Re: Multiple USB ethernet devices on one usb port (with hub)?

2003-09-29 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:34:04AM -0700, Andrew Thomas wrote: --- Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is definitely one problem that stops you from using two identical USB ethernet devices, but I don't know if it's the only one: the axe driver uses a static (global) stucture for some

Re: Multiple USB ethernet devices on one usb port (with hub)?

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Thomas
Bernd, Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might take power consumption into acount. If your hub is not powered it can't supply more then 100mA per port. check the required consumption of your ethernet devices with usbdevs -v. In case they require more then 100mA you *must* use a self

Re: Multiple USB ethernet devices on one usb port (with hub)?

2003-09-27 Thread Andrew Thomas
--- Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is definitely one problem that stops you from using two identical USB ethernet devices, but I don't know if it's the only one: the axe driver uses a static (global) stucture for some per-interface data, so it clobbers this state with two interfaces.

Re: Multiple USB ethernet devices on one usb port (with hub)?

2003-09-24 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Thomas writes: I've got an older Dell Latitude (CPi) laptop that I'm trying to setup as a router/firewall/??? machine. I'm using 5.1-R with a compiled kernel that I'm slowly reducing to the minimum I need. I decided to try using usb ethernet adapters since

Multiple USB ethernet devices on one usb port (with hub)?

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew Thomas
I've got an older Dell Latitude (CPi) laptop that I'm trying to setup as a router/firewall/??? machine. I'm using 5.1-R with a compiled kernel that I'm slowly reducing to the minimum I need. I decided to try using usb ethernet adapters since they seemed so easy. However, the laptop only has one