Uploaded September 2013 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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You can use a Macbook air USB-Ethernet adapter on a Windows 7 machine even though it wouldn't normally find a driver by making a quick hack to the chip driver you can obtain from the manufacturer. It is important to note that I know that there are at least 2 different chips being used in these adapters and this is just one of them.

Link to the Driver download page: http://www.asix.com.tw/download.php?sub=driverdetail&PItemID=97

Signature check disabling:
bcdedit /set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit /set testsigning ON

Driver modification
Line to replace
%AX88772A.DeviceDesc% = AX88772A.Ndi,USB\VID_0B95&PID_772A

Replace with
%AX88772A.DeviceDesc% = AX88772A.Ndi,USB\VID_05AC&PID_1402