USB to Ethernet Driver

[Jim Gettys]

It would be good to understand the market shares of different USB
ethernet devices out there (along with cost, which we care about more
than most).  We don't want to have to put an unlimited number of drivers
in the OLPC distribution, just to clutter up flash with something seldom
used on most machines.  But if there are a few drivers that get us
coverage of most things on the market, having things plug in and "just
work" for most people is goodness.

If anyone has any insight into this information, we'd greatly appreciate
it.
                             Regards,
                               - Jim
                       

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:49 +0000, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:43:46 -0500, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> said:
> 
>    > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:21 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>    >> I need a USB2->ethernet converter for my type A board that is
>    >> going to work with the pegasus driver in Linux. In the UK, these
>    >> devices cost between 30-40 quid, and (as a poor student) I want to
>    >> make sure I get the right one first time.
> 
> I think the pegasus driver is USB1 only.  That said, the D-Link
> DSB-H3ETX uses it, was cheap (USD $23, and it's also a powered 
> hub), and works with my board.
> 
>    > We're using the DLINK DUB-E100 here. 
> 
> .. and this uses the "asix" driver.
> 
> - Chris.
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child