Some vendors say that they will not work with the M1 (yet). Read reviews and buy Anker USB C to Ethernet Adapter, Portable 1-Gigabit. macOS includes several drivers for Aquantia Chips (at least the Intel version of macOS). Amazons Gold Box deal of the day today is focusing on a collection of Anker. Only solution is thunderbolt, but that's expensive (either Apple's Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2 -> Apple GbE adapter) or one of the various 10GbE adapters that use the Aquantia Chips. There are no other USB based GbE chips that I'm aware of on the market. They must be used with a proprietary driver as they didn't supported the CDC-ECM mode. 0 10/100M Ethernet Adapter Note: If youre developing on Mac OS X or Linux. Not sure whether Realtek will rework their driver, or just abandon the Mac platform for their drivers. Enjoy Now Step 1: Connect the 12/21/20 19632 0 USB Adapter BTA-BC4B6 Step 1. Apple blocked the kernel APIs for USB based NICs in Big Sur (and replaced them with DriverKit userspace APIs). Realteak had a driver for macOS up to Catalina.

The adapter may seem a little bulky, but that’s due to multiple outputs. It can offer maximum HDMI output to 3840 216030Hz resolution. ) is done by the CPU instead of the NICs hardware which a) causes high cpu load during high network activity and b) can cause instability with some implementations. The 8-in-1 adapter comes with three USB 3.0 connectors, 1 4K HDMI port, one ethernet port, 1 100W PD USB-C port, one SD, and 1 TF card slot. In this state, there's no offloading which means: All the heavy lifting (checksumming.

Instead, the NIC also supports basic CDC-ECM mode which macOS does have a driver (AppleUserECM) for.

All those adapters (very likely) use the Realtek RTL8153 USB NIC.

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