</string>
<key>port</key>
<data>
CQAAAA==
</data>
</dict>

... and edit it like this, remembering to change the base64 number accordingly -

<key>HS14</key>
<dict>
<key>UsbConnector</key>
<integer>255</integer>
<key>name</key>
<string>HS14</string>
<key>port</key>
<data>
DgAAAA==
</data>
</dict>

For clarity you should also move the code segment into the correct place in the file.

If you just want to remove a port then delete the complete section for it as shown above. The "port-count" variable will remain the same unless you remove the last port in your list.

I did the above in a plain-text editor but you can use whatever software you like as long as it produces plain, XML text.

Sorry it may not seem as straight-forward as you would like, but that's why we often recommend using Catalina and Hackintool.

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UtterDisbelief said:

Hi there.

With USBPorts.kext you don't switch ports on or off, instead you add or delete them because the kext is patching the DSDT.

You can certainly manually edit the Info.plist to do this. The easiest way is to select a port you do not want and edit the details to one you do want.

For example:

If you wish to change port HS09 to HS14 and change it from a USB3 port to Internal, take a look at this section of the plist -

<key>HS09</key>
<dict>
<key>UsbConnector</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>name</key>
<string>HS09</string>
<key>port</key>
<data>
CQAAAA==
</data>
</dict>

... and edit it like this, remembering to change the base64 number accordingly -

<key>HS14</key>
<dict>
<key>UsbConnector</key>
<integer>255</integer>
<key>name</key>
<string>HS14</string>
<key>port</key>
<data>
DgAAAA==
</data>
</dict>

For clarity you should also move the code segment into the correct place in the file.

If you just want to remove a port then delete the complete section for it as shown above. The "port-count" variable will remain the same unless you remove the last port in your list.

I did the above in a plain-text editor but you can use whatever software you like as long as it produces plain, XML text.

Sorry it may not seem as straight-forward as you would like, but that's why we often recommend using Catalina and Hackintool.

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dsk said:

Thank you so much i know get how to

Thank you so much , i have made some progress i have my front usb-c port working but when i look in hackintool i am only getting a speed of 480 mbps . I have attached my usbMap.kext (as Info.plist) and a screen shot of hackintool if anyone could give me some pointers i would really appreciate it.

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UtterDisbelief said:

Okay.

You need to create a ZIP archive of your USB kext (or Info.plist) because otherwise macOS will not make it available to view.

Thanks.

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