Hello!

I have just purchased a "usb to ethernet" card. It's an ST Lab "card" and it's
supported under linux according to http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/ and ST Lab, they say that it's even supported in the 2.4 kernel.

I'm using the 2.6.12 kernel and I have included the "usbnet module" and in that module I have included all the stuff I can include (including ASIX AX88xxx Based USB 2.0 Ethernet devices). I installed the kernel and rebooted.

I did a "modprobe usbnet" and the module loaded fine.

However, when I plug in the device, neither dmesg, lspci or lsusb tell me that
I have a network device. They just recognize that a usb device has been plugged in.

What should have happened was that I could type "ifconfig -a" and a device named usb0 or usb1 etc. should have shown up. However id didn't.

What should I do to make this device to work?


Thank you!

PS. Yes, I did post this thread under the hardware forum as well but then I figured that people could help me more here.