USB card installation

Hi all,
I hope not to break the rules - but I am transferring my post from: +Mac OS X & Related s/w >>OS X Panther & earlier>> installation & setup+. (perhaps I put it in the wrong place). Here is my original post:
""I am new to OS X. I've only just installed it on the Mac below. The computer had OS 9.2.2, which it still has on a separate partition. I installed OS X 13.3.2 onto a partition that did not have any system on it, and then updated it to 10.3.9. No problems so far,
Just previously to installing OS X I had fitted a 5-port USB PCI card which 9.2.2 did not recognise; the card is one of these cheap ones (Pluscom with a VIA chip) and it says on the tin that OS 10.2, 10.3, &10.4 are supported.
Well, it didn't work unaided in 9.2.2, which prompted me to install Panther.
When all this is done it still doesn't mount the USB flash drive when inserted into a socket on the card. So I visited the makers site and downloaded a OS X driver. It arrived as a .dmg file and it unzipped itself and I now have a folder with the following files in it:
Archive.bom
Archive.pax
Info.plist
Pkginfo
Resources, a folder containing:
Description.plist
postflight
VIAMACUSB-160.bom
VIAMACUSB-160.info
VIAMACUSB-160.pax
VIAMACUSB-160.sizes
My question is - how do I install this driver?""
edit: When I d/l this driver from makers site Safari automatically expands/decompresses and the result is a folder containing the above, and I don't know what to do with it. Please help me sort this out, thanks.
John

Usually the "cheap" PC cards don't work on Macs.
See USB 2.0 PCI Cards
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/B8B574BC-BB45-4B3E-9D9B-F97EBB3 230BC.html
Best bet is any card with a NEC PD720100 or PD720101 chipset. Stick with the NEC chip, and try NOT to use drivers, OS X should't need drivers.
All of these Cards are NEC chipset based
Adaptec 3100LP
BAFO BF-460
Belkin F5U220
GWC UC-160
IOGear GIC250U & GIC251U
Keyspan U2PCI-5
O'toLink U2-C2A, U2-C2B, U2-P20N & U2-P50
Ratoc PCIU5
USBWholesale UII-PCIP
I use an IOGear GIC251U in my G4 & have had no problems. Was plug 'n play when I had Panther.
 Cheers, Tom

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(1) USB Support
(2) USB Mass Storage Support
(3) USB Device Extension
(4) USB Software Locator
(5) HID Library
(6) SerialShimLib
(7) ENETShimLib
How many ports are on the card? On older legacy Macs, I generally installed USB 1.1 cards having 2 ports. An external powered hub is useful, if there are many devices to connect - especially a bus-powered hard drive. I'd also recommend installing more memory. OS 9.1 could use a little more than 64 MBs of installed memory.

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The card readers I have tried are an older specific CF card reader branded as Palm, & a USB 2 multi card reader branded as Travel Flash. With both readers, the lights on the readers flash on & off, & the MBP recognises the card & the files will even appear both in Finder & in i-Photo, so it starts importing, then aborts with an error message saying:
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(Error code -36)'
& another message saying:
'the disk was not ejected properly'.
So it appears the MBP does read the CF cards but the card readers don't stay connected, no matter what angle I put them on or however many times I re-connect them.
Yes, they are probably cheap & I want to buy a decent one.
So, in summary:
the card reader needs to work when the MBPR is only on battery power (I read in some forums that some USB card readers aren't so reliable on the laptop's battery power)
the card reader needs to be quite fast. I have read the USB 3 readers won't read CF cards at higher than USB 2 speeds. Is this true? Are the firewire connected ones faster, & if so, are they still reliable on the MBP's battery power?
From research, it appears my problem is associated with my specific model of Mac & platform, being MacBook Retina on Mountain Lion OSX Version 10.83. If any of the recommended card readers have been successful with this, plese let me know.
Thanks heaps for the suggestions so far.

Unable to Install OS X Yosemite from USB Bootable Installer

I have created a Yosemite USB bootable installer using similar instructions (I changed source and target names as appropriate) as provided to create a Mavericks USB bootable installer - Creating a bootable OS X installer in OS X Mavericks
Target disk has been wiped clean, verified, partitioned, etc.
After booting from the USB bootable installer, and agreeing to the terms of the software license agreement and choosing the newly cleaned disk to have OS X installed on, installation starts and the following dialogue box appears ...
"This copy of the Install OS X Yosemite application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading."
Thinking I may have corrupted something I re-downloaded Yosemite, walked through the whole process and received the same 'sad' results.
I also followed the same process with Mavericks -- same message with "Mavericks" instead of "Yosemite".
Equipment: MacBook Pro -- Model A1286
Error logs (from the installer) are verbose but don't seem to have any unusual 'complaints'.
Any thoughts?

You can try a few things. That message is likely due to a network problem.
Try signing in and downloading while ethernet connected.
Try another network.
Or you can try:
Removed files below located within /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
- com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
- com.apple.network.identification.plist
- com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist
- NetworkInterfaces.plist
- preferences.plist
Restart the computer, connect to your network and try downloading again.

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