USB to Ethernet adaptor for MacBook Air Problems. Discussion in 'MacBook Air' started by MilkMan4, Sep 21, 2012. I noticed this when I was doing bootcamp and while driver installation saw the 'USB -> ethernet ' driver being installed in Windows. In Mac OS, they are already there. (AX88772A, AX88772B.
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I recently bought an USB Ethernet adapter with ASIX AX88772b chipset. () [img size=140]] Even though the CleaOS 5.2 didn't recognize it, I was able to compile and install the manufacturer's official driver. This is a brief How To. Note, compiling the drivers requires an internet connection in the ClearOS machine. Fortunately, my VIA integrated Ethernet card was recognized by default. 1- Make sure your chipset is the ASIX AX88772B. Your lsusb output with the dongle plugged in will look like this: [root@system home]# lsusb.
Asix Ax88772a Usb2.0 Driver
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0b95:772b ASIX Electronics Corp. 2-Install the development environment: yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' 3-Install kernel-source: yum install kernel-source 4-You may also need the kernel-headers: yum install kernel-headers I'm not sure if kernel-headers are installed with the development environment or not (I don remember it well). 5-Dowload the manufacturer's official driver: [ul]• • • [/ul] 6-Extract the downloades file by the following command: tar -xf AX88772B_772A_760_772_178_LINUX_Driver_v4.1.0_Source.tar.bz2 7-Compile the driver: make If the compilation is well, the asix.ko will be created under the current directory. 8-Install the driver: make install 9-Load the driver: modprobe asix 10-Reboot the machine.