Subject: Re: usb ethernet devices...
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 07:34:16 AKST
kaweth.o is the module I used on all 3 distros. It must not like
D-Link's dongle. Worked fine on 3Com's.
Jim Gribbin
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 20:03, James Zuelow wrote:
>
>
> On 19 Feb 2002, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>
> >
> > BTW - RH7.1 didn't support usb ethernet? I don't remember trying RH 7.1
> > with usb ethernet, but it came with the 2.4.2 kernel and I thought that
> > all the 2.4 kernel series supported it. At least for selected
> > interfaces.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> We had a lot of trouble with RH7.1 at a LAN party - turned out that (for
> Seawolf anyway) you needed the 2.4.12 or 2.4.13 kernels, which had just
> come out at the time, and we weren't in the mood to download at 56K &
> compile. The specific module we needed was kaweth.o, which didn't work at
> all. D-Link and a lot of other manufacturers used kaweth.o. At the time
> I found a big notice on the RedHat site that said USB ethernet was not
> supported, but I can't find it now that the RH7.2 stuff has replaced
> everything.
>
> I suppose the thing to do is put RH7.1 on a box and experiment, but all I
> have available to test is a D-Link dongle which I already know won't work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
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