USB ethernet support?
 

Hi, folks. I've reconfigured my setup in the household, deciding to install Fedora Core 4 on another machine and try to get it on the internet. Now, my net is DSL, with a router box with one ethernet plug, one USB plug, and one wireless antenna. I have no wireless hardware, and machine #1 is taking up the ethernet port, which leaves me on machine #2 with Fedora Core 4 and a USB cable. Now, how to introduce them?

This isn't just a Fedora problem, I've also had no luck with some live distros. This is a newer motherboard (this year) with all the ports built right in, and the ethernet and USB ports are mounted on the board as one solid box. When I plug in the USB cable, the light on my router-box turns green no matter which port (four USB ports) I use, so I know they all at least work. From Gnome->Desktop->System->Network I see that it finds the ethernet device (eth0) but when I try to activate it, it fails ("check cable?", it asks).

This is a new one on me, and I have no idea where to start. I just installed tonight with the "desktop" defaults, firewall and security on. Mount type for manual mounting/unmounting of /dev/sda? Internet setup wizard I never found? PPP? When I ran Fedora dual-boot on the machine with the ethernet cord, it detected/configured the ethernet out of the box with no input on my part at all - I installed, popped open Firefox, and I was *there*.

This will be my last step to Fedora nirvana, and I'm jonesin' for my yum fix! Any advice for the network-device-ly impaired?

what is the make and model of your router?
your ethernet device isn't going to work because you don't have a cable plugged into it.
easiest way to do this is:
1 buy a small switch and plug into that
2 buy a usb wireless card for $20

the other way is to find a way to access your dsl modem through usb on linux

a quick google for 'linux usb dsl modem' brings up a list of kernel drivers for different modems, once we know what modem you have then we can see if there is a driver for it, and how to configure it

Sorry to delay, I got the rest of the stuff I want intsalled from disks and set up desktop prefs, etc.

Now that I'm a bit more organized:
The router: Actiontec GT701-WG (54 mbps) from QWest (which hotly asserts they do not support Linux, despite my getting several distros to use their ethernet connection anyway)

The modem: Texas Instruments TI RNDIS Network Adapter built into a Via/K-7 motherboard.

Now, I checked the search thing, too, and didn't find a TI modem driver, but I think it's a moot point, because as far as I can tell, the ethernet port and the USB port have no way to talk to each other.

I called and checked at my local hardware outfit, and they *do* have a USB/ethernet adapter going for $40. I was surprised when this shot in the dark hit something! I'll have to drop by and look at this to be sure it's what I'm thinking of: a way to fit a USB peg into an ethernet hole!

I would consider it ideal if I could find some clever hack to make it get ethernet data from the USB device, but that's probably going to be beyond my abilities (fifo pipe? A loopback device that bamfs USB data over to the ethernet port? Bust out the razor blade and electricians tape and splice the cords?).

If I go with the wireless card, will I at least be assured that drivers/support exists in Fedora Core 4? And any other suggestions?

you would have to post the make/model of the usb-ethernet device then you we cansearch for a driver.
but, if you are going to spend $40 i would just buy a 4 port switch and then you can hook up more computers, if you get any, in the future.

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