Re: [PLUG] Wheezy USB 2 Ethernet?

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Drew Lehman <dlehman@digitatech.com> wrote:

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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