On 07/04/14 17:31, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Ned Slider <ned at 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 :-)