Unable to connect with Radioshack Ethernet to USB adapter

[RoyalStone]

I have a mid-2014 13" MacBook Pro , and I'm trying to get my new Ethernet to USB adapter from Radioshack. Nothing shows up in the Networks pane of System preferences, and when I turn off wifi I can no longer connect to the internet. It came with drivers, and I installed that package and then restarted but nothing shows up for this adapter. Is there a certain order I should be plugging the various cables in? Is it possible the problem is with the Ethernet cable which is also new?

I'm trying to figure out how I can get this device working. Here is a picture of how it shows up in System Information:

(It says USB 2.0, but the 12mbps speed and the fact that the manual says it is USB 1.1 say otherwise).

Any ideas on how to make this work?

 

[Fishrrman]

First, I'd try different drivers. That includes drivers from other vendors.

If that didn't work, I'd try another USB/Ethernet adapter...

 

[RoyalStone]

I'll try some different drivers, but first shouldn't I uninstall the one I installed? How would I do that?

And yeah, I'm willing to buy another one (maybe from Monoprice if people say that one works, or maybe just the $30 Apple Ethernet to Thunderbolt, because that one is all but guaranteed to work) but I'd like to see if I can get this one to work.

 

[MCAsan]

Do you need a straight Ethernet cable....Tx--->TX and Rx--->Rx or, a reverse cable that is wired Tx--->Rx and Rx--->Tx? The connection will not work if you don't get the transmit and receive pairs as the devices expect.

 

[RoyalStone]

Thanks for the suggestions you two, but I managed to fix it. As per this xkcd:

I will share what I did.

I searched the Product ID in my screenshot (which is 0x9702 so that someone can search for it [vendor id is
0x0fe6]) along with the word "mac" which led me to this article.

I will copy and paste the full text here in case that site goes down. Following those steps solved my issue.