[Solved] Asus USB-AC51 not working, help please.

[AidenRuz]

I bought the Asus usb-AC51 for my sisters hackintosh and can't get it to work. When i set up the mac i selected ethernet since the desk i was at had ethernet routed to it but since we are going to move it to my sisters desk downstairs with no ethernet, we needed to get a wifi card, we went to microcenter and one wifi card had mac support on the back so we bought it. I downloaded the drivers off of their website because it said i needed them on the box and plug it in, I check my network in system preferences and there is ethernet, bluetooth PAN, and Windscribe VPN (The VPN I use) but no wifi, I went into the section to add a new option but there is no wifi setting in the dropdown. I saw a post that said pressing the option button on startup to get into recovery mode then to disable then re-enable wifi from the top right but I have a windows keyboard. I booted into Recovery HD from clover boot menu and there was no wifi setting in the top right or anywhere so i have no idea what to do. Please help. I'm on OSX high sierra 10.13.1. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[BreBo]

I'm on OSX high sierra 10.13.1.

The latest mac drivers for the Asus USB-AC51 on the Asus site are only for macOS Sierra 10.12

 

[AidenRuz]

The latest mac drivers for the Asus USB-AC51 on the Asus site are only for macOS Sierra 10.12

I realized, could I still possibly get this to work, that's not the only issue, the other issue is that there is no wifi option in system preferences.

 

[BreBo]

the other issue is that there is no wifi option in system preferences.

There is probably no WiFi option in System Preferences > Network because your Asus usb-AC51 is not recognised.

could I still possibly get this to work

Completely remove the ASUS Wireless Utility folder from your Application folder; move to the trash and Empty trash or run USBWireless-Uninstall.pkg from the ASUS_USB-AC51-MAC10.12.dmg

Then try the drivers from this package.
Follow every step in the readme.

 

[AidenRuz]

There is probably no WiFi option in System Preferences > Network because your Asus usb-AC51 is not recognized.

Completely remove the ASUS Wireless Utility folder from your Application folder; move to the trash and Empty trash or run USBWireless-Uninstall.pkg from the ASUS_USB-AC51-MAC10.12.dmg

Then try the drivers from this package.
Follow every step in the readme.

This did the trick, thank you so much! The only issue I have now is the speeds being slow but I can trouble shoot and see if it's just the positioning of the pc in our old house, the WiFi has trouble going through our walls lol. But thank you, I love you man! Have a good day.