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Re: USB to ethernet interfaces with Ubuntu - recommendations wanted

Subject: Re: USB to ethernet interfaces with Ubuntu - recommendations wanted
From: Fred Roller
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:03:25 -0400
Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:16:45AM -0700, NoOp wrote:
>   
>> On 10/26/2009 03:17 AM, Chris G wrote:
>>     
>>> I need a second ethernet interface on an Acer Inspire Revo.  It seems
>>> to me that the easiest way to provide this will be to use a USB to
>>> Ethernet interface.  Do these generally 'just work' with Ubuntu (9.04
>>> probably, or 9.10 if necessary) or do I need to find specific ones
>>> that will work.
>>>
>>> Any experience and/or recommendations would be very welcome.
>>>
>>>       
>> I keep one of these in my toolkit:
>> http://www.airlink101.com/products/asohousb.php
>> and it has worked from feisty to karmic without issues; just plug it in
>> & go.
>>
>>     
> Thanks, that's encouraging.
>
>   
Cables unlimited has one we use for my partner's Cisco training rack.  
(several (20) on one machine actually) all running through Jaunty.  They 
have a white (usb 1.1) and black (usb 2.0).  We use the white one.  Of 
the batch, two have stopped working in the course of around 18 months plus.

-- 
Fred
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something 
wrong."


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