[NBLUG/talk] USB ethernet adapter for Dell Optiplex 745?

[E Frank Ball III]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:45:16PM -0700, Mark Street wrote:
 >    I would suggest utilizing your resources before throwing in the towel.  I
 >    used to tell my students this, of which Alan was one them.
 > 
 >    Mepis is Debian based last I checked...  That chipset should be supported
 >    and still is.  I have several of these older machines and frequently boot
 >    into Knoppix on them.  What kernel modules are loaded?  lsmod | grep bxn2
 > 
 >    What do you see?
 >    Do you see any errors for the interface during boot or after?  boot.log
 >    Do you actually see the interface if you run ifconfig?  Are there errors
 >    in the ifconfig ouput?
 > 
 >    Try this one:  rmmod bnx2 && modprobe bnx2
 >    See if it works now.


I think this Broadcom chipset uses the tg3 driver.

   E Frank Ball          frankb at frankb.us