On 07/04/14 17:31, SilverTip257 wrote:
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Ned Slider ned@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
On 06/04/14 13:32, Ned Slider wrote:
On 05/04/14 19:28, Akemi Yagi wrote:
ELRepo does have a kmod-asix driver for el6, but it was backported from kernel-3.2 and does not support this device.
This is a newer USB3 device, and support was only added to the asix driver in kernel-3.10. Unfortunately it's not trivial for me to backport that driver from kernel-3.10 to el6 so you would need to use a kernel >= 3.10.
Hi Michael,
After a bit of further investigation, I have managed to backport the driver for your device from kernel-3.10 for you.
It's called kmod-ax88179_178a and is in the elrepo testing repository for el6. You can find it here:
http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/
I would appreciate if you could let me know how it works for you,
Hope that helps.
I'm not the OP, but I'd like to say thanks.
I bought a spare USB dongle with the newer ASIX chipset as an "emergency" item for my toolkit. Last I tried, the drivers weren't present on a number of distros. Supposedly support was added after 3.2 ML kernel, but I have to wonder (given Debian is at 3.2.x and support was lacking).
This rekindled my interest and I'll have to test this all out some evening.
Thanks Ned, et al. :-D
No problem Mike - it gave me something to do on a wet Sunday afternoon!
I'd really appreciate feedback if it works for you. As you will understand, it's not possible to test without access to the physical hardware.
On a wider note - this is why the ELRepo project exists. If you have unsupported hardware, just ask (preferably at http://elrepo.org/bugs or on the elrepo mailing list) and we will be happy to investigate if it is possible to backport an updated/newer driver for your hardware. It's what we do :-)