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September 21, 2009

CNQL1208_ClassicNotSeize.kext

If you have an older Canon scanner attached to your Mac, you're lucky, because Canon is very good at keeping older hardware drivers up to date. The usual update procedure is that you delete the previous driver using their DelDrv application, and then install a new driver.

Unfortunately, DelDrv requires Rosetta to run, and some Snow Leopard users are trying to keep Rosetta off their machines. I'm one, and until now, I've been successful.

After updating my Canon drivers, I routinely encountered an error message stating

/System/Library/Extensions/CNQL1208_ClassicNotSeize.kext could not be loaded

A little research showed that this was part of the old Canon driver that should have been deleted by the DelDrv application which I did not run. I manually removed the file (you can either do this through Finder or using the command line). My scanner has been working fine afterwards, and there were no other ill effects that I noticed. I just thought I'd share this info for anyone else that was bothered by the error. It's fine to delete /System/Library/Extensions/CNQL1208_ClassicNotSeize.kext.

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September 7, 2009

Snow Leopard Casualties: Canon and Vodafone

Last Friday I upgraded my MacBook to Snow Leopard. Very easy, noticeable speed improvement, everything worked except for 2 pieces of hardware (both driver issues). My ancient Canon Lide 35 scanner sort of works, but the hardware buttons on the scanner aren't responding. My Vodafone K3760 3G modem (Vodafone's newest modem) causes kernel panics.
 
Of course it would have been ideal if all companies were properly prepared, but it's not an ideal world. However, note the difference in Canon's and Vodafone's response to the Snow Leopard issues:

  • Canon has announces Snow Leopard compatible drivers for the Lide 35 "in a few days" (I'm confident they will, they were also quick to resolve Leopard issues after the Tiger-Leopard upgrade, and Lide 35 was already out of production at the time).
  • Vodafone says "it will probably be October" before the K3760 is working properly under Snow Leopard.

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