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slothrop

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Posted: Dec. 05 2005,22:32

I have recently installed DSL on a very old laptop, which unfortunately does not have an ethernet port. I have a linksys usb200M usb-ethernet adapter which works fine under the windows partition; however is not recognized under DSL. I have as of yet, been unable to install the drivers or even get the card recognized. I am really new to all of this, any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

andrei_r

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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,17:32

Try: "modprobe usbnet". See http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/ for more info on your Linksys USB200M. Hope this helps.

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Posted: Dec. 06 2005,23:12

Or more specifically, open a terminal window and type:

sudo su
modprobe usbnet
netcardconfig
exit
exit

slothrop

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Posted: Dec. 07 2005,04:21

Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 06 2005,18:12)

Or more specifically, open a terminal window and type:

sudo su
modprobe usbnet
netcardconfig
exit
exit

"no supported card found" when I try the modprobe method above

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Posted: Dec. 09 2005,22:30

I've found this info about Linksys 200M here: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3543:

"The compact USB 2.0 to Ethernet / Fast Ethernet adapter sold by Cisco under their Linksys brand name comes in at least two varieties: the older version is based on the ax88172 chipset, the newer one (August 2005 or newer) is based on the ax88772 chipset. These two different versions have the same model number (USB200M), and can perhaps only be distinguished by serial numbers. This entry refers to the new version, which is currently not supported, though adding support to the Linux 2.6 kernel appears to be fairly trivial. The asix driver already contains support for the ax88772 chipset, so supporting this device seems to be just a matter of adding the USB device ID to the driver."

It might still work under ndiswrapper. You can run "lsusb" as root to see if you can get any additional info on your card chipset and then check http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List for the drivers.

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