Bearextender For Mac

21-04-2021
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BearExtender 1200 was discontinued in 2014 and is not supported officially beyond Mac OS 10.10.
If you have Mac OS 10.14 Mojave, there may be a workaround to use you BearExtender 1200.
Step 1: Disable SIP protection on Mac per these steps:
https://www.bearifi.com/blogs/news/disabling-sip-protection-for-bearifi-bearextender-turbo-and-legacy-mac-usb-products
Step 2: Download and run installer from this link

  1. Bearextender For Macbook Air
  2. Bearextender For Macbook
  3. Bearextender For Macbook Pro
  4. Bearifi Bearextender For Mac

Bearextender For Macbook Air

BearExtender n3 is a high power Wi-Fi radio with an external antenna that increases the range of your Mac’s Wi-Fi signal– up to four times as far as your internal AirPort card! BearExtender n3 is a simple plug and play USB device that works with Macs running Mac OS 10.3 Panther, 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard or 10.7 Lion. BearExtender Turbo is a great way to add the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi to any Mac, even if the internal AirPort card is broken or not installed. Ready for Anything BearExtender Turbo works with all Wi-Fi standards including 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.11ac. This means you can use BearExtender Turbo with any Wi-Fi network.

If you have Mac OS 10.12 Sierra and want to try to get extended life out of your BearExtender 1200, we do have an unsupported DMG you can install, but you must first uninstall any previous version of BearExtender software. This means if you were running 10.9, you will need to download our 10.9 package first and run the uninstall package inside before installed the 10.12 update.


For downloads related to previous versions of Mac OS, see below:

Downloads & Drivers

OS X Yosemite 10.10 customers, click here.

Driver for Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.9 (Latest as of July 11, 2014)

Setup Guide & Manual

Troubleshooting

General troubleshooting steps: Try these steps before contacting support

Bearextender For Macbook

10.9 Mavericks users: You must use the “Add to Favorites” button to connect.


BearExtender legacy Mac USB products can however now be used on Microsoft Windows computers. To add additional life to your product, our new PC drivers on our BearExtender PC support page allow our legacy Mac USB products to be used on PCs. This is something our programmers were able to control, and we have done so to add new life and worth to your older BearExtender products. We thank you for supporting BearExtender and if you have any questions or concerns, please visit our support page for phone and email contact information.

ForMacbook

Contact Support

We are here to help.
Please contact us right away if you have any problems or questions with your BearExtender. Our support staff is 100% based in the U.S. and we reply to emails typically within 6-12 hours.

Email: support@bearextender.com

For Telephone support, click here.

Bearextender For Macbook Pro

These instructions are a mix of what I got from:
https://blog.alfa.com.tw/2016/03/01/using-alfa-network-awus036nh-awus036neh-awus036nf-awus051nh-v2-awus052nh-on-osx-10-11-el-capitan/
https://www.bearifi.com/pages/bearextender-1200-support

Bearifi Bearextender For Mac

  • Run the following instructions:
    • Create a new directory for the downloads
      mkdir ~/BearExtender
    • Put the following download in the directory called ~/BearExtender
      • Download the BearExtender Kernel Extension from here: http://107.170.140.210/s/8aa1Wf38QGi7R7v
    • Get the BearExtender software
      • Put the following download in the directory called ~/BearExtender
      • Download the BearExtender software from here: http://www.bearextender.com/doc/BearExtender-5.4.dmg
  • Disable the Apple SIP Protection as follows:
    • Click the Apple menu.
    • Select Restart…
    • Hold down Command key and R key to boot
    • into the Recovery System.
    • Click the Utilities menu and select Terminal.
    • Type csrutil disable and press return.
    • Close the Terminal app.
    • Click the Apple menu and select Restart…
  • Open the bear Extender APP installer in BearExtender-5.4.dmg
  • Read and follow the instructions in Instructions.pdf (content of the opened .DMG file)
    Note: At the end of the instructions it says that the BearExtender should reconnect within 7 sec when the USB cable is pulled out, BUT my experience is thet it doesn’t :-(.
    You either need Restart the Mac.
  • Since the application doesn’t install the Kernel Extension at_all/properly we need to do some under-the-cab work.
  • Start the terminal APP from Applications/Accessories
  • Prepare and copy the BearExtender driver to the Extensions directory
    cd ~/BearExtender
  • Open Terminal and type ( or copy and paste) those 3 commands:
    sudo chmod -R 755 RT2870USBWirelessDriver.kext (enter)
    sudo chown -R 0:0 RT2870USBWirelessDriver.kext (enter)
    sudo cp RT2870USBWirelessDriver.kext /System/Library/Extensions (enter)
    cd /System/Library/Extensions ( enter)
  • Clear the kext cache by typing the following 3 commands in Terminal:
    sudo chown root:admin / (enter)
    sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel (enter)
    sudo kextcache -system-caches (enter)
  • Plug the BearExtender to USB and reboot
  • Follow the last paragraph of the instructions on hoe to use the Connection Manager of the Bear Extender
    (Contained in the opened BearExtender-5.4.dmg)
  • Happy surfing