On 12/14/23 10:17, Stephan Hemeier wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2023, 18:35:55 CET schrieb Lew Wolfgang:
Hi Folks,
We have a need to connect a second physical Ethernet adapter to a laptop. USB to Ethernet adapters are cheap, but does openSUSE have the suitable kernel modules to make it work? We can't use WiFi in this case due to policy constraints.
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Regards, Lew
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter This is an USB Expander with Ethernet and costs about 15 or 20 €
If you buy this rtl8153 Card, the drivers are inside the Kernel.
modinfo r8152 filename: /lib/modules/5.14.21-150500.55.36-default/kernel/drivers/net/usb/r8152.ko.zst version: v1.12.13 license: GPL description: Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153 Based USB Ethernet Adapters
Thanks Stephen, Ronald and Mekenok! Amazon has one with that chip for $16 and if I order it now (12:08pm) I can have it delivered here before 6:00pm. I'll give it a try! Regards, Lew