ASUSTek Computer, Inc. USB 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN

[alan159]

I recently bought a USB ASUSTek Computer, Inc. 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN 3.0 Network adapter. I don't want to pass it through to a VM or or Docker. I want it to be a dedicated network between my unraid box and another server I have, but still have unraid on my primary network. So dual networks, my primary network adapter would be 192.168.1.100 and the USB NIC would be 10.10.10.1 .

 

The issue i am having is that when I hook the USB NIC up, unraid doesn't list it under Network Settings. But if I look under System devices is see the USB NIC.

 

I have attached screenshots.

 

I have a feeling that the issue is going to be that unraid doesn't have the driver.

 

Any thoughts? ( Also, I am still new to unraid so please be patient with me. )

 

Thanks for any help.

[JorgeB]

Likely there's no driver, diagnostics will confirm.

[alan159]

JorgeB thank you for the response. I have downloaded the diagnostics. What part of this diagnostics log would have that information?

[JorgeB]

Attach the complete zip.

[alan159]

unraid-diagnostics-20210913-1228.zip

 

Attached.

[JorgeB]

I forgot the device is USB, so not so easy to check if a driver is being loaded as if it was PCI, but that's likely the problem, you can make a feature request for the driver, LT are usually good at adding them quickly, if one is available.

[alan159]

JorgeB, thank you so much for your help. How do I go about making a feature request.... I did a little googling and it just brings be back to the forum. Do I just post a new thread asking for the driver to be added?

 

Again I really do appreciate your help!

[JorgeB]

12 minutes ago, alan159 said:

Do I just post a new thread asking for the driver to be added?

Yes, in this section:

https://forums.unraid.net/forum/53-feature-requests/

[SimonF]

23 minutes ago, alan159 said:

How do I go about making a feature request.... I did a little googling and it just brings be back to the forum. Do I just post a new thread asking for the driver to be added?

You will need to find the chipset.

 

the ASUS one i found needs the following

 

config USB_RTL8152

tristate "Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 Based USB Ethernet Adapters"

select MII

help

This option adds support for Realtek RTL8152 based USB 2.0

10/100 Ethernet adapters and RTL8153 based USB 3.0 10/100/1000

Ethernet adapters.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the

module will be called r8152.

 

Looking on the lastest version they are not installed in the kernel.

 

root@computenode:/usr/src/linux-5.14.2-Unraid# cat .config | grep USB_RTL
CONFIG_BT_HCIBTUSB_RTL=y
# CONFIG_USB_RTL8150 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_RTL8152 is not set
root@computenode:/usr/src/linux-5.14.2-Unraid# 

 

This may help show more info for your device. I have a QNAP 5G, I requested the driver be added, but it doesn't work with bonding.

 

root@computenode:/usr/src/linux-5.14.2-Unraid# lsusb -vvvvt

/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/8p, 5000M
    ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
    /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb2  /dev/bus/usb/002/001
    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=aqc111, 5000M
        ID 1c04:0015 QNAP System Inc. 
        /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1  /dev/bus/usb/002/002