Can’t install Lan9500 driver properly

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So I recently bought 4-port Lenovo USB hub with LAN. It came with a driver I needed to install to get the LAN to work. But the documentation said that the USB hub should be unplugged while installing the driver.

Unfortunately – I had the USB hub plugged in while installing the driver. And now the LAN doesn't work.

I've tried installing it on another computer and things work fine. The driver I installed was LAN9500.

Is there anything I can do to make things work?

Best Answer

Uninstall the driver then try again, correctly

This has instructions, but I can't copy/paste them to here.

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en//softwarelibrary/man-lan95xx/lan9500_lan9500a_lan951x%20software%20user%20manual%20rev.%201.2%20(05-01-09).pdf

Cmd/F to search, then search in the 'extra' box inside the page, not Safari's usual search box - for 'uninstall'
It will take you straight to the Mac uninstall page.

I got it… but I really hope you're not doing this on Yosemite… unless you have unsigned kexts switched off

MAC OSX Driver Uninstallation

Note: The device must be safely removed from the computer before beginning the uninstallation.

To begin the uninstallation process, open up a command terminal and enter the removal command sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/LAN9500.kext/ This causes the device driver to be removed from the operating system.

The final step is to remove the network entry that was created during the installation process. Click the systray network icon (top right corner of the screen) and select “Open Network Preferences...”

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