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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 installer creates a directory "RT2870Resources" in root. Copy it somewhere before the installer finishes.
The installer will finish, you can hit I think option or alt l for the log. It will show lots of failures that you get to manually fix.
Browse to your copied RT2870 resources folder, grab the Yosemite kext file under driver. Copy it to /Library/Extensions. Chown it and chmod it to the appripriate permissions all other kext's have.
sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"
If you're running El Capitain: Boot to recovery, csrutil disable
Reboot.
I dunno how to make kext's load automatically, so sudo to root, kextload /Library/ExtensionsRT2870USBWirelessDriver.kext
There, now you can set up your device with Mediatek's horrible wirless coinfiguration utility. You'll probably get one chance before the front-end crashes.
Well, it works. I've been connected to a dual band N router for a while, getting the proper speeds.
Ummm...don't do this. It involves turning off OSX security features and it doesn't work well.
Netgear...proper support please? Well, whatever. Hopefully this helps someone.
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I just received a A6210 at Christmas for our Macbook Pro 2010, and Netgear does not have a Mac OS X driver package?
Hi CoachCal,
The A6210 works on Windows based Operating System. Drivers are only available for Windows.
I just bought one, it was nowhere clear to me that it was only for Windows... Pretty disappointed...
Will you make a driver for mac in the short term?
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.
mmomega, thanks a ton for this... now I have WiFi on my Hackintosh instead of having to keep it connected via Ethernet.
I just bought one. Downloaded the OSX software listed above. Using 10.10.5 OS. Works so far.
I have a desktop too far away from my router to run an Ethernet cable. We'll see how well this A6210 works with Netgear's AC1900 router. I'm looking to get some snappy speed and edit with small-ish video proxy files in Premiere through a NAS drive. I'll report back after some tests.
