On 5 July 2013, at 07:48, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network >> adaptors have worked. > ... >> Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen >> "USB network adapters don't work with Linux" is the sort of thing that might >> have been true 10 years ago. > > Are you talking about an adapter that plugs into a USB port at one end and > has an Ethernet port at the other end?
Like this: http://www.cnesmart.com/plus/view.php?aid=139 I can't say that's the exact same model as one of the ones I've used, with the same chipset and all, but it looks just the same. I see that page says the NIC is supported by Windows 2000, so I would be surprised if no Linux driver has been developed by now. Searching my computer it appears, although I can't say for sure, that I paid less than $10 for this adaptor. Stroller.
