[CentOS] USB to Ethernet problem

Tue Mar 18 15:27:58 UTC 2014
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 18/03/14 08:49, Giri Prasad wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>   I installed Centos 6.5 64 bit on a Dell Vostro 1550 laptop with i3 core. The kernel installed was 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64. I was not able to compile kernel modules, even after installing the kernel headers, kernel source rpms.
>
>   So I downloaded the kernel linux-3.10.31.tar.xz, extracted it, and did the following:
>
> make defconfig
>
> change CONFIG_USB_USBNET=y, in the .config.
>
> make
>
>    ASIX AX88xxx Based USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapters (USB_NET_AX8817X) [Y/n/m/?] (NEW) n
>    ASIX AX88179/178A USB 3.0/2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet (USB_NET_AX88179_178A) [Y/n/m/?] (NEW) n
>
>        All the other options selected the default.
>
> make modules
>
> make modules_install
>
> make install
>

I backported this driver for el6 at elrepo. Rather than compile and 
maintain a complete kernel from source, you could have just set up 
elrepo and done 'yum install kmod-asix'.


http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-asix
https://github.com/elrepo/packages/commits/master/asix-kmod