EDIMAX wifi extender stopped working with El Capitan

Hi DJ-LB,

Thanks for taking the time for helping all of us out!

I followed your steps and after I sudo kextload, the Wireless Utility manager opens up. However, it's completely blank. It can't find my wireless network and says "Disconnected!!"

When I look in my System Preferences > Network, I can see "Wifi" but it says "Cable Unplugged" (screenshot below). Any ideas?

I'm running OSX El Cap 10.11.1 on a Mac Pro (Early 2009). The tower does not have built-in wifi, which is why I needed to get this dongle (Edimax EW-7711MAC)

Following up on my previous post, here's what the Wireless Utility looks like for me. It doesn't seem to be finding my wireless network, but I know my wireless network is up because I can see it on my phone and laptop.

Edimax had released a new MacOSX 10.11 version driver for its WIFI adapter EW-7811Un.

2016-02-24

Download: Edimax EW-7811UN

MacOSX 10.11 version Driver for WIFI adapter EW-7711MAC.

2016-01-04

Download: Edimax EW-7711MAC

yess it works perfectly 10.11.3

A little late from edimax but awesome.

I actually got my EW-7711MAC to work great with El Capitan and the hacked driver (couple pages back in the thread). But for some reason, my adapter just stopped working altogether today. If I unplug it from the USB slot and plug it back in, it lights up for 1-2 seconds, and then shuts off.

So I thought, well now is time to try that new El Capitan driver (I'm running OS X 10.11.3). So I used the Edimax utility to uninstall the previous driver, then installed the new 10.11 driver, and the wireless utility and everything appeared to install correctly.

However, my Edimax will still not stay "on". Has anyone encountered this issue recently? I have not installed any new programs or changed anything else with the system configuration otherwise.

I have installed the driver and all working well except that everyday, only on the Edimax adapter it comes back and reports that the WiFi password is no longer recognised and I have to remove the profile and recreate to have it work again if I want the ac speeds.

Hi, on my Macbook Pro 17'' late 2011 with El Capitan installed and updated to the last version, Edimax's new driver installs well, the dongle's LED lights up after reboot, the Edimax application works. But the list of available networks show only three networks - and not my own one that I obviously want to connect to. Connecting with the usual Apple Airport Card, I usually see about 27 networks in my neighbourhood, of which 17 are on the 5GHz band. I have repeatedly pressing the "rescan" button (a couple dozen times now) and it is NOT happening.

Again, my problem is not that the driver doesn't work but that I can't see my own network.

If there is no solution for this, I'll have to send the Edimax back to the shop I bought it from…

Same exact thing is happening on my '09 MBP.

Did you manage to get it to work?

I actually had the same problem, but changing my routers channel from 13 to 1 helped. My own networks are now visible. I think I've heard something about Channel 13 being (only) a European thingy.

I have exactly the same issue.

The darn thing wont stay on.

Going to give up and send it back to Edimax and leave a scathing review on Amazon.

then look for another vendor that may have something working that doesn't require installing using 3rd party tools and the extensive knowledge that some of the people on this thread have.