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 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. >>> >>> 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 at 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 at 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.