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LAN Adapter Support, Universal Serial Bus (USB) Ethernet Support Device Driver. 

©2003, Jonas Buys. 

JBHWIS00001. 

 

 

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Enable the kernel driver “USB KLSI KL5USB101-based Ethernet device support 
(EXPERIMENTAL)” by typing “Y” to embed in the kernel or “M” to compile it as a 
loadable module. 
 

USB Network adaptors 
USB KLSI KL5USB101-based Ethernet device support (EXPERIMENTAL) 

5. Final steps 

 
Now continue the usual kernel compilation process, if you don’t know how please 
refer to other HOW-TO’s about kernel compilation. When the configuration is 
complete the compilation process is started with the following commands. 
 

make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install 

 

Afterwards, 

install the kernel-image and reboot. 

 
Note that when you compiled the driver as a module you can load it now by 
executing the “insmod” command. 

 

6. Appendix C: USB Terminology 

There often seems to be some misunderstanding related to USB terminology 

when discussing the Universal Serial Bus technology.  That’s why a brief and clear 

overview is given here: 

 

USB 

 

Port for attaching USB printers, scanners, 

mice and digital cameras.  Maximal transfer 

rates of 1 ½ Mbps (Mega Bits Per Second).  

This variant of USB is also referred to as “low 
speed USB”; maximum of some 700KBps.  

USB 1.0 is practically non-existing, and USB 

1.1 is present everywhere.  1.1 is called “full-

speed” USB and has rates of 12Mbps, that is 

a little lit less than 1 ½ MBps. 

USB 2.0 

  

New port for attaching USB printers, 

scanners, mice and digital cameras (planned 

to be replacement of USB 1.1). 

Maximal transfer speed of 480Mbps or 

Summary of Contents for 3C19250 - USB Ethernet Network Interface...

Page 1: ...eters d USB Ethernet Uninstall Instructions 3 Listing of Tested USB Ethernet Adapters 4 Appendix A Code Discussion 5 Appendix B Linux Driver 6 Appendix D USB Terminology 7 Appendix C Copyright Informa...

Page 2: ...Compatible Hardware List www os2warp be The basic USB support USBBASIC OS 2 Warp device drivers must be installed and loaded OS 2 Warp 3 OS 2 Warp 4 Merlin OS 2 Warp Server for e business Aurora OS 2...

Page 3: ...s Other adapters button Specify a path to the USB Ethernet adapter driver files use default path A if the files were copied to floppy disk in drive A Finally press OK If the path was correct and the f...

Page 4: ...front when entering the IDs Figure 1 The Adapter and Protocol Configuration dialog box 7 Add the required protocols from the Protocols list to the USB Ethernet adapter You can do this by selecting th...

Page 5: ...rp be 9 Press Close button to close Configure dialog box 10 Press Exit button to close MPTS utility 11 Reboot the system This completes the installation procedure You can install any other USB device...

Page 6: ...ven more powerfull installer which was developped in co peration with IBM using OS 2 s unique CID technology eCS 1 1 is a very complete and up to date product and it includes all drivers available via...

Page 7: ...ted entries Product ID and USB Vendor ID to enter respectively the device and munfacturer IDs Where can you enter the hexadecimal numbers In the image above you see the field Product ID will change au...

Page 8: ...USBETHR in case USBETHR is already used M maxNetworkAdapters Specifies the number of network adapters accepted for service 2 4 USB Ethernet Uninstall Instructions 1 Open MPTS Network Adapters and Pro...

Page 9: ...Hardware List Project You can get support for the three devices tested by IBM directly with IBM Costumer Support but they will refuse to help you for other devices Should you have any hardware trouble...

Page 10: ...001 0x0008 Entrega E45 Ethernet adapter USB 0x1645 0x0005 I O DATA USB ET T USB network adapter 0x04bb 0x0901 Jaton USB to Ethernet adapter XpressNET 10Base T 0x087d 0x5704 Linksys USB10T Ethernet net...

Page 11: ...ew Device Report A small windows now opens and lists all technical information From here you can also see the IDs You will soon find out whether the device works or not If the manufacturer assured you...

Page 12: ...er for service At present the driver supports adapters with embedded Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101 chip The default vendor is 3Com Sets the default help text to appear on screen when the user requests help...

Page 13: ...also work with other Linux distributions Since the driver was already present in the Linux kernel and it should be in many major distributions installation was rather simple To install you need the Ke...

Page 14: ...install the kernel image and reboot Note that when you compiled the driver as a module you can load it now by executing the insmod command 6 Appendix C USB Terminology There often seems to be some mis...

Page 15: ...USB devices Increases the data transfer rates from 12Mbps to 480Mbps 60MBps on Hi Speed USB controllers Backwards compatible with the original USB uses the same wires Firewire New port for branching...

Page 16: ...IMPLIED INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION JONAS BUYS CAN UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA NOR TO POSSIBLE DAMAGE OF YOUR COMPUTING SYSTEM This document is also subjected to t...

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