TP-Link TL-WN725N working on Mac Lion [solved]

[bxor]

Hi all,

went through this not long ago and felt I should share. The airport on my mac stopped working and I decided to get the TP-Link TL-WN725N USB-WIFI adapter.

It's only windows supported from out the box, but it works on a mac.

To get it working, install the driver from the Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset which can be found here. Choose the appropriate one for your OSX (10.5, 10.6, 10.7 etc) install it, restart your mac and... your adapter will be working!

 

[chscag]

Nice find. Thanks for posting it.

 

[claludwig]

it's not installing

Hello!
I have a mackbook pro OS X 10.5.
I'm trying to install the adaptor in my computer, but it isn't working. My network interface from mac stopped working some months ago. So I thought this would be the solution. My boyfriend also was installing in his computer (which the network is working) and it didn't work.
Can you help me how to install?! I've tried many chipset. But when I the computer restart and I go to the network from system preference it doesnt connect. Thanks.

 

[gerryc89]

Hi

I have managed to set this up successfully.

However - has anyone been able to get this to work with a 802.1x network? Im sturggling - this is used by my university and so Im really pretty stuck without it. The software does bring across the profiles from the wifi setup I did using the profile. But it does not seem to connect and does not give me an option to add my username - rather just my password. All of the security settings and protocols are correct

any help/guidance would be much appreciated. Im a bit stuck at the moment.

 

[miau]

went through this not long ago and felt I should share.

Thanks for sharing! I have installed the realtek treiber on os 10.7.5 bur the Wi-Fi option does not appear under network settings. Did you do something else after restarting? System profiler sees the device though.

Michael

 

[andreu019]

Hi guys.

I bought this USB adapter TPLINK TL-WN725N for a PC, I've been trying to install on OSx 10.8.4, but doesn't work. Is there any special requirement to use before install it? Or anyone has find another solution to it?

Thank you.

Andres.

Regards from Ecuador.

 

[niluseast]

WiFi stick does not work after reboot

Moin from Hamburg,

Problem:

My TL-WN725N WiFi USB stick is no longer activated / being used ...

I installed a driver for the Realtek chipset RTL8188CUS like explained here.

It worked like a charm untill I shutdown my notebook and rebooted the system. Since then the WiFi USB Dongle does not work anymore. The WiFi symbol is greyed out and the tooltip simply says something like that 'hardware is not available'. -> Airport card is broken.

Quite strangely, the stick is still recognized by the system profiler as USB device.


Tried troubleshooting methods:

- CMD + Option + P + R while system boot
- Re-/install the driver numerous times
- Reboot the system in various scenarios
- Remove the Airport configuration in the Network Settings
- Launch the WiFi Utility that came with the Realtek driver


Question:

Does anyone have an idea or suggestion, how I can use the WiFi stick again?


Background:

Why do I have installed the stick?
Because my Airport card is defect, (no longer recognized by the system) and a repair is too expensive (display must be replaced).


Thanks a million for any hints

Yours truly,
Nilus

Mac OS X (10.9), Macbook Pro 5,5