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1. Plugable USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Drivers. ARM-based Windows 8/8.1 tablets such as the Microsoft Surface RT do not have drivers for the ASIX 88179 built in. ASIX does not provide a Surface RT compatible driver for installation. To install the ASIX 88179 driver on OS 10.6 through 10.13.x, download the driver from the link.
2. To install the ASIX 88179 driver on OS 10.6 through 10.13.x, download the driver from the link below: USB3-E1000 Mac 10.6 – 10.13 Drivers v2.9 – Mac OS X Universal Binary Driver (DMG file format).
3. The package provides the installation files for ASIX AX88772B USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter Driver version 3.18.2.0. If the driver is already installed on your system, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix various issues, add new functions, or just upgrade to the available version.
4. Choose the option ASIX AX88772A USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter (on my system, it is the second option listed). You will get an 'Update Driver Warning' or similar saying that Windows can't verify that the driver will work with your hardware, which may cause problems.

I am plugging a USB Ethernet adapter (not Apple-brand) into my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013). No go.

I do not see any relevant 'USB Ethernet' item listed in System Preferences >Network. Should one appear when I plug in the adapter? Should I add an item with the '+' button?

When I use the '+' button, I only get a list of 'Thunderbolt Bridge', 'Thunderbolt 2', 'Thunderbolt 1', 'Bluetooth PAN', 'Wi-Fi', 'VPN', 'PPPoE', and '6 to 4'. I do not see any option for a USB-Ethernet adapter. Is this no longer supported by Apple?

The Apple menu > About this Mac > System Report (button) > Hardware > USB report shows that I have a product by Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (company web site)

Basil Bourque

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Basil Bourque

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As far as I understand, you can run a lot of generic ones that don't have Apple-signed drivers by disabling 'System Integrity Protection' (SIP)

From: http://inkandfeet.com/how-to-use-a-generic-usb-20-10100m-ethernet-adaptor-rd9700-on-mac-os-1011-el-capitan

Steps to get your adapter working if you've never used the adapter before in Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan.

1. Uninstall the dozens of other drivers you may have installed in the process of trying to get this working.
2. Unplug your USB adapter, and reboot and give yourself a clean slate.
3. Reboot. As soon as the screen goes black, hold down 'Command' and 'R' until you see a black screen with an Apple logo and a white progress bar. Let go, and wait for your computer to boot into recovery mode.
4. From the top bar, select 'Utilities' and then 'Terminal'
5. In the terminal, run csrutil disable.
6. From the top bar, select '', then 'Restart'
7. Once you're booted back up, download and install the drivers from the CD, kindly uploaded by this fine human being.
8. Reboot.
9. Open your terminal, and run sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/USBCDCEthernet.kext
10. Reboot.
11. Plug in your USB Adapter, with a live ethernet cable.
12. Open System Preferences, and go to the Network Pane.
13. Hit the + button in the bottom right, select the 'USB 2.0 10/100M Ethernet Adapter', and hit add.
14. You're all set! Your adapter works!
15. Apologize to the people you care about for the things you've said over the past few hours. They won't understand, but they will forgive you.

I presume that any driver that worked for these types of things pre-Yosemite (10.10) would work for the ones in step 7.

See original page for a discussion on the security risks of using this method. But, if you need it to, and are aware of and OK with the risks, it works.

This worked for me on El Capitan (10.11) with a random off-brand adapter (can't remember the brand or if it even had one).

For Realtek based USB 2.0 or 3.0 Ethernet Adapters, you can get the driver from Realtek which works for both 8153 and 8152.

nohillside♦

Old post, but just wanted to give an update.

Sometimes you just need to install the chipset's drivers.

If you are lucky, you will have an Asix's chipset and you can follow these steps to get it working. I did with an Acer's USB Adapter and it worked perfectly.

Basil Bourque

For a Cable Matters adapter, I had to get the drivers from here:http://www.asix.com.tw/download.php?sub=driverdetail&PItemID=131

If your adapter wasn't specifically advertised as Mac-compatible, then its unlikely to work. There are a couple of 3rd party brands that positively will work but I wouldn't trust just any off brand adapter and if its a PC manufacturer brand, then it definitely won't have the internal circuitry that a Mac-compatible adapter will have so the answer, unfortunately is just.. no.

See: [Do I have to use the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter for a MacBook Air? for further details on adapters that definitely are compatible.

A proper instruction for RD9700 is here https://www.technouz.com/3973/how-to-use-a-generic-usb-ethernet-adapter-rd9700-on-mac-os-x/

This is the only manual I've found so far that has ALL necessary steps.In particular step 7 is critical (install drivers from x86_64 folder).

I managed to get my noname adapter working, but the internet speed is only 5mbps although I have 100mbps connection :( Amd pci sata/ide controller drivers for mac.

Step 1: Unplug your USB adapter.

Step 2: Restart your Mac by clicking the Apple logo in the top-left corner and then Restart. As soon as your machine restarts, you’ll hear the Apple chime. Hold down CMD + R immediately after hearing the chime to boot in to Recovery Mode.

You can release CMD + R once you see the Apple logo and a progress bar.

Step 3: From the top bar, select Utilities and then Terminal.

Step 4: In the terminal window, you need to type the follow and then hit enter: csrutil disable. You may be prompted for your Administrator password.

Step 5: Now from the top bar, click the Apple Logo and then Restart.

Step 6: Your Mac should now restart back in to the normal operating mode. It’s time to install the drivers. Click here to download the zip file and extract it to your Desktop.

Step 7: Install the RD9700 driver located in the x86_64 folder and then restart your Mac again.

Step 8: Once your Mac has rebooted, open Terminal and enter the following then press the Enter key: sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/USBCDEthernet.kext.

Step 9: Reboot again.

Step 10: Now plug-in your USB Ethernet Adapter with a live ethernet cable. Open System Preferences and go to Network.

Step 11: Press the + button in the bottom right and select USB 2.0 10/100M Ethernet Adapter and then click Add.

Step 12: Disconnect from WiFi and you should notice your network connect still works through the RD9700 Ethernet Adapter. In addition, you will be able to share internet using the RD9700 too.

You don't describe which adapter you might have bought, but if the OS does not provide a driver for it, you will have to install a driver from the manufacturer.

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I recently needed an Ethernet adapter for my laptop, which has USB and WiFi (of course) but no Ethernet. Somebody offered me an Apple USB-to-Ethernet adapter. I figured Windows would offer the driver automatically, after which I could use the computer in places where only wired networks were available.

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Well, I plugged it in, and no such luck! Windows 10 Enterprise x64 recognized the hardware, but said it couldn't find a driver for it. I tried searching online (connected over Wi-Fi), and found a bunch of people referencing this page by somebody using the alias “Tnkgrl.” Unfortunately, the DropBox download link is no longer pointing to anything! I also searched Apple’s site, but couldn’t find any Windows drivers: Maybe they’re included in Bootcamp but not available for download?.

Anybody know how to get this device working in Windows?

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I did a little more hunting online and found this link to a blog that said they'd found the driver for the chipset in the adapter, and convinced it to work. I followed a variant on their instructions, and it worked for me too. Here are the steps I used:

1. Plug in the adapter while the computer is running.
2. Check Device Manager (you can get there by right-clicking Start). You should see a listed Apple device with a little yellow exclamation mark next to it, saying Windows can't load the driver.
3. Go to the website listed in the blog post and find the driver for your OS. I used this one for 64-bit Windows 10. Note that this is the actual driver download, not a Setup program.
4. Download the .ZIP file. If you use a browser that adds the 'mark of the web' (IE or Edge for sure, maybe others), right-click the downloaded ZIP, go to Properties, click Unblock (either a button or checkbox), and hit OK.
5. Unpack the ZIP archive. You should see a folder containing four files: a .SYS file (the driver), a .CAT file (the WHQL signature), a .INF file (the driver information), and a Readme.txt. Don't do anything with these files directly, but remember where they are.
6. Go back to Device Manager, right-click the device entry that needs the driver, and choose Update Driver Software...
7. Choose Browse my computer for driver software.
8. Choose Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
9. If there's a Have Disk.. button in the lower right, click it. Otherwise, click the top entry in the list (should be something like 'All devices') and hit OK, then click Have Disk.. on the next screen.
10. In the box labeled 'Copy manufacturer's files from:', type in or browse to the location where you unpacked the .ZIP file, then hit OK.
11. Choose the option ASIX AX88772A USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter (on my system, it is the second option listed). Hit Next.
12. You will get an 'Update Driver Warning' or similar saying that Windows can't verify that the driver will work with your hardware, which may cause problems. Click 'Yes' anyhow, for this and any other prompts to confirm that you want to install the driver.
13. You should now have a working Ethernet adapter! In Device Manager, it will be listed as a 'ASIX AX88772A USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter' under the 'Network adapters' category, and there should be no exclamation marks or anything like that.

There you go! You can connect to a wired network, and it should work fine. The original instructions were for Windows 8 x64, and I can verify that it works on Win10 x64; I haven't tested it on other versions but the same steps should work and the download site lists drivers for tons of operating systems.

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If you prefer to download the driver directly from Apple's site:

1. Download the latest version of 'Boot Camp Support Software' from Apple.com: http://support.apple.com/downloads/#macoscomponents
2. Open the ZIP file and go into the BootCampDriversAsix driver
3. Run the AsixSetup64.exe driver installer

From Microsoft

search the windows update catalogWindows update catalog for ax88772

and get the driver from them.

Download the cab, extract it and install it using the device manager.It doesn't matter which 'name' you select - you get an warning that the driver will not fit - but they all work.

From Apple

Download the update catalog file using the official links:

Asix Usb Ethernet Driver Mac

eg. https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.13seed-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

Extract the xml file and open it in notepad++

Search for 'BootCampESD.pkg' (CTRL+F) and you will find many of them.

In the search result window double click the latest one and download the full url to the BootCampESD.pkg

As of writing the newest one was:http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/41/17/091-14331/br9prfd71k86fkwgx421ept2s931s0bv2p/BootCampESD.pkg

Extract the *.pkg using 7-Zip:BootCampESD.pkgPayload~.LibraryApplication SupportBootCampWindowsSupport.dmg

Extract the *.dmg also with 7-zip: WindowsSupport.dmgBootCampDriversAsixAsixSetup64.exe

Extract the *.exe (rarsfx) again with 7-zip and you get the plain driver:

And yes, it still works also on Windows 10 x64

I have extrected the drivers form the 263MB 'Boot Camp Support Software':http://kom.aau.dk/~pmr/www/stuff/AsixSetup64.zip

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