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USB 3.0 to 10/100/100 Ethernet LAN Network Adapter Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide Revision 2.01 Amazon ASIN: B00M77HMU0 June 10th, 2014...
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AX88179/AX88178A Revision History Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide Revision Date Description Revision History 1.00 2012/09/10 Initial release. 2.00 2014/02/25 1. Modified to support Mac OS X 10.9 driver installer. Revision Date Description 2. Modified some descriptions in Section 1. 3.
AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide Contents Introduction ................4 Driver Installation Procedures ..........4 Driver Uninstallation Procedures ........10 Troubleshooting ..............11 4-1. How to identify the Vendor ID and Product ID of your USB dongle? .. 11 4-2.
AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide 1. Introduction This document contains the installation and uninstallation information of AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.8 driver and Mac OS X 10.9 driver. Some USB to LAN dongles have manufacturers’ own VID/PID. If ASIX’s standard driver couldn’t work fine with your USB-to-LAN dongle, please contact the support guys of your USB-to-LAN dongle manufacturer to get proper driver directly.
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Step 2: Click the “AX88179_178A_vx.x.x.pkg” (“x.x.x” is driver revision number), the following driver setup dialog will appear. Click the [Continue] button to start the installation operation and follow the instructions to continue the installation. Step 3: Click the [Install] button to continue the installation operation. You might need to enter your user/password during the driver installation.
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Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide Step 4: You might need to enter your user/password during the driver installation. Step 5: Click the [Continue Installation] button to continue the installation operation. Step 6: Click the [Restart] button to restart Mac OSX system to take effect the revised driver installation. Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
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Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide Step 7: After booting up your Mac OSX system, plug your AX88179/AX88178A USB dongle onto the USB port of your Mac OSX system and refer to the following information to double check if your USB dongle had been identified properly by Mac OSX system and the AX88179/AX88178A Mac OSX driver was installed correctly or not.
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Step 8: Please refer to below figure to add a new “AX88179 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet” network interface and then press the [Apply] button to take effect the new network interface. Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
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Step 9: The new “AX88179 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet” driver should be ready now. Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide 3. Driver Uninstallation Procedures The AX88179/AX88178A Mac OSX driver uninstallation utility is “AX88179_178A_uninstall_vxxx” (xxx is the revision number of the driver uninstaller utility). The following is an example of AX88179/AX88178A Mac OSX driver uninstallation procedures. Step 1: Click the “AX88179_178A.dmg”, the following “AX88179”...
AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide 4. Troubleshooting (The figures in this section are examples for your reference) Please refer to below sections to provide us the required information for further investigation if you have any problems on AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X driver installation. 4-1.
AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide 4-2. How to identify the installed Mac OS X driver revision? Please refer to below picture to identify the driver revision of the installed AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X driver. Or run the “kextstat” or “sudo dmesg” commands in the Terminal console to identify the driver revision of the installed AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X driver.
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide 4-3. How to configure AX88179/178A Mac OS X driver parameters? Note that in most of cases, users need not to modify the driver parameters. Press the “Advanced…” button and select the “Hardware” tab to configure AX88179/AX88178A Mac OS X driver parameters if necessary.
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