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

[Mark Street]

On 8/11/2013 2:16 PM, E Frank Ball III wrote:
> 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.
It just might...

http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php