[CentOS] USB 3.0 NIC / Sitecom NL-031

Sun Apr 6 00:36:13 UTC 2014
Michael Kress <kress at hal.saar.de>

Am 05.04.2014 20:28, schrieb Akemi Yagi:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Michael Kress <kress at 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