USB 3.0/2.0 USB ethernet

[figueroa]

Officially not supported on Linux, but based on the Amazon comments, I purchased a TP-Link USB 3.0 to Gigabit ethernet device. About $13 US.

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lsusb | grep TP-Link
Bus 001 Device 059: ID 2357:0601 TP-Link UE300 10/100/1000 LAN (ethernet mode) [Realtek RTL8153]

It uses the in-kernel r8152 module, so I built it, and didn't even reboot, but just did "modprobe r8152" and it came up as eth1 in dmesg.

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$ dmesg | grep 8152
[236906.504012] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8152
[236906.741344] r8152 4-1:1.0 eth1: v1.10.11
[237075.476822] r8152 4-1:1.0 eth1: carrier on

I added the following to /etc/conf.d/net

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config_eth1="192.168.0.102 netmask 255.255.255.0"
routes_eth1="default via 192.168.0.1"
dns_domain_eth1="andyfigueroa.net"
dns_servers_eth1="208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 192.168.0.1"

Brought it up with "/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start" and tested it with speedtest.net and get about the same throughput on both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 as I get with the built in Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe. I'm using it right now in a USB 2.0 port.

I didn't really expect it to work. I'm waiting for an Intel EXPI9400PT card to arrive.