[SOLVED] Realtek RTL8153 USB

[tmbt]

Someone is using this usb lan adaptor after the upgrade to Catalina (was working good OOB in Mojave)

 

I can see it under USB devices in system report but the LAN is not showing in System preferences-> Network ...

 

Is something wrong on my Hack or is just not compatible with Catalina ?

 

Thanks

Mattia

 

 

EDIT : Solved after the upgrade to 10.15.1 beta 2

Edited October 22, 2019 by tmbt

[Gabigeek]

Hi,I'm in the exact same situation than you,  I just installed macOS 10.15.1 on my laptop, but the update did nothing :/ My adapter is a AUKEY Gbe USB-C ethernet dongle using the same RTL8153 chipset.

 

Edit : Problem solved, it was due to kext conflicts.

Edited October 24, 2019 by Gabigeek

[doruchiulan]

@Gabigeek what kexts were conflicting? I can't get my adapter to work and I struggled half day with this already

 

EDIT: For other users that might have this problem, give this a try:

Following @Gabigeek comment I searched for conflicting drivers and found something.

// Un-plug your adapter

// Backup and remove Apple's driver
rsync -avzh /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBRealtek8153Patcher.kext ~/Desktop/ 
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBRealtek8153Patcher.kext
// Install driver from Realtek
// Refresh kextcache (I used an app called "Hackintool" which has an option on "Tools" tab)

// Reboot

 

I tried like 10 hours a lot of methods and only last night I realised that driver might conflict with the ones from Realtek and probably that's the case. For now my network survived restarts and looks/sleeps and look stable.

 

I hope this is the fix and I hope it will help others.

 

Edited November 17, 2019 by doruchiulan

[yellowrobot.xyz]

Thank you for instructions - It works, drivers can be downloaded here for Catalina Realtek 8153 usb 3.0 ethernet
https://realtek-download.com/realtek-usb-fe-gbe-2-5g-rtl8156-rtl8153-rtl8152b-gaming-ethernet-family-controller/