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Nov 03, 2013

Netgear Powerline Utility for Mac OS not working in Mavericks

I recently performed a clean install of OS X Mavericks (10.9) on my Mac and re-installed the Netgear Powerline Utility (v. 3.1.0.3) for Mac. Unfortunately, the utility it is unable to see my XAVB5001...

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Thorium232

Initiate

May 12, 2014

cemb wrote:
I also found myself in the same situation. Howver by running PLC as "sudo ./PLC", it works and pulls up all of my devices. Now just to figure out how to get the launcher to run 'sudo' :)

cemb wrote:
I also found myself in the same situation. Howver by running PLC as "sudo ./PLC", it works and pulls up all of my devices. Now just to figure out how to get the launcher to run 'sudo' :)

Nice. I could fix it for good changing mode and ownership of SocketTool


$ chmod 4555 ~/Library/Application\ Support/PLC/SocketTool
$ sudo chown root ~/Library/Application\ Support/PLC/SocketTool

brucie2

Tutor

Nov 15, 2015

Thanks Thorium232 your permanent fix worked beautifully. For info the utility now runs on El Capitain using this fix. Shabby of Netgear to not have updated though. Thanks also to cemb for the original fix.