Re: [PLUG] Wheezy USB 2 Ethernet?

[Drew Lehman <dlehman@digitatech.com>]

I don't recall who your provider is, but you should probably have a 
power filter on the ISP connection to avoid this, especially if you have 
Comcast.

On 7/26/2013 4:19 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> My Backup server lost another NIC in the lightning recently.  Last 
> time it was a multi-port NIC so the "fix" was easy.  This newer server 
> had only 1 NIC and has no room for an internal card, so I can either 
> try to replace the motherboard or just use a USB (2.0) Ethernet.  
> Given the frequency that this happens, an easily swappable USB dongle 
> is probably a good idea anyway.
>
> And yes, I used to have the Ethernet plugged into the UPS' filter 
> port.  But: a) that didn't help the first time and b) this time I had 
> bypassed the filter because it was limiting me to 100M instead of 1000M.
>
> This looks like it will either Just Work or work with a bit of 
> tweaking for Debian Wheezy running kernel 3.2.46-1:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Gigabit-Ethernet-Chromebook-Specific/dp/B003VSTDFG 
>
>   * 
> http://plugable.com/2010/10/18/howto-asix-88178-usb-ethernet-adapter-on-ubuntu-10-10-linux
>     * (AX88178) http://www.asix.com.tw/search.php
>       * 
> http://www.asix.com.tw/FrootAttach/driver/AX88772C_772B_772A_760_772_178_LINUX_Driver_v4.9.0_Source.tar.bz2
>
> Any thoughts or other recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> JP
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