amani:
yes indeed red hat 9 was really old, and so, i installed slckware 11 (yes i know latest is 12.2) and this way im done with using RH (after maybe...2 or 3 years)
michaelk
from what i remember yes, the old kernel 2.4.20 needed to be recompiled in order to work with usbnet, but in that time it didnt recognize the device.
now using sw11 results are alot diferent
Code:
linux:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2001:1a00 D-Link Corp. [hex]
since the system is completly new for me im goin to spend some days doing some tweaking and ill get back to the usbnet after everything is done. still have to look for more info about this and how to do it.
UPDATE:
well i got all excited with the fact the system recognized the device, so i went dig a litle more on the links of michaelk. so, not happy with the lack of info that lsusb returned, i did cat /var/log/messages
Code:
May 25 13:28:18 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 4
May 25 13:28:18 linux kernel: eth1: register usbnet usb-00:07.2-1, DLink DUB-E100 USB Ethernet
checking if device is working properly
Code:
linux:/var/log# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:37:38:25
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
linux:/var/log# ip addr show eth1
4: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000
link/ether 00:80:c8:37:38:25 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
now, my problem here is that i CAN assign an ip to this device, but its not what i want. it should get my ISP IP and not a static IP. next step would be bridge the usb with my pcmcia card