WIFI Dongle AC600 Manufacturer Doesn't Provide Driver for Sonoma

I’m not aware of many if any “generic” drivers for macOS. Apple provides drivers for the hardware it installs inside the box and that’s about it. Everything else has to come from the manufacturer and if they’re not providing a driver, I doubt there is one that exists, unless you can find a similar dongle made by another company that is also supporting Sonoma.

Can you not just handoff the USB device to the Linux operating system and have it load the driver for it? I guess that implies one exists for Linux

As Viking already noted, you need to find a dongle that does not require drivers and uses the built-in capability of macOS. Any dongle you find, even if you find the driver works right now will probably break at the next Mac OS upgrade. I don’t have any suggestions, though.

menachemallo wrote:

I Have AC600 wifi dongle which doesnt have compatible driver for Sonoma (macOS 14.2.1). Could you suggest the generic driver for Macbook Pro M2 Sonoma 14.2.1, or where to look for AC600 latest driver for Sonoma

Please explain why the computer needs a Third Party " AC600 wifi dongle " to gain Wifi Access ?

The computer already has that ability builtin ( Wifi ) without the need for a dongle

menachemallo wrote:

Hi PRP_53

Thanks for reply, I have guest OS (linux) using UTM vm box, that require separate wifi hardware for network monitoring, current wifi hardware access (onboard) considered as bridged LAN

Thank you for the additional information.

Under normal operations of running macOS on a Apple Computer equipped with builtin wifi capabilities does not present issues.

Adding in a VM and running a Linux operating system will present challenges.

The issue of Third Party Software for a Third Party Device to be used in macOS is outside of those perimeters and is at discretion of the Contributor to offer suggestions and  / or assistance

Sorry, do not have a solution for the AC600 wifi dongle

The default behavior for VirtualBox, Parallel's Desktop, and I expect VMware is to automatically configure a default LAN adapter for the guest that automatically connects to the hosts Wi-Fi or Ethernet and Internet access.

You will have to verify with UTM documentation or the vendor about how they handle guest networking. If the Mac cannot recognize that AC600 adapter, then the UTM guest won't know about it either.

Third-party Wi-Fi adapters either are automatically detected by macOS, or they are not, and would require compatible vendor-specific drivers. I will not use one of these adapters if it requires vendor driver support, and have not needed any additional network adapter for Apple hardware in several years. When I did, the ongoing vendor support for driver updates was absent, and the next release of macOS rendered the adapter useless.

Have MacBook Air 2020 Sonoma. It seems it is not compatible with Mobile Devices (Dongle/MiFi & Live in area where only 3G/4G is receieved), however it works with WiFi Router & .works with iPhone Hotspot, for a limited time. Not ideal.....any body have any ideas ?