USB to Ethernet Network adaptors recognized by Puppy?

[happy cricket]

SO this computer I want to set up for my daughter has only USB ports and no Ethernet. No way to put one in, either.

Do y'all think if I bought a USB to Ethernet network adapter could be made to work? Otherwise maybe a USB wireless network adapter?

[Ian]

I can't see why a USB network adaptor wouldn't work with this machine, by the way what make and model is it.

[jonyo]

Otherwise maybe a USB wireless network adapter?

No sweat if going that route. I use 2 main diff ones (for almost all my pups) that work great on every usb 'pute i've tried so far using wep 64 hex (ranged from 2.12 to 7 on ~ 10 'putes & forget how many setups ).

[happy cricket]

I can't see why a USB network adaptor wouldn't work with this machine, by the way what make and model is it.

It's a Gateway Astro that I gor for free (with the following specs, although I changed the hard drive out for a 10GB). It has no slots for adding any cards. It does have four USB ports though.

Gateway Astro


PC WorldBench 2000 score of 92, Celeron-400, 64MB of SDRAM, 128KB L2 cache, 4.3GB hard drive, all-in-one, 15-inch monitor, Windows 98 SE, integrated Intel 810 graphics with UMA and 4MB of 3D cache, 17X-40X CD-ROM drive, V.90 modem.

[cthisbear]

" Some Successes:

I plugged in my little USB Z168A
ADMtek ADM8511 USB Fast Ethernet Adapter tiny network card
and Puppy recognised it on the Asus P5GC-MX machine. "

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 7&start=30

Sorry I cannot show you any sites

Looks like this one

http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-NT-USB20- ... 452&sr=1-1

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http://www.meritline.com/usbtonetcon.html

Don't know about this...but cheap enough
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http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapter ... FA120.aspx

Probably will work...possibly too costly

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Chris

[BlackAdder]

My Compex U202B USB-Ethernet adapter has worked well with Puppy since 2.01 using ndiswrapper and the provided Windows driver.
The Compex has VID:PID of 0bda:8150, which it shares with a number of other similar adapters, e.g. from Billionton, Linksys and 3Com. The chipset is Realtek rtl8150. There is source for a Linux 2.6 driver available but I have not attempted to compile it.
One of those adapters should be fine if you don't have an objection to using ndiswrapper.

edit: Hmm! should have checked some more before posting. Puppy 2.16 has the rtl8150 module, and this is being posted via the USB-Ethernet adapter. Took a little extra fiddling to get it working because it is not listed in the network modules list when setting up a connection. But...it works as you can see.