On 05/04/14 19:28, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Michael Kress kress@hal.saar.de wrote:
Hi, I have a Sitecom NL-031 USB 3.0 NIC which I'd like to use under centos 6.5, but unfortunately I see no support. Or, I am doing something wrong.
According to LKDDb (Linux Kernel Driver DataBase), the correct driver is "CONFIG_USB_NET_AX8817X: ASIX AX88xxx Based USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapters" but obviously, I've grabbed a non matching "iProduct", because mine is obviously 0x0072 (see lsusb below) and the driver lists 0x0056.
From the LKDDb: vendor: 0df6 ("Sitecom Europe B.V."), product: 0056 ("LN-031 10/100/1000 Ethernet Adapter") vendor: 0df6 ("Sitecom Europe B.V."), product: 0056 ("LN-031 10/100/1000 Ethernet Adapter")
When i modprobe for the NIC, I get something very unspectacular ... root@mybox:/root [0] >modprobe asix
/var/log/messages: Apr 5 20:02:23 mybox kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
dmesg: usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
BTW, I got this passed on by ESXi to a CentOS VM.
Do you see any chance to get this running? Thanks in advance Michael
PS: the lsusb output ...
root@mybox:/root [0] > lsusb -v -d 0df6:0072
I just checked the device ID pair [0df6:0072] against the current CentOS-6 kernel but it returned nothing. However, I did find the driver in ELRepo's kernel-ml:
alias usb:v0DF6p0072d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* ax88179_178a
It shows that the driver that supports your device is ax88179_178a . I suggest you try installing kernel-ml [1] and see if your NIC works. If that works well, you'd want to ask ELRepo if backporting the driver for EL-6 is possible.
Akemi
[1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml [2] http://elrepo.org/bugs
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.
Alternatively, I might be able to build you a standalone driver supporting only that device if you are able to test. If so, please file an RFE requesting the driver at http://elrepo.org/bugs