Re: Using an AX88772-based USB Ethernet device

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>]

Hi,

On 03/21/2013 05:32 PM, sirquijote@lavabit.com wrote:
> When I researched this purchase I thought I read that AX88772-based
> ethernet devices were supported by Debian, but when I attach the device to
> my laptop nothing shows up in lsusb, nor does any auto-configuration seem
> to take place.
> 
> Am I being caught by this old bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587215
> (as suggested in a thread here:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/217364/does-ubuntu-12-10-support-asix-ax88772-ethernet-controller-chip-out-of-the-box)
> 
> Or am I just expecting too much automagic behaviour from my headless
> install of 6.0.7, ie. are there additional steps I should be taking before
> this device will work?
> 

if its not shown in LSUSB, then look at dmesg, what the kernel returns

greetings