ASIX AX88178 Istruzioni per il montaggio
1
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
Revision 3.10
Nov. 10th, 2016
AX88178 Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
2
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
Revision History
Revision
Date
Description
1.00
2010/08/12
Initial release.
1.10
2011/04/27
Modified the script files in Appendix.
1.20
2011/08/15
Added Mac OS X 10.7 support.
1.30
2011/09/14
Modified the description to exclude Mac OS X 10.4 support.
1.31
2011/10/13
Rearranged the document format and added more detailed driver
installation/uninstallation procedures information.
1.32
2011/10/14
1. Moved some Section 1 descriptions to Appendix A.
2.00
2012/08/03
1. Changed the document name to “AX88178 Mac OSX Driver Installation
Guide”.
2. Removed AX88772B/AX88772A/AX88760/AX88772 related information.
3. Added Appendix C "Apple Mac OSX Native USB to LAN Drivers Supported
Devices List".
4. Modified some descriptions in Section 1 and 2.
2.01
2012/08/22
1. Added Section 4 “Troubleshooting”.
2.02
2012/09/26
1. Modified some descriptions in Section 1.
3.00
2014/02/26
1. Modified to support Mac OS X 10.9 driver installer.
2. Modified some descriptions in Section 1, 2, 3.
3. Replaced Section 4-1 “Driver Installation Failure on OS X 10.8 Issue” with
new 4-1 "How to identify the Vendor ID and Product ID of your USB
dongle?".
4. Added Section 4-2 “How to identify the installed Mac OS X driver
revision?”.
5. Removed Appendix A “Script Files Descriptions” and Appendix B
“AX88178 Script Files”.
3.10
2016/11/10
1. Modified some descriptions for Mac OS 10.12 native driver supporting
changes.
2. Modified some descriptions and pictures to meet the latest Mac OS X
driver installer.
3. Added Section 4-3.
3
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
Contents
1. Introduction .............................................................................4
2. Driver Installation Procedures...............................................4
3. Driver Uninstallation Procedures........................................11
4. Troubleshooting....................................................................12
4-1. How to identify the Vendor ID and Product ID of your USB dongle?..12
4-2. How to identify the installed Mac OS X driver revision?.....................13
4-3. How to isolate driver failure issues after upgrading Mac OS system?14
Appendix A. Apple Mac OS X Native USB to LAN Drivers
Supported Devices List ................................................................15
4
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
1. Introduction
This document contains the installation and uninstallation information of ASIX’s AX88178 Mac OS X 10.5 to
10.8 driver and Mac OS X 10.9 to 10.12 driver.
The native “AppleUSBGigEthernet”driver on Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.11 systems or the native
“AppleUSBEthernet”driver on Mac OS 10.12 and later systems already support some of major AX88178
dongles so users need not to manually install ASIX’s standard AX88178 Mac OSX driver if you don’t have any
issue on Apple’s native driver.
Some of AX88178 dongles are not supported by the native “AppleUSBGigEthernet”driver on Mac OS X 10.5
to 10.11 systems or the native “AppleUSBEthernet”driver on Mac OS 10.12 and later systems so users
MUST manually install ASIX’s AX88178 standard Mac OSX driver.
Some USB to LAN dongles have manufacturers’own VID/PID. If both Apple’s native driver and 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 for further support.
2. Driver Installation Procedures
The AX88178 Mac OSX driver installation package is “AX88178.dmg”.
The following is an example of ASIX’s AX88178 Mac OSX driver installation procedures.
Step 1: Click the “AX88178.dmg”, the following “AX88178”virtual disk will be appeared on the Desktop of
your Mac OSX system. (This “AX88178”virtual disk will be auto-removed after rebooting Mac OSX
system.)
5
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
Step 2: Click the “AX88178_vx.x.x.pkg”(“x.x.x”is driver installer 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.
6
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
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.
7
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
Step 7: After booting up your Mac OSX system, plug your AX88178 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 AX88178 Mac OSX driver was installed correctly or
not.
(1) You can check the Vendor/Product ID information of your USB dongle from here.
8
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
(2) You can check the installed AX88178 Mac OSX driver version information by running the
“kextstat”command or from the “Software -> Extensions”console as below figure.
Tsengteki-MacBook-Air:~ allan$ kextstat
Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) <Linked Against>
…..
142 0 0xffffff7f80d88000 0x9000 0x9000 com.asix.driver.ax88178 (1.2.0) 65827D49-E30C-
39F2-9C26-DC7CE994D8A3 <50 40 7 5 4 3 1>
143 0 0xffffff7f826a2000 0x18000 0x18000 com.apple.driver.usb.ethernet.asix (5.0.0)
0DD762E9-3C44-39DB-BB30-6E69218E823A <79 78 50 39 5 4 3 1>
…..
9
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
Step 8: Please refer to below figure to add a new “USB Gigabit Ethernet”network interface and then press
the [Apply] button to take effect the new network interface.
10
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Reserved by ASIX Electronics Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
AX88178
Mac OS X Driver Installation Guide
Step 9: The new “USB Gigabit Ethernet”driver should be ready now.
Indice
Altri manuali ASIX Adattatore
