Linux Long-shot on USB Ethernet

The AirLink 101 (AGIGAUSB) USB Ethernet adapter was on sale at a local
computer store so I thought I would give it a try. Well, it works OK
with XP but RH8 didn't recognise anything.

I installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 5. Well, now it recognises the
USB and I can do a modprobe usbnet with no problems, but I only see
eth0 (the standard ethernet card) and lo when I do an ifconfig.

I think I am missing something here. Any clues out there from anyone?

TNX
Ken - KC7RAD

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> The AirLink 101 (AGIGAUSB) USB Ethernet adapter was on sale at a local
> computer store so I thought I would give it a try. Well, it works OK
> with XP but RH8 didn't recognise anything.

As far as I recollect RedHat 8 doesn't even support USB.

> I installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 5. Well, now it recognises the
> USB and I can do a modprobe usbnet with no problems, but I only see
> eth0 (the standard ethernet card) and lo when I do an ifconfig.
>
> I think I am missing something here. Any clues out there from anyone?

Try configuring the interface with system-config-network.

Otherwise, you might set up the interface manualy by copying and
modifying /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, but this is a bit
less intuitive.

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In comp.os.linux.networking (E-Mail Removed):
> The AirLink 101 (AGIGAUSB) USB Ethernet adapter was on sale at a local
> computer store so I thought I would give it a try. Well, it works OK
> with XP but RH8 didn't recognise anything.

You wouldn't expect Windoze 3.11 to support the latest hardware,
wouldn't you?

> I installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 5. Well, now it recognises the

Hopefully you did run 'yum update' (or up2date) after installing
to get all updates and rebooted to make the update kernel
running?

> USB and I can do a modprobe usbnet with no problems, but I only see
> eth0 (the standard ethernet card) and lo when I do an ifconfig.

> I think I am missing something here. Any clues out there from anyone?

Looks fine, you will not see the device in 'ifconfig' until you
bring it up. Use 'ifconfig' for testing purposes or
'system-config-network' to configure it permanently.

Good luck

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Michael Heiming wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.networking (E-Mail Removed):
>> The AirLink 101 (AGIGAUSB) USB Ethernet adapter was on sale at a local
>> computer store so I thought I would give it a try.
>> I installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 5. Well, now it recognises the
>> USB and I can do a modprobe usbnet with no problems, but I only see
>> eth0 (the standard ethernet card) and lo when I do an ifconfig.
> Looks fine, you will not see the device in 'ifconfig' until you
> bring it up. Use 'ifconfig' for testing purposes

True, but it ought to be visible with "ifconfig -a", which is supposed
to tell you about interfaces that are down. If not, take a look at the
contents of /var/log/messages or the output of dmesg. You could also
see what "lsusb" tells you.

Finally, remember that Google is your friend...

Thank all for your feedback. Unfortunately it is still not working.
Here's what I have done:

1) Ran yam (drank many beers and fell asleep while it was running)
2) This morning ran system-config-network (with coffee). No luck. I
am using the text mode pgm, so no pretty stuff. It would only let me
configure eth0... Unless I am not doing it right... Start the
program, "What do you want to configure?" select Ethernet (have
Ethernet, Modem, ISDN as options), configuration screen shows up with
info for eth0, I change eth0 to eth1, that only changes the name eth0
to eth1. I ran ifconfig and yup. eth0 was renamed to eth1.
3) After changing my eth0 back to normal, I ran ifconfig -a. I have
an entry for eth0, lo and sit0. sit0 'is' the IPV6 stuff, right?
Nothing mentioning eth1 or really anything out of the ordinary. No
entries for the USB ethernet link.

Looking in the output from dmesg, here are the entries that have
something to do with eth1 or the USB:

Nothing in there about eth1

usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PCI0 USB0 USB1 MODM UAR1 UAR2 LPT1
SELinux: initilized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UCHI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 5, io base 0x0000d400
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Any other suggestions?
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I think that maybe, instead of spending $20 on the AirLink and 12 hours
trying to make it work, I should have just spent $75 on a dual port
network card!
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TNX all
Ken - KC7RAD