Listen up, all you Boot Camp’in MacBook Air users… Can’t find Windows drivers for the Apple USB Ethernet adapter? Want to use use the adapter on another Windows machine? Are you crazy?
Fear not! I’ve hacked together some Windows drivers for the Apple USB Ethernet adapter. Simply download, unzip and when Windows asks for drivers, point it in the right direction.
Enjoy :)
February 12, 2008 at 6:12 pm |
Have you tried any drivers for USB-to-Ethernet under Windows Mobile 5 or Windows Mobile 6?
Thanks,
Mike
February 13, 2008 at 4:41 am |
I with Mike’s idea … USB drivers for USB to Ehthernet under Windows Mobile would be excellent ! but… isn’t Windows Mobile still very device-specific ? … As Smartphones get widespread use, there will be more demand for little gadgets to connect to Ethernet – why ? b/c it is very costly to get an unlimited data plan, AND many places do not have 3G or a suitable WiFi … nor allow cell calls from inside a building – e.g. medical…
February 13, 2008 at 10:51 pm |
Does anyone know of any other brand USB Ethernet adaptors that are compatible with the MacBook Air? I am not necessarily tied to apple for this device.
February 14, 2008 at 10:23 am |
@Mike, sorry I have not tried using it with Windows Mobile. (Why would you want to?)
@James, the Linksys USB200M USB Ethernet adapter works with all Mac and PCs (including the MacBook Air).
March 2, 2008 at 3:05 pm |
Hey tnkgrl,
Although the most recent version included is XP, it works with Vista on Macbook Air as well.
Thanks!
March 2, 2008 at 3:47 pm |
hey tnkgrl.. great work on getting these drivers. I’m using 64-bit Vista on the Air. Got everything working, just need to get this network adapter going. Any idea how to modify the inf, maybe the XP driver will work on 64-bit Vista? Thanks
March 3, 2008 at 9:26 am |
[...] hardest time I had was that little USB Ethernet Adapter. Found a useful blog by “tnkgrl“, she had the XP/Vista 32-bit drivers figured out. But no 64-bit drivers! So after a lot of [...]
March 3, 2008 at 9:36 am |
Hi, just to let you know. I found some drivers for 64-bit vista. If you want to download them, visit me @ http://www.uwnav.com
March 5, 2008 at 5:49 am |
Hi everyone!
Does anybody know of any USB WIFI Adapter which can work with Windows Mobile 5/6.
Thanks in advance for you time and concern.
March 5, 2008 at 2:31 pm |
can’t intall the 64-bit Driver under german Vista (Home Edition). I’ve tried to copy the folder to several locations and point the install procedure towards, but no luck. Any hints. thanks -Andy
March 5, 2008 at 10:20 pm |
Hey Andy,
how were you trying to install the driver? Go into the device manager (I believe in Vista you can just type “Device Manager” in the start menu and it’ll find it). You’ll find an unrecognized device (under Network adapters possibly). Right click and click on “Update Driver”. Then you need to manually find the driver, and point it to the INF file wherever you’ve extracted the driver. Lemme know if you have any trouble
- nAv
March 28, 2008 at 1:43 pm |
Thanks a lot. This is very helpful and it works in VMWare too!
April 23, 2008 at 9:26 am |
Hi
I have a new imac – I have successfully installed Window xp prof – however, i cannot get onto the internet. My imac is fine. I was told by mac to google the problem. I am not very computer savy – so, I am not sure that your solution is the one I am looking for – if it is, please let me know – - anything you can suggst would be greatly appreciated.
matt
April 28, 2008 at 10:48 pm |
tnkgrl, you rock. I installed your drivers and they worked perfectly. thanks for taking the time to save my mba. I have to run it in windows for my work. cheers!
May 3, 2008 at 11:17 pm |
Can it use it with parallels?
May 14, 2008 at 10:47 am |
cannot download the driver, keep getting errors when entering code
August 7, 2008 at 7:38 pm |
Thank you. It works on my Windows XP Pro.
August 23, 2008 at 12:00 pm |
I’ve downloaded the file, but how do you unzip the file and what do you do for drivers?
September 11, 2008 at 2:05 am |
Hi, I did not install any driver in order to use the external apple ethernet adaptor in the windows vista environment….. why????
The only problem I have is that the connection fails whenever i switch the OS from Mac X back to Vista, and I have to restart a few time before I have the connection again… any advise?
November 14, 2008 at 4:57 pm |
oh my gawd thats awesome! thanks, oh and yes, i am crazy D:
November 18, 2008 at 4:47 pm |
Awesome. This was a lifesaver. I didn’t realize Apple hadn’t released a driver and that the base Plug N’ Play wouldn’t work.
Great job!
December 7, 2008 at 1:03 pm |
I have a PC and I am using the USB ethernet adapter and I cannot get it to work. What do I need to do?
cjm
December 7, 2008 at 1:19 pm |
continued…My first time plugging the adapter into my computer it recognized it and took me through a wizard and it couldn’t find anything. Now, when ever I plug it into my computer it won’t even recognize it and I cannot get the wizard to pop up. What do I need to do?
December 16, 2008 at 9:23 pm |
hey, i got an early 2008 imac and need sound drivers working correctly – only driver which does not work. HELP PLZ!
btw im using Win 7
January 18, 2009 at 4:32 pm |
Thanks for the drivers, I’m testing Windows 7 Beta 1 on my Macbook Air and the only thing that was missing was the USB ethernet adapter driver, and you got it. Thanks a mil.
February 12, 2009 at 7:42 pm |
Does anyone else have problems with this driver randomly causing ‘blue screen of death’ in Vista (bootcamp)?
February 25, 2009 at 11:41 am |
nice post, Thank for this reference
March 19, 2009 at 7:10 pm |
I’ve made some tweaks and have a working ethernet adapter for windows 7 64-bit (should work with 32-bit as well as any vista version).
For what its worth:
http://yougottabekiddingyou.blogspot.com/2009/03/tutorial-apple-boot-camp-for-64-bit.html
March 24, 2009 at 2:49 pm |
@kleinp: I have had BSOD issues with this driver in Vista too….so, had to stop using it…
@tnkgrl or others: Any solutions for this????
Thanks.
Mark
March 25, 2009 at 8:18 pm |
I unzip the drivers. I got to the point when you have to write the file where to find them. Then I go to the final file XP and … nothing. It simply do not recognize that this file has ANYTHING that works for installation so the Install botton never activetes.
March 26, 2009 at 5:12 am |
@hugo
Did you look inside the XP folder and see if there are any files actually in that folder?
If not, re-download and try again….
April 9, 2009 at 10:25 am |
Hi,
I appreciate the efforts here…but I can’t get it to work. Also getting the BSOD, running vista 32bit on MBA. Anyone have a solution yet?
The usb ethernet adapter is actually an attempt to get updated broadcom firmware for my airport card – as is I can’t connect to the internet no matter what I try(however the OSX side connects just fine).
Any help would be AWESOME.
Thx,
-J
April 10, 2009 at 4:25 pm |
Josh,
Use Fusion save your self aggravation.
May 14, 2009 at 10:07 am |
Cheers, worked fine for my mate… You’re te man!
May 14, 2009 at 10:18 am |
No actually, I’m the woman.
May 22, 2009 at 6:56 am |
Hi there… Is it possible with this driver to set the MAC adress of the ethernet adapter?
Thanks for your effort ;-)
May 27, 2009 at 5:29 pm |
Trying to use the Apple USB to Ethernet adapter with Windows 7 RC7100 on MacBook Air. Anyone got this combination working?
Any advice on how you did it would be apprec1ated.
Ang