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Re: usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by AlanBartlett » 2010/06/06 14:07:04

For those persons interested and who are not subscribed to the [url=http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo]ELRepo users' mailing list[/url] the relevant announcement is available to view in the [url=http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2010-June/000285.html]mail archives[/url].

Once it has been read, a loop back to post #2 of this thread will be appropriate. ;-)

As this is a [i]CentOS[/i] forum, I'll just mention that the [url=http://elrepo.org]ELRepo project[/url] has its own [url=http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2010-June/000285.html]mailing lists[/url] and [url=http://elrepo.org/bugs/main_page.php]bug tracker[/url] for the packages that it supplies to users of [i]Enterprise Linux[/i] OS's, of which the [i]CentOS Project[/i] is a subset.

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Re: usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by redfusion » 2010/06/08 16:03:44

Driver works great! Shows up as eth2.

I hope to see this driver in future CentOS release. Thanks again for your help.

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Re: usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by AlanBartlett » 2010/06/08 17:22:12

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Driver works great!
[/quote]
Excellent. To read those three words makes the time spent on creating the revised package worthwhile. :-D

[quote]
I hope to see this driver in future CentOS release.
[/quote]
It will only appear in a later point release of [i]CentOS 5[/i] if [url=http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?highlight=%28TUV%29#head-d29a2b7e61ffc544973098f9dd49fe4663efba50]TUV[/url] include it in their product, [i]RHEL 5[/i].

AFAIR, it [i]should[/i] be included in [i]RHEL 6[/i]. So it should be found in [i]CentOS 6[/i]. ;-)

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Re: usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by kapshure » 2010/06/16 00:40:26

I am running into the same issue here:

2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 i686 i386 -- CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

running on a mac mini, using the Apple USB Ethernet adapter to setup an eth1 connection because I'm using this system to run nTop. Did this originally in FC12 with no problems.

I did find the deviceID and fingerprint: Bus 001 Device 007: ID 05ac:1402 Apple, Inc.

even found the RPM off ElRepo that looks like is what I need: http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/i386/RPMS/kmod-asix-2.6.20-3.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm

ran rpm -iVH

rpm -ivh kmod-asix-2.6.20-3.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:kmod-asix ########################################### [100%]
Creating the symbolic links. This may take some time ... Done.

Running /sbin/ifconfig still doesnt show the device. when I did the FC12 install, I remember that eth1 doesn't get an IP address when set in promiscuous mode and is connected to a switch port doing port mirroring, so I didnt assign any IP address or GW, subnet mask, etc in the system-config-network utility.

I know its something simple, but I'm still learning.. any thoughts?

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usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by pschaff » 2010/06/16 01:09:29

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kapshure wrote:
I am running into the same issue here:

2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 i686 i386 -- CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
...
I know its something simple, but I'm still learning.. any thoughts?[/quote]
1. Do the [url=FAQ & Readme first]required reading[/url] and don't hijack threads for a similar issue.
2. If you have a working network connection on another interface update to the current/supported version - CentOS 5.5 with kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
3. If still having problems show the results of [b]getinfo.sh driver[/b] in a fresh thread, with a link back to this one for context.

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Re: usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by AlanBartlett » 2010/06/16 11:26:42

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even found the RPM off ElRepo that looks like is what I need: http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/i386/RPMS/kmod-asix-2.6.20-3.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
[/quote]
No. You have installed the wrong version (2.6.20-3). Please look at the links in post #10 to this thread.

[code]
[ajb@stxsl ~]$ yum --enablerepo elrepo-testing list available kmod-asix
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
[i]<snip>[/i]
Available Packages
kmod-asix.i686 2.6.20-4.el5.elrepo elrepo-testing
[/code]
This is an [i]ELRepo[/i] query that would have best been asked on the [url=http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo]ELRepo users' mailing list[/url]. :roll:

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Re: usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by kapshure » 2010/06/16 17:34:47

[b]Sorry Guys[/b]

Sorry about hijacking. Apologies for not doing enough reading, etc..

Am still having problems and will just move this over to a new thread and/or the ElRepo mailing list.

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Re: usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by yubby » 2017/05/19 01:08:29

In case this is still a relevant topic (7 years later), I came across it after purchasing this model USB 3.0 - gigabit interface devices, and attempted to install it.

I'm using CentOS 6.9 (updated) and was able to activate and configure the device in about 10 minutes time...

At a 'high level', this is what I did:

Download latest (2 year old) driver 'source':
http://www.asix.com.tw/FrootAttach/driv ... CE.tar.bz2

# on the build system
tar xf AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.18.0_SOURCE.tar
cd AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.18.0_SOURCE
make
scp -p ax88179_178a.ko <target server>:/var/tmp


# on the target system
cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/usb
sudo cp -p /var/tmp/ax88179_178a.ko .
sudo chown root:root ax88179_178a.ko
sudo chmod 0744 ax88179_178a.ko

sudo depmod -a
lsmod | grep usbnet
sudo insmod ax88179_178a.ko
lsmod | grep usbnet
lsmod | grep ax
sudo tail -25 /var/log/messages

cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
sudo cp -p ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1
sudo vi ifcfg-eth1

netstat -nr
sudo ifdown eth0
sudo ifup eth1
sudo tail -f /var/log/messages
netstat -nr
ifconfig

# Test results
This was done on an older PC (Compaq DX5150) having 1 'onboard' gigabit interface.
An SCP of an ISO image over my gigabit LAN, resulted in 340mbit/sec on the 'onboard' interface, and 140mbit/sec using the USB 3.0 device.
(I'll be re-testing using newer PC models, as well as those with full USB 3.0 interfaces, to see what it's full potential is).

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Re: usb ethernet driver/setup

Post by TrevorH » 2017/05/19 08:26:25

a) don't hijack ancient threads for ancient unsupported versions of CentOS or post the wrong forum section
b) yum install elrepo-release && yum install kmod-ax88179_178a
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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