Is it possible to use iMessage without an Apple ID? Is that safe?
No I had, but after a brief reprise, this morning I got the dreaded Call Support message. So I'm assuming I fell in the cracks of the servers somehow, but they caught up to me.
Sorry for the false hopes.
EDIT: my then joy, which became disappointment, is now down right despair!!!
I'll try to be clear: for some odd reason, my network card doesn't show up under About this Mac/.../Eternet Cards. Actually nothing shows up there at all. Yet my Wifi card works just fine (TP-Link WDN4800), and it shows up in DPCI Manager, but not as built-in. Anyway I followed all the instructions to add the strings and all and in the end it works fine and I can connect to iCloud.
However... for some odd ball reason it completely kills my audio! I'm on a GA-Z77X-UP5 TH with the proper ALC898 kext. It works fine as long as I don't mess with the built-in string in org.chameleon.boot.plist, but then iCloud doesn't work!
I've replicated this 7 times, so I'm dead sure that's the problem. The thing is both audio AND the App Store are deal breakers for me.
Anyone can point me in the right direction??
I've looked in Audio troubleshooting, but it's not an audio problem since it works as long as I don't fiddle with the NIC. But the fact even my Intel Ethernet card doesn't show up really makes me think it's a NIC problem, but the Wifi works and even DPCI Manager tells me it's there and working...
I really don't know where to look anymore......