Yes I had to install drivers for them using a windows machine. Here's an old post of mine.
"" I am also running NooElec dongles. They ran fine on my Mac but I had a hiccup on my Windows machine. My windows machine recognized something was plugged in but treated them as keyboards! So when I ran sdrtrunk, sdrtrunk did not see any dongles. I had to install drivers so Windows would run the dongles correctly. Download Zadig from
https://zadig.akeo.ie/ and watch this short video on how to install it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPQStRVib24. In the video they mention running “Bulk interface 0” AND “Bulk interface 1”. But I only installed 0. All works great. ""