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dylanetaft
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Dec 25, 2015

A6210 OSX Mac Support

Ah.... Grab the MT7610U driver for OSX http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/     Run the installer, however the installer is very broken.  Have a finder window open, browse to / The ...
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CoachCal's avatar
CoachCal
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Jan 03, 2016

I just received a A6210 at Christmas for our Macbook Pro 2010, and Netgear does not have a Mac OS X driver package?

 

Angry Spock

 

  • JamesGL's avatar
    JamesGL
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jan 06, 2016

    Hi CoachCal,

     

    The A6210 works on Windows based Operating System. Drivers are only available for Windows.

  • mmomega's avatar
    mmomega
    Initiate
    Mar 25, 2016

    I actually searched around and found a driver that works for the A6210 in OSX. 

    I'm currently running 10.11.4 

    MediaTek is the chipset manufacturer. Chipset is the MT7612U.

    So on the below linked page it should be the 2nd listed driver(for OSX) 1st listed is Windows.

    http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/

     

    I downloaded the driver, installed, restarted and the utility opened almost immediately after restart. Chose a WiFi network, joined and everything seems to working fine.

    Now I've only had it installed for literally a few minutes but it's at least working. Only time will tell on how well it works.

    • BozeDawg's avatar
      BozeDawg
      Aspirant
      Mar 26, 2016

      mmomega, thanks a ton for this... now I have WiFi on my Hackintosh instead of having to keep it connected via Ethernet.

    • bandits1's avatar
      bandits1
      Aspirant
      Jun 06, 2016

      mmomega - thanks for the heads up on the Mediatek driver.  Is your adapter still working fine?  Do you think the same driver would work with the A6200 USB 2.0 version of the adapter, too?

      • mmomega's avatar
        mmomega
        Initiate
        Jun 13, 2016

        The adapter was working fine up until I swapped out desktops about a week and a half ago. I now have a Mac Pro and the antennas in that transmit and receive signal better than the USB adapter did on the Mac Mini so I never tried installing it on the MP.

         

        From what I can tell the A6200 uses a Broadcom BCM43526 chipset. At least in v1. 

        I also read there may be a v2 out in the wild and that it could be based on the Realtek RTL8812AU chipset. 

         

        I would start with a google search with that chipset as part of the search criteria and see what comes up.

         

        Something like "RTL8812AU driver mac" or "BCM43526 driver mac" 

         

        This is how I stumbled across the drivers for the A6210.

         

        It just sometimes baffles me knowing that there are legitimate drivers out there to fix issues for people but companies don't make it known or easily accessible. 

         

        Hope any of this helps.

    • Soft-machine's avatar
      Soft-machine
      Aspirant
      Aug 15, 2016

      That link to the Mediatek download works a treat, not a very elegant front end to the software, but up and working in 5 minutes.

       

      Nice find mmomega.