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USB Ethernet Adaptor

I purchased an Apple USB Ethernet Adaptor MB442Z/A to use with my MacBook Air 11". On the right hand USB it worked a couple of times. On the left-hand USB it won't work at all. Now it works on neither. I've checked and it is visible in System Profiler, however in the Network settings it says Cable Unplugged. The left hand USB works fine with 3 other devices I've tested. Any ideas?

Message was edited by: Madam

MacBook Pro 15-inch Aluminum (Mid 2010), MacBook Air 11" (late 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.4), iPhone 3GS iOs 4.01

Posted on Oct 23, 2010 10:59 PM

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wifiguru

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Posted on Oct 24, 2010 12:31 AM

So it says cable unplugged when you have the ethernet cable plugged into the USB ethernet adapter and connected on the other side to a router ?
Connect the USB adapter to the USB port. Launch the Terminal app. and type in
syslog

Paste the last 30 lines you see in the output here. ( If you have some other place where you can copy paste the whole output do that and paste the link here). The logs sometimes have some useful info. to help point out if its something simple.

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Jun 4, 2013 6:21 PM in response to Madam

Puting a router between the computer and the modem solved this problem for me when none of the other suggestions did.

aamar845

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Nov 21, 2013 4:56 PM in response to anpwq

THis was it!!!! Thank you.!

Feb 14, 2014 11:53 PM in response to allanchou

Tried everything and then updated to latest drivers as advised by allanchou and voila...... its back to the way it was meant to be. Thanks alanchou 🙂

Dec 17, 2014 9:07 PM in response to anpwq

I know this posting is old BUT it worked!!!! Simple but worked!! Thank you!!

USB Ethernet Adaptor