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macOS Monterey Users Report Connectivity Issues With USB Hubs
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I can confirm same thing, none of my Hubs or USB microphones are working on the new 14" MacBook Pro...
We have an M1 Mac in office on MacOs 11 and works fine... updated to 12 and they no longer work. Big issue, we cannot record any voice over or use older wired printers with the new Mac!
We have an M1 Mac in office on MacOs 11 and works fine... updated to 12 and they no longer work. Big issue, we cannot record any voice over or use older wired printers with the new Mac!
Have the same problem with a Philips 276C/8 external display. The display signal over USB c works fine, no power delivery over usb c. Contacted apple and a senior advisor tolt me that I have to contact Philips for a firmware update of the monitor, with is not possible according to Philips. the senior advisor said that apple won't deliver a fix for the problem... a hamma usb 2 hub with 2 external HD's works fine. Its the power delivery that does not work.
i wrote a beginning scene to a TV series (Hookin' with the Cooks!)
about an computer CEO and posted that here months ago
forgot what thread
So developers of the hubs or dongles needed to send apple software that needed to be delivered within Monterey OS? If I understand this correctly, hub/dongle manufacturers can't simply send out a patch? They have to send it to Apple and then Apple will add it to Monterey OS and send it out as an OS update.
Not quite expensive but that is me. First MBP in five years and both USB C travel hubs I use (each around $100) no longer work at all in my 16 in M1 Max but oddly continue to work on my 2016 MBP which I upgraded to Monterey for the machine migration and used both hubs with no issue on my Monterey 2016 MBP during a phone call with Apple support yesterday.
Reading a few articles made me think this might possibly be an M1 issue:
The Thunderbolt/USB-C ports on M1 Macs don’t work
If you are thinking of buying a M1 powered Mac and rely on fast, external, storage via a USB-C interface, you may want to reconsider. The Thunderbolt/USB-C ports on M1 Macs don’t work. They work to some degree, they just don’t work properly; they don’t allow attachment of many external USB-C...
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The interesting thing is my hubs can be seen in System Information from the About This Mac screen on the M1. That is why I am hoping this is a software situation.
Bit of irony that they say less dongles for this new Mac and I am heading on the road Monday with more dongles than ever before. I used to take two travel hubs for all of my connections (one as a backup in case the other failed) and now will need to pack Ethernet, VGA and USBA dongles which will fill all the ports when I present at a conference next week.
Really happy I use a hub in my home office setup or there would have been a really good chance I would have headed to a conference with no connection options. I am sure things could have been scrounged up but I wonder how many people who often use these hubs for presenting at conferences, meetings and whatnot might get caught by this.
Thank you for this thread. Going to contact the conference coordinators of my next two conferences to suggest they have more dongles than usual on hand.
No issues on my M1 with the dock, though have noticed since upgrading to Monterey that my 4K Samsung monitor occasionally requires me upon startup to unplug the usb-c from the Mac and reconnect to get it to recognise and display. Guess there’s always issues with initial releases.
This update has caused lots of issues on intel machines TBH. My 2013 Mac Pro can’t even install it because of a “firmware” that can’t be updated.
I was testing beta and noticed a huge improvement and wanted to release it across the board to a lot of production machines but now I will be waiting probably a few months. Maybe even a year.
I was testing beta and noticed a huge improvement and wanted to release it across the board to a lot of production machines but now I will be waiting probably a few months. Maybe even a year.
The senior advisor is a 21-year-old idiot. Apple will fix this issue shortly.
Cables are way better. I got a usbc to hdmi cable and two usbc to that flat thing on external usb drives - works great. I did get a hub, the usbc does not drive a display, I think it is for power in only, but they actually never said that anywhere, but it never worked for anything else.
So cables, not dongles. Isn’t that obvious?
This was the first upgrade I had to babysit. Not as bad as Microsuks but they are getting there.
Thanks Tim Apple.
Thanks Tim Apple.
If you use it for presenting at a conference, you should NEVER install a .0 version. NEVER.Not quite expensive but that is me. First MBP in five years and both USB C travel hubs I use (each around $100) no longer work at all in my 16 in M1 Max but oddly continue to work on my 2016 MBP which I upgraded to Monterey for the machine migration and used both hubs with no issue on my Monterey 2016 MBP during a phone call with Apple support yesterday.
Reading a few articles made me think this might possibly be an M1 issue:
The Thunderbolt/USB-C ports on M1 Macs don’t work
If you are thinking of buying a M1 powered Mac and rely on fast, external, storage via a USB-C interface, you may want to reconsider. The Thunderbolt/USB-C ports on M1 Macs don’t work. They work to some degree, they just don’t work properly; they don’t allow attachment of many external USB-C...
The interesting thing is my hubs can be seen in System Information from the About This Mac screen on the M1. That is why I am hoping this is a software situation.
Bit of irony that they say less dongles for this new Mac and I am heading on the road Monday with more dongles than ever before. I used to take two travel hubs for all of my connections (one as a backup in case the other failed) and now will need to pack Ethernet, VGA and USBA dongles which will fill all the ports when I present at a conference next week.
Really happy I use a hub in my home office setup or there would have been a really good chance I would have headed to a conference with no connection options. I am sure things could have been scrounged up but I wonder how many people who often use these hubs for presenting at conferences, meetings and whatnot might get caught by this.
Thank you for this thread. Going to contact the conference coordinators of my next two conferences to suggest they have more dongles than usual on hand.
Will be avoiding like a dose of the clap for at least a few point releases. Definitely cannot risk this on my Mac. Seems like abstaining from new software releases is an increasingly sage idea in Apple land.
Should be obvious. And is the easy solution.
But then one can't have a good whine about how the devastating "dongle-mania" is ruining their professional life.
Might boil down to the USB controllers in the hubs. Some manufacturers use cheap ones and Apple (and Microsoft) USB drivers don’t play nice with them. Counterfeit ones even sometimes make it into legit products because suppliers cut corners. The global chip shortage is probably going to make this even more common than it was in the past. OS drivers will need to be updated to be less strict in utilizing specific chipset features otherwise there will be a lot of USB bricks in people’s desk draws.