Networking :: usb ethernet "dongle"

Hi

I'm trying to use dsl-n on a rather old tiny (the manufacturer/retailer) PC. It has no ethernet card, but I have used it sucessfully with a sitecom 10/100 usb ethernet "dongle", for want of a better word. Mepis and 1 or 2 other distros have recognised it, but I want the speed etc of DSL.

Does anyone out there know of a solution.

Thanks
Greenie

That might be under the category of newer software, so try the DSL-2.1b release to see if it works.That one has a newer kernel. It might fix that problem but break others. The long term solution is going to be to try to figure out what drivers that piece of hardware needs, and build a driver package for it for DSL.

Thanks. Do you have an url for this? I found a dsl-2.3.iso, dated 28/3. Is this more recent than 2.1b? Also a 2.1b dated 22/3 which I'm also downloading.

I did a bit of googling on the sitecom ethernet adaptor LN-029. It appears that the drivers are in the 2.6 kernel, called usbnet. If this is not compiled into the dsl-n/dsl kernel how would I go about compiling a kernel for dsl which does include it? Is there an instruction page anywhere written for the partialy braindead?

Thanks

Please don't accuse me of being an "a-hole" but we have been instructed to keep DSL-N stuff in the DSL-N forrum and DSL stuff in the DSL forum. We are now typing in the DSL forum.
Here is the DSL-N forum: DSL-N Forum

Thank you.

thanks for your very useful, if somewhat anal, reply. I'll look for the forum and type all the stuff in again

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