{"id":289,"date":"2019-11-22T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/?p=289"},"modified":"2021-06-14T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:17:33","slug":"driver-free-usb-c-ethernet-adapter-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/2019\/11\/22\/driver-free-usb-c-ethernet-adapter-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver free USB-C ethernet adapter for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was fed up with all the cheap rubbish out there that needed a driver to work on Mac, or not even work at all when a new OS comes out. So done a bit of research and found out you want adapters with an <strong>RTL8153 chipset<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is mostly verbose info I found on some adapters I&#8217;ve had and what chipset they use. I&#8217;ll come back one day to make it cleaner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">RTL8153 (0x8153) - CharJenPro \"premium\" hub with USB-A ports (no driver, just works)\nRTL8153 (0x8153) - Belkin USB-C to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (Belkin USB-C LAN)\nRTL8153 - Vention USB-C to Ethernet HUB - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aliexpress.com\/item\/32875260609.html\">https:\/\/www.aliexpress.com\/item\/32875260609.html<\/a>\nRTL8153 - Generic USB-C to Ethernet - <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Ethernet-Adapter-uni-Thunderbolt-Compatible\/dp\/B077KXY71Q?sa-no-redirect=1\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Ethernet-Adapter-uni-Thunderbolt-Compatible\/dp\/B077KXY71Q?sa-no-redirect=1<\/a>\nAX88179 - ugreen USB-C gigabit ethernet (needs driver! none for 10.15 yet)\nBCM5701 - Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter\n<em>@wolfies Check the chipset on the Belkin, I bet its one of those low cost Realtek USB ones that you can get otherwise for $10. The Apple Thunderbolt chipset is a Broadcom PCI-E one that is fairly high-end. Its an issue both with the cheap chipset and inherent limitations of USB. As you can see maximum bandwidth is not directly correlated with performance. \u2013 user71659 Nov 7 18 at 17:34<\/em> from stackoverflow or so..\nSuch a shame Apple (or anyone) has made a thunderbold (usb-c plug) to gigabit ethernet adapter yet :|\n\nNote: You can find out the chipset used usually in lsusb or dmesg commands after plugging in the device. (in Linux\/Debian)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m testing a bunch of adapters to see which works best on Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More info on RTL8153 for Mac<br><a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/MadLittleMods\/3005bb13f7e7178e1eaa9f054cc547b0\">https:\/\/gist.github.com\/MadLittleMods\/3005bb13f7e7178e1eaa9f054cc547b0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Belkin USB-C LAN adapter details from Mac info.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Product ID: 0x8153<br> Vendor ID: 0x0bda  (Realtek Semiconductor Corp.)<br> Version: 30.00<br> Serial Number: BLAAA00000<br> Speed: Up to 5 Gb\/s<br> Manufacturer: Belkin<br> Location ID: 0x01200000 \/ 1<br> Current Available (mA): 900<br> Current Required (mA): 256<br> Extra Operating Current (mA):0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fed up with all the cheap rubbish out there that needed a driver to work on Mac, or not even work at all when a new OS comes out. So done a bit of research and found out you want adapters with an RTL8153 chipset. Here is mostly verbose info I found on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}