Drivers migrated are disabled "No User Consent" on High Sierra

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Drivers migrated are disabled "No User Consent" on High Sierra

After migrating all latest and updated system (10.13.3), apps, and user data from my MBvAir to a new MB Pro via Migration Assistant during a fresh system install, the drivers and associated Preference panes appear, but the (USB) devices are NOT functioning (they turn on briefly and go off after a few seconds).

What is the "sudo" way to mark these kernel extensions (see below) as ENABLED?

This seems to me as one of the many bugs in Migration Assistant (migrated apps are also a pain to reenable). Never asked me for a 'consent' for these kernel extensions, but I would want them enabled so that all this hardware would work. And why should I be forced to remove, and then install all these drivers again if there's "Migration Assistant" to take care of this for me?

Here's example output from my MB Pro's Software->Disable Software:

3GQCL4AKGN - com.digilent.driver.DigilentFtdiDriver:

Version: 1.0.3

Reason: No User Consent

Date Disabled: Unknown

4C6WC6J297 - jp.co.roland.RDUSB0159Dev:

Version: 1.0.3

Reason: No User Consent

Date Disabled: Unknown

6HB5Y2QTA3 - com.hp.hpio.hp-io-printerclassdriver-enabler:

Version: 19.26.0

Reason: No User Consent

Date Disabled: Unknown

6HB5Y2QTA3 - com.hp.kext.hp-fax-io:

Version: 5.28.0

Reason: No User Consent

Date Disabled: Unknown

6HB5Y2QTA3 - com.hp.kext.io.enabler.compound:

Version: 3.4.0

Reason: No User Consent

Date Disabled: Unknown

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), Migration Assistant Bugs

Posted on Feb 11, 2018 10:09 AM

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Answer 1

z-k Author

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8 points

Feb 11, 2018 12:55 PM in response to Kappy

Oh, it was there in my last question in the original post. And I was hoping that someone would know the command line tool to set the rules for "Gatekeeper" or whatever else that prevented the kernel from loading those driver extensions.

I actually tried something similar but different from what you suggested. Since Migration Assistant was suspect, I reinstalled a new copy of High Sierra from the recovery disk over the old one and after I looked at the Security & Privacy preferences, lo and behold, there was a new (to me) option in that preference pane about disabled kernel extensions, and I was able to re-enable them, after which that option disappeared without a trace from that preference pane.

I don't know why that option was was not there before reinstalling the OS. In my opinion, if there are such extensions that are disabled due to "No User Consent", the Preferences should give a permanent option to re-enable or delete or whatever with those extensions and that option should not disappear while there are any such disabled extensions.

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Answer 2

Kappy

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362,007 points

Feb 11, 2018 10:36 AM in response to z-k

Shut down the computer and disconnect all non-Apple peripherals. Reboot the computer. Remove the non-working drivers you listed,s then reinstall the software that installed them.

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