My pc doesn't hava a ethernet card and I use a USB to ethernet adapter.
I boot my pc with a live CD distribution (SLAX) and the adapter is
recognized without doing anything.
I install on this PC Linux CentOS 4. The installation is OK but the
adapter is not detected and it is mot possible to view the lan. What
can I do to configure the USB adapter?
Thank you, Francesco

prendidol wrote:

> My pc doesn't hava a ethernet card and I use a USB to ethernet adapter.
> I boot my pc with a live CD distribution (SLAX) and the adapter is
> recognized without doing anything.
> I install on this PC Linux CentOS 4. The installation is OK but the
> adapter is not detected and it is mot possible to view the lan. What
> can I do to configure the USB adapter?
> Thank you, Francesco

Whats wrong with getting a proper ethernet card?. Seems a bit silly to go
USB to ethernet.

Dave

In comp.os.linux.setup prendidol <framar97@libero.it>:
> My pc doesn't hava a ethernet card and I use a USB to ethernet adapter.
> I boot my pc with a live CD distribution (SLAX) and the adapter is
> recognized without doing anything.
> I install on this PC Linux CentOS 4. The installation is OK but the
> adapter is not detected and it is mot possible to view the lan. What
> can I do to configure the USB adapter?

The "problem" CentOS, aka RHEL is a server distribution, targeted
for those machines, the kernel doesn't come with that much usb
modules. You might have luck with installing the
kernel-unsupported package 'yum install kernel-unsupported'
should do the trick, if not try 'yum search kernel' and look for
a name close enough. Possibly a 'yum update' should get you all
patches for your distro and is highly recommended.'man yum' for
more info.

If that doesn't help you along you could rebuild a recent kernel
from kernel.org. There are several howto, STFW.

However, I'd suggest some distro with more recent stuff, like
"Fedora Core 6" (http://fedora.redhat.com/) for some desktop or
install SLAX if that works well.

Good luck

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