a7000 and Mac OS Mojave

[BoomerLenny]

Has there been any timeline on a new driver to support Mojave and Catalina - 1.0.0.9 doesn not work.

I saw in another pot that it was slated for 1Q 2020 - but I don't see anything  am I missing it? Is there a workaround?

Thx

Lenny

[Blanca_O · Accepted solution]

Hi, All, 

Please be informed that we already released A7000 driver that supports MacOS Catalina (version 10.15). 

Here's the release notes and download link: 

https://kb.netgear.com/000062424/A7000-Software-Version-1-0-0-13-Mac

Regards,
Blanca
Community Team

[Blanca_O]

Hi BoomerLenny, 

Welcome to NETGEAR Community!

This has been brought up already to engineers. We will provide update once new information will be available. 

Regards,
Blanca
Community Team

[BoomerLenny]

Blanca -

Thanks for your reply.

This has been sitting with the "engineers" for over a year - if you're not going to do anything about it, just tell us and we'll move on - i'm about ready to invest in another system, but can hold off for a bit - moving to mesh as soon as this is resolved -

Lenny

[BoomerLenny]

I have a workaround.

I was trying to update my old edimax ac1200 mini adapter when I accidentally installed it's driver when the A7000 was plugged in.

It worked, I'm using the A7000 on Mojave right now.

go to this page:

https://www.edimax.com/edimax/download/download/data/edimax/global/download/

box 1 home

box 2 wireless adapters

box 3 EW-7822UAC

box 4 Drivers

Get driver 1.0.3.6, ostensibly for Catalina (if this works for Catalina, let us all know), install, restart

I had to uninstall my old drivers first, so after I unzipped the file, I ran the uninstall first, just to be sure, restarted, then ran the install with the A7000 plugged in, and now the A7000 is working.

[Paul_in_Eugene]

This workaround functions for my A7000 as well, and on Catalina . . . but why is it that, if a tiny outfit like Edimax can do it, and Chris111 on GitHub can do it, the "engineers" at NetGear seem out of their depth?

I specificaly boght this because the specs said "Mac OS X 10.8.3 or later" -- copied and pasted from the current product page at https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-adapters/A7000.aspx    It is not right that this long after the release of Mojave (and now Catalina) they have yet to come up with a supported solution.

[Blanca_O · Accepted solution]

Hi, All, 

Please be informed that we already released A7000 driver that supports MacOS Catalina (version 10.15). 

Here's the release notes and download link: 

https://kb.netgear.com/000062424/A7000-Software-Version-1-0-0-13-Mac

Regards,
Blanca
Community Team