CentOS - Feb 2012 - Startech USB21000S

Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone has had the occasion to use one of these for
usb networking with Centos 6.2.  Did it work out of the box?  Any
recommendations?  It uses the ax88178 chipset and is a gigabit usb
network adaptor.

Thanks a bunch, in advance for your time.

Phil

On 02/09/2012 08:19 PM, Phil Savoie wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just wondering if anyone has had the occasion to use one of these for
> usb networking with Centos 6.2.  Did it work out of the box?  Any
> recommendations?  It uses the ax88178 chipset and is a gigabit usb
> network adaptor.
>
Here:
http://www.asix.com.tw/download.php?sub=driverdetail&PItemID=84

it says you can download Linux driver for 2.6.9-2.6.13 kernel. I guess 
it should be in kernel...

And there are this drivers:
http://driverscollection.com/?H=AX88178&By=ASIX&SS=Linux

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I can't speak to the actual USB device mentioned, but I bought a
couple of Startech PCIe gigabit cards a few months back to add
an extra set of interfaces on a pacemaker cluster and those cards
turned out to be absolute crap.  They would tend to go numb at
random times and eventually require a server restart to recover.
Instead of increasing uptime they drastically decreased it.
They got ripped out *very* quickly.

It kind of soured me on startech NICs.

Devin