Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Quantum QHM 8106 USB 2.0 LAN adaptor and OS X Yosemite

This is a guide for configuring Quantum USB lan adaptor. It apparently worked on versions earlier than Yosemite, but seems to have broken for later versions. The other guides on internet suggest various things to make it work, but most of them seem to provide some generic driver which may or may not make your adaptor work. To find out the hardware, do the following.


  1. Go to Apple Icon -> About This Mac -> System Report -> USB, it should have your hardware listed, in my case it it AX88772B.
  2. Do an internet search to find its driver and download it.
  3. Install the driver.
This should make it work. If it doesnt work, you may try disabling the security by

  1. booting into recovery by restarting the computer and pressing COMMAND+R.
  2. Open a terminal via the Utilities Menu.
  3. Type csrutil disable and reboot.
Hopefully this should work. Do leave a comment if it worked for you without disabling security.