Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:24:13 -0800, Paul Johnson
<paul@pacificsolutions.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 10:13 am, martin f krafft wrote:
>
> > What I really want is a USB-attachable network interface that has
> > a crosslink/normal switch, or automatically tries one after the
> > other to find a link. Do you know if such a device exists?
>
> The closest thing we have in stock would be a $32 USB-to-USB network
> adapter. I see this as having several drawbacks: I don't know if they
> work in Linux, and we have 5-port Ethernet switches for $2 more.
>
I've one based to the Prolific PL-2301 chip and is supported by a
reasonable modern kernel with the "usbnet" module, i think i've paid €
15~16. This is USB 1 tho... =)
Andrea
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