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
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0df6:0072 Sitecom Europe B.V. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.10 bDeviceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bDeviceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x0df6 Sitecom Europe B.V. idProduct 0x0072 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 Sitecom Europe BV iProduct 2 Sitecom USB 3.0 Gigabit iSerial 3 00000000000001 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 39 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0xa0 (Bus Powered) Remote Wakeup MaxPower 248mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 3 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 4 Network_Interface Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 11 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x03 EP 3 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered)
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
Am 05.04.2014 20:28, schrieb Akemi Yagi:
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.
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.
Hey cool, thanks, using the kernel-ml actually works and gives me a usable ethx device! Ok, proves the concept, but is using a kernel-ml recommended for a production centos6 system? Or should I rather get a different USB 3.0 NIC that actually works with centos6 ? Which one? (Has to be a Gigabit USB NIC) Kind regards Michael
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
On 06/04/14 13:32, Ned Slider wrote:
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.
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.
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
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 :-)
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