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asix ax88179 usb 3.0 ethernet adapter

gnujuba
hi,

has anyone tried to use an asix ax88179 based usb 3.0 ethernet adapter on latest sophos utm? 

I see that asix.ko is shipped with the 3.12 kernel but it seems to be an old one.

/lib/modules/3.12.30-102.g530c8bd-smp64/kernel/drivers/net/usb/asix.ko

filename:       /lib/modules/3.12.30-102.g530c8bd-smp64/kernel/drivers/net/usb/asix.ko
license:        GPL
description:    ASIX AX8817X based USB 2.0 Ethernet Devices
version:        22-Dec-2011
author:         David Hollis
srcversion:     C859F59F1532FF995A88895

maybe someone already has one of these adapters at home and can test. 

or any other usb 3.0 ethernet adapter available that works? 

thanks

gnjb


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    sorry, just realized that the module for this would be ax88179_178a.ko. 

    hmmm, it seems I need to wait and see if this makes it into stock linux kernel.
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    If it's not in the vanilla Linux kernel yet, don't expect it in the UTM anytime soon. Sophos uses SLES ( SUSE Ent. ) and they usually lag behind kernel wise ( enterprise dists focus on stability, not features).
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    on the feature site someone mentioned it is in the kernel since 3.9. 
    I can find it in the longterm 3.10 train so I hope the astaro guys can enable it in one of the next releases. 

    not sure about the sles thing, I remember someone from astaro mentioned that their build system is running on suse but the distro is build from scratch.

    anyway, bandwidth demand is rising ;-) (and unfortunately all the small NUC like hardware have only one nic) ...
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    Hi,

    I know it's been an old topic, but I have actually purchased Axago usb3.0 to Gigabit adapter with a chipset ASIX AX88179. I have to say it is unstable. On the 30Mbps solid link I get about 6Mbps stable. Perhaps it is my setup I can't tell yet. I'm using UTM 9.3 virtual appliance on esxi6.0. I haven't tried USB2 yet, but after playing with different settings for the past 3 hours I'm really disappointed. I know esxi xHCI driver is working fine, because I'm getting decent speeds on external drive that's passed through to the Windows VM. I hope that's something that can be fixed soon, because I don't have a room on my lab machine to add more NICs...

    Have any of you tried this yet with same results?

    Cheers

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