Has anyone on the list been successful in getting any USB ethernet adapters to work? I visited Donald Becker's USB Ethernet page and from the looks of everything there, USB ethernet should be working with no problems... So, being anxious to get some use out of my WebSurfer pro doorstop, I ran out to Fry's and got a Linksys USB100TX (a 10/100 USB Ethernet device about the size of a pack of smokes) and grabbed a copy of Mandrake 7.2. After I performed the gymnastics of getting Mandrake installed (the websurfer pro has no floppy or cd-rom). I first tried to load the usb core after the first boot. I tried insmod usb-ohci. I got a screen full of unresolved symbols? Huh? How do I get unresolved symbols on a fresh install? Anyway,.. not the point here. I swiftly moved into the /usr/src/linux directory and did all the right things. I compiled a new kernel and put it into place,.. along with all the modules freshly compiled and put in place. Now when I do an insmod usb-ohci, I get a screen of what looks like a succesful load,.. with all sorts of official looking technical data about my USB bus. Then,.. I do what I think I'm supposed to do which is insmod pegasus,.. which also seems to work OK as the light on my USB adapter does light up. I even did an ifconfig eth0 to see if the kernel sees a ethernet adpater attached. All success. However,.. things start to go wrong once I try to bring the ethernet interface up. I got the oh so useful error message: pegasus.c: party FAIL ffff I have no idea what it means but maybe someone here does. Let me know if you have any relevant experience here. I would sure appreciate it. Thanks, Aaron Newsome
