Linux -> Supported USB - Lan Adapter?

[Lord of nothing]

Hi
I have some Linux Boards from some projects who come with an Wifi Adapter. I dont use Wifi at Home and I dont want to. So I will buy some USB Lan Adapter soon.
But which Chipset are supported?
I never use any Linux stuff before I tried to get my Laptop up but the most things dont work. 
So does anyone know any?
Thanks!

[nctnico]

The ones based on an SMSC chip. Basically the cheaper the better the chance it works.

[Lord of nothing]

I ordered this one: http://www.delock.de/produkte/G_61969/merkmale.html before you post.
22€ exkl Tax.
Hopefully the work.

[cdev]

Many USB-ethernet adapters are supported.. The kernel source at kernel.org contains a great many drivers.

Also see here.

http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/

Most of them, both old and new ones work well. 

Sometimes using a newer adapter gives you an unexpected speed boost.

This person more than doubled the network speed of a Raspberry Pi by using a Trendnet gigabit USB Ethernet adapter in USB 2 mode (with a Gigabit Ethernet LAN)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gigabit-networking

Wifi:

Ralink wifi adapters are consistently well supported on Linux.


See https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/ and

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers

Hi
I have some Linux Boards from some projects who come with an Wifi Adapter. I don't use Wifi at Home and I dont want to. So I will buy some USB Lan Adapter soon.
But which Chipset are supported?
I never use any Linux stuff before I tried to get my Laptop up but the most things dont work. 
So does anyone know any?
Thanks!

[Lord of nothing]

tomorrow the will arrive here.
The Chipset are maybe hits: http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=134;71;100&PLine=71
The have an Linux. How to get the driver into the linux Board?! 

[cybermaus]

What Linux boards?

Linux distro's with large storage typically come preloaded with kernel modules for *all* chipsets
But small memory and storage limited firmware often only have the kernel modules compiled that the vendor supplies with the board.

So what exactly do you mean with "linux boards"

[Lord of nothing]

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/outernet-dreamcatcher-setup-with-ads-b-dump1090-and-piaware-tutorial/
I will do this just with LAN instead of Wifi.

[cybermaus]

Well, you may be lucky. That dream catcher is based on Armbian, which is not as big as a full Ubuntu distro, but still a very wide one
Thanks to the SD storage, which is plenty full, so they do not need to be skimpy on the included drivers.


So there is a reasonably chance that Armbian already has the correct kernel module, and there is also a reasonable chance that Dreamcatcher only added some stuff that they needed when they customized the image, and they did not remove anything, so the module is still there.

Plug in the USB-ETH, and see if you get an extra interface with command ifconfig

If not, plug in the USB-ETH, and do command dmesg. Or command lsusb
and report the results back, it should hold the exact ID's for your USB-ETH, and then we can look what module it actually needs.

[HoracioDos]

Hello!

I've recently bought an Ugreen Ethernet to USB 3.0 converter in Aliexpress but it's still in customs. Reviews are great.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ugreen-USB-Ethernet-10-100-1000-Mbps-Rj45-Gigabit-Network-Card-Lan-Adapter-For-Mac-OS/32400737540.html

http://www.ugreen.com.cn/product-697-en.html
Item Code:
White:20255
Black: 20256

It's based on AX88179 chip.
http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=131;71;112

Here you can find linux and windows drivers (Nov 2017) but it should work out of the box.

https://www.ugreen.com/drivers/216-en.html
https://www.ugreen.com/drivers/220-en.html

Hope this can help!

[HoracioDos]

Adapters arrived today!! I'll try to test them tonight.
It seems it's recognized right out of the box

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[ 2595.749081] usb 4-3: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[ 2595.772099] usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0b95, idProduct=1790
[ 2595.772105] usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2595.772108] usb 4-3: Product: AX88179
[ 2595.772111] usb 4-3: Manufacturer: ASIX Elec. Corp.
[ 2595.772113] usb 4-3: SerialNumber: 0000000000005B
[ 2597.142628] ax88179_178a 4-3:1.0 eth0: register 'ax88179_178a' at usb-0000:00:14.0-3, ASIX AX88179 USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet, 00:0e:c6:d9:cf:10
[ 2597.143657] usbcore: registered new interface driver ax88179_178a
[ 2597.151430] ax88179_178a 4-3:1.0 enx000ec6d9cf10: renamed from eth0


[Lord of nothing]

sry when I am a little-bit lacy on Sat I fly into Holiday and have no time for an test but I was connect the Adapter to the board and the Lan LED Connect light up. So it look not that bad.