My house was struck by lightning which destroyed my adsl/router and landline phone. To my surprise my computer (which is connected but turned off when the lightning strike ) is still working, only the lan was destroyed. Now landline and router has been replaced and I bought a USB lan adapter. The problem the USB lan adapter is detected but not registered.
in my windows 7 laptop the usb lan is detected and registered automatically(no driver was installed by me) in device manager as:Tlink 9200 USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter #2
Please see the dmesg, lsusb and lswh output.
dmesg output:
[ 8137.931507] usb 5-1.4.4: new full-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci
[ 8138.040267] usb 5-1.4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=e202, idProduct=9200
[ 8138.040276] usb 5-1.4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 8138.040281] usb 5-1.4.4: Product: USB 2.0 10/100M Ethernet Adaptor
ifconfig -a output:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15717 (15.7 KB) TX bytes:15717 (15.7 KB)
no output: sudo lshw -C network
lsusb output
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 003: ID 1a2c:0c23 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0101:0007
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 008: ID e202:9200
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. 4-Port HUB
Bus 005 Device 006: ID 0e8d:1806 MediaTek Inc. Samsung SE-208AB Slim Portable DVD Writer
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. 4-Port HUB
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0781:5567 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
I am aware that some USB ethernet has no linux driver. Do you think in my case that should just buy another brand of USB lan adapter?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit.
usb-devices | awk '/9200/' RS=