Re: WiiU ethernet adapter

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 02:12:28PM +0100, Lucius wrote:
> I recently got NetBSD on my WiiU running, thanks alot to Jared and all other devs that made it possible.
> 
> I don't have any USB to ethernet adapter, so I rather ask before buying something that won't work. 
> Does only the offical adapter work or will anything that works under NetBSD work?

Anything that works under NetBSD will work.


> If so, any recommendation?

I'm a bit hesitant to make a "blind" suggestion - there are *far* more
marketing names than actual chipsets out there and chances are that a
particular marketing name anybody drops here won't be available
anymore (or might have been updated with a newer revision that
contains a different chipset).

A while ago I stumbled over a ethernet-USB *cable* (basically a USB
ethernet plus *hardwired* ethernet cable) by Goobay.  That should be
fairly recognizable - it has an AX88179A chipset and is supported by
axen(4) in current/netbsd-11 (it's only in netbsd-10 since close to a
year ago, so not in NetBSD 10.1 but will be in NetBSD 10.2).

The official Wii LAN adapter (RVL-015) is also supported.


Hope that helps,
  Harold