Subject: using a usb network adapter, which one?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/20/2006 14:47:11
Hi! I'm working on getting a development bge driver
installed to support my hardware. ATM the 3.0
installer seems to work but I'm having issue with
serial _and_ the keyboard, after a 3.0 USB CDROM
install. I could not get to 2nd stage PXE boot,
because the network driver is not working yet.

(these are blades with no PCI available)

So, was thinking a USB network interface would be a
good next step. At least I could probe hardware and
try dev kernels a bit easier.

I see several USB interface, hardware drivers
available, on
http://netbsd.org/Hardware/usb.html

USB Ethernet adapters (aue(4), axe(4), cdce(4),
cue(4), kue(4), udav(4), and url(4))

and there are lots of adapters for each USB driver.

I've never used a USB network adapter, do they all
work equally well?  Can anyone recommend one over
another?

// George


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