UtterDisbelief
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This is interesting and I wonder if it reflects a problem I have had recently ...
For my older build I chose a TL-WN781N which uses the Atheros 9285 chipset and with only a minor tweak worked perfectly under OS X.
I later bought a second one, when they were on sale, just as a spare.
When I thought my original card was failing I swapped-in the new item and exactly as you describe for the 4800 Mavericks would not recognise it at all.
It turns out that although the model number is the same the new card is a version 2 model and features the 9485 chipset which OS X does not recognise.
Makes me wonder if TP-Link have changed chip in the latest version of the 4800 card ?
One way to check (and is the way I found out) is to boot into Windows and check the Device Manager and Network adaptors. It should tell you the chipset there.
Just a possibility...
For my older build I chose a TL-WN781N which uses the Atheros 9285 chipset and with only a minor tweak worked perfectly under OS X.
I later bought a second one, when they were on sale, just as a spare.
When I thought my original card was failing I swapped-in the new item and exactly as you describe for the 4800 Mavericks would not recognise it at all.
It turns out that although the model number is the same the new card is a version 2 model and features the 9485 chipset which OS X does not recognise.
Makes me wonder if TP-Link have changed chip in the latest version of the 4800 card ?
One way to check (and is the way I found out) is to boot into Windows and check the Device Manager and Network adaptors. It should tell you the chipset there.
Just a possibility...
