Hello there, if have just gotten cable internet. Now as you probably know the cable modem connetcs to the computer trough a network adapter or ethernet card. I don't have a ethernet card but there came a usb network adapter with the cable modem. Now I did some googling and I think usb network adapters are supported under linux. I just don't understand how to get them to work. Can any body help ?
The network I have is a sohoware NUB110 10/100 usb network adapter.

thanks in advance

Come on you people, can any one help me. I found out the pegasus driver suports this network adapter. So I did

insmod pegasus

which worked fine. But what next ?

You should edit the file /etc/modules (as root) and simply add a new line to the end with pegasus on it... nothing else, just that line. If you want, reboot, if not, then type modprobe pegasus and you should be up and running.

Or just go and buy a 10/100 pci ethernet card.

Yes you are right Aussie, why bother with a usb adapter. It's not worth time and the headache. The money spend on a ethernet card is problebly realy worth it.
Thanks people.

A PCI NIC is also cheaper. Don't forget to check for device compatibly of your selected NIC.

USB 10/100 NIC only outputs about three-quarters of a megabyte (~750 Kilobytes/sec) on an average. If LInux is able to handle USB version 2 cards or if your motherboard supports it then maybe try to set it up.

He there you guies (am I writing that rigjht ?). Guess what, I got the usb adapter to work ! :-) But I'm not out of trouble yet. Here is the situation ( I think)
When the driver for the adapter is inserted, a divice apears, "eth0". I'm getting all my network info via DHCP. At boot-up my computer tries to connect to the DHCP server, only the device driver isn't inserted at that time. So I get something like :

eth0 is not available at the moment ....... faild

So I don't have connection when my machine has booted. What sould I do about this. Any thoughts at all ?

Bey

P.S. I thought about giving up and beying a ethernet card. But I desided to give the usb adapter one last try

by the way, I did configure my /etc/modules.conf file, so the driver should be inserted at boot time

A cable modem can also be connected to a router so more users can access the internet. Any web based router should do (Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, etc). Make sure you enable DHCP in the router if you don't feel like putting IP addresses on all your thousands of computers. Also DHCP makes it easy for novice users to add computers to their network. Routers does all the fun work that you are trying to do.

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Thanks for your relpy electro, only I don't have a network, I just have single computer at home. Is it posible (or nessery) to install the router and the client on the same PC ?
What my problem basicly is, is that my computer can't connect to the DHCP server simply because at that stage in boot up, eth0 simply isn't there yet. To connet to the internet any way, I run YAST (SuSE setup tool) after the computer has booted. This isn't very practical.

Try adding '/sbin/modprobe pegasus' to the same script that loads all your other modules at boot, what you need to do is load the pegasus module before your dhcp client starts.

Routers can be hooked directly to a computer's NIC or can be hooked up to Bridges or Hubs. If you don't feel like installing firewall on your Linux box then you may want to get a router. A router makes it easier to expand your network without setting any more software up on the clients other than the network protcols.

Do what Aussie said. Remember that your USB NIC will not be as fast as internal NICs. USB version 1 will output and input about 6 megabits. USB version 2 will output and input 200 to 240 megabits. I hope you have a motherboard or an expansion card that has USB version 2 to take advantage of your USB NIC.

Electro

A cable modem can also be connected to a router so more users can access the internet. Any web based router should do (Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, etc).
Also DHCP makes it easy for novice users to add computers to their network. Routers does all the fun work that you are trying to do.
Remember that your USB NIC will not be as fast as internal NICs. USB version 1 will output and input about 6 megabits. USB version 2 will output and input 200 to 240 megabits. I hope you have a motherboard or an expansion card that has USB version 2 to take advantage of your USB NIC.

Hi Electro your saying
USB version 2 will output and input 200 to 240 megabits. I hope you have a motherboard or an expansion card that has USB version 2 to take advantage of your USB NIC.
Which motherboard will support,does epox 8kta3-mainboard will support USB ver.2.0?

Ich_hoffe

Ich_hoffe, if you check either your manual or on-line it doesn't.

For EPOX motherboards (socket A) /w USB 2.0:
EP-8RGA+
EP-8RDA+
EP-8K5A2
EP-8K5A2+
EP-8K5A3+
EP-8K5A2+B1
EP-8K5A2+B2
EP-8K9A2+
EP-8K9A3+
EP-8K9AI
EP-8K9A

Please search through the motherboard companies (ASUS, Gigabyte, Soyo, Tyan, FIC, DFI, Supermicro, etc).

He you guys. Sorry for asking a stupid question but, what is a NIC ? Is that something that i call an adapter ?
So if get it right, I can better install a internal card because of seed issus. Is that right?
I asked a friend about the problem that I had trying to connect to my HDCP.
First of, I found out I can connect to the DHCP server with the "dhcpcd" command. So I don't have to run YAST no more.
Second, my friend told me that I could make a ramdisk image with "mkinitrd". This would make a ramdisk image that I can load when my machine boots up. Giffing a command like
"mkinitrd --with pegasus new_image" will make a ram disk image that will load the pegasus driver all the way at begining of the boot proses. I use lilo to boot my machine so I would have to edit my lilo.conf and add a line "image=new_image".
I tried editing my boot.local script by adding a line "/sbin/modprobe pegasus" but I still get the same faild message.
I have'nt tried my friends sugestion yet. What do you people think of my friends advice ?