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New MessageLinux USB Ethernet with 2.2.x works (modified 0 times) PeteC
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I don't know if anyone has seen this back-
port of USB to the 2.2.14 kernels. With this
I easily got a LinkSys USB100TX working with
a 2.2.14 kernel.

http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/

Use the modules:
usbcore, usb-uhci, and pegasus driver.

05-14-2000 07:43:22

New MessageRE:Linux USB Ethernet with 2.2.x works (modified 0 times) illusion
i heard that this was horrible and didnt work. does it work well?
05-14-2000 17:58:24

New MessageRE:Linux USB Ethernet with 2.2.x works (modified 0 times) PeteC
Evidently, there are/were two separate backports. Once of these was by some company and didn't work well. This is by the SUSE Linux distro people and appears to work fine.

There are no errors, and I just checked throughput and got at least 3.7Mbits/sec on a 27MByte file. Another machine with PCI ethernet seems to get around 5.5Mbits/sec on the same network, but this could be partially due to disk speed access, memory size, etc. (I've got an ancient 200MB laptop drive on the iopener right now.) On short files I get 4.6e+02 Kbytes/sec on the iopener, 9.5e+02 Kbytes/sec on the PCI machine. I'm not sure how this stacks up to the 2.3.X kernels, but part of that should be because of the improved networking code of 2.3.X...

05-15-2000 07:55:11

New MessageRE:Linux USB Ethernet with 2.2.x works (modified 0 times) illusion
it seeeems people are having problems..

http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=technical&Post=1078&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session=

05-19-2000 20:07:23

New MessageRE:Linux USB Ethernet with 2.2.x works (modified 0 times) Matthew
I'm using the Scyld backport http://www.scyld.com on mine with the Linksys 100 adapter, and it seems to work fairly well (500+ KBytes). I'll qualify that with the statement that this thing isn't as stable as my other Linux boxen (250 days uptime) but it's currently at 9 days of uptime being used for occasional web browsing and RealPlayer 7. I've also got an NFS mount running for playing my MP3s... That seems a fair bit better than if it were running windoze ;)
05-23-2000 23:51:39

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