How can I use an Asix AX88179 with Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

I'm looking for some one who may have configure the Asix AX88179 to work with OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. This chipset (AX88179) is embedded in most of the very new the USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapters.

I bought one of them coming from Digitus and after one day on it, it is recognised by Mountain Lion on my Macbook Air, it seems that the network diagnostic tool is OK, but I was never able to connect on my mails and run any browsers (Safari, Firefox etc...). There is something wrong in the network configuration.

I'm using the versions 1.1 and 1.2 of the Asix drivers (dowload from the Asix site and coming from Digitus).

Solution 1:

This is fixed in Mac OS 10.8.3.

In MacOS 10.8.2 although I faced an issue: I have a version from Delock running driver V1.3.0 (but V1.2.0 showed exact same behaviour). Adapter runs fine on first connect. If unplugged and plugged in again it will not work unless I reboot. Best solution I found is to reload the driver by hand. That saves you at least the reboot.

sudo kextunload -b com.asix.driver.ax88179_178a
sudo kextload -b com.asix.driver.ax88179_178a

If your driver has a slightly different name (for whatever reason) you can look it up with:

kextstat |grep asix

Solution 2:

If you have the Android File Transfer app installed, try removing it - that made the 1.3 drivers work for me, including disconnecting and reconnecting (through a USB 3.0 hub) without a reboot