The drivers that were working under 10.8 do not work with 10.9. The dongle is recognized and the driver is loaded and appears correct in System Information, but it will not recognize a known good ethernet cable plugged in. This is a J5create JUE 130. Neither j5 create nor the chip manufacturer ASIX appear to have Mavericks drivers as of 11/6/13.

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I'm using a backup Apple USB Ethernet adapter (no Thunderbolt ports, older MacBook), and I need two physical Gigabit connections, even if the USB 2.0 port will limit one to 480Mb/s.

Am I SOL?

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When I purchased the new Macbook Pro last year, one big issue was the lack of widely used interface ports. In order not to purchase many dongles (and spend too much on the Apple Store) I had a look on the usual sites and found a nice one from Cable Matters (no, sadly I have no sponsorship from them) which had them all: ethernet, USB-A, VGA and HDMI. Fantastic!

Coming from Linux, where 99% of the drivers are already provided in the kernel, the first odd thing I had to do is install the drivers for these ports! Even if I manage Windows computers daily, I wasn’t used anymore on my laptop!

Luckily drivers are not hard to find:

• USB-A port uses ASM1153 chipset (55aa:174c), but works out of the box
• Ethernet uses AX88179 from Asix (1790:0b95)

When I first installed the drivers I was using Sierra, and no problems arise. Now that I reinstalled with High Sierra the ethernet driver wasn’t working. Why? User-Approved Kernel Extension Loading.

User-Approved Kernel Extension LoadingStarcraft 2 download wont install on mac. is a feature (released broken) which should enhance system security, from preventing unknown sources extensions from loading into the kernel.

Asix Ax88179 Mac Driver

So when I was prompted to load a kernel extension from developer WEI LU SU I instantly said NO. Just later I found out that it’s the extension which manages the USB Ethernet AX88179!

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So if, like me, you missed or misinterpreted that prompt you can go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General in the window bottom you can see System software from developer “WEI LU SU” was blocked from loading. Right next to it a button will allow you to Allow the extension from loading, and the USB Ethernet port should work right after.