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  1. #11
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    Re: USB ethernet card fails to come up on boot

    Quote Originally Posted by chili555 View Post
    I'm stumped. We can try the old-fashioned stone ax approach. Edit /etc/rc.local and add three lines above exit 0:
    Code:
    ifdown eth1
    sleep 3
    ifup eth1
    Yeah, I'm stumped too. The above Hail Mary code didn't do anything for me, I'm afraid.

    Worse: about half an hour after a reboot, the LAN stopped working. It began working again after I unplugged and replugged it.

    I don't think this is really a networking issue. I think this is a USB issue. Perhaps I should make another post in a different forum.

    I suppose that there's a slight chance that this is a hardware issue, but I doubt it. I had no troubles until after the upgrade to 10.10.

  2. #12
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    Re: USB ethernet card fails to come up on boot

    I had no troubles until after the upgrade to 10.10.
    Is the behavior the same if you revert to an older kernel at the GRUB prompt?

    Please try the rc.local commands as:
    Code:
    rmmod asix
    sleep 3
    modprobe asix
    I am about out of ammo.
    "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system" --Dr. Sheldon Cooper, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.

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    Re: USB ethernet card fails to come up on boot

    Quote Originally Posted by chili555 View Post
    Is the behavior the same if you revert to an older kernel at the GRUB prompt?
    Good question. I'm not too familiar with GRUB. How do I select an older kernel? I don't see a GRUB menu at boot (the machine goes into the graphical screen early in the boot process).

    Please try the rc.local commands as:
    Code:
    rmmod asix
    sleep 3
    modprobe asix
    I am about out of ammo.
    That didn't work, but I accidentally found something of interest. I changed to console 1 and saw a trillion messages saying:
    Code:
    [timestamp] eth1: asix_rx_fixup() Bad Header Length
    [timestamp] eth1: asix_rx_fixup() Bad Header Length
    [timestamp] eth1: asix_rx_fixup() Bad RX Length 40041
    The messages stop when I disconnect and reconnect the USB ethernet dongle.

    Google brings up a couple of posts with similar messages, but I don't see a fix yet.

  4. #14
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    Re: USB ethernet card fails to come up on boot

    Hi,

    For what it's worth, I am seeing what looks like exactly the same bug with a different ASIX AX88772-based card (the Edimax EU-4207).

    I have tried the current bleeding-edge mainline kernel and it doesn't fix it. I added a bug on kernel.org's bugzilla, #29082:

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29082

    so I'll see if anything comes of that.

  5. #15
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    Re: USB ethernet card fails to come up on boot

    I'm getting these exact symptoms using the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter.

    Curiously given your problems started on upgrade to Maverick, I had been having *no* problems with this on Maverick, on a different machine (Acer Revo), but encountered problems on trying to use it on a machine running Natty (Acer Aspire One).

    However, this does at least strongly suggest a (rather longwinded) solution: Install Lucid from scratch. It's appropriate for a machine intended to be repurposed as a router anyway. I was just trying to get away without having to do it. :-}

  6. #16
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    Re: USB ethernet card fails to come up on boot

    I've got the same problem the Apple usb ethernet adapter on an Acer Revo. It worked just fine on a previous version (10.04 or 09.10 maybe?) but has serious issues with 10.10

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Last edited by ClayMitchell; April 3rd, 2011 at 03:54 AM.

  7. #17
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    Re: USB ethernet card fails to come up on boot

    Success!

    I used the directions here:

    http://tutorialbin.com/tutorials/904...ntu-1010-linux

    EXCEPT I used the drivers here:

    http://www.asix.com.tw/FrootAttach/d...Source.tar.bz2

    (That's because the drivers pulled in the instructions broke it completely for me)

    This was on an Acer Revo 1600 using an Apple USB Network Adapter running 10.10

    It works on boot, without having to unplug and plug back in.

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