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NETGEAR USB Control Center utility for MAC OS X El Capitan
NETGEAR USB Control Center utility v 2.22 is not compatible with MAC OS X El Capitan, where to download or make NETGEAR USB Control Center utility with the new MAC OS X ?
Hello All,
You may now download the official release of the USB Control Center Utility for MAC OS 10.11 and above from the link below.
It would be very helpful to know if and when Netgear will be updating the USB Control Centre to function with El Capitan. We have used Netgear products to wirelessly print for some years and thi lack of information leads to a mssive frustration for us. Inevitably, we will have to look for an alternative solution pretty quickly if there is no solution forthcoming. I also note that there is now no download link to an OSX product - or any reference to OSX on the download page.
After reading the following Macworld article and after testing, I found that my iMac would not successfully boot, if:
...The Netgear utility was already installed, then SIP (System Integrity Protection) disabled, then restarted iMac
...The Netgear utility was uninstalled, then restart, then SIP disabled, Then restart, then Netgear utility installed, then restarted iMac.
It seems that the Netgear utility does not play nice with the new SIP feature, as has been the case with a number of other utilities. However, disabling SIP does not seem to help, as the utility shows up in the error report following the subsequent failure to boot.
It looks like there is unlikely to be a workaround, so we probably will just have to wait until the Netgear software people "pull their fingers out" and get on with doing what other utility developers have done and modify their utility.
Macworld article:
Hang in there, fellow frustrated Netgear Community OS X users.
I don't know if anyone else experienced this, but with the utility installed, I tried to disable SIP via recovery.This resulted in a kernel panic crash upon reboot. I needed to disable SIP to be able to run Parallels with a Bootcamp installation and it was not immediately obvious that Netgear USB Utility was at fault. The panic debug screen remains up for less than five seconds. Only after taking a picture of the screen during the crash did I note that buried in the debug notes was a line stating "Kernel Extensions in backtrace: ng.uds.netusb.controller(1.59)..."
Uninstalling the utility remedies the crash. This really needs to be fixed.
Hi KenV9999
That's part of what I was describing happened to me, in the post just before yours.
I guess you would know that if you use the "uninstall" utility in the Netgear folder (in Applications) to get rid of the Netgear utility (which is currently useless right now anyway) prior to attempting SIP disable, then the kernel panic crash does not occur. Sorry if I am telling you stuff you already know (in case someone else gets this problem), but once you get the kernel panic crash (because of the Netgear utility) you can do another recovery boot and re-enable SIP and then a restart should be successful.
Best wishes, Charles.
