On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, George Georgalis wrote:

> 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?

 	The Dynamode 'url' based adaptor is small, not blindingly
 	fast, moderately vile, but quite cheap and holds the ethernet
 	cable well:

 	url0: REALTEK USB 10/100 LAN, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2

 	http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/60065 (GBP 6.30 - for UK)



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