CentOS - Apr 2014 - USB 3.0 NIC / Sitecom NL-031

Hi, I have a Sitecom NL-031 USB 3.0 NIC which I'd like to use under 
centos 6.5, but unfortunately I see no support. Or, I am doing something 
wrong.

According to LKDDb (Linux Kernel Driver DataBase), the correct driver is
"CONFIG_USB_NET_AX8817X: ASIX AX88xxx Based USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapters"
but obviously, I've grabbed a non matching "iProduct", because
mine is
obviously 0x0072 (see lsusb below) and the driver lists 0x0056.

 From the LKDDb:
vendor: 0df6 ("Sitecom Europe B.V."), product: 0056 ("LN-031
10/100/1000
Ethernet Adapter")
vendor: 0df6 ("Sitecom Europe B.V."), product: 0056 ("LN-031
10/100/1000
Ethernet Adapter")

When i modprobe for the NIC, I get something very unspectacular ...
root at mybox:/root [0] >modprobe asix

/var/log/messages:
Apr  5 20:02:23 mybox kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver asix

dmesg:
usbcore: registered new interface driver asix

BTW, I got this passed on by ESXi to a CentOS VM.

Do you see any chance to get this running?
Thanks in advance
Michael


PS: the lsusb output ...

root at mybox:/root [0] > lsusb -v -d 0df6:0072

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0df6:0072 Sitecom Europe B.V.
Device Descriptor:
   bLength                18
   bDescriptorType         1
   bcdUSB               2.10
   bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class
   bDeviceSubClass       255 Vendor Specific Subclass
   bDeviceProtocol         0
   bMaxPacketSize0        64
   idVendor           0x0df6 Sitecom Europe B.V.
   idProduct          0x0072
   bcdDevice            1.00
   iManufacturer           1 Sitecom Europe BV
   iProduct                2 Sitecom USB 3.0 Gigabit
   iSerial                 3 00000000000001
   bNumConfigurations      1
   Configuration Descriptor:
     bLength                 9
     bDescriptorType         2
     wTotalLength           39
     bNumInterfaces          1
     bConfigurationValue     1
     iConfiguration          0
     bmAttributes         0xa0
       (Bus Powered)
       Remote Wakeup
     MaxPower              248mA
     Interface Descriptor:
       bLength                 9
       bDescriptorType         4
       bInterfaceNumber        0
       bAlternateSetting       0
       bNumEndpoints           3
       bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class
       bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass
       bInterfaceProtocol      0
       iInterface              4 Network_Interface
       Endpoint Descriptor:
         bLength                 7
         bDescriptorType         5
         bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
         bmAttributes            3
           Transfer Type            Interrupt
           Synch Type               None
           Usage Type               Data
         wMaxPacketSize     0x0008  1x 8 bytes
         bInterval              11
       Endpoint Descriptor:
         bLength                 7
         bDescriptorType         5
         bEndpointAddress     0x82  EP 2 IN
         bmAttributes            2
           Transfer Type            Bulk
           Synch Type               None
           Usage Type               Data
         wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
         bInterval               0
       Endpoint Descriptor:
         bLength                 7
         bDescriptorType         5
         bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT
         bmAttributes            2
           Transfer Type            Bulk
           Synch Type               None
           Usage Type               Data
         wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
         bInterval               0
Device Status:     0x0000
   (Bus Powered)

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Michael Kress <kress at hal.saar.de>
wrote:
> Hi, I have a Sitecom NL-031 USB 3.0 NIC which I'd like to use under
> centos 6.5, but unfortunately I see no support. Or, I am doing something
> wrong.
>
> According to LKDDb (Linux Kernel Driver DataBase), the correct driver is
> "CONFIG_USB_NET_AX8817X: ASIX AX88xxx Based USB 2.0 Ethernet
Adapters"
> but obviously, I've grabbed a non matching "iProduct",
because mine is
> obviously 0x0072 (see lsusb below) and the driver lists 0x0056.
>
>  From the LKDDb:
> vendor: 0df6 ("Sitecom Europe B.V."), product: 0056 ("LN-031
10/100/1000
> Ethernet Adapter")
> vendor: 0df6 ("Sitecom Europe B.V."), product: 0056 ("LN-031
10/100/1000
> Ethernet Adapter")
>
> When i modprobe for the NIC, I get something very unspectacular ...
> root at mybox:/root [0] >modprobe asix
>
> /var/log/messages:
> Apr  5 20:02:23 mybox kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
>
> dmesg:
> usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
>
> BTW, I got this passed on by ESXi to a CentOS VM.
>
> Do you see any chance to get this running?
> Thanks in advance
> Michael
>
>
> PS: the lsusb output ...
>
> root at mybox:/root [0] > lsusb -v -d 0df6:0072
I just checked the device ID pair [0df6:0072] against the current
CentOS-6 kernel but it returned nothing. However, I did find the
driver in ELRepo's kernel-ml:

alias usb:v0DF6p0072d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* ax88179_178a

It shows that the driver that supports your device is ax88179_178a . I
suggest you try installing kernel-ml [1] and see if your NIC works. If
that works well, you'd want to ask ELRepo if backporting the driver
for EL-6 is possible.

Akemi

[1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
[2] http://elrepo.org/bugs