borczm said:
btw, where did you get it? I went to the Apple store and was told the only way to get the Lion was to download it from Apple, when I attempt I get the following message:
"Your device or computer could not be verified. Contact support for assistance."
How did you get around it???
This is a problem with you ethernet card not being detected as built-in = true and en0
if you go to finder then from the menu chose
Go -> Go to Folder
Then type /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
From the folder open the NetworkInterfaces.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Interfaces</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Active</key>
<true/>
<key>BSD Name</key>
<string>en0</string>
<key>IOBuiltin</key>
<true/>
<key>IOInterfaceType</key>
<integer>6</integer>
<key>IOInterfaceUnit</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>IOMACAddress</key>
<data>
bPBJwTIg
</data>
<key>IOPathMatch</key>
See the above entries in red (There is more in the file but they are the line that need to be fixed) You cannot do this by typing it in you will need to enter a efi string for your graphics card.
Instructions for generating a efi string for you ethernet are at
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofive ... 14349.html
Once you have added the generated string to com.apple.Boot.plist in Extra folder you will also have to delete the NetworkInterfaces.plist file and the Network interfaces in System Preferences -> Network. Then you reboot which will generate a new NetworkInterfaces.plist file you can check that this has worked by looking at the new file the red entries should now be correct and you will be able to enter the mac appstore. you could also use google to find a copy at the usual sources and then purchase once they have fixed these errors. I don't usually advocate using unofficial sources but as apple have dropped the ball here I think that its ok as long as you intend to purchase once they have ironed out the Macstore bugs.
