[arch] USB Eithernet Adapters

[Guillermo A. Amaral]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:52, Doug Jolley wrote:
> Sometime ago I happened to obtain a Belkin USB ethernet adapter.  At the
> time I
> happened to be running Fedora Core 4.  Much to my amazement, when I plugged
> it in, it was recognized on boot and just worked.  Unfortunately, it
> doesn't seem
> to "just work" under Arch.  (It also doesn't seem to "just work" under
> Knoppix
> which I also find to be a bit amazing because my experience has been that
> most anything "just works" under Knoppix.)  So, my question is:  Can
> someone point me to some documentation to use to see if I can't get this
> thing to work
> under Arch?  I've never really fooled around much with USB ethernet
> adapters because my only experience is limited to the case where it just
> worked out of the box. So, I don't know where to begin.  Thanks for any
> input.
>
>      ... doug

Can you do a 'lsusb' when the adapter is plugged-in and send the output, the 
output from 'dmesg | tail' just after plugging it in might also help.

Cheers,
William

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