USB Ethernet

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Tue Jul 20 21:33:14 UTC 2004


Once upon a time Tuesday 20 July 2004 4:19 pm, Pastor Doug Coats wrote:
> I recently installed FC2 on a laptop and need a network connection on it.
> When I had Win98 I utilized a USB DLink device.  I am wondering how to
> instruct Linux to use a USB device once it sees it.
>
> When I plug it in the following shows up in the "messages" log.
>
> kernel: USB 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
> kernel: eth0: register usbnet at usb-000:00:07.2-1, DLink DUB-E100 USB
> Ethernet
>
> Any help would be appreciated - even if you could just push me in the right
> direction.  I am pretty familiar with networking in Linux but have not
> utilized USB devices before.

Set it up exactly the same as if it were a pci card, pcmcia one, or built in.  
either edit the config files or use system-config-network  to configure it


Dennis
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