On 04/26/2017 07:18 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
We have a new computer system with a RealTek USB-based Ethernet chip. There are 4 physical ports, each with PoE.
Mysteriously, only one port seems to show up. No idea why. We have tried the original openSUSE r8152 driver, the one that came with the computer (2.00.0) and the latest from RealTek (2.08.0). It makes no difference.
This is on an openSUSE 13.1 system (kernel 3.11.6-4-desktop). Which is what we want to run here.
Mysteriously, lsusb only lists one MAC address:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:8152 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. CDC Ethernet: iMacAddress 3 00073240415B
That is the MAC address we see. But there should be 3 more!
What we do see is:
4: enp0s20u10: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:07:32:40:41:5b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::207:32ff:fe40:415b/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
The BIOS is minimal. We do not see anything that seems to control this.
I'm not a fan of this type of Ethernet interface. It is part of a fanless computer specially designed to run in cars and trains...
Has anyone else gotten such a RealTek Ethernet chipset to work to work?
Maybe if you could include a link to the actual device it would help. That is an unusual combination of features. A usb connection to a 4 port PoE device ? I've Googled and the closest I could find was a two port USB32000SPT. Are you sure that USB connection that you mention only in passing isn't the PoE power input port? Are you sure this doesn't contain a internal switch, in which case you wouldn't know about the Mac Addresses of the other ports unless you plugged into each one sequentially? -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org