Has anybody an USB network adapter in place?

Hello,

Is there a working USB network adapter for the Debian Squeeze Dockstar? The cheap ebay adapters do not list Linux.

I would like my dockstar to have two network adapters. No bridging intended.

There has been success with at least some USB-to-Ethernet adapters on the WDTV (it runs linux too).
Found a couple pages just now by searching WDTV & USB-to-Ethernet or WDTV & USB network adapter.
I've never used a USB network adapter myself.

Hope this leads to something that helps.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2010 10:08PM by Twi.

Hello!

With my dockstar, I use a Wintech LAU-15 USB-Ethernet Adapter (around €10). With Gorgones Heavy-Kernel (somewhere explained in this forum), it worked out of the box. My dockstar is now a proper and fine router.

Good luck with your search!

Hi,

I'm using a cheap ebay adapter (# 250536304511- 4,35 US$) - it's working, but I have to say... it's slooooooow:
ftp wget (100mbit network) into tmpfs:

1) onboard nic:
100%[======================================>] 52,428,800  10.6M/s   in 4.6s
 (10.8 MB/s) - `/tmp/lan.test' saved [52428800]

2) usb lan adapter:
100%[======================================>] 52,428,800   726K/s   in 65s     
 (788 KB/s) - `/tmp/usb-lan.test' saved [52428800]


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[  919.525881] usb 1-1.3: new full speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 4
[  919.740720] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0a46, idProduct=9601
[  919.747641] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  919.754987] usb 1-1.3: Product: Davicom CO., LTD
[  919.760357] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: DM9601 USB NNC

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Module                  Size  Used by
dm9601                  6115  0 
usbnet                 11906  1 dm9601
mii                     3492  2 dm9601,usbnet

So if you wanna have 2 network ports on our Dockstar it's fine. If you need a fast port (it's not even 10mbit...), get another device. :-/

@Anima79: is the LAU-15 as slow as my DM9601?

@Oscar

I didn't check for speed yet, and can't until next weekend. I will post my findings then. If it is really that slow, I will have to get another device, as I use my dockstar as a router on a 25MBit line, and the USB adapter is connected to my ISP.

I have a Fritz!box FON ATA which as a USB socket, I connected it to the Dockstar running Debian and auto-recognized but i had to do a allow-hutplug in the /etc/network/interfaces, it was autorecognized.
Slow throughput - it does not necessarily mean an issue in certain situations like if that is the link on to streaming over Wifi which often is sustaining only 10Mbits.
My intention though is to make this the make router, currently seeking to make a transparent proxy and some kind of parental control to all the Wifi connected devices, including Ipod Touch.

I have a generic gigabit usb ethernet adapter (looks like the one from Pluggable)

Just tried plugging it into my gigabit switch...

$ dmesg | grep eth1
asix 1-1.4:1.0: eth1: register 'asix' at usb-orion-ehci.0-1.4, ASIX AX88178 USB 2.0 Ethernet, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC1E1
$ ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.191 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Haven't really tested it but it looks like it works (I'm using Gorgone's kernel) and I can ping the IP from my laptop. Not sure why its connecting at 100mbits rather than gigabit.

I also noticed instructions on how to build the new asix driver on Plugable blog

-PG

Heres a source for a ASIX 88178 USB Ethernet Adapter $15 usd instead of $29 for the one Plugable links to.
Seems to work out of the box with chumby, don't know if the instructions on Plugable blog apply to this one though.

petergunn Wrote:
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> I also noticed instructions on how to build the new asix driver on Plugable blog



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/05/2010 06:34PM by Twi.